I had been playing heroic red for some time and I became bored so it being tax time I decided to invest in a deck that has a plan beyond turn four. I built abzan midrange since siege rhino thoughtseize and windswept heath I expect they will hold some of their value and the play style was exactly what I was looking for. The wrinkle however is the new green devotion decks, they flood the board with permanents making my siege rhino and tasigur useless. The only thing I havre thought of was to side in board wipes like duneblast and end hostilities And drown in sorrow. This is my deck as it is now.
Creatures
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4 siege rhino
4 courser of Kruphix
4 sylvan caryatid
2 tasigur golden fang
2 wingmate roc
I haven't played the match but as a Green devotion player, I feel big fliers are the biggest weakness of the deck. Bringing more fliers from the SB while saving removal or Thoughsize for Arbor Colossus sounds like the best plan to me.
I play a similar deck and had trouble with green devotion too.
I sideboard Back to Nature, Drown in Sorrow, and boardwipes. I let them build up then board wipe them. Hopefully you have a siege Rhino or two in the hole and then you strike. Save your Rhino's until after you wipe them.
Also I'd run Heir of the Wilds and Anafenza, the Foremost instead of the courser's. Courser's are highly overrated in Abzan. Keeps them in check until you can wipe them.
I also prefer Hornet Queen to Tasigur. They don't like to lose their hydra's to your hornets.
I have done very well against Green Devotion since I made those sideboard changes.
I had been playing heroic red for some time and I became bored so it being tax time I decided to invest in a deck that has a plan beyond turn four. I built abzan midrange since siege rhino thoughtseize and windswept heath I expect they will hold some of their value and the play style was exactly what I was looking for. The wrinkle however is the new green devotion decks, they flood the board with permanents making my siege rhino and tasigur useless. The only thing I havre thought of was to side in board wipes like duneblast and end hostilities And drown in sorrow. This is my deck as it is now.
Creatures
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4 siege rhino
4 courser of Kruphix
4 sylvan caryatid
2 tasigur golden fang
2 wingmate roc
Walkers
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2 elspeth sun's champion
2 sorin solemn visitor
Spells
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4 hero's downfall
4 bile blight
4 abzan charm
4 thoughtseize
Lands
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2 temple of silence
2 temple of malady
2 temple of Plenty
3 llanowar wastes
4 windswept heath
4 sandsteppe citadel
2 swamp
2 plains
3 Forest
Sideboard so far
4 end hostilities
2 duneblast
3 drown in sorrow
2 anafenza the foremost
2 archfiend of depravity
Sorry for the lack of card tags I a, using a tablet.
Erase/Back to Nature kills their coursers and their frontier sieges.
Just my two cents.
Modern:
BR Control
Grixis Bloo
EDH:
Food Chain Prossh
Land Wipe Maelstrom Wanderer
Selvala, Hearth of the Wilds Eldrazi
I sideboard Back to Nature, Drown in Sorrow, and boardwipes. I let them build up then board wipe them. Hopefully you have a siege Rhino or two in the hole and then you strike. Save your Rhino's until after you wipe them.
Also I'd run Heir of the Wilds and Anafenza, the Foremost instead of the courser's. Courser's are highly overrated in Abzan. Keeps them in check until you can wipe them.
I also prefer Hornet Queen to Tasigur. They don't like to lose their hydra's to your hornets.
I have done very well against Green Devotion since I made those sideboard changes.