I'm just getting back into Magic after a 7-year hiatus. I've only been picking up cards that don't rotate and trying to find a deck that's really my style. I saw Baral, Chief of Compliance and then saw Drake Haven. I've been trying to tune this deck for my local tournaments--both FNM and otherwise. The concept should be pretty obvious, it's to abuse Drake Haven and to a lesser extent, Faith of the Devoted. Cathartic Reunion is in there to add some more discard for the enchantments, as well as to trigger Archfiend of Ifnir twice. It also lets me pitch excess lands into the yard for the singleton Hostile Desert. I am currently running a split on the enchantments, because drakes tend to be better against control decks, while the drain can help me sustain my life total against aggressive decks where I cannot always block with drakes. The local meta consists of a few emerge decks, some monument decks, a few Ramunap Red decks, and finally Glorybringer all day every day, i.e. in almost every deck.
I am having a ton of fun playing this deck, but I could really use some extra eyes looking at it to shore up some weaknesses. Thanks!
Fetid Pools and Canyon Slough are better in this deck as I need multiple colors of mana, especially for lands that CITP tapped. Ifnir Deadlands was in the deck in one iteration, but ultimately I need to build more mana, and often cannot afford to lose a land. As for the weaknesses I was referring to, the biggest issue I have is game one I can either gear it to better beat control or aggro, but if I favor one, I lose really hard to the other. So far I have been playing it the way it is listed, but that gives me more of a middle-of-the-road game one versus either, rather than a strong game versus either one. Against aggro Essence Scatter and Sweltering Suns comes in, but versus control I board in the Lay Bare the Heart and Doomfall.
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I am having a ton of fun playing this deck, but I could really use some extra eyes looking at it to shore up some weaknesses. Thanks!
03 Baral, Chief of Compliance
03 Curator of Mysteries
02 Archfiend of Ifnir
Instants(22):
04 Supreme Will
03 Negate
03 Abrade
03 Magma Spray
02 Hieroglyphic Illumination
02 Countervailing Winds
02 Censor
02 Fatal Push
01 Revolutionary Rebuff
02 Cathartic Reunion
Enchantments(4):
02 Drake Haven
02 Faith of the Devoted
Lands(24):
06 Island
04 Fetid Pools
04 Spirebluff Canals
03 Swamp
02 Mountain
02 Canyon Slough
02 Scavenger Grounds
01 Hostile Desert
04 Lay Bare the Heart
03 Essence Scatter
03 Chandra's Defeat
03 Sweltering Suns
02 Doomfall
What problems are you having? You want us to shore up weaknesses, but you don't describe the problems you have with the deck.