MTG Salvation

Decided to have some fun this week and go back to old school shenanigans build. A lot of blink effects Mangara of corondor Akroma, Angel of Fury. Just been grinding out more recently with stock taxes lists and burn recently so wanted to run a for fun variant this week. running shefet dunes on sole basis it provides colorless and white.



@jake: Aven mindcensor helps versus titan shift if you expect it to be there in force and isn't bad against the rest of the meta. finks can be good if you expect a lot of aggressive builds, thalia, heretic can be good as just a vanilla tax that is good in almost all matches. Dryad militant is great versus storm and nerfs snapcaster and goyf to some extent. Beefing up some of your 2 and 3 ofs can also be considered.

Update: Went 3-1 lost a close match to grixis death's shadow, won a close match against humans than beat ponza pretty handidly and beat affinty ( mull to 5 g1 and t2 stony silence followed by t4 Linvala)

@zirz I agree I was rubbing 2 to 3 in white eldrazi and many times he was my only out.

In a control and titan meta I like mono white tectonic edge can hold oid valakut (our kill mountain with trigger on stack) and not as week to ghost quarter or spreading seas. Don't forget mindcensor in 75

@kitty. It closes the game out very fast. In This list I like it more than resto angel in many situations. I started with one and wanted it so much i went to the second same with Brimaz (although o have ran Brimaz in the past). Pay of the reason i like Brimaz currently is with a lot of bolt helix decks inn overall and especially local meta. This week in going to try -1 avenger (the seems excessive) +1 honor of the pure son've I gp a bit wider than most builds.. but aosp keeps other avenger out of bolt range. This may be wrong or very awkward and may ultimately be a utility creature like spellskite (with infect slowly coming back) but figure than honor is worth a shot. In typical thraben inspector builds I recommend sucking with 4 angel since toy hey a bit of extra utility outside of splicer and wisp but if you're not running inspector I would say that bladehold is worth trying.

This is s list I wanted to try and have had good luck with past few weeks through 8 rounds over 2 tournaments and only lost to lantern control. I rant Luke dryad militant in the current meta and with less etb triggers I switched 2 resto for 2 hero and used Brimaz in the flex to close out games quicker and the list has felt very strong.

This is my build for regionals

Played in another 4 round tournament with my mono-white "vanilla" death and taxes list went 3-0-1 (intentional draw)(9-1-1 overall). beating esper control, 8 rack and burn. I played the same main deck as usual, but cut the relics and leylines from the board since they weren't pulling their weight and replaced them with mark of asylum, lone missionary and a single linvala, keeper of silence. I am very happy with the 75 and will run most likely the following 75 in regionals. the main and board are set up to be well positioned against a wide variety of decks which rather than honed against a certain deck or type. dryad miltant has been solid for me in a wide variety of matches over the past few weeks, exiling lingering souls, nerfing unburial rights, exiling raven's crime, nerfing snapcaster and saving early damage from goblin guides and swift spears, as well as pushing damage through and forcing control opponents to deal with as to not over-commit to a board. and finks seems much better positioned than crusader with the rise of jeskai.

got a mono white and a bw eldrazi taxes build in top 8 of SCG CINCINNATI.

- mono white first feature match versus 5c humans

Played the following list last Sunday. not big turn-out so only three rounds I went 3-0 versus burn, mono-blue tempo turns (with thing in the ice), and gifts tron. Then played the same list (+1 Mindcensor -1 restoration angel) yesterday and went 3-1 beating wg humans, esper control and goblins, losing to a different goblins deck. I have been very happy with militant being an early attacker and disrupting opponent in the early game. My side board plan was different packages to bring in. 3 card leyline package. 3 card grave package, 3 card planeswalker package. 2 card artifact package, 2 card big creature package and 2 card small creature package. the main card I am not sure about is leyline which would turn into cards like mark of asylum, selfless spirit burrenton etc... if removed. The main deck seems really solid though. I have gone to kitchen finks over crusader due to red based removal in jeskai control and tempo and uw control decks seem to make up much more of the meta than the recently waning death's shadow. I also like the second mindcensor over 4th restoration angel with the 2 main deck field of ruin and the fact multiple restoration angles in opening hand is usually bad. just making final tweaks in preparation for regionals in a couple weeks.

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So, got a couple of events this weekend, looking for a bit of advice before I go! Currently my list looks like this:

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Creatures: 27 4x Thraben Inspector 4x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben 4x Leonin Arbiter 3x Blade Splicer 4x Flickerwisp 4x Eldrazi Displacer 4x Thought-Knot Seer Non-Creature Spells: 11 4x Path to Exile 4x Aether Vial 3x Smuggler's Copter	Lands: 22 4x Ghost Quarter 4x Eldrazi Temple 4x Shefet Dunes 3x Horizon Canopy 2x Flagstones of Trokair 5x Plains	Sideboard: 15 3x Rest in Peace 3x Burrenton Forgetender 3x Sunlance 2x Wrath of God 2x Blessed Alliance 2x Gideon of the Trials

My usual meta is really varied, with many tier 1 decks and almost never a deck lower than tier 2, and we're expecting a strong turn-out at the events. With that in mind, is there any match-up you think I may be ignoring with my 75?

Given I see more and more valakut decks around I like too have some number of aven mindcensor in the 75 since they can ramp past the arbiter tax fairly quick especially on the draw.

Going to try this value-centric build this week. Glint-sleeve has been handy for me in other decks maybe it should be bob, but the menace is surprisingly useful especially in conjunction with ruin raider which is the main card i want to test. This is nothing more that a testing point for me and not a tuned list, rather it is a list of convenience for testing purposes to see if the concept should be tuned more or discarded.

@Tsunami these are the reasons for Sunlance. For elves, we don't have the density of removal to try and keep then off 1 mana dorks, shop use on important cards like heritage, archdruid, ezuri etc... against merfolk kill lords and master of waves. Use first quarter etc... tip kill your lands with spreading seas and flickerwisp as combat trick when possible. First striking a Lord by surprise can heavily shift a big combat in our favor. Also remember if you run mutavault that Lord or Atlantis pumps it and gives it island walk.

@charons:I ran dull 4x in eldrazi build but found it to be occasionally useful, epithet for alpha or as enough of a deterrent to get in the opponent's head and aty times have them play sub optimal. As far ad field it is unique enough to warrant investigation, with true power on the play against tron to stop before ot stats. But usually bee about the same. I'll give you my thoughts as I go on. Mb aven is due to uptick in valakut lists as well.

I've been working on my own brew last few weeks (bw vehicles) so haven't been running much death and taxes, but since I have a pretty large tournament this weekend I will be going back to a pretty stock list. I am running kitchen finks and Brimaz due to most of the attrition Decks locally are jeskai geist. The rest of the deck is a pretty stock heavy tax list(with wingmare.) For mana-base I'm using the split charons has in the past with the 4-3-2 colorless split. 4 ghost quarter, 3 tectonic edge, 2 field of ruin.

In mono white with new land I will probably start with 4 ghost quarter, 3 field of ruin, 2 tectonic edge. Can be a bit better versus tron (on play nuke tron before completed) and really highlight aven mindcensor non- symmetric ability.