This has been an enlightening discussion. It has definitely thrown fuel on my book building frenzy.  If anyone tries the Turn 2 Togorah in the NC square opening I describe please post the difficulties you had on turn 3 and beyond.
Of course look for me at Origins 15.  I will be 'lurking' in the MW area looking for games. See you there!

I have considered Tataree, but have never actually used it to support the plants. It is interesting that it is the only quickcast creature in the game, other than of the BM's ability with level 1.

WOW! I had not even considered the Idol of pestilence.  With the regeneration ability of the druids creatures it would be a rather one sided effect.
    The angel was to protect from my hyper aggressive son's Jak. Beastmaster.  He likes nothing better than running forward and force hammering my newly summoned bonded tree.
Recently, he has realized how easy it is to remove the guarding angel, though it slowed him down a bit.
    I figured that the rooted and vigilance Togorah would make a more appropriate, more effective, and more thematic guard for my bonded tree.  This led to the thoughts on how to generate 21 mana to get him out.
    I will have to look at what I will have to lose to put in an idol of pestilence, and may try it next time I get to play.
Unfortunately, with the exception of my son, who is at college, my opponents are few and far away in SW Pennsylvania.
   

Good morning,
     I have an idea for a druid opening that I would like some feedback on.  Last year at the Origin's Mage Wars tournament I learned to use a druid.  I am reviewing my book and would like to replace the guardian angel with the more thematic Togorah. 
     Togorah with a 21 mana cost can be cast as early as turn two. This is accomplished very much like the warlock casting the lord of fire. Turn one run to NC and quick cast Mohktari and treebond it.  This leaves the druid with 11 mana.  Turn two cast Togorah in the NC square, this uses all of the mana of the druid.  At the end of turn two, I have a solid defender for my tree, some mana regen, life bond, life regen, and of course board position.  However I have no quickcast for the second turn. The general idea is cast the two rings on turn three and use vines, surging waves, enchantments and thornlashers to control movement around the 'grove'.
     What do you think, is this a viable openning?

Another way to boost skeletons is the armory, I believe that all the skeletons are soldiers and therefore would get the bonuses.

What a wonderfully thematic spell!  I can hardly wait for Origins now.....

I realize that this thread is fairly old, however I  have just gone through a deck building frenzy.  After building many decks I have run out of the following cards.  Thinking that this would be an indicator of the most used cards, I would post it here.
Tanglevine
Force Hammer
Rhino hide
Force Push
Nullify
Dispell
Disolve
Teleport.
     I realize that I have at least one copy of each of those spells in every spell book I build.  I hope this helps

The OFFICIAL Street Date for the release of the Druid vs Necromancer expansion is November 20th, 2013.

I pre-ordered two copies ages ago, I still have not received it.  Not even a shipping tracking number yet. Starting to get up-set.