Has anyone tested out sorin solemn visitor some more? Or is he just situational because his +1 relies for you to have a solid board state? Is this why I see gideon popping up on lists instead?
Thanks for everyone's input, I forgot that Iconic Masters was a thing. It was more so to be used but not immediately which is why I was not keen on an instant buy.
You're correct, it is 4x Rally and 4x CoCo, sorry! I did some testing with 3x Rally, 4x CoCo and 1x Eldritch Evolution (the value of sac'ing Voice, getting rallier, a token and returning voice is insane) but I didn't test enough.
I'm saving this list so I can later use it, because I had a lot of fun with this deck. Here were my matchups:
First Match: I played against a burn deck, I find the match against burn fairly easy, I filled the board quickly and got some points of life through blood artist. The post-sideboard match I added 2x Kitchen Finks, which combined with saffi have an even greater value. I try to fetch only basic lands (as I never know when they're using blood-*******-moon as main, and fetching for shocklands against burn is often not a good idea). On the second game he managed to deal me so much damage, so fast, that I just couldn't keep up. Ended up 2-1.
Second Match: I played against a Jeskai that employed the Nahiri/Emrakul combo, together with the Restoration Angel/Kiki Jiki combo. The match was fairly easy, even though my voice of resurgence always gets exiled, I managed to beat him with a massive rally sac-wave in the first game and comboing for infinite dmg/life with blood artist+ saffi+viscera+rallier on the second. I only sideboarded path to exile in. 2-0
Third Match: This was a really good game for my self esteem, as I always lose to this guy. He has a nasty mardu deck, with paths, fatal push's and Kalitas. The first game he had some bad luck and flooded with lands. I managed to combo him with aristocrat/saffi/rallier+artist pretty fast. On the second one he casted Kalitas, but I still managed to beat him by attacking with an unblockable aristocrat on my turns while blocking his Kalitas and sac'ing my blockers before damage was applied on his turns, preventing lifelink. I sideboarded paths and Qasali (which were useless, as he uses Nihil spellbomb, and he only casted it the moment I already had some considerable graveyard)
Fourth Match: Against a friend of mine, we just decided to split prize but played anyway. His deck is an abzan midrange with 4x goyfs that managed to beat the ***** out of me. Satyr wayfinder only grew his goyfs and Ooze, and guess what he uses a Kalitas as well. I managed to win first game by beating him with massive elemental tokens, but in the second and third games the hate was just too strong. p.s: In the third game I could've actually won, had I played better. I managed an infinite scry with viscera/rallier/saffi and I left a rally/land sequence on top of my deck. He casted a kozilek and I discarded the rally on the next turn. Had I found a land/rally sequence I'd have won. I didn't put a CoCo on top because he extracted them'all from me.
This deck is insanely fun to play, and I also find the blisterpod/doomed traveler version together with Abzan Ascendancy and Copters really fun. I tested both and this one I'm using was more to my taste. My sideboarded is adjusted to my local game store (combo decks, affinity, burn) and I strongly suggest that you come up with your own as well!
I don't mean to scare everyone off from the archtype and thread... I'll still probably mess around with Aristocrat lists here and there. Hopefully I'm off on my analysis and there really is a list that irons out some of these problems. But for now play what you love and don't get your sights set on tiered status
I agree. Our engine requires more pieces to fit everything together, while other decks can do the same thing with fewer pieces (e.g. Vizier+Devoted Druid). I think that's also good, I mean, when you put together all those combo pieces, when you rally into a huge sac-wave with 3 blood artists or when your voice tokens are so freaking huge and you just mow your opponent down with them, killing his goyfs and dreams... that's priceless
How crucial is the satyr wayfinder? I have not tested a build with that particular card. Is it just the ability to net a land and try to dig to our pieces faster?
How crucial is the satyr wayfinder? I have not tested a build with that particular card. Is it just the ability to net a land and try to dig to our pieces faster?
archangel of thune
Pile B
Crucible of Worlds
vampiric tutor
survival of the fittest
MP demonic tutor
2 burning earth
2 detention sphere
3 supreme verdict
2 ash zealot
Pile B
Foil Snapcaster Mage.
They are at a decent pricing of 20-25
It was by far my worst matchup of the night.