Guilds of Ravnica Update

Citridon, 6 years ago

-1 Hidden Strings, +1 Connive / Concoct

-1 Jeskai Infiltrator, +1 Thief of Sanity

-1 Elgaud Shieldmate, +1 Etrata, the Silence

-1 Xathrid Spyblade, +1 Plaguecrafter

-1 Conjurer's Closet, +1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow - I've gotten limited use of the closet, and would like to move it to another deck where it can have better effect. Yuriko will still let me rebuy some enter effects, and also start pressure and card advantage earlier.

-1 Identity Thief, +1 Hostage Taker - In a similar vein to conjurer's closet, this card is a powerful enable of flickering your creatures, and I was trying those effects out as I added more good ETB effects to rebuy after bouncing cards with Ninjas. I've liked the synergy of ETB and ninjas quite a bit, but the balance is precarious, and Identity Thief was simply too often just attacking as something pretty mediocre. I'll find another deck to take good advantage of the thief's style and power. Hostage Taker comes in as both a card for Ninja's to pick up, removal (which I was trying to increase during the last larger update of the deck), and a card I really wanted in here initially, but needed for standard when it first came out and was expensive.

Looks like meats back on the menu boys!

citrusface, 6 years ago

Back by popular demand, the McRib! And also Norin! Sorry for the delay folks - I was busy getting married - so please excuse the downtime, but Norin is back up with some fun updates. Updates that MIGHT make it so this deck can win - but who knows. Deck list is updated along with the deck description - but I encourage all of you to make Norin your own. Embrace the Chaos.

Stuff

dgee13, 6 years ago

Haven't managed to cast Rest in Peace when boarded in, so will give another week to test them out. Was not able to play within the last 2 weeks, so making adjustments based on known decklists from last FNM. Appears to be heavy on Humans, Burn, combo, and damn Mill. Managed to obtain a 3rd Damping Sphere, hopefully able to see 5+ decks to make it feel worth it. Tired of bad hits from BBE, but nothing to really replace them currently. ----- Changes ----- Courser of Kruphix -- Lightning Bolt #4 (SB) Relic of Progenitus -- Gaea's Blessing (SB) Relic of Progenitus -- Damping Sphere #3

Thursday Night Modern 10/25

Deruvid, 6 years ago

21 people tonight for Modern. Ran a disappointing 0-3 plus a bye.

R1 BYE

R2 vs Bushwhacker Zoo 1-2 L

L G1: He had a blistering fast start, swinging for 15 on turn 2.

W G2: He had a slower start and I was able to overpower him with Hornet Queen.

L G3: He had another quick start and I couldn't block enough.

Sb: Alpine Moon, 2 Blood Moon, 2 Kozilek's Return

R3 vs Jeskai TITI 0-2 L

L G1: He had an early TITI and flipped early.

L G2: This was a long game where he drew all his removal and I never drew threats.

Sb: 2 Dismember, Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

R4 vs Affinity 0-2 L

L G1: He was able to Galvanic Blast my early acceleration and make enough attackers.

L G2: I opted to use my Birds of Paradise for mana instead of blocking, so he hit me in the air with lethal infect all at once.

Sb: 2 Fracturing Gust, 2 Kozilek's Return, Alpine Moon

This was a really disappointing night. I felt like my deck couldn't win anything. Never drew any sideboard cards all night, and only cast a single primal command. Sometimes it's just a big pile of green mana dorks.

More B/G

GarrettTheGreat, 6 years ago

I picked up 4 Overgrown Tombfoil from GRN, and decided my mana base would be better focusing on B/G, and just need to pick up white for later in the game. Replaced Qasali with Glowspore Shaman. Also added in a few creature lands.

Partner's deck added as sideboard

TheStephenation, 6 years ago

For the sake of completeness, I've added my teammate's deck in as the "Sideboard." His commander is Oloro, Ageless Ascetic.

Bringing Deck Up to Date

VeggiesaurusRex, 6 years ago

I spent the last few months messing around with commander and pauper decks and let this list fall out of date.

Mainboard:

-2x Mutavault

+2x Breeding Pool

Sideboard:

-1x Echoing Truth

-1x Shapers' Sanctuary

+2x Dismember

First round of changes

Njirk, 6 years ago

Mainboard

-3 Notion Rain & -3 Thief of Sanity as these seem too slow for the deck.

-2 Storm Fleet Aerialist to make room for other changes.

+4 Curious Obsession as substitute for Notion Rain.

+2 Lookout's Dispersal & +1 Syncopate against boardwipes.

+1 Nightveil Sprite. Too good in conjunction with Dimir Spybug not to have it.

Sideboard

-1 Syncopate as it went to the mainboard.

-1 Essence Scatter. For now we have enough ways to deal with creatures in the sideboard.

+2 Dive Down against targeted removal. I might put this in the mainboard.

I might add Spell Pierce and the last Kitesail Freebooter to the sideboard for control matchups.

STD 6 / 2

None

lance74, 6 years ago

first big change in a while

seuchansauce, 6 years ago

rise//fall has proved to be a little too situational so i'm testing thought erasure instead. I prefer this to thoughtseize since there are better 1 drops i'd like to cascade into and plus I can exile it to force of will and being able to throw a card to the graveyard to fuel both dig through time and yawgmoth's will

Updates to Decklist

Drachegeist, 6 years ago

Mainboard -2 Allied Strategies -1 Goblin Trenches +3 Tribal Flames Sideboard -2 Fire / Ice +1 Necravolver +1 Tsabo's Decree To make up for the changes in mainboard. -1 Island +1 Mountain

little too many mana sources

seuchansauce, 6 years ago

tested going down voyaging satyr and decimate and going up kolaghan's command and swiftblade vindicator. So far results and great. no punishment....yet.

little too many mana sources

seuchansauce, 6 years ago

tested going down voyaging satyr and decimate and going up kolaghan's command and swiftblade vindicator. So far results and great. no punishment....yet.

another W tonight!

Olive_pdx, 6 years ago

Wow this deck really performs well! I only lacked a bit of draw but it didn't slow the deck down too much. Once again Retreat to Hagra over-performed in conjunction with a 13 land Scapeshift. In the end I just outlasted the table and swung out for the win.

Future updates + reverting a change from the past

Splitcell, 6 years ago

Going to replace Emmara Tandris with Avacyn, Angel of Hope, Also I took out Brave the Sands and put in Intangible Virtue (I don’t know why I took it out in the first place)

Deck Changelog #6

TheDwarvenAxe, 6 years ago

Mainboard Changes

Maybeboard Changes

  • Included: Sentinel Totem, because it's better graveyard hate;

  • Removed: Emmara, Soul of the Accord, as much as I want to include her, we just don't have a efficient way to tap Emmara without needing the combat step, and 1 token per table turn isn't worth the deck slot; Acidic Slime is worst than all of all removals and too expensive to cast; Watchers of the Dead since the cat theme isn't binding anymore.

Week 1 upgrades

t3chn0g0at, 6 years ago

Forgot to track it exactly (I'll do that in the future), but I cut some of the artifact ramp (notably Sol Ring, as I didn't feel like it was pulling it's weight in either combo turns or ramping, and it eats up too much of the budget) and red rituals to fit in Mystical Tutor, Ponder, Baral. Added Faithless Looting and Cathartic Reunion as well, although I'm not sure if looting is where this deck wants to be right now. Deciding on whether or not to add Pieces of the Puzzle; if so, not sure what to cut for it.

Tweak

Coroner13, 6 years ago

Felhide Spiritbinder seems slow so it steps out for the combo piece Bear Umbra.

Creature switch

Fallerup, 6 years ago

added in Loyal Subordinate for Teysa, Orzhov Scion it is cheaper in cost ($$$) and the effect it brings synergizes with what my deck wants to do. took out 1 basic land, added Wrath of God as it has such a great synergy with Thrilling Encore you wrath everyone, then cast Thrilling Encore and you have everyone's creatures on your side of the board including your own. I will put back the basic land when I figure out what card to cut from this. I would have added Damnation too but it just costs too much for my bugdet.