Sideboard's a work in progress, I'll figure it out once I've tested all of the matchups.
This is the build I've been using for all the testing. What makes it good? Black. Yukora is a fantastic blocker on turn 3 agaisnt Zoo or Gruul, and Befoul doubles as emergency creature kill in a pinch. Against control decks, it keeps them off of mana and Yukora is once again fantastic for a proactive strategy.
I know it loses hard to Owl, but as long as I find myself beating the aggro decks with this, then I think it's an extremely viable choice.
Shadow of Doubt is a great sideboard card I use to run. Stops a lot of things, my most favorite being Hearbeat Combo. Bottled Cloister does seem like a pretty good card for your board. Have you done any testing with it? And the only counter I ever ran was Overwhelming Intellect in the board. Good against the mirror's big dragons, and gives you card advantage. Seize is a decent card, but my only problem is that it doesnt stop some of the most played creatures like Hierarch, Kokusho, Ghost Council, Angel. But on a lighter note, it does smack down Burning Tree Shaman, Rumbling Slum, anything run in that Gruul deck, Meloku, and all those other really really good creatures, so it cant be all bad. I have to test with this deck a bit more myself.
1 [RAV] Swamp (1)
1 [RAV] Mountain (4)
5 [RAV] Island (4)
4 [RAV] Watery Grave
4 [GP] Steam Vents
1 [SOK] Miren, the Moaning Well
1 [CHK] Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
1 [CHK] Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 [CHK] Minamo, School at Water's Edge
4 [9E] Sulfurous Springs
// Creatures
1 [CHK] Keiga, the Tide Star
1 [CHK] Kokusho, the Evening Star
3 [BOK] Yukora, the Prisoner
4 [RAV] Dimir Signet
4 [9E] Annex
3 [GP] Izzet Signet
4 [9E] Wildfire
4 [GP] Electrolyze
3 [9E] Icy Manipulator
4 [RAV] Dream Leash
2 [8E] Confiscate
4 [CHK] Befoul
4 [8E] Pyroclasm
3 [GP] Shattering Spree
4 [BOK] Threads of Disloyalty
2 [CHK] Cranial Extraction
2 [SOK] One with Nothing
Sideboard's a work in progress, I'll figure it out once I've tested all of the matchups.
This is the build I've been using for all the testing. What makes it good? Black. Yukora is a fantastic blocker on turn 3 agaisnt Zoo or Gruul, and Befoul doubles as emergency creature kill in a pinch. Against control decks, it keeps them off of mana and Yukora is once again fantastic for a proactive strategy.
I know it loses hard to Owl, but as long as I find myself beating the aggro decks with this, then I think it's an extremely viable choice.
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Cards I'm Definitely Running:
4 Threads of Disloyalty
7 ????
Cards I'm considering:
Any Ideas for Cards I should be running?
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