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BMoor's Magic The Gathering Deck Garage
Greg Nilsen wrote:
Well, Greg, I'll do what I can. Your main complaint, "lacking cohesion", could mean just about anything, but I'm chalking it up to your mana base. I was surprised to see you splash black for Putrefy and Mortify, even if they are good cards. I'm gonna recommend taking out those two cards along with your black mana sources (besides the Birds). Replace the removed lands with 3 Forest and 2 Plains. Replace Mortify with Naturalize. And as for Putrefy, I think the best removal you can get would be Faith's Fetters. Move them up from the sideboard, they're a lot better than anyone originally thought and are making life gain a tournament-viable strategy. I know, they aren't as beatdownish as you want maindeck, but we can make up for that. First, replace Yosei with his brother Jugan, a much more aggressive choice. But leave the Yosei in the sideboard(maybe even add another copy, so you still have two in case you want to trigger both their graveyard abilities). One last thing you may want to do is replace one copy each of the Birds, STE, and Watchwolf with 3 Skarrgan Pit-Skulk. Why on earth? Because, if you play Might of Oaks on the Pit-Skulk, he becomes an 8/8 that can't be blocked by creatures with power less than 8. And how many blockers have power 8 or more? That's what I thought. Of course, 4 Birds is a time-honored staple and Sakura-Tribe Elder is one of the best Green cards in Standard, so this idea may be a bit too out there for Regionals. Maybe just replacing a few Watchwolves with Pit-Skulks, and moving the Watchwolves to the sideboard (Watchwolf is a better defense card anyway, sitting on the bench in the early game and discouraging attacks into a two-mana creature that can kill most four-mana creatures).
So, I think we've still got a few
sideboard slots left, so I'll make a
few recommendations.
Devouring Light
Crash Landing
Carven Caryatid
Hand of Honor
Of course, top-level tournaments
aren't exactly my strong suit, so
I can't really make guarantees. I
also try not to profess that there
aren't other, perhaps even better,
ways to remake this deck. The thing
about Magic is that there's always
another way of doing things. I try
to make my deck garage articles more
of a "learning experience" than an
outright schematic of what you must
do. My job is to demonstrate sound
deckbuilding principles and plant
ideas in your head for you to
consider, and I think I've done
that. Good luck at regionals, Greg
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