I'm new to the game. I bought my wife a M14 Fat Pack for Valentines Day with no experience with the game. We've had a lot of fun getting boosters and building up some decks. I started getting into MTGO and have been experimenting with a few decks. I had a lot of fun a decent success with this U Devotion build. I have been experimenting and adapting trying to find something that works better. The above deck is what I have come up with and I'm thinking of putting this together for real life play and getting my wife a G devotion deck, and going to try some FNM. Any advice on what I have come up with would be appreciated.
By mid game, this deck seems to draw a ton of cards and have plenty of mana. As long as I can survive an early onslaught, I seem to win the majority of my match ups. A deck that seems to give me a problem is Barely Boros Burn. If I take out two Elspeth, Sun's Champion and one Detention Sphere, and add three Dissolve, it is all depends on my luck.
-Monoblue devotion is pretty decent as a tempo deck
-UW devotion has much better match ups against some of the big players in the meta, such as Monoblack.
-Sorta unclear whether Ephara, which is a card against keep away midrange and control, really improves the matchup against esper, because the MUD is much lighter and attempts to win simply by speed, while the UW version is slower but can deal with more problems.
-Just from major tourney results, it seems like the MUD version is often times favored, but that may mean very little in the grand scheme of things.
-The UW version does beat the crap out of midrange of all sort due to better answers to problems, but green midrange are not as popular, and blood baron is a frustrating card to play against.
-Understand that the UW version actually does worse against aggro (due to scrylands, dspheres are 3 mana cost, you cant race them, etc), but it's still at the worst case an even match up against aggro.
-you can look at ideas from tcdecks, under standard and monoblue.
-just saying, you may wanna do some research around first before posting for help.
Wow, and I thought I was ahead of the curve for a new player. You make it sound like everything I am suggesting as been beat to death. Maybe it has, and I just don't know where to look.
I was hoping for more theory based answers as to why my cards are worse than the UW devotion net deck. I assume they are, I just don't know why. For instance, Realmwright seems to solve so many more problems than Judge's Familiar does. Am I asking in the wrong section? I didn't see a beginners section on this forum for guidance.
The cards are already in the mail for this deck. You guys might have been able to save me some money if you could have explained some things like why the tokens Elspeth, Sun's Champion creates when Bident Of Thassa is out, won't draw me more cards than Jace, Memory Adept on average. Maybe this is like being on a sailboat forum asking what a jib sail is.
4 Realmwright
4 Frostburn Weird
4 Nightveil Specter
4 Master of Waves
4 Thassa, God of the Sea
2 Ephara, God Of The Polis
Spells (14)
4 Dispel
4 Detention Sphere
4 Bident Of Thassa
2 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
4 Temple Of Enlightenment
12 Island
4 Azorius Charm
2 Disperse
3 Dissolve
2 Domestication
2 Cyclonic Rift
2 Rapid Hybridization
I'm new to the game. I bought my wife a M14 Fat Pack for Valentines Day with no experience with the game. We've had a lot of fun getting boosters and building up some decks. I started getting into MTGO and have been experimenting with a few decks. I had a lot of fun a decent success with this U Devotion build. I have been experimenting and adapting trying to find something that works better. The above deck is what I have come up with and I'm thinking of putting this together for real life play and getting my wife a G devotion deck, and going to try some FNM. Any advice on what I have come up with would be appreciated.
By mid game, this deck seems to draw a ton of cards and have plenty of mana. As long as I can survive an early onslaught, I seem to win the majority of my match ups. A deck that seems to give me a problem is Barely Boros Burn. If I take out two Elspeth, Sun's Champion and one Detention Sphere, and add three Dissolve, it is all depends on my luck.
Here are some notes you may like.
-Monoblue devotion is pretty decent as a tempo deck
-UW devotion has much better match ups against some of the big players in the meta, such as Monoblack.
-Sorta unclear whether Ephara, which is a card against keep away midrange and control, really improves the matchup against esper, because the MUD is much lighter and attempts to win simply by speed, while the UW version is slower but can deal with more problems.
-Just from major tourney results, it seems like the MUD version is often times favored, but that may mean very little in the grand scheme of things.
-The UW version does beat the crap out of midrange of all sort due to better answers to problems, but green midrange are not as popular, and blood baron is a frustrating card to play against.
-Understand that the UW version actually does worse against aggro (due to scrylands, dspheres are 3 mana cost, you cant race them, etc), but it's still at the worst case an even match up against aggro.
-you can look at ideas from tcdecks, under standard and monoblue.
-just saying, you may wanna do some research around first before posting for help.
I was hoping for more theory based answers as to why my cards are worse than the UW devotion net deck. I assume they are, I just don't know why. For instance, Realmwright seems to solve so many more problems than Judge's Familiar does. Am I asking in the wrong section? I didn't see a beginners section on this forum for guidance.
The cards are already in the mail for this deck. You guys might have been able to save me some money if you could have explained some things like why the tokens Elspeth, Sun's Champion creates when Bident Of Thassa is out, won't draw me more cards than Jace, Memory Adept on average. Maybe this is like being on a sailboat forum asking what a jib sail is.