AEther-Reckoner's Army (Standard MTG Deck)

ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END. WITH THE ROTATION WE SAY GOOD-BYE TO SEVERAL KEY COMPONENTS TO THIS DECK.

IT WAS A BLAST TO PLAY AND I WILL MISS THIS DECK. ABSOLUTELY MY FAVORITE DECK OF THE CYCLE. I HAVEN'T DECIDED WHAT I'LL PLAY NOW THAT THEROS IS UPON US, WITHOUT R/U AND U/W SCRY LANDS AMERICA CONTROL WILL PROBABLY BE ON HOLD FOR AWHILE. -APOP.

AEtherling's rise to glory! Welcome his trusty lieutenants, Boros Reckoner. With the rise of the 3rd & 4th win-cons mainboard, the name evolves. This is an American Control deck with four main win conditions (in order of usage):

Control the battlefield with permission, wraths, burn, and bounce until you can safely cast AEtherling.
Control the battlefield until you can Assemble the Legion and march to victory.
Boros Reckoner and Restoration Angel beatdown.
Combo Boros Reckoner with Blasphemous Act.

As a control deck your goal is to maintain card advantage and board presence until you can execute a win condition. Burn gives you enough to put the game away. I've seen all 4 win conditions pretty consistently.

-Apop.

Cleaning up comments. Thanks to Owlus, Jimhawk, fluffybunnypants, and all of the others for helpful suggestions as this deck has evolved.

Assemble the Legion Bring in a 2nd copy for Jund matchups, where Slaughter Games and Sire Of Insanity are looming
Counterflux, Dispel For control matchups.
Oblivion Ring nice if you think you'll hit Detention Sphere, artifacts, want a second way to deal with Voice of Resurgence or worry about indestructible. It answers a lot of things.
Pillar of Flame Mainly for Voice of Resurgence and aggro decks, but to be honest I am considering Boros Charm over this at 2x because the latter can keep Boros Reckoner and Restoration Angel alive, and the 4 damage could be applied to a planeswalker. But for now, Pillar of Flame stays for aggro and voice, where it has shined.
Pithing Needle planeswalkers, and a variety of threats.
Ratchet Bomb kills tokens, Oblivion Ring, Detention Sphere, and hexproof. Another wrath? Yes please!
Searing Spear Fast and cheap spot removal. Perfect for aggro, probably replaces Rolling Temblor in some midrange matchups.

Update 8-28-13
Making some additional changes to the deck. Specifically, adding Rolling Temblor to the deck as a 2x to deal with hexproof and to function as a T3 "mini-wrath" that has good synergy with Boros Reckoner in the mid-game. Switching to Oblivion Ring over Detention Sphere, I want a way to free boros recknoner in the event of an opponent D-sphere and rarely need to exile more then 1 target.

Update 9-9-13
Love the new conformation of the deck. Rolling Temblor has proved it's worth as well as the Boros Reckoner/Blasphemous Act combo over Augur of Bolas . This is the deck until the rotation. Plays faster then the Ben Stark's version of American control, meaning less matches that end in draws and more wins for old farts like me who don't think as fast as we used to think.

Update 9-18-13
Well with just a week left, I've been play testing against midrange decks that feature Voice of Resurgence. Specifically, Goody's deck Return to Selesnya, because I like it a lot. It's a great deck that not only matches the criteria I was looking for in a comparison, but is also a deck I've thought about running at my LGS. So after about 10 matchups, the decks are pretty even but I would say his deck has the slight edge. What I wanted to evaluate was keeping Pillar of Flame in the sideboard or switching to Mizzium Mortars. The former is great against voice and aggro and can finish off a planeswalker in a pinch, but Mizzium Mortars gives a lot of help against midrange matchups, is an answer to hexproof late, and isn't much slower. The other wraths seem to do alright against voice's elementals. So -2 Pillar of Flame , +2 Mizzium Mortars with one more week to run this deck to victory!

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Last hoorah — Sept. 23, 2013

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Last time out with this deck being standard legal. A disappointing 2-2 on the night, which can be attributed to two bad matchups and a cold that I started coming down with in the afternoon was in full beatdown by my 2nd match. I don't have good notes, but here's a summary:

Match 1. 2-0 versus Selesnya aggro
Game 1 was close, AEtherling sealed it. Game 2 sided in burn and finished it with Boros Reckoner/Blasphemous Act.

Match 2. 0-2 versus Junk rites
Lost game one to Angel of Serenity when I couldn't counter it due to opponent's Cavern of Souls. Bad sideboarding, and a weak hand game 2 led to a gradual Ghost Dad beatdown.

Match 3. 2-1 versus Naya aggro humans
Same opponent as 8/19/13 Match 4. By this point I my cold had hit full force, couldn't swallow, headache, body-ache. Lost Game 1 by one turn. Made a really stupid mistake: he attacked with a soulbonded 2/2 Champion of the Parish to a Silverblade Paladin, I blocked with Boros Reckoner and then gave the reckoner first strike, and then cast turn Turn / Burn on the silverblade before damage was dealt, since the Champion of the Parish never got to deal damage, i had nothing to redirect to kill the Silverblade Paladin. This came back to haunt me as that Silverblade Paladin was able to rebond and cost me the game 1 turn before AEtherling could put it away. Game 2. Sided in burn and won the game after going to turns, since we were both 1-1, having a game 3 draw would mean neither of us could get packs we rolled dice for Game 3: I won 8 to 7. Honestly, I wish I lost because I wanted to go crash but decided to stay to try to play for the packs.

Match 4 0-2 to Golgari zombies/scavenge
Bad play, bad sideboard, bad decision making, too sick, I should have gone to bed. Oh well. At least I stuck it out.

#5 in tournament @ Millenium Games — Sept. 16, 2013

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#5 in tournament @ Millenium Games — Sept. 9, 2013

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Just went over 10,000 views! Thanks tappedout! — Sept. 4, 2013

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LGS results with Ben Stark's deck — Aug. 26, 2013

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LGS results 2-2 — Aug. 19, 2013

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Learning the deck the hard way, 8-12-13 results — Aug. 13, 2013

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5-26-13 Standard Results — May 26, 2013

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Mizzium Mortars

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Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 9 Rares 11 - 2 Uncommons 4 - 4 Commons
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