MTG Salvation

This deck doesn't need Strangleroot Geists. The great thing about Rancor is that it makes threats out of everything. The only problem I ran into was not drawing enough threats to deal with constant board wipes. So I'm playing 3 Elvish Visionaries instead. See why below

The haste on Strangleroot Geist is the only good part about it, but what does it do anyways? 2 damage before your opponent throws down a Blade Splicer and stops it dead in its tracks? Doesn't seem very useful. Why not just play the Visionary and dig through your deck? The visionary will do just as much damage with the Rancor on it as well. Plus, Geist isn't always playable; in Naya, the Visionary will always be playable.

Other than that, I am running 4 Huntmasters, and 2 Sword of FaF. I dropped the Borderland Rangers to make room, but I might change that because I do like getting more land out for those games where a miracled bonfire for 6+ would be nice.

The deck is strong, and very powerful against a lot of matchups. I do fine against delver. However, with the recent surge of MBC, Esper, and other artifact control, I think this deck is going to be a little stifled until M12 and Scars rotate out. Those decks just have way too many ways to deal with our deck. Hopefully we also get some nice creatures in RtR

I'm not giving up on this deck even though I did shoddily at the IQ. Just means I'm going to playtest more and maybe modify a bit here and there.

DXi- i built a varient of this like you asked me too made some slight changes

-1 thundermaw dragon
+2 thragtusk
-4 rancor
+2 swords of war and peace
+1 bonfire of the damned


when we were play-testing DXI, i noticed part of your weakness is to flying with prot white and red so i tried to address that by running the thragtusk while it cant block the flyer it can offset the dmg with its life gain and in conjunction with Resto angel the life gain and beast tokens can get out of control fast

The the whole idea behind the changes is to prevent 2-1's, rancor's can get you 2 for'd easy especially against burn or vapor snag

thragtusk makes your opp not want to snag it and its just outside burn range , the thundermaw dragon i'm not a fan of in testing its good but its not great the haste makes it good but its doesn't really do enough. In the delver match snag eats it alive. Just my 2 cents from testing

Ran it through my gauntlet at home. I think it has favorable matchups with a good portion of the meta. I was able to beat most aggro decks with it pretty handily. Including my new B/G aggro deck unfortunately!