Naya Scaled Allies

Modern Talus21

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Updates 3/8/17 —March 8, 2017

Talus21 says... #1

Salad_Thunder thanks for the feedback. I did some testing last night and will be going up to 4 Battlesingers. Lantern Scout is probably going to come out of the sideboard. There is an Ad Nazeom deck and a few other combo decks that can only do so much damage, so it was there to try and push my life total over their threshold. I'll see if I can get a few Relic's. They do seem good.
The fourth path is for Infect. I'm not sure it's the right answer, but it's the one I've been running.

I did learn in my testing that Blood Moon is very challenging. So I think I'm going to shift the mana base around to put a few more basics in.

March 2, 2017 9:23 a.m.

Salad_Thunder says... #2

Path for Infect makes sense. I've always tried to have some Spellskite in the side-board since it works against infect and Bogles -- but I think Allies should be faster than Bogles so that isn't a great argument for using it.

I've been glad to not see too many blood moon lately -- I'm down to just two basics, so I'll have to rejigger things if the meta changes! (Or if everyone who doesn't pack them already gets them from MM3).

March 2, 2017 9:35 a.m.

Talus21 says... #3

I'm working with a bit of a budget, so things I don't have that are expensive won't really be an option. I was running Blessed Alliance but that was the only match up it was useful in so I'm trying a few other things.

March 2, 2017 9:39 a.m.

Salad_Thunder says... #4

I borrowed all the expensive cards for months, so I can completely understand budget issues!

I've never used Return to the Ranks in an actual game -- but keep being tempted. What do you bring it in against, and how does it seem to perform?

March 2, 2017 10:58 a.m.

Talus21 says... #5

I'll be honest I haven't tried it much yet. Basically Jund or something with heavy removal. I've been playing a GW Allies deck so there are a lot of cards here that I'm only starting to experiment with now.

G/W Allies

That is what I was playing with. I did some more research and saw a lot recommendations for Return to the Ranks and Akoum Battlesinger. I watched some of the live streams over the weekend and saw a lot of colorless cards so Firemantle Mage seemed like an important alternative to Kabira Evangel.
Thus I end up with trying out a build the week of the tournament.

March 2, 2017 11:17 a.m.

Talus21 says... #6

The list above is what I played this weekend. It didn't go well, but most of that was to bad playing on my part. I know there are some changes I would make and will update this list later.
I'm pretty sure it needs Cavern of Souls and Aether Vial to be really competitive, but I'll have to make due for now.

March 7, 2017 9:15 a.m.