The strength of the deck is overpowering other creature decks in combat, while simultaneously outracing many strategies. The +1/+1 counter abilities make pseudo-lords out of virtually all of our creatures, making our first plays quickly reach the 4/4 to 6/6 range, outpacing any other 1 mana plays. When combined with hardened scales, the math gets even more gross.
Vial lets us play a quick tempo style, as well as synergizing with Mayor, and freeing up mana to play scales and removal.
The cards I'm most on the fence about are Experiment One and Eternal Witness. Witness is so powerful in slow games, but doesn't help the blitzkreig plan at all, while Experiment can be powerful in the fast games, but almost never grows past 3/3 in longer games.
The infect matchup is the only one that feels really unwinnable, and I'm thinking about having some number of Melira in the sideboard, but it seems so narrow.
I'm not sure if it's powerful enough to warrant a space, but if your looking for something more impactful than Eternal Witness, then I'd suggest Abzan Falconer, even if its in the sideboard. While this deck will race pretty much everything, you can still get chump-blocked all day, falconer gives you the evasion this deck wants, as well as contributing to the main plan of accuring counters by way of Humans ETB. Just a thought, it's also easier on the mana-base.
4 Champion of the Parish
4 Hada Freeblade
3 Experiment One
4 Thalia's Lieutenant
4 Kazandu Blademaster
4 Mayor of Avabruck
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Eternal Witness
4 AEther Vial
4 Hardened Scales
4 Path to Exile
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Windswept Heath
1 Sunpetal Grove
2 Temple Garden
2 Gavony Township
3 Plains
1 Forest
2 Dromoka's Command
2 Rest in Peace
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Dismember
2 Stony Silence
2 Spellskite
1 Hero of Bladehold
The strength of the deck is overpowering other creature decks in combat, while simultaneously outracing many strategies. The +1/+1 counter abilities make pseudo-lords out of virtually all of our creatures, making our first plays quickly reach the 4/4 to 6/6 range, outpacing any other 1 mana plays. When combined with hardened scales, the math gets even more gross.
Vial lets us play a quick tempo style, as well as synergizing with Mayor, and freeing up mana to play scales and removal.
The cards I'm most on the fence about are Experiment One and Eternal Witness. Witness is so powerful in slow games, but doesn't help the blitzkreig plan at all, while Experiment can be powerful in the fast games, but almost never grows past 3/3 in longer games.
The infect matchup is the only one that feels really unwinnable, and I'm thinking about having some number of Melira in the sideboard, but it seems so narrow.
THOUGHTS? SUGGESTIONS?