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-might aswell SB the swamp's
since it's useless in the deq.

-well atleast make the 2 swamp's
into G since, cranial is in the SB.

Swamps into forests? You need the B for the cranial extraction.................. sweatdrop

Well you said it..... sweatdrop

The general consensus is "Why waste sideboard space when you can just pop in a certain colored land in a green deck and easily fetch it". Sideboarding lands in is a bad idea, in that you need your metagame slots. I'd actually only run 1 swamp, since you're using birds (or should be) so getting black is no biggie.

The beacon decks I've seen run 2-3 Jitte and 3-4 Sword of Fire/Ice.

for instance:

Artifacts
4 Sword Of Fire And Ice

Creatures
4 Birds Of Paradise
3 Eternal Witness
1 Fangren Firstborn
4 Sakura-tribe Elder
4 Troll Ascetic
4 Viridian Zealot

Legendary Artifacts
4 Umezawa's Jitte

Legendary Creatures
1 Dosan The Falling Leaf
2 Iwamori Of The Open Fist

Sorceries
4 Beacon Of Creation
2 Kodama's Reach
1 Rude Awakening

Basic Lands
20 Forest
1 Swamp

Legendary Lands
1 Okina, Temple To The Grandfathers

Sideboard:
3 Aether Vial
3 Engineered Explosives
2 Sword Of Light And Shadow
4 Cranial Extraction
3 Plow Under

The 2 Kodama's Reach, random Fangren Firstborn, random Dosan, and Iwamori over Karstoderm (now, it would be replaced with Stampeding Serow) is a bit wierd. This is from the France Regionals (1st place), and honestly, some of the card choices are a little wierd. But hey, whatever. I would've taken out the Fangren for another Kodama's Reach, not run Engineered Explosives, and up the numbers on Sword of Light/Shadow and Plow Under (but I'd have to test it.).

Beacon Green's an alright deck, but I"m not sure I'm liking it too much. Personally, I'm playing 4 color control at regionals, now that I've finally aquired some Cranial Extractions.

I modified the Hana Kami/Gifts Ungiven/Utility deck to be more competitive and controlish that it's block constructed counterpart. It's fun, but I had a bad night tonight testing it, and changed it's construction a very large amount. smile Hopefully it'll stand and actually win a few games, I'm hoping.

hmm..like..old school rock or the newer rock? Newer rock would be Pernicious deeds, but older rock would use Phyrexian Plaguelord.

You'd need some sort of really kick-a** token generator if you used Plaguelords (Beacon of Creation, definitely). You NEED duress, possibly distress (I'm assuming you're using MTGO, since you referenced Tickets), you need to see ifyou can get some Chainer's Edicts, the Cemetaries, Living Wish (if you can afford it), and Ravenous Baloth.

Here's my idea of how it'd look....budgeted, of course.

Land:
12 Swamp
11 Forest

Creatures:
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Phyrexian Plaguelord
4 Troll Ascetic
4 Ravenous Baloth
2 Kodama of the North Tree

Spells:
4 Duress
4 Chainer's Edict
4 Beacon of Creation
3 Kodama's Reach
2-3 Sensei's Divining Top
3 ???
3 Oversold Cemetary

that'd be my decklist, but I don't know what cards you have at your disposal. Sorry I just sorta jumped in, but I'm a big rock enthusiast. I've build all 3 different versions of the deck (Pyrexian Plaguelord, Pernicious Deed, Death Cloud), so I'm really familiar with it.

Good God, man..your abbreviations rae killing me! USE A ******** G, FOR CHRISTS SAKE!.. lol xd

anyway, well, you need at least 8-12 slots of creature kill (maybe more), token generator, land accel (8-12 slots), lots of utility creatures (Plaguelord, Baloth, Withered Wretch, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Haru-Onna, etc etc), and some draw (if you can get it, Night's Whisper, or something like that). If you're worried about equiptment (like Jitte and Swords) or other annoying artifacts, run Molder Slug (I'd run 3 in the sideboard). The build above is very rough, but it could work with some tweaking. I've never really spent a whole lot of time with the Plaguelord Rock (I much prefer to play Deed-Rock..but you have to sell your left testical/breast on MTGO to get a Pernicious Deed).

Anything specific you want to do with the deck?

Bop yes, city no.