A bant build of Bogles that can use the new Staggering Insight.
So, bant bogles is often criticised for being less consistent. But I believe that with a heavy focus on green white, and playing no lands which tap for neither (and only one lands in total that can't generate white mana - a basic forest) we're OK on the colour fixing. Not shuffling in Horizon Canopy saves quite a bit of budget, but we're also down some land-cantrips. So we run two Irrigated Field. These can be fetched up tapped on the opponent's end step, or cycled from the hand for the same mana as playing and immediately sacrificing a horizon canopy. Unfortunately, the blue splash makes it essential we play the more expensive Misty Rainforest over Wooded Foothills.
So, onto the blue cards.
The aura we want to play is the new Staggering Insight. A lifelinking Curiosity! Amazing! Two mana and steep colour requirements are not ideal, but by the time we're ready to jam this we shouldn't be having mana issues.
The final blue addition is Stubborn Denial, a great card to stop whatever hate an opponent brings in G2, and will have plenty of good targets in G1.
I was also tempted to play Sentinel's Eyes, in place of one of the Gryff's Boons. I think having 5x vigilance effects will help, and escaping it using a couple of fetches or one and a totem armor should do the trick nicely (much cheaper than the Boon it replaces to recur!)
Suggestions welcome!
Sidboard choices:
Celestial purge for any deck with black or red things, but especially humans, goblins, red prison and burn.
Damping Sphere for tron, storm, eggs, etc.
Force of vigor for tron, affinity, mirror match.
Gaddock teeg for tron and control (stops them casting jace, t5feri, cryptic)
Leylines for anything playing hand disruption, or burn. It often steals you the win, as people love keeping a double thoughtseize hand against bogles.
Path - we main deck two paths, but we can bring in a third for creature decks to get blockers out of the way.
Return to nature - a bad nature's claim, but the extra mode makes it good enough I think. We bring it in against affinity and dredge/reanimate decks. It is also worth bringing this but not force in against aether vial decks, as they normally only have one artifact.
Spirit link - put this on your bogle in matchups where lifegain is very good (death's shadow, burn, creature agro) but if they make a big threat you can neutralise it by enchanting their creature (death shadow, champion of the parish, etc)
Stony silence - tron, urza, affinity.
Hushbringer - tribal decks like humans, goblins, faeries, spirits. This also being a 2 mana 1/3 with flying and lifelink makes it a good aura target, particularly with a totem armor.
