MTG Salvation

This was a hard pool to build since all the colors felt very shallow. I pulled Sarkhan but the rest of my red was a little lacking.

Deck:


Total pool:


My other option was straight g/b but that felt weaker (though less prone to manascrew). Most of my color fixing lands were white. Thoughts?

Why no 5 colours? GB?

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A GB shell, with splash for bombs

Normally I say you play the deck your manabase lets you play, but your mana fixing and powerful cards are completely displasced from one another.

I think you have to go Temur, since that's where your powerful cards are. Here's the Temur core. There's really nothing you want to plash in W or B. Last cut: 1x Wetland Sambar



U 1+6 for 9 cards
R 1+6 for 7 cards
G 0+5 for 6 cards

Curve
1
2 ss
3 cccccccsss
4 ccss
5 ccss
6 c

That's about as good as you're going to get I'm sorry.


Differences from you:

I see you fell into the trap of playing the green amna fixers despite the fact that you aren't heavily enough green to be able to reliably fix yoru mana on curve. I went for more consistent 3 and 4-drop plays with my green reduced to the 'splash'.

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Normally I say you play the deck your manabase lets you play, but your mana fixing and powerful cards are completely displasced from one another.

I think you have to go Temur, since that's where your powerful cards are. Here's the Temur core. There's really nothing you want to plash in W or B. Last cut: 1x Wetland Sambar

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1x Gore Swine 1x Ainok Tracker 1x Glacial Stalker 1x Mistfire Weaver 1x Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest 1x Yasova Dragonclaw 1x Monastery Flock 1x Mardu Heart-Piercer 1x Lotus Path Djinn 1x Aven Surveyor 1x Bear's Companion 1x Ethereal Ambush 1x Mindscour Dragon	2x Savage Punch 1x Bathe in Dragonfire 1x Crippling Chill 1x Winterflame 1x Dragonscale Boon 1x Weave Fate 1x Arrow Storm 1x Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker	1x Swiftwater Cliffs 6 Mountain 6 Island 5 Forest

U 1+6 for 9 cards
R 1+6 for 7 cards
G 0+5 for 6 cards

Curve
1
2 ss
3 cccccccsss
4 ccss
5 ccss
6 c

That's about as good as you're going to get I'm sorry.


Differences from you:

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I have 1x Gore Swine 1x Ainok Tracker 1x Dragonscale Boon 1x Weave Fate 2 Island 1 Mountain	You have 1x Abzan Beastmaster 2x Ainok Guide 1x Whisperer of the Wilds 1x Bloodfire Enforcers 2 Forest

I see you fell into the trap of playing the green amna fixers despite the fact that you aren't heavily enough green to be able to reliably fix yoru mana on curve. I went for more consistent 3 and 4-drop plays with my green reduced to the 'splash'.

Thanks for the advice!

It seems like your version is a bit low on creatures though-- I've found Ainok Beastmaster to be amazing so far in limited. Gore Swine also seems like an iffy pick that dies to pretty much everything

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It seems like your version is a bit low on creatures though-- I've found Ainok Beastmaster to be amazing so far in limited. Gore Swine also seems like an iffy pick that dies to pretty much everything

By all means run it over the swine then. I included the Swine just for Savage Punch shenannigans.

I don't think that the creature count is *too* low. It's 13 creatures, which is on the lowish end. But Sarkhan is kinda like a creature, and Weave Fate will probably draw you one as well.

I played a couple of games and am thinking of going Sultai with a red splash for sarkhan. Thoughts?

The black cards aren't that great, and Sarkhan can't be splashed.