MTG Salvation

I went 3-1 with this deck. I had a really hard time with faster decks like White-Black Knights.

Initially I tried to go Blue Green because of Tatyova, Benthic Druid, but I was severely lacking in removal. I tried to build a saproling deck to take advantage of Sporecrown Thallid, but with the lack of Saproling Migration and Deathbloom Thallid, I think only have 2 saproling generating cards.

So I decided to go Blue-White flyers with a splash of black and it worked out pretty well. The deck took a few turns to go online, but once I had one or two Aven Sentry, Cloudreader Sphinx, and Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp the deck was basically unstoppable.

One problem with my deck was that Aryel, Knight of Windgrace really didn't fit well. as she fits better in a deck with a critical mass of knights.

How would you build this pool? Would you have gone with Blue-White? I'm still not convinced entirely that this was the right way to go.







Curve:
1 SS
2 C
3 CCCCS
4 CCCC
5 CCSSS
6 CCC
7 C
8

You're struggling with fast decks like WB knights because your curve is slow and you're playing 3 colors with a lot of lategame, manasinks, and a triple-color spell. I wouldn't play the same colors as you.

Your pool has a great fixing: 2 Skittering Surveyor, Grow from the Ashes, Llanowar Envoy. If you use a green base, you could be greedy and even play 4 colors (2 main, 2 light splashes).

Benalish Marshal is awkward in a 3 color deck. Even with 2 fixing cards, it's very high variance. The payoff isn't enough without Saproling tokens to go wide with them anthem. The number of games it blows opponent out of the water with Aryel or Mishra's Self-Replicator are fewer than the games where you can't cast it for ages. It's much much better if you were just playing White-Black Historic Knights with white as the main color, but your black pool may be too weak for that to work.

You don't have the best Saproling pool, but did you consider playing Green-White "go wide"? 2 Wild Onslaught + Benalish Marshal love tokens.

You could splash blue for Tatyova, Raff and Zahid. Or black for Aryel and Eldest Reborn. Or even do both.



Curve:
1 - s
2 - cccc
3 - ccccccs
4 - ccccs
5 - ccss
6 - c
7 - c

Historic: 6

Maybe cram in 1-2 Short Swords to make Zahid and Mishra's Self-Replicator better. Or splash the 4th color too.

Looking at the full decklist, the go-wide theme might not be enough. Maybe you just want to be GUwb and splash all the cards.



Curve:
1 - ss
2 - ccccc
3 - cccccsss
4 - cc
5 - ccsss
6 - c
7 - c

Historic: 10