MTG Salvation

Although some may call it as Gu Prime Speaker, I like to call it as Colossal Kruphix as Arbor Colossus as the biggest threat and Prophet of Kruphix for board advantage.

Cutting red out which means we lose some of the important cards like Domri Rade, Xenagos, the Reveler, Ruric Thar, the Unbowed, Mizzium Mortars, Chandra, Pyromaster, etc. But with blue in, it gives the access to one Prophet of Kruphix, Prime Speaker Zegana and Cyclonic Rift.



Reverent Hunter : Serves as early blocker to give way for other plays later.
Prophet of Kruphix : The bomb in this deck. You can spend all of your mana and cast everything and still able to cast more creatures during opponent's turn, or spend to get devotion this turn and monstrous Polukranos opponent's turn.
Prime Speaker Zegana : Another card advantage apart from Garruk. If you're on top deck mode with Arbor Colossus in play, you just get to refill your hand in an instant.
Cyclonic Rift : In this deck, it is easier to overload Cyclonic Rift than Mizzium Mortars, and I think far better. Overload at EOT will just clear the paths and might just wins you the game.

It looks very interesting.

If I take the liberty of rearranging the deck into 'clusters', it has






The primary differences I see when comparing the list to a GR devotion list is

• the deck has two less mana accelerants in Voyaging Satyr, counterbalanced by having the 24th land (so less explosive, more consistent)
• Six 6-drops (so a higher end to the curve, all of which provide massive card advantage)
• Way less planeswalkers, and no Domri means (less creature removal, less wrath resistant)
• Five instant speed effects in Prophet and Cyclonic Rift (so more interactive)

The UG version will probably be slightly softer to Rx decks, since it has less actual removal.

I do think that the Gainsays are pretty awesome though. I like a 3rd in the SB over those random hunt the hunters.

Also, in what matchups is Jace bad? Maybe he would be better than Sylvan Primordial in the MD?

I don't quite like Jace as he is often used to dig for cards, whereas here we have 6-7 cards for CA (if you run 3 Prime Speaker Zegana), which I think better than Jace. Of course depending on preference, some still run 2 of Jace in MD.

I agree that this deck is less aggressive as compared to Gr but threats and CA wise I think is better. What attracts me the most is the ease of overloading Cyclonic Rift. A total game changer compared to Mizzium Mortars. Against mirror or any midrange deck, at equal board state, overload Cyclonic Rift actually wins you game whereas overload Mizzium Mortars might not impact the board that much, plus sometimes the difficulties of getting the triple red.

I have tried the RUG version, much more aggressive than both GR or UG version but at the risk of colour screw.

I agree that Cyclonic Rift is awesome.

But doesn't going deep on the 6-drops (while also cutting accelerants) make you a little more fragile to creature sweepers? I mean, the purpose of card draw is usually to draw your powerful spells, so having all your card draw at the top of yoru curve means that you won't ever be able to use your card draw to get to the late game....

Jace sucks as a card drawer compared to Prime Speaker, but the fact that it's a 4 drop (to play on turn 3) is a HUGE leg up in my opinion. Just theorycrafting here:

+ 2 Voyaging Satyr
+ 2 Jace, Architect of Thought
- 3 Reverent Hunter
- 1 Sylvan Primordial

And in the SB
+ 2 Reverent Hunter
+ 1 Gainsay
- 2 Hunt the Hunter
- 1 Jace, Architect of Thought

That makes the deck faster and gives it more card draw.

I agree but I feel that he is not necessary. Reverent Hunter might be suitable in his slot as early vanilla threat. Even as 3/3 or 4/4 is good enough for Prime Speaker to refill your hand. I think the concept of Prime Speaker is to keep your hand full and to continuously pressure with threats.

Also I would like to point out that UG version mostly runs 2-3 Nylea as hitting devotion and to use Nylea as attacker is quite feasible especially when Kruphix in play.

So does the UG variant on Voyaging Satyr make this version better?

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So does the UG variant on Voyaging Satyr make this version better?

Yeah, I'm thinking Kiora's Follower might replace Burning-Tree Emissary. And Kiora herself replacing Jace in these builds.

I'm thinking the deck looks like this after BNG:

Comparing it to GR monsters, I think Rift is a better win con than Flesh//Blood, but I don't know if this build has enough threats. I am trying to figure out space for Shipbreaker Kraken as an alternative form of Rift's ability. Caryatid is such a great wall, and Mystic is a solid one-drop but they're the mana accel I like least, but I can't commit to dropping them. Also unsure of what to SB against Mono Black and so have been rocking AEtherling in that matchup for lack of a better answer.

Please keep all BNG spoiler discussion in Standard New Card Discussion. Thanks.

I think with the new Oracle of mul daya card the name escapes me at the moment that this deck can do big things