Vampire Army's Post-Ro Deck Kickstarter
Meta Opinion
VampireArmy
28 March 2016
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VampireArmy's Post-Ro Deck Kickstarter
28 March 2016
2429 views
VampireArmy's Post-Ro Deck Kickstarter
The start of the new season is upon us folks. Say your fond farewells to the days of four color good stuff and hello to the land of flavor! Many of us feel a loss of direction during the rotation season. What deck should we play? Will my deck survive? Should we all just jump on mono red and hope for the best? Well forget that, I've been looking around at the possibilities and today I'll share just a few I've noticed around to get you started on your own road to success down at the FNMs! You'll notice that I left out the sideboards. This was done purposefully. The meta is fresh and new so sideboarding will be a little choppy for the time being.
Let's get through the elephant in the room to start us off. Eldrazi decks aren't going away. The core of the deck backed up by origins colorless line up will still make up for some powerful decks. We could discuss the endless possibilities for color splashing but I trust by now, we've seen it all. Instead I offer you this savvy mono-red list. The deck loses only one card main board which does hurt a bit but that can easily be rectified with Spawning Bed Sea Gate Wreckage or any other colorless land.
The resident new aggro deck for those who love to live on the more flavorful side. The deck aims to deploy your smaller vampires as fast as possible and use their discard abilities to value out your bigger guys or cast your removal for cheaper. Most of the deck can play at instant speed if needed using the wording of madness so it suffers less from extending too hard. The only True change you will likely want from the linked list is to replace Cinder Barrens with Foreboding Ruins for faster mana.
A view into the "value" way to control without relying on the token plan. The deck wants to simply 1 for 1 everything the opponent plays until they're out of things to play at which point you can begin to go to town at their life total with your own manlands or Angry Archangel. That isn't to say the deck isn't capable of its own aggressive draws.
Possibly one of the strongest control decks to emerge from the new meta. If you like decks dripping with synergy, this is for you. Combining the powerful graveyard filling draw effects blue opens up and the synergy of madness in red and black, you get a full range of options from turn 1 onward. Use and reuse every spell with jace at your side.
If you're looking for traditional style beats, here's a deck you can certainly get behind. This deck offers a fast clock and ways to combat the beefier midrange decks with premium removal and ways to turn your weak 1 drops into heavy hitting monsters in the matter of only a few turns.
For those of you wanting to play a draw-go traditional style control without the dragons, here's your deck. I can't imagine why this user didn't decide to play 4 Thing in the Ice Flip in his/her list but It's probable that more successful lists include that card. Other styles include having a heavier lean on tokens or possibly jamming whatever planewalkers have your fancy. Esper possibly offers the most customization of all the control decks out there.
Yep, this deck just won't die will it? For those interested in unleashing your inner timmy's for a little while longer. Not much has changed about this list as of the writing of this article but it still packs every pit the punch it used to. You lose out on Ugin, the Spirit Dragon which was quite the blow but still have access to Chandra, Flamecaller and Dragonlord Atarka to clear the board. The newest tech for this deck being Arlin Kord to clog the board or simply over take it. In the world of post Siege Rhino this should be a welcome treat.
Hopefully this has whet your appetite for a new standard season! These decks look really exciting and there appears to be a lot of synergy in this set - with a nod towards the new (old?) Madness mechanic in particular. It appears as if the days of 3/4 colour goodstuff are starting to trickle away and leave behind a meta that seems very non-creature based. Variety is the spice of life folks! Enjoy it!
Small disclaimer: I may have missed a few decks here and there, and obviously I’m not a psychic so I can’t actually predict what the new meta will look like, but hey, this should get you going. Good luck and happy brewing!
VampireArmy says... #2
Dalektable thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately with jund i was unable to locate a "pro" list as i had tried to shy away from using individual's list as much as possible and the ub seens...gross. If anything, a testament to the real power of young jace in this year's standard.
March 28, 2016 12:57 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #3
On the G/W list.
I'd be hard pressed to have Den Protector without Deathmist Raptor, It's value with Dromoka's Command is filthy. Aside from Sigarda I don't see much of a reason for him not to be in as a 2x somewhere.
It's also interesting to note that Kytheon, Hero of Akros Flip is pretty hilarious with Sigarda.
March 28, 2016 1:09 p.m.
FAMOUSWATERMELON says... #4
I think that Jund will be a major player. I've been testing out a few brews, and it's absolutely disgusting versus quite a couple decks. You think you could throw a sample list in?
Apart from that, this is great. It's nice to have some idea where the meta is going with rotation.
March 28, 2016 2:23 p.m.
VampireArmy says... #5
I'll see what i can do. If i can find a solid, competitive list I'll add it.
March 28, 2016 2:49 p.m.
Really hoping to come out of the prerelease with some bones for a vampire deck. Thanks for the info post!
March 28, 2016 9:09 p.m.
VampireArmy,
Just wanted to say thanks so much for gathering these up!
So: THANKS!
March 29, 2016 12:19 p.m.
Weenie is so my JAM! Esper Control too looks fantastic to try out. Ohhhhh flavor town how I love thee!
March 31, 2016 2:09 a.m. Edited.
OutspokenFerret says... #11
Me confused, if it's a new dawn, how do you mobilize your vampire army?
March 31, 2016 11:36 a.m.
Hey dude- thanks for collating all of these potential meta lists :D
casually uses them all for testing
By the way, out of interest, do you think that A Blue/Black zombie deck is possible in this meta (or even Mono Black)?
March 31, 2016 1:36 p.m.
VampireArmy says... #16
Guftders not yet but by the time eldrich moon drops it might be. Your best bet is to not focus so hard on a theme unless the pay off is super easy to manage (like madness for example) if anything mono black aggro with zombies as a Subtheme might go better but I'm guessing aggro isn't very well positioned right now since a lot of people will likely opt for the eldrazi lists which all pack high toughness fatties
March 31, 2016 1:44 p.m.
Great job! only one little nitpick: in testing, Ravenous Bloodseeker is just a BAD card... It dies to literally everything and cant attack through even some 1 drops.
Anyway, some other decks I think will be prevalent are CoCo lists (Mainly Bant) and Humans. Humans was sort of highlighted with GW weenie, but Tom Ross's Mono White human tribal has been destroying the vs series lately :D
March 31, 2016 9:02 p.m.
Ashockfan,
Depends on what you're trying to do with it. If you need a reliable discard engine for your Madness deck, especially one that complicates the heck out of combat math, Ravenous Bloodseeker is, well, not great. But better than bad. :-)
March 31, 2016 10:45 p.m.
NotSquishedYet says... #21
I only have one thing to say...
And that is "Carpe Jugulum."
Dalektable says... #1
Nice read and glimpse at what may be. Ive been having a blast brewing, so many options, so much flavor. And in general ive enjoyed playing against these new decks, there is one of which i feel you really missed out on. Jund seems to be big, to say the least. We're back to the days of grindy standard Jund, and the deck is good. Play removal, good solid threats along the curve and powerful planeswalkers.
I'd also like to say this format hasnt even began and I can't wait for Jace to rotate...lol. Baby Jace and madness is...disgusting, honestly. If you havent played against the UB Reanimator deck it is pretty disgusting.
March 28, 2016 10:28 a.m.