I've been working on tuning my decks to meet the level of competitiveness of my new playgroup (I'm coming from a super-cutthroat group where Rofellos/Azami/Rafiq/Zur were fair and everyone kept everyone else in check). This thread is just as much for my record-keeping as it is for sharing
This is my slightly more competitive list. Still not as nasty as it could be, but I think the sweet spot has been found as far as balancing power and fun.
I would replace the following:
Vraska with a Pernicious Deed
Day of Judgement with Terminus
Orzhov Signet with Expedition Map
Verdloth the Ancient with Craterhoof Behemoth
I would replace the following:
Vraska with a Pernicious Deed
Day of Judgement with Terminus
Orzhov Signet with Expedition Map
Verdloth the Ancient with Craterhoof Behemoth
This is my slightly more competitive list. Still not as nasty as it could be, but I think the sweet spot has been found as far as balancing power and fun.
Also running Niv
This is where I am at the moment:
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1 Ghave, Guru of Spores (full-art alter)
Creatures
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1 Avenger of Zendikar
1 Blood Artist
1 Champion of Lambholt (foil)
1 Corpsejack Menace (promo)
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Eternal Witness (promo)
1 Falkenrath Noble (foil)
1 Geralf's Messenger (foil)
1 Juniper Order Ranger (foil)
1 Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1 Oracle of Mul Daya (foil)
1 Regal Force
1 Sadistic Hypnotist
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Seedborn Muse (foil)
1 Spike Weaver
1 Verdloth the Ancient
1 Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter
1 Woodfall Primus
Planeswalkers
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1 Garruk Wildspeaker (GvL)
1 Liliana Vess (promo)
1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad (foil)
Artifacts
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1 Ashnod's Altar (antiquities)
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Golgari Signet (foil)
1 Mind's Eye (arsenal)
1 Orzhov Signet (foil)
1 Selesnya Signet (foil)
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Skullclamp (FtV)
1 Sol Ring
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1 Aura Shards
1 Beastmaster Ascension (foil)
1 Black Market
1 Cathar's Crusade (foil)
1 Doubling Season
1 Fecundity (foil)
1 Mana Reflection (foil)
1 Mirari's Wake (arsenal)
1 Necrogenesis (foil)
1 Parallel Lives (foil)
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Sylvan Library (arsenal)
Instants
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1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Krosan Grip (promo)
1 Mortify (textless)
1 Oblation (foil)
1 Path to Exile (promo)
1 Putrefy (textless)
1 Swords to Plowshares (EvT)
Sorceries
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1 Army of the Damned
1 Damnation (textless)
1 Day of Judgment (textless)
1 Decree of Pain (arsenal)
1 Demonic Tutor (DvD)
1 Hallowed Burial
1 Maelstrom Pulse (promo)
1 Praetor's Counsel
1 Regrowth (promo)
1 Replenish
1 Skyshroud Claim
1 Syphon Mind (promo)
1 Terminus
1 Wrath of God (textless)
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1 Arid Mesa
1 Bayou (revised)
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Command Tower
1 Forbidden Orchard (FtV)
1 Forest (zen full-art foil)
1 Gavony Township (foil)
1 Godless Shrine
1 Golgari Rot Farm (foil)
1 Grasslands
1 Krosan Verge
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mosswort Bridge
1 Murmuring Bosk (FtV)
1 Orzhov Basilica (foil)
1 Overgrown Tomb (foil)
1 Plains (zen full-art foil)
1 Reliquary Tower (foil)
1 Savannah (revised)
1 Scrubland (revised)
1 Selesnya Sanctuary (foil)
1 Strip Mine
1 Swamp (zen full-art)
1 Tectonic Edge (promo)
1 Temple Garden (foil)
1 Twilight Mire
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (FtV)
1 Vault of the Archangel (foil)
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree (foil)
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Windbrisk Heights (FtV)
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Bastion
+Perilous Forays (foil)
+Vindicate (promo)
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BRG Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
WUB Sharuum, the Hegemon
UGEdric, Spymaster of Trest
Vraska with a Pernicious Deed
Day of Judgement with Terminus
Orzhov Signet with Expedition Map
Verdloth the Ancient with Craterhoof Behemoth
Why no Gaea's Cradle?
Don't got one yet
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BRG Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
WUB Sharuum, the Hegemon
UGEdric, Spymaster of Trest