Hey, right now this is more or less an experimental deck. As it stands I dont have any plans right now of building this for a number of reasons including that I just have too many new decks and or decks with heavy change right now to justify building this right now not to mention her insane pricetag due to being a new card and having standard play use. I wanted to post the list as I feel like the new Avacyn has not been getting much love yet. So, that said this is my take on the new boros Avacyn deck.
1) The deck is sort of heavy build for playing against token and utility creatures. Most of the creatures sacrifice well with a lot of focus on ETB / death triggers. The idea was that I didnt want a lot of board presence but the ability to chump block and sweep the small stuff while I get work done with my commander.
2) Yes, I chose to omit Sunforger. This is a personal choice because I have no luck with it. If people let you get away with it in your meta then run it. Payin 8 mana in one turn to drop, equip, and use it just isn't realistic in my meta and the expectation is that it will be dead before I untap next if I play it. I as a player draw a ton of hate and most things I play do get killed fairly quickly with sunforger being for whatever reason high on people's list.
What are you doing to survive beyond the fifth turn?
Against what kind of deck? I have chump blockers / mazes / spot removal / wraths.
Plus, I have a number of ways to kill opponents in a matter of 1-2 turns here. My commander also hates on token and utility commander decks so I anticipate that will slow down a lot of my current opposition assuming I build this. Tokens and utility commanders currently make up at least half or more of what I play against.
I guess I have to ask what kind of surviving you are asking me about. If the expectation is like.... turn 5 eldrazi, yea I probably have a problem but there are not that many decks in the meta that really reliably ramp them out fast much less use them at all. Token tends to be one of the big focuses of my meta right now annoyingly which is why I like the idea of Avacyn because she just brings sort of a regular token hate on a somewhat regular basis.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
Easy, I am not. We dont do that in my meta so I just move on. Its the same thing as MLD / Stasis, we dont do that either.
Edit: more realistically though, boros is probably one of the worst color combination to try to play against combo strategies so I think in general its always going to be a little bit of that sort of a case.
I like that Reliquary Monk. I am always hit and miss on Light and Shadow. Its value varies very wildly for me between amazing and terrible with rare situations of being in the middle.
Given the instants you've got and that this is a Boros deck, why no Sunforger?
1) I get targeted over most anyone else in my meta. If someone has removal it gets pointed an unrealistic percent of the time.
2) If you are trying to drop, equip, and use it in one turn its 8 mana. I dont have a realistic expectation to be able to drop it and have it live to the next turn so I have to pay 8 mana in one turn to get it to work once with the expectation that its already dead by next turn and this is assuming my equip even goes through with it. Its a TON of mana to move for its effect and it gets blown up before I use it again in my experience which just isn't worth running.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
1) The deck is sort of heavy build for playing against token and utility creatures. Most of the creatures sacrifice well with a lot of focus on ETB / death triggers. The idea was that I didnt want a lot of board presence but the ability to chump block and sweep the small stuff while I get work done with my commander.
2) Yes, I chose to omit Sunforger. This is a personal choice because I have no luck with it. If people let you get away with it in your meta then run it. Payin 8 mana in one turn to drop, equip, and use it just isn't realistic in my meta and the expectation is that it will be dead before I untap next if I play it. I as a player draw a ton of hate and most things I play do get killed fairly quickly with sunforger being for whatever reason high on people's list.
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1 Goblin Settler
1 Kor Cartographer
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Tuktuk Scrapper
1 Archon of Justice
1 Goblin Assassin
1 Hoarding Dragon
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1 Mystifying Maze
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1 Sacred Foundry
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1 Strip Mine
1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
1 Temple of Triumph
1 Windswept Heath
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Against what kind of deck? I have chump blockers / mazes / spot removal / wraths.
Plus, I have a number of ways to kill opponents in a matter of 1-2 turns here. My commander also hates on token and utility commander decks so I anticipate that will slow down a lot of my current opposition assuming I build this. Tokens and utility commanders currently make up at least half or more of what I play against.
I guess I have to ask what kind of surviving you are asking me about. If the expectation is like.... turn 5 eldrazi, yea I probably have a problem but there are not that many decks in the meta that really reliably ramp them out fast much less use them at all. Token tends to be one of the big focuses of my meta right now annoyingly which is why I like the idea of Avacyn because she just brings sort of a regular token hate on a somewhat regular basis.
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Easy, I am not. We dont do that in my meta so I just move on. Its the same thing as MLD / Stasis, we dont do that either.
Edit: more realistically though, boros is probably one of the worst color combination to try to play against combo strategies so I think in general its always going to be a little bit of that sort of a case.
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I like that Reliquary Monk. I am always hit and miss on Light and Shadow. Its value varies very wildly for me between amazing and terrible with rare situations of being in the middle.
1) I get targeted over most anyone else in my meta. If someone has removal it gets pointed an unrealistic percent of the time.
2) If you are trying to drop, equip, and use it in one turn its 8 mana. I dont have a realistic expectation to be able to drop it and have it live to the next turn so I have to pay 8 mana in one turn to get it to work once with the expectation that its already dead by next turn and this is assuming my equip even goes through with it. Its a TON of mana to move for its effect and it gets blown up before I use it again in my experience which just isn't worth running.
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