Alright another wave of changes:
+2 Spellskite in the Mainboard
-2 Spellskite in the Sideboard
-2 Sword of War and Peace in the Mainboard
+1 Sword of War and Peace in the Sideboard
-2 Timely Reinforcements in the Mainboard
+1 Timely Reinforcements in the Sideboard
+1 Midnight Haunting in the Mainboard
+1 Negate in the Mainboard
Overall the Timely Reinforcements has been bad in the opposing control matches and even against some other sort of psudo agro decks that dont stack creatures everywhere. I have enough creature support in this deck that it has on occasion been sort of tough to utilize. It is into stricly sideboard now.
Sword of War and Peace has been feeling lacking with how many infect oriented decks are out there... even decks that just kill with nexus so I am pushing one into the SB in case I feel it is still necessary but I haven't been thrilled by it of late.
The Spellskites give me more blockers and a misdirect option which I want to try out mainboard for a bit and see how it goes. I like how it can redirect pump effects so we will see how that goes down. Worst case it is a decent wall. I also like keeping my creature curve decent so I can utilize Moorland Haunt
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Oct 20, 2011ISBPathfinder posted a message on U/W Sword Control (Standard)Posted in: ISBPathfinder Blog
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Oct 13, 2011ISBPathfinder posted a message on Need new ideas!If you want some help on a bant EDH deck I have a good primer for Jenara, Asura of War which can be found here.Posted in: Instereo3 Blog
It is hard to come up with a new spin on a commander as most of them out there have either been done to death or totally suck. As cool as Lim-Dûl the Necromancer is he costs tons of mana and at which point you might as well just run Maga, Traitor to Mortals as your wincon as once you get above 5 mana you have to have a lot of ramp to really try to utilize your commander.
If you wanted to do a jund deck you could also consider Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund as he is a bit of a different spin on a dragon legend. -
Oct 13, 2011ISBPathfinder posted a message on U/W Sword Control (Standard)I have a few changes to make to the list and I think you are right on the Think Twice. I am going to make the following changes:Posted in: ISBPathfinder Blog
-3 Forbidden Alchemy
+3 Think Twice
-4 Invisible Stalker sadly he wasnt doing as much as I had sort of wanted from him in this list. I am moving this to be a bit more control and token spawning.
+2 Midnight Haunting
+2 Day of Judgment
-1 Moorland Haunt the creature curve in the list has been going down plus having 2 in play isnt very productive.
+1 Inkmoth Nexus
SIDEBOARD CHANGES
-2 Divine Offering I feel like Revoke Existance is just going to be better going forward. The ability to strip O Rings and the fact that the rez decks cannot recur the target is good. Plus I still have plenty of occasional Wurmcoil Engines that wander past in my playgroup.
-1 Spellskite I dont see this card as highly neccesary in most cases. It is a nice wall vs agro but I already have a lot of agro hate.
+3 Surgical Extraction grave hate. I dont know how much I expect to run into Solar Flare in my own meta currently but we will see I suppose.
With these latest changes I guess the sword count and types are sort of on stand by. I might end up dropping the swords down to 3 as the creature curve has been going down of late and I might want to bump it to 3x feast and famine. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Also I really enjoy using the green Myojin to pop off Emrakul, the Aeons Torn at the end of my opponents turn. He hits like a truck with an annihilate 6 kicker.
If you cant have fun with those little treasures its time to quit playing :P. Are they too far on the jank scale... well that's your call
All of those cards are good starting points as to what would work nicely.
A few green and or black tutors would be nice too. Worldly Tutor, Eladamri's Call, Chord of Calling, primal command, demonic tutor, diabolic tutor, Beseech the Queen Obviously not run all of them but pick and choose which you like.
Also Austere Command, and or Akroma's Vengeance will give you some anti artifact / enchantment
Version 1.0 turned out a bit like this, I ran a tonnnn of wizards in the hope of just controlling the board when I got a lot of utility down pack. The problem with this strategy is that I was forced to use up a lot of my counters early on to protect Teferi and it seems like every single big fatty creature that hit the board was something I couldnt handle as all I had was pidly little utility wizzards. Sooooo I scrapped that one and moved to 1.1
Version 1.1 is currently where I am at. At least half of the wizards have been removed and I have more spells in the deck now. I threw in a few fattys like Sundering Titan, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, and Morphling in hopes that I might be able to actually fight with some creatures. My main goal with this deck is that I really really dont want some stupid jank infinite combo to kill my opponents off. I know a lot of the competative builds of blue execute these said combos a lot of the time it is through decking. I dont want to use that playstyle though as I just dont find it fun to say infinite brain freeze . But I also dont like it when people do said combos on me, which is why I run a good healthy 15 counterspells in the deck. Some would say a bit excessive but I dont like combo as it is lame. So anyways anyone out there have a deck suggestion out there? or even a mindset or plan I should have while fixing my terrible blue teferi deck????
Ohhh and a followup question... Why do people like Arcane Denial??? It gives your opponents 2 more cards and you only one more. Isn't the idea behind blue to maintain card advantage????
Scars of the Veteran is a bit tech but its a nice kicker unexpected buff in this deck.
and I suppose Primal Command might be better than one of your current creature tutors.
Scars of the Veteran and that is just delicious.
Sacred Boon has a similar idea but its not as cool as scars