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Today I saw a game with GreatNate and he's still playing Jeskai Geist.
You can watch his game here at 31:00 but it's pretty sad. He misplayes the new Apparition and scoops the whole match. Not that great.
Are there no Delver players left? Not much happening anymore in this thread
Today I saw Squa Chief playing a pretty good Delver deck, but it's not Jeskai.
Just a few minutes ago someone played it on MTGO and run into my Mono White deck. You can check game 1 here if you're interested. It shows the power of the Broodmoth Game 2 my opponent was pretty unlucky and his Delvers didn't flip for several turns. When they finally flipped it was too late because I had a Mirran Crusader with Sword of Fire & Ice who finished him.
@CurdBros: Nice card! Snapcaster, Mission Briefing, Light Up The Stage, Chandra... It's just hard to find the right balance between card advantage and power to actually win the game, while not losing too much tempo...
Well, my Lutri Jeskai deck is dead after this change. Mana for Lutri was already tight. Control versions with 24-25 lands can still play Lutri though. I guess that Lurrus decks are going to disappear but Yorion players won't care at all. They play Yorion when they have like ten lands in play... I don't really mind though since my mono white deck has a very good win rate against most Yorion variants
Congrats, ManDolphin! A graduation and a promotion, and still finding the time to build a nice deck and play with it...well done!
There are quite a few interesting cards in your version. Fire Prophecy for example wasn't on my radar at all but I might try it in my deck as well.
Narset of the Ancient Way has been very good so far, better than expected. I also think that you should definitely run Fact or Faction! There's no better deck for that card than Jeskai Lutri.
Oh, and I am very glad you like my videos. I'll continue to post the most exciting matches here
And about what CurdBros wrote, "Just value on top of value.", I think so too!
Adding Dire Fleet Daredevil was a very good decision. Together with Lutri, Snappy, Dreadhorde Arcanist, Ranger-Captain and many other spells the value is often too much for my opponents.
Edit:
I am having a good run with Lutri. Pic related
Yeah, I just like white combat tricks
Played four more matches with the deck today and I am 5-1 now.
I think I'd still take my mono white list to a big tournament but so far I am having a blast playing Lutri!
Just played an exciting match against Mardu Death's Shadow. My opponent won game 1. You can watch game 2 here and game 3 here.
In the other matches I didn't even need Lutri copying spells to win but in this match the otter did really shine
I build a Jeskai Lutri deck today on MTGO, just for fun.
Here's my interpretation
I've put quite a few surprises for the opponent in there, like Mana Tithe, Test of Faith, Jötun Grunt and Lightning Angel. It's really fun to never know what to expect from the next draw and I think it's hard to play against for the opponent.
15 creatures plus 4 PWs seem to be enough pressure. I've played two matches so far and won both.
There are just so many other great cards I'd like to add as well...
I finally did it and created a Primer for my white deck so I won't post about it here anymore. All my future posts in this thread will be Jeskai-related
Btw, if you want to check out my Primer, please do so. (I hope the title is not too cheesy)
Really not many people left in this thread. I wonder if they all stopped playing MtG
I tested a lot with the Winota deck yesterday, using a lot of different cards to make it work, but I just kept loosing the whole day... so unfortunately I had to dump the deck/idea.
Today I went back to my Mono White list and played 3-1 with convincing wins agains Grixis Shadow, Jund and Soul Sisters. The one loss was against the newest monster deck MagicAids created two days ago. I lost to a T2 Emrakul in game 1 and to the Saheeli combo in game 2 - this deck is absolutely sick!
Still, the three wins were enjoyable and I still love my deck. If you're interested please click on the spoiler
(@CurdBros: Did you see my message about creating a Primer for this deck?)
I played a few test games, tweaked my initial list and ended up with this:
Resurrection has been awesome so far against hand disruption and also to play Captain or Agent from the GY after discarding them to Pyromancer or Thrill. Young Pyro didn't do enough and had to go. Thrill is supposed to help me find the missing combo pieces.
I added Skirk Prospector to have something to do on T1. It triggers Winota and can also help play her or the payoff cards faster.
So far I've been winning a lot (when I am not flooding or mana screwed) and when the deck goes off... that's a sight to behold!
It's so much fun to put more than 10 power into play attacking while stealing the opponent's best permanent
have you all watched these two awesome vids with Winota, Joiner of Forces deck from Daddy and from Meryn? The first one is Standard but it's a Jeskai deck, and the latter is Modern but Boros.
After watching both vids I became very interested in making a Modern Jeskai deck with Winota and I wanted to ask if anyone here would be interested in helping me build a competitive deck?
As cards to cheat into play I think the following are good options:
4x Captain of the Watch and/or 4x Agent of Treachery plus a few legendary ones 2x Lavinia of the Tenth and/or 2x Kenrith, the Returned King and/or 2x Kaervek the Merciless
Using Mentor and Pyro could be a valid strategy to create non-Human tokens. Paired with burn spells it's already a solid plan against a lot of decks. A soldier sub-theme could also work well with Captain of the Watch. There are quite a few cards that can create Soldier tokens.
I am not sure if Blue is absolutely necessary. Agent of Treachery is a great payoff card but it will never be cast (only cheated into play). Blue would mainly offer counterspell options for the SB.
What do you all think? How would you build the deck? Would you use castable Humans like Meryn or Humans that can't be cast reasonably but that are so powerful that they'll win for sure when cheated in with Winota (see candidates above)?
But I think to cast Winota on turn 4 the deck needs at least 2 more lands. But which 2 cards can I cut?
I need 10 payoff creatures to hit one in 6 cards, I also need 4 Winotas.
Maybe only 4x Raise and drop Fodder since it's sorcery speed?
Emerge seems good as it can protect Pyro while creating tokens, it can protect Winota and it even can blink Agent to gain more permanents.
@GofyTomcat1: I can see that you're still playing the same list, pretty much unchanged. How's it doing in the new meta? It would be nice if you could add some comments and not only post your list.
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Today I saw a game with GreatNate and he's still playing Jeskai Geist.
You can watch his game here at 31:00 but it's pretty sad. He misplayes the new Apparition and scoops the whole match. Not that great.
Today I saw Squa Chief playing a pretty good Delver deck, but it's not Jeskai.
Just a few minutes ago someone played it on MTGO and run into my Mono White deck. You can check game 1 here if you're interested. It shows the power of the Broodmoth
@CurdBros: Nice card! Snapcaster, Mission Briefing, Light Up The Stage, Chandra... It's just hard to find the right balance between card advantage and power to actually win the game, while not losing too much tempo...
I actually love this dude for my white deck:
They'll be so annoying. Either they come back flying or leave behind a Knight or both. Muahaha!
There are quite a few interesting cards in your version. Fire Prophecy for example wasn't on my radar at all but I might try it in my deck as well.
Narset of the Ancient Way has been very good so far, better than expected. I also think that you should definitely run Fact or Faction! There's no better deck for that card than Jeskai Lutri.
Oh, and I am very glad you like my videos. I'll continue to post the most exciting matches here
And about what CurdBros wrote, "Just value on top of value.", I think so too!
Adding Dire Fleet Daredevil was a very good decision. Together with Lutri, Snappy, Dreadhorde Arcanist, Ranger-Captain and many other spells the value is often too much for my opponents.
Edit:
I am having a good run with Lutri. Pic related
It's more Jeskai Control than Tempo but it also looks sweet:
ZXROGUE (5-0)
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Narset of the Ancient Way
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
1 Ral, Izzet Viceroy
1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
1 Teferi, Time Raveler
1 The Royal Scions
Creature (3)
1 Bonecrusher Giant
1 Brazen Borrower
1 Snapcaster Mage
Sorcery (4)
1 Inspired Ultimatum
1 Serum Visions
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Time Warp
Instant (18)
1 Abrade
1 Archmage's Charm
1 Burst Lightning
1 Cryptic Command
1 Deprive
1 Electrolyze
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Force of Negation
1 Into the Story
1 Izzet Charm
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Lightning Helix
1 Logic Knot
1 Mana Leak
1 Opt
1 Path to Exile
1 Remand
1 Spell Snare
1 Arcum's Astrolabe
Enchantment (2)
1 Search for Azcanta
1 Whirlwind of Thought
Land (25)
4 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
4 Mystic Sanctuary
1 Raugrin Triome
1 Sacred Foundry
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
1 Snow-Covered Plains
3 Steam Vents
1 Aether Gust
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Ashiok, Dream Render
1 Celestial Purge
1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
1 Dovin's Veto
1 Dragon's Claw
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Lutri, the Spellchaser
1 Mystical Dispute
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Timely Reinforcements
1 Wear//Tear
1 Wrath of God
I checked on Youtube but unfortunately Squa Chief didn't upload this one, only his games with Temur and Grixis Lutri.
Played four more matches with the deck today and I am 5-1 now.
I think I'd still take my mono white list to a big tournament but so far I am having a blast playing Lutri!
Just played an exciting match against Mardu Death's Shadow. My opponent won game 1. You can watch game 2 here and game 3 here.
In the other matches I didn't even need Lutri copying spells to win but in this match the otter did really shine
Here's my interpretation
I've put quite a few surprises for the opponent in there, like Mana Tithe, Test of Faith, Jötun Grunt and Lightning Angel. It's really fun to never know what to expect from the next draw and I think it's hard to play against for the opponent.
15 creatures plus 4 PWs seem to be enough pressure. I've played two matches so far and won both.
There are just so many other great cards I'd like to add as well...
Btw, if you want to check out my Primer, please do so. (I hope the title is not too cheesy)
I tested a lot with the Winota deck yesterday, using a lot of different cards to make it work, but I just kept loosing the whole day... so unfortunately I had to dump the deck/idea.
Today I went back to my Mono White list and played 3-1 with convincing wins agains Grixis Shadow, Jund and Soul Sisters. The one loss was against the newest monster deck MagicAids created two days ago. I lost to a T2 Emrakul in game 1 and to the Saheeli combo in game 2 - this deck is absolutely sick!
Still, the three wins were enjoyable and I still love my deck. If you're interested please click on the spoiler
(@CurdBros: Did you see my message about creating a Primer for this deck?)
I played a few test games, tweaked my initial list and ended up with this:
Resurrection has been awesome so far against hand disruption and also to play Captain or Agent from the GY after discarding them to Pyromancer or Thrill. Young Pyro didn't do enough and had to go. Thrill is supposed to help me find the missing combo pieces.
I added Skirk Prospector to have something to do on T1. It triggers Winota and can also help play her or the payoff cards faster.
So far I've been winning a lot (when I am not flooding or mana screwed) and when the deck goes off... that's a sight to behold!
It's so much fun to put more than 10 power into play attacking while stealing the opponent's best permanent
Here's what the fun can look like
Lutri really looks like a lot of fun
have you all watched these two awesome vids with Winota, Joiner of Forces deck from Daddy
After watching both vids I became very interested in making a Modern Jeskai deck with Winota and I wanted to ask if anyone here would be interested in helping me build a competitive deck?
As cards to cheat into play I think the following are good options:
4x Captain of the Watch and/or 4x Agent of Treachery plus a few legendary ones 2x Lavinia of the Tenth and/or 2x Kenrith, the Returned King and/or 2x Kaervek the Merciless
Using Mentor and Pyro could be a valid strategy to create non-Human tokens. Paired with burn spells it's already a solid plan against a lot of decks. A soldier sub-theme could also work well with Captain of the Watch. There are quite a few cards that can create Soldier tokens.
I am not sure if Blue is absolutely necessary. Agent of Treachery is a great payoff card but it will never be cast (only cheated into play). Blue would mainly offer counterspell options for the SB.
What do you all think? How would you build the deck? Would you use castable Humans like Meryn or Humans that can't be cast reasonably but that are so powerful that they'll win for sure when cheated in with Winota (see candidates above)?
Edit:
I'd build something like this:
4x Agent of Treachery
4x Captain of the Watch
2x Kenrith, the Returned King
3x Seasoned Pyromancer
3x Raise the Alarm
3x Dragon Fodder
3x Path to Exile
3x Lightning Helix
3x Emerge Unscathed
But I think to cast Winota on turn 4 the deck needs at least 2 more lands. But which 2 cards can I cut?
I need 10 payoff creatures to hit one in 6 cards, I also need 4 Winotas.
Maybe only 4x Raise and drop Fodder since it's sorcery speed?
Emerge seems good as it can protect Pyro while creating tokens, it can protect Winota and it even can blink Agent to gain more permanents.
NILSFIT (5-0)
3 Meddling Mage
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Sprite Dragon
4 Serum Visions
1 Cryptic Command
3 Force of Negation
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Lightning Helix
2 Mana Leak
4 Opt
2 Path to Exile
2 Remand
4 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
1 Sacred Foundry
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Seachrome Coast
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
1 Snow-Covered Plains
2 Spirebluff Canal
2 Steam Vents
1 Meddling Mage
1 Path to Exile
1 Aether Gust
2 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Engineered Explosives
3 Kor Firewalker
1 Lurrus of the Dream Den
2 Mystical Dispute
2 Soul-Guide Lantern
@GofyTomcat1: I can see that you're still playing the same list, pretty much unchanged. How's it doing in the new meta? It would be nice if you could add some comments and not only post your list.