MTG Salvation

• Sram's Expertise
  
• Servo Exhibition
  
• Growing Rites of Itlimoc
  
• Inspiring Statuary

These cards form the core of a ramp deck that is great at selectively blocking aggressive decks and building into a devastating high-end. The redundancy of having both Rites and Statuary makes it extremely likely you get to your high-end cards in reasonable time.

High-end cards could include:

• Tishana, Voice of Thunder
  
• Overwhelming Splendor
  
• Sandwurm Convergence
  
• Walking Ballista
  
• Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter

I'm open to black or red cards besides.

Tishana is especially fun, because if you can cast her with 4 creatures out following the Rites flip, you draw 5 cards, keeping like 8 in hand and having an 8/8 creature. Walking Ballista can also get enormous, and little Oviya is the 1-drop that keeps making giant creatures every turn.

Here's my current build. It works well, but needs tuning.

Turns out there was a previous thread on this. I thought there was, but Search let me down:

http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/standard-type-2/deck-creation-standard/783656-from-nickp-aka-ninjathenick-bant-tishana

I think I prefer the above build to the original because it is a little better on defense, not playing quite as much ramp, and Oviya is a great card to have when you have 5 mana free.
First FNM out, I scored 2-1, losing to Temur off bad draws, and beating Sultai energy and a brew. In an off-hand match against Pummeler, I observed the main deck is flat dead against the Pummeler, but good answers can be had with Settle the Wreckage and Negate. Or Commencement of Festivities

I tried something like this with heavy B for Herald of Anguish. It didn't seem good enough to pursue further. I want to bust Growing Rites, but my next experiment will be in Selesnya or Selesnya leaning Bant.