MTG Salvation

If you are an old spinster living at home alone, then this deck might be for you! (Others may find enjoyment with it as well). The premise of the deck is to hit them hard with ever breeding cute, adorable, fuzzballs of death.

Your piles of fur:















Decklist:



Takes advantage of Dusk on the curve before you drop your lords. This deck is midrange and is meant to overwhelm your opponent with a constant stock of cute cuddly critters that have sharp fangs and nasty claws.

Currently working on Kitty Blitz and Cat Energy. Post your lists to possibly be included in the primer! Feel free to post non-kitty cards that should also be looked at! Thanks!!

I have played a bit with the G/W cat list and found a list that has dominated a bit, I had a 4/1 finishes in competitive leagues with it. Here is the deck tech for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RiSQC-a5qY

I'm going to run this tonight:

Went 2-2 unfortunately tonight. Lost to UR control and Delirium. I've noticed there's just no wincon past turn 6 or 7. I need to kill them real quick and it's just not happening with Cats I feel like as consistent as Red would these days.

Thoughts on the build?

Have you considered Initiate's Companion in the Longtusk Cub slot ?
Without energy support it might be more useful with the higher intial power and the untap ability (with an "exerted" Pride Sovereign for instance).

Maybe a couple of Always Watching can be good here as well.


BtW, here is another cat deck with some videos - http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=14062&writer=Craig Wescoe&articledate=7-21-2017

Is it worth the less reliable 3C manabase though ?

Abrade is good but white has decent removal anyway (and artifact removal in the SB) and I don't really see the need for Invigorated Rampage in this deck.

The 5-mana Gideon is probably not worth it, I'd rather maindeck Prowling Serpopard.

An alternative anthem effect can be Trial of Solidarity (or Call for Unity which is too clunky).

God-Pharaoh's Gift is a build a round card imho, I don't think you can just jam it into a deck and expect it to be good.

Saving Grace seems weaker than Blossoming Defense or Heroic Intervention against targeted or mass-removal respectively.

I went 2-1-1 for 4th place at Standard Showdown. My list is the same as in my first post except I went ahead and put 4 Gideon, Ally in the mainboard isntead of the Dusk//Dawn and moved that to side. I sided in the Dusk // Dawn against my GR energy decks. My loss was to Ramunap Red. I'm thinking Life Goes On as in both losses to them I needed about 1 more turn to stabilize and they are pretty consistent with killing off my kittens.

Every matchup, every game. Gideon is a beast.

I think the deck has potential, it just definetely needs to be ironed out. In both my wins against UB Cycle and GR Red I didnt feel like I was on the losing end of the battle. I always had a blocker for their creatures on GR Red and I was way too established on UB Cycle before they hit me (That game I 2-0). My draw was against UW storm as the games took a ridiculously long time to close out. First game took forever. I closed out after them going up to 30 life before I started hittng them for 12-24 a turn. Second game they were able to squeak their combo by very quickly and I didnt draw my artifact disruption. Third game I disrupted their board state but couldnt close out in turns even though I was probably one turn from kill.

Sacred Cat is a requirement against Red. Adorned Pouncer is great in the GR matchup. 1/1 double strike that you trade in early turns to make a 4/4 or 5/5 double striker. Unless they have serious tricks they are going to bare minimum trade their energy pumped creature with the Pouncer.

I can see a huge argument for a couple verdurous gearhulk in a god slot or in one of my felidar sovereign spots (or both spots and move those to side). At that point you would hope to have enough creatures on the board to support running it. I will actually probably playtest 2 of these in my felidar slots for thursday standard. Ill be expecting a lot of red so I may even dedicate 4 lifegain cards to my sideboard for thursday as well. I'm thinking about adjusting out the gods and bringing declaration in mainboard. Here would be my list:

Felidar is more there for his rear. He is out of reach of typical kill cards such as fatal push, he is a huge resource drain for harnessed lightning and his life gain and vigilance is significant. I think it's best to look at him as though his alternative win clause doesn't exist.

I'm not sure after rotation. I don't know if I'd play the deck without oath of Nissa. Oath is just such amazing filter.

Ajani seems like a better top end than Felidar imho, it can act as both removal and a card advantage engine.

Talking about rotation, we would lose Declaration and Stasis Snare (and Immolating Glare/Blessed Alliance).
The 2nd is easily replaced by Cast Out but what about the first ?

The two most likely replacements seem to be Skywhaler's Shot/Ambuscade and Nature's Way (as a 2/2 split), what do you think ?

I created a deck in my blog with the same theme.

https://kibykibs.wixsite.com/savageknuckleblade/single-post/2017/08/04/The-Jank-ness-Standard-Thundercats-Deck-Tech-in-MtG

Tell me what you think?

I'm surprised to see no one mention Oketra's Monument. Isn't that exactly what this deck wants and needs.

It seems rather mediocre in this deck, it only really discounts Adorned Pouncer and Regal Caracal and the deck doesn't really make great use of the warrior tokens (like with Hanweir Militia Captain in the Monument deck).

The deck already has good 3-drops in Pride Sovereign and Prowling Serpopard so the deck is more in need of 2-drops and 4-drops for the curve
(and removal/interaction)


Btw, here is another build of the deck utilizing Anointed Procession and Lifecrafter's Bestiary -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-FFYwzIERQ

Moving into rotation, we're bound to lose a lot of the G/W dual lands with the exception of Scattered Grove.

Does anyone have another dual land prepared for GW tribal cats?

Or are we just gonna wait and see what Ixalan drops?

Sunpetal Grove is getting a reprint.

Jamie Gary scored a 27th place finish with this list at the SCG Classic on 10/1/17. Not top 8, but respectable none the less. Channel Fireball DotD article here.

Too many non-creature spells that do nothing imho.
There is almost no removal in the deck which is just wrong (despite the limited options).

4x maindeck Shapers' Sanctuary can't be right and I think the deck should either run Vanquisher's Banner (seems like the better option)
or Anointed Procession but not both especially not at the expanse of the 4th Regal Caracal.

I don't really like Appeal // Authority which is like a win-more version of Larger than Life (which I'd also not run in the deck).
Some more interaction is probably a better option or even more copies of Blossoming Defense.

I'd include at least some copies of the following cards:
Cast Out (Ixalan's Binding), Thopter Arrest, Skywhaler's Shot, Nature's Way/Ambuscade.


Here is the build I'd go with:


The Ajani slot for card advantage might be better as: Nissa, Vital Force or Shapers' Sanctuary.
Another option for this slot is to go big with Skysovereign, Consul Flagship.

I'm still not sure what removal is better in the deck: Ambuscade, Thopter Arrest or Skywhaler's Shot.

I was noodling around with Gary's list on MODO, and it seems like Shaper's Sanctuary is a bit of a mixed bag. If I had one in my opening hand, then I got good card advantage from it until I got Vanquisher's Banner online. Still I can't justify running 4 in the main deck. I also dislike Settle the Wreckage. Here's what I ended up with, and it feels pretty good.

I'm kind of surprised no one is trying to run Gideon's Intervention. UW Approach is very real and it has basically no creatures at all in the ideal deck, which makes all the "interactive removal" being main boarded pretty much a waste of space. The advantage with cats that I like is that the main board Prowling Serpopard is conveniently a control deck nightmare. Also, I'd be using intervention against Settle the Wreckage, as it seems pretty likely cats can close the game before they get approach cast twice if they can't just board wipe to prevent the scenario. Fumigate can get blanked by Heroic Intervention.

Also, anyone try Oketra the True and Gideon of the trials? I've been thinking of using the later against control and Oketra seems really easy to turn on in this deck.

My deck list thus far...



I want to run unclaimed territory, but the other lands seem more relevant. I don't think that card draw is as much of a problem with this deck as others due to the embalm and Eternalize, though maybe a one of Lifecrafter's Beastiary could help. I also don't quite know which is better for enchantment removal: Demystify or Crushing Canopy. The later costs quite a bit more, but can also take out something like a glorybringer. The later is definitely lower on curve, but is pretty narrow.

Okay, my second attempt at the deck after trying some runs. I think I like just keeping it simple in the mainboard and side in what is needed later. I think that UW approach is going to mandate some trading around in the spells to better deal with that strategy. Namely, Gideon of the Trials, Gideon's Intervention, and possibly Demystify may be needed.