Further improvement of my Teaching Deck

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Posted on May 16, 2021, 3:44 p.m. by jamochawoke

Hello there!

I am looking to further improve my teaching deck Teaching Deck - Bear With Me. This time with a sideboard that can be swapped out to either make the next few playthroughs with my students more interesting or perhaps even more challenging (like a "congratulations, you beat level 1" type deal).

Currently I've moved the maybeboard of cards I've taken out of the deck into the sideboard. I think having Ashcoat Bear is important for its Flash ability, but also Vivien's Grizzly might be good if I can toss some relevant Planeswalkers in there which is something I realized I had left out of my teaching plans. Do you guys think I should just maybe run some Viviens to stay on theme or is there a better planeswalker you can think of that would go with this deck's synergy?

wallisface says... #2

My thoughts are that your original deck already will provide your opponent with a good level of interaction and competitiveness. And in that vein, the cards you’re suggesting adding don’t really change much. Sure, a bear may have flash, but the game’s going to play out mostly the same.

When i’ve played games with new players, once they get the hang of the mechanics, they often want to see how far/extreme something can go. So i’d suggest giving the opponent a taste of danger and pushing those sideboard slots to make the deck vastly more competitive. Drop those higher cmc cards in favour of dangerously quick aggro. Get a playset of Rancor involved, etc.

May 17, 2021 7:01 p.m.