Agelic overseer is definitely sweet and worth sideboard slots. Loyal cathar is a bit rough costing ww, and his flipside isn't that good. Doomed traveller isn't good now without honor of the pure in my opinion, though I may be wrong.
When you play huntmasters, you are looking to grind out games against all kinds of decks instead of praying for a godhand and killing the opponent quickly. I play in a lot of long tournaments and I dislike having games where I lose to a control or midrange opponent just because I didn't draw my nut hand. Lunarchs, mayors, and huntmasters make for a better grind-style deck whilst keeping a decent amount of aggressiveness. Lunarch is perfect here as he fits in all parts of your curve. It all boils down to the kind of deck you prefer. Consistency vs. Raw power.
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Nov 29, 2012Sasky posted a message on Naya Humans (RTR Standard)@javdubs: Your idea sounds good. Have you checked out Craig Wescoe's Lightning Humans deck? It's up on tcgplayer. His idea sounds like what you want to be doing for that direction. As for bant control, this deck, like all aggro decks, is quite soft to sweepers. However, I have played the matchup and this deck is superior to straight out g/w aggro in dealing with long, grindy games. You just need to land a werewolf and let him win the game for you or until they sweep, then play something else. Midrange is ok, just hope for the best game 1, then punish them with intrepid hero game 2 (and 3).Posted in: Sasky Blog
@BobMcfall: They are both control-ish cards, which isn't really what this deck wants to be doing. I do want to play daybreak ranger, but she seems to get in the way of the main game plan. Pillar is also too difficult to support mana-wise. We have like 1 turn one untapped mana. -
Aug 14, 2012Sasky posted a message on Making the best Werewolf deck (Innistrad Standard)Thanks, I have tested gang and found him to be clunky, especially with huntmaster competing at the 4-drop slot. Bonfire is usually a better spell.Posted in: Sasky Blog
I agree with the borderland comment. He's actually ok because of the relatively high curve and because he gets a boost from mayor, though running 4 might be a bit too much. As of now he's ok, but I'll see how it goes. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
I support his unban in modern because I think everyone is just overreacting. However, he's never coming off the banlist because of the hate for him and he would become too expensive.
Green aggro always wants to be splashing either white or black. Sometimes people go G/r, but it is never as strong as G/w or G/b.
It's better than Tarmo Twin because the breach/emrakul combo is not stopped by things like path and abrupt decay. It's a very solid plan as long as you get the numbers right. I think the players who all played against me last night can attest to the power of this strategy.
I have space for both the hydra and titania as I run a 540 cube. I would cut Titania at 450 too.
Would you play the hordechief if it took up a black slot instead of a mardu slot?
From the lands package, I kept crucible, titania, loam, zuran orb, dust bowl, and avenger of zendikar. These are perfectly playable cards on their own.
I cut edge of autumn, sylvan scrying, realms uncharted, harrow, knight of the reliquary, and rampaging baloths to bring back green aggro.
The lands deck was fun to draft, but ultimately did not do enough powerful stuff on its own other than repetitive strip mine (which was already a thing as crucible and loam has been in my cube forever).
These have not been mentioned.
I really dislike pod in cube.
They don't always draw the hate, and you need your exarchs anyway to tap down blockers/attackers. There are only 2 copies of twin - you can side one out but I would never side out the combo completely.
Yasova Dragonclaw
Ugin the Spirit Dragon
Monastery Mentor
Warden of the First Tree
I'm just not so hyped about most of the wedge/shard cards as others seem to be. I think they are much harder to activate and less useful than many people think. Yasova is an exception because of her impressive stats.
For comments on abusing her with stuff like kalonian hydra or hornet queen, is that ever coming up? Feldon has a much better chance of reanimating those critters, and more.