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POST ROTATION JUNK MINDRANGE!!!!!!

With standard rotating out, i'm looking for new decks that will be fun to play with and can win games consistently. With that in mind I feel as if this deck(or another midrange approach) will fit that very well.
Creatures
Wingmate Roc - A great card in itself, and always brings a friend along with him. Being able to drop this on turn 4-5 after a Siege Rhino and then be able to drop Elspeth right after is a great feeling.
~ Courser of Kruphix - The main engine in this deck (along with most green decks). It provides constant life gain, while also being an effective blocker.
~ Fleecemane Lion - An early game threat, that they will have to deal with. It blows through caryatids and most other 2/3 drops. If they don't deal with it quickly it'll be a problem for them later.
~ Siege Rhino - A great turn 4 creature. It causes a 6 point life swing in your favor, has trample, and is decently large.
~ Sylvan Caryatid - It allows for mana fixing, and can block early creatures if need be, but i really don't want to see one after about turn 4.
Utility
Abzan Charm - An amazing three drop spell. Can exile a creature, draw us cards, or pump our guys a bit. The last mode may not be used much, but the other two are used excessively
~ Hero's Downfall - Three mana to kill any creature or walker. It's in our colors and you'd be crazy not to play it.
~ Utter End - A four mana spell to exile anything but a land sounds like it could be useful. This also acts as downfall numbers five and six.
~ Thoughtseize - As stated before, i'm going to try to pick their hand apart so this is a good place to start. I can pick anything but a land for them to discard, so having them miss a turn 2/3 play could put me far enough ahead that i don't have to worry.
Planeswalkers
Elspeth, Sun's Champion - Probably the best game ending card in standard at the moment. I may suppliment my walker suite with Sorin, Solemn Visitor or Nissa, Worldwaker later, but for now this is what i'm going to stick to.
~ Sorin, Solemn Visitor - Sorin is good at a equal board states, and when the board is in your favor. If they are ahead by more then a creature or two, he looses a lot of value (at least from my experiences.) I'm not going to take him out of the main deck though since it really helps to stabilize.

Sideboard
Arbor Colossus - This deck is pretty weak to flying at the moment. Main board all we can do is hope to have a kill spell ready. This also effectively blocks every flier used currently(besides a monstrous strombreath.)
~ Bile Blight - Helps take care of tokens, rabblemasters, and anything else that has < 3 toughness. You can also do some shenanigans with it, reaper of the wilds, and elspeth using the -3 ability. ;)
~ Drown in Sorrow - Effective board wipe against weenies and tokens.
~ Elspeth, Sun's Champion - 2 extra in the board for when i become the control deck, and when I expect long grindy games.
~ Mistcutter Hydra - With as many people who have been playing Jeskia Tempo this may go to three of. They have a really hard time at dealing with it, and they it's not uncommon for it to be a 6/6 or grater which by that point puts them on a 3 turn clock because of their fast and painful mana base.
~ Polukranos, World Eater - Well above the curve in terms of p/t to cmc. Also helps brick tokens/weenies and is another form of removal.
~ Silence the Believers - extra removal that can usually be cast for 7 or 10.

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Came in first at game day with this. There was only a couple people at the shop, but it was the more competitive players with better decks so overall i'm happy with the tournament.
Round 1: Abzan midrange
~A guy at the shop that usually dominates limited decided to try his hand at standard. He brought a deck that he threw together and it strongly resembled Ari Lax's deck from the pro tour. 1-1-1
Round 2: Abzan midrange (seeing a theme to this yet?)
Exact deck as Ari Lax. He was using it to playtest his mono green against and decided it was strong so he played it. 2-1
Round 3: abzan aggro/midrange
Heavy on the aggro and beat me down quick game 1. Game 2 and three went to me though. 2-1
Round 4: G/r devotion(finally not abzan)
Decided to tie which put me in first and he held second. We played it out anyway to see what would have happened and i slaughtered him. He thanked me for wanting to tie lol.

Overall i'm happy with the deck and it's performances. A couple things need to be changed with the sideboard, and maybe one or two with the main, but until i figure it out this is what i'll be running from now on. It seems to be able to beat the mirror and jeskai, and has only minimal problems with g/r devotion.

Thank you to everyone that has helped and +1'd this!:D

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Revision 15 See all

(9 years ago)

+1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion main
+1 Duneblast side
+1 End Hostilities side
+1 Hero's Downfall side
+1 Mass Calcify side
-1 Polukranos, World Eater side
-1 Silence the Believers side
-1 Sorin, Solemn Visitor main
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  • Achieved #48 position overall 9 years ago
Date added 9 years
Last updated 9 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

13 - 1 Mythic Rares

32 - 8 Rares

7 - 4 Uncommons

0 - 2 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.11
Tokens Bird 3/4 W, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Emblem Sorin, Solemn Visitor, Soldier 1/1 W, Vampire 2/2 B
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