Thursday, July 12, 2012

First Try at Magic's Standard : G/W Control


Creature
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 Strangleroot Geist
4 Blade Splicer
3 Fiend Hunter
2 Restoration Angel
2 Grand Abolisher

Lands
4 Razorverge Thicket
8 Plains
5 Forest
2 Gavony Township
4 Sunpetal Grove

Instant
3 Cloudshift
3 Righteous Blow
3 Beast Within

Planeswalker
1 Gideon Jura

Sorcery
4 Day of Judgment

Why G/W ? Because I like Wrath of God / DoJ , it simplify things. Also not fond on Oblivion Ring, for 1 more mana I can wipes everything instead of just one threat, and O-Ring does target. For a similar cost, i also have Beast Within, and Fiend Hunter. In fact, Fiend Hunter is better with the synergy alongside Cloudshift. Vapor Snag can be a threat of course but i think Cloudshift will minimize that.

Still need more test and I might take out Avacyn's Pilgrim.

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Made some more changes, played Delver once on Cockatrice losing 2-1 :/

FIEND HUNTER KEEP GETTING VAP-SNAGGED FOR LIKE BAZILLION TIMES WHEN I HAVE NO CLOUDSHIFT

I also learnt that Mana Leak is only a soft counter

Also, Magic's 60 cards has an obvious difference to Yugioh's 40. It just feels different...

- 4 Avacyn's Pilgrim
- 4 Birds of Paradise
- 1 Gideon Jura

+ 3 Ambush Viper
+ 3 Gitaxian Probe
+ 2 Timely Reinorcements
+ 1 Elspeth Tirel

My favourite card so far is Beast Within. its like Compulsory Evacuation Device ! You can use it to trade with opponent's removal or get rid of stuff . For a 3 drop, that seems outstanding. I can even follow up with DoJ to mitigate the drawback

Edit note: Beast Within is indeed one of my early favourite Magic card and later learnt that in fact, its rather good. Just not in this build. I just love the versatility of that card. In all of honesty, I had some interesting plan here. BW and Cloudshift is an interesting answer to spot removals and BW can even trigger Strangleroot. Fun times

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