Devotion to a Grand Perspective (Standard MTG Deck)

Devotion to a Grand Perspective

Standard

KevStormJ

Land (23)

Enchantment (14)

Instant (7)

Sorcery (9)

Creature (7)

Sideboard

Instant (12)

Creature (1)

1x Sphinx of the Final Word

Land (2)

2x Irrigated Farmland

My take on the New Perspectives deck that focuses on Faith of the Devoted as a primary win con and Approach of the Second Sun as the secondary. Sweltering Suns is available to clear mass threats and Cast Out to clear specific threats, Censor for early delay and of course Haze of Pollen for later delay. All of which can be cycled once New Perspectives is out.

Sideboard can change up win cons a bit with Horror of the Broken Lands to lay on the pressure and Fling to end, post mass cycle. Sphinx of the Final Word and additional counter magic can be added to deal with control decks. Glorious End, which could be main boarded, is available if New Perspectives doesn't draw you up to 7 for cycling to be free. You can pass turn and then Glorious End on opponent's turn, perhaps countering New Perspectives removal. Start your turn with fully untapped land, a draw card to start the cycling fun. Once you go off you don't need to say "go" anymore so no worrying about end of turn Glorious End effect.

If you think you'll see Aetherworks Marvel or zombies/Scrapheap Scrounger in your local meta you should consider the maybeboard pieces of Dissenter's Deliverance or Scarab Feast , respectively.

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Revision 2.0 — May 19, 2017

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Some major revisions here. I found this deck to be susceptible to creature aggro decks, like Mono Black Zombies, that can get a turn 5 kill. Haze of Pollen and Renewed Faith just weren't keeping me alive long enough to cycle off. I also had problems with having 7 or more cards in hand after casting New Perspectives. Often I'd have to cast the Haze of Pollen or Renewed Faith to keep alive, and if I was playing first I would be short that first draw. If I had to mulligan, forget it. So I needed something more than a 1 turn combat delay like Haze of Pollen. Enter Sweltering Suns. The 3 damage is capable of handing almost all turn 1-4 creatures and would give me an extra turn or two to get my mana and hand size up while my opponent regroups.

A painful cut I had to make was a copy of Shefet Monitor. It is a very important card to all New Perspectives decks but the math wasn't working out for me. Turn 1-4 are massively important to hitting land drops. I needed to go up to 23 land to increase the odds of hitting those land drops. So sadly I had to cut Shefet Monitor to make room. It was just a dead card when I'm stuck at 3 mana and Vizier of Tumbling Sands does most of the mana generation work when I cycle off.

So the prime load out is vs creature aggro since I expect to run into that the most. My sideboard allows me to reconfigure vs counter control, mid-range, or mirror matches. Scarab Feast can wreak havoc on another New Perspectives deck by hitting Vizier of Tumbling Sands.

I also changed the name of the deck since Horror of the Broken Lands is no longer in it.

Revision 1.1 — May 18, 2017

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Revision 1.0 — May 17, 2017

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Revision 5 See all

(6 years ago)

+1	Canyon Slough	main
-2	Censor	main
-2	Curator of Mysteries	maybe
-3	Dispel	side
-4	Dissenter's Deliverance	side
+1	Mountain	main
-1	Scattered Groves	main
-1	Shefet Monitor	main
+3	Sheltered Thicket	main
-1	Swamp	main
+4	Sweltering Suns	main
+1	Traverse the Ulvenwald	main
+1	Weirding Wood	main

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 1 Mythic Rares 31 - 2 Rares 13 - 6 Uncommons 7 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.38
Tokens	Clue
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