Selesnya Troll Beatdown

Standard Jairoe03

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Last Minute Changes —Jan. 25, 2014

Ok, so I decided Ready / Willing isn't good enough for my deck, primarily because of the 3-mana cost for either side which I don't find efficient because most of the time I'm using it only for 2 creatures which is expensive. So I took them all out, and added my 4th Golgari Charm, Loxodon Smiter, and Fleecemane Lion and feel good about it already, making 30 creatures in my deck supported mainly by my 4 Golgari Charm and Read the Bones (which is important to keep my deck going especially if I discard creatures early to Lotleth Troll.

This creates openings in my sideboard, which I decide will be fully dedicated towards Mono-Black Devotion hate, so I removed 1 Devour Flesh to make room for 3x Dark Betrayal and 1x Ratchet Bomb (just to let opponent know how much I think Pack Rat shouldn't exist). I would sideboard all my control against MonoBlack just to let them know how much I hate the deck lol.

In addition, I decided with the recent mass removal additions in sideboard, I won't need Witchstalker as much so I decided to opp for a creature that has stronger hate for monoblue devotion so I went with 3x Mistcutter Hydra instead for unavoidable beats and I think the idea of having 7 uncounterable creatures sounds great vs Esper Control decks as well.

S0kre says... #1

Moving my comments from your thread to here: I've played a lot with and against savage summoning... honestly, not a fan. With all the removal, it ends up being a 2 for 1 more often than not. And from a control perspective, if I can't counter something, I have some other way to deal with it.

I'm also not a huge fan of Gift of Orzhova , although it could work really well with lotleth, and fleecemane.

I'm not sure how scavenge works, but you might run in to trouble trying to scavenge from a multi-colored card to your Soldier of the Pantheon .

I really like Golgari Charm , it ruins Elspeth's day, and messes with Azorius Control, I'm not sure you'll want 4 Ready / Willing though, maybe 3.

I like what I see though, it would be fun to play against this deck I think. +1

January 21, 2014 11:06 p.m.

Jairoe03 says... #2

Protection only works while in play and it doesn't apply in any other zone hence why pro blue spells can still be countered or pro black spells can still be targetted by discard from hand. You did give me a bit of a scare lol so I did look it up to make sure.

I actually like Ready / Willing mainly because it allows me limited removal. Like I slapped this deck together and tested it out a little against someone else's monoblack devotion at a card shop today and took out 2 Desecration Demon with cheap creatures using Ready / Willing . I could probably do 3 of both though instead of 2:4 ratio I currently am running.

Regarding Gift of Orzhova I am a bit up in the air regarding it. I want to have additional lifelink options outside of Ready / Willing and felt it was either this, Unflinching Courage or Blood Baron of Vizkopa . Currently, I went with Gift of Orzhova because flying is actually fairly underrated and can definitely win games with a fully stacked creature as opposed to trample which is somewhat limited evasion. I am pretty open about that particular slot though.

January 21, 2014 11:40 p.m.

Very nice idea.

+1

Looking forward to FNM reports :)

January 22, 2014 2:44 a.m.

Nthnbnntt09 says... #4

This gave me a lot of good ideas. +1

January 22, 2014 3:58 a.m.

Jairoe03 says... #5

I actually was testing my deck out against a burn deck I built (and ripped from starcitygames.com, not my creation and yes it was by myself, sounds lonely lol) and I felt the Gift of Orzhova was fairly lackluster and didn't fit well in my deck when my wins mostly came from just overwhelming the burn deck with creatures or a fat Lotleth Troll so I decided it can be removed so I can include a Loxodon Smiter , and 4th Devour Flesh vs Blood Baron or midrange and a 4th Selesnya Charm for midrange or more creature potential. Really glad people talked me into including the Voices, really excited for this deck. Will be trying it out this Sunday at a GPQ (which is kinda like FNM right? lol)

January 22, 2014 4:57 a.m.

athena95 says... #6

This is awesome! Keep us informed on its FNM stats :)

January 22, 2014 7:23 p.m.

S0kre says... #7

I may be a bit biased against (enchant creature) spells... I don't like the potential of such frequent 2-for-1. I do like bestow, because you are more than likely to keep a card out of the deal...

Ready / Willing is nice in that it makes your creatures into a flavor creature turned temporarily by a Vampire Nighthawk , and Blood Baron of Vizkopa was my favorite card from DGM.

January 23, 2014 1:04 a.m.

Jairoe03 says... #8

well after trying out Hexproof-Auras and trying this deck out, I have a bit of a bias against enchant creature too, but I can carry more hopes with bestow. It's just slow and clunky and if the enchanted creature gets destroyed you lose out fairly big so its playing risky where I could of split the advantage into two cards and created multiple threats, which why I like this deck, it presents many more problems that the opponent has to answer and if Varolz, the Scar-Striped drops, it reuses those problems presented earlier and forces opponent to try and deal with them again in the form of +1/+1 counters.

January 23, 2014 2:21 a.m.