Well, I'm back. Thought I'd give my most recent build as I went 4-0-2 into the top 8 of a local PPTQ. I hadn't been playing the deck for a while but decided my loam pox wasn't quite ready so I ended up playing D&T.
Round 1 - Grixis Delver (2-1)
Lost game two, though it was close. The others were not. Resto angel for delver is good enough.
Round 2 - Burn (2-0)
Burn is burn, easy wins. Just a note, Militant is better than familiar here, gotta block that goblin guide.
Round 3 - Burn (2-1)
More burn, more winning. Did drop a game, still a great MU.
Round 4 - Affinity (2-1)
Lost a match due to incorrect deck registration. Spellskite game one won me the game. Game two Stony Silence locked him out.
Draw twice into top 8.
Quarters - Junk (2-0)
He mulls both games to 6. Game one, I get great hand with the exact number of paths for his threats (2). Game 2 he gets lili down on an empty board and pluses but I have the purge. Blade splicer and thalia come down and keep eating spirit tokens until he dies. 3 path and a dismember were drawn, two were used.
Semis - GR Tron (0-2)
Game one keep a single land vial hand. Starting to gain traction but he has turn three tron for O-stone, gg. Game two I keep a hand again devoid of ghost quarters but it does have double flicker + resto and a vial plus two land. I get natures claimed turn 1 and proceed to draw more three drops. All in all I got mildly unlucky but the matchup is just really bad.
General divergences and randomness:
-Militant is way better than familiar with all this delver running around.
-I tried mirran crusader instead of Brimaz, results were inconclusive, both are good.
-Two spellskites feels good and I'm still super happy with one main.
-I was going to play Anafenza but I added the 4th Thalia instead due to the prevalence pf burn and delver
-Purge is better these days
-random kitchen finks was for grindy matchups, it actually performed but I think I'd still cut it for something more brutal against a specific matchup. Maybe a third rest in peace.
-still not super happy with mindcensor, getting closer to playing without.
-Oh, and I can't imagine going back to 0 Mutavaults. The card is insane.
Well done! I think I'll steal your list.
Let me ask you a few questions... Why do you want to put 3rd rest in peace? I mean there are better cards... What do you want to cut mindcensor for? Why don't you like him? Why not play 4 mutavaults instead of 2? (taking out edges) You wanted to play only 1 anafenza? Why not 2-3? She is kinda awsome. Why do you play only 1 canopy? What makes you happy about 1 skite main?
Give me your monoW list with new anafenza, pls, SheepZ. Btw, what do you think about mastery of the unseen? I know, card to cast with thalia in play, however, it can turn our dead topdecks like lands and vial (in mid-lategame) into bodies.
Hi, love your deck.
How about adding moonveil dragon? It's a nice manasink, can buff our entire army and has evasion. As for me he's pretty solid. He also is a huge beater.
Congratulations with nice results! Why no basics though? You know, less pain when fetching, something to search after resolved path...
Also, while testing deck on cockatrice i found out that sometimes i needed a blue fetchable source to cast galerider or diffusion, but the deck hasn't one. What do you think about it? Did you happen to have the same problem?
I pretty much have every Wx built but after looking at all of the most recent successful lists from various events I've settled on this for mono white. It's pretty stock.
I caved and started running 1-drops after seeing that essentially every deck that has been putting up results runs some number. I've always disliked them because they seem so low impact but right now you really have to commit to the board early and often to keep up with all of the linear strategies. I figure Judge's Familiar can at least disrupt/help keep tempo as it does a Cursecatcher impression. I really dislike Dryad Militant because I just feel like it'd be outclassed almost immediately; if you aren't able to get shots in with it it's close to useless unless you're playing against a deck that's leaning on Snappy.
Hey, I wanna ask some questions about your list, even though i like it much.
Why do you use crusaders instead of brimaz? Not even 2 of each? Are you sure playing serra avenger is worth it? Won't it just get bolted all the time? Though evasion is nice i must admit.
Is burn that much of a threat to run firewalker? Why not forge-tender instead? I mean anger is a very dangerous card to us (so is nausea's lightning storm btw). Also, I don't really understand what rest is doing in the side. I wouldn't spend side places for flashback and dredge hate. Sure it makes tarmo's 0/1, but is it really worth it?
Well done! I think I'll steal your list.
Let me ask you a few questions... Why do you want to put 3rd rest in peace? I mean there are better cards... What do you want to cut mindcensor for? Why don't you like him? Why not play 4 mutavaults instead of 2? (taking out edges) You wanted to play only 1 anafenza? Why not 2-3? She is kinda awsome. Why do you play only 1 canopy? What makes you happy about 1 skite main?
How about adding moonveil dragon? It's a nice manasink, can buff our entire army and has evasion. As for me he's pretty solid. He also is a huge beater.
Decay if you have its colors in deck.
Congratulations with nice results! Why no basics though? You know, less pain when fetching, something to search after resolved path...
Also, while testing deck on cockatrice i found out that sometimes i needed a blue fetchable source to cast galerider or diffusion, but the deck hasn't one. What do you think about it? Did you happen to have the same problem?
Hey, I wanna ask some questions about your list, even though i like it much.
Why do you use crusaders instead of brimaz? Not even 2 of each? Are you sure playing serra avenger is worth it? Won't it just get bolted all the time? Though evasion is nice i must admit.
Is burn that much of a threat to run firewalker? Why not forge-tender instead? I mean anger is a very dangerous card to us (so is nausea's lightning storm btw). Also, I don't really understand what rest is doing in the side. I wouldn't spend side places for flashback and dredge hate. Sure it makes tarmo's 0/1, but is it really worth it?