MTG Salvation

I was on discard faeries for many years. I don't fault anyone for playing it over the version I posted in my video. I think the most important thing we can acknowledge as a faeries community is that the deck is a lot more flexible and able to adapt to the tastes and the love of the pilots than most other decks on here which are largely solved. I know many people that play faeries with discard or without, or that play no snaps or play 4 or play no mistbinds or play 4 or play no scions or play 4 or play no serums or 4 and it's pretty safe to say that neither are right or wrong. As for the removal that belongs in the SB, it's mostly just a matter of guessing what you'll play against. Smother could have been anything

Hey everyone. I made a 50 minute deck primer on the faeries deck I will be playing at GP Vegas. I've been playing faeries for a long time at my local store and after Paulos CFB videos came out my friends wanted me to make a video for my channel going much deeper into the deck so they can see my take on his version he played that I have also largely played. In the video I go pretty deep into everything from card choices mana choices creature selection choices and all of the tricks the deck runs as well as some advanced help on triggers and strategy. Feel free to watch if you're interested https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CVhrOPjyOyc

Anthony came in third at the SCG Open

If you believe Tron and or Nahiri Jeskai/mardu to be bad matchups a haymaker SB card is Bribery to steal emrakul or Ulamog

I like mana leak better than remand right now. The format is to fast and decks are to linear and cheap to try to tempo them with remands. I like to have mana leak as its just a hard counter more than 80% of the time. With all the burn and zoo decks now remand is just not good and remanding a collected company unless you are attacking for lethal is just not good enough

I think Snapcaster Mage is a core card in the deck as well. Whether you play 2-3 is debatable but one of the reasons to play blue is to get 2-1 advantage with snap and if you are not playing him you need a very very good reason. It's rare for a card to be great in all stages of a game and he fits that category and best of all synergies with every one of our cards. I played 0 snap builds for a long time and since moving to 2 snaps around Summer of last year I've never left. I play 3 snaps now because so much of my SB is spell based and being able to get 2-1 in general and in my SB cards is exactly what I want to be doing.

Agreed that April 4th is the best sideboard card, luckily there is kind of a secret agreement at my LGS not to play eldrazi at FNM A) because no one wants to invest in a banned deck and B) no one finds it fun to play or play against so it's basically been a normal no eldrazi meta. I have been lucky in this regard that I've played against the deck maybe 3 times in the past 2 months

At the store I play at remand is a dead card or worse in most matchups I would expect to play so I just can't afford to be playing the all tempo faeries but I dont ever fault anyone for playing it because in the end you play what gets you the 4-0 at your FNM not what some list on here says you should do based on their specific meta.

Agony warp is fine in a meta where you expect it to be a two for one, give a creature minus three and then gang block a creature that got the -3/0 enough to make a second trade. Agony warp is I think a better SB card for the likes of like affinity where you can get those two for ones whereas agony warp seems very mediocre against say Jund

Snapcaster Mage makes playing Kalitas even better, the ability to get buy backs on cheap or free removal in murderous cuts pacts and dismembers makes Kalitas an actual engine instead of just a singleton threat. It's weird to not be playing 17 faeries anymore but I look at the deck now as being UB control with just the leanest faeries bitterblossom and Snapcaster Mage to tie it all together.

I don't think scion of Oona is that great now. Vendilion clique you can at least ambush a creature and target yourself.

Spell snare is good always against affinity play or draw

I actually play ghost quarter less to disrupt Tron and more to get lands like gavony township. When I hear things like how do you beat a nut draw? Well sometimes you just can't, but thoughtseizes, inquisitions, vendilion cliques, mana leaks, some decks run a single remand, and then we can get the ultimate late game tempo in Mistbind clique and cryptic command. In my career of maybe 100+ matches against Tron it's a 55% matchup for me. You laugh but vendilion clique does a suprising amount of work, and recently as has Kalitas traitor of Ghet as a way to turn your removal into ways to permanently deal with a wurmcoil engine with Kalitas I can dismember a wurmcoil engine block it with a rogue and now the wurmcoil is exiled and I get a 2/2 where before I'd have to fight 2 more bodies. I don't like to build my decks or think about scenarios like " how do I beat a hand that has natural Tron and 4 Karns in it?" Because that's one game out of three I will play against them in that scenario.

I typically play a sideboard that has a heavy affinity package without being targeted for affinity. I side out Thoughtseize then inquisition and then I side out go for the throat. That's 7 cards I bring in 2 damnation 2 engineered explosives 2 hurkylls recal and 2 Sower of temptation and however many disfigures I have SB and then I find the weakest card in my main usually a basic island and go to 25 lands and trim down on mana leak if I am on the draw

Sower of Temptation has been an overperformer from me out of the sideboard in the past month. Never thought about playing clever impersonator buy I just love sower so much