I suggest playing 4x Mirran Crusader instead of Kitchen Finks. Against Faeries and Elves it's just so sick. Faeries have almost no way of dealing with it. It blanks all their removal preboard. Elves also have a hard time dealing it :).
Also, in addition, I've never really been happy with Sword of Body and Mind; so I'm planning on running 2 Feast and Famine and not running the other at all.
The danger with running no Finks is that you are sort of pre-tech'ing yourself for mirror, bant, and faries matches. While even if those decks are close to 60% of the metta you are leaving yourself very cold to any deck playing red. Just about any burn laughs at crusader, and Boros in extended is not a deck you want to underestimate.
I think some number (between 2-3) Mirran Crusaders out of the board is fine. Elves is not NEARLY such a high presence in live PTQ's as opposed to online due to the fact it is so cheep online. And really Crusader is only at his best vs. Elves and Faries, even bant still has PtE to deal pretty handily with that guy. Yes finks can't block a sword, but honestly if you are getting down to blocking incoming swords you are in a rough spot already, and finks do a fine job of beating down with a sword.
While crusader is awesome I think cutting Finks entirely for them is going to weaken our agro matchup to much.
I would suggest running Mirran Crusader. It's ridiculous with the Swords and the protections are really relevant against Bant and Faeries. Kitchen Finks quite underwhelming compared to those two.
With Hawks, they seem great in the mirror, but I don't know where you'd fit the card in other than the sideboard.
As for Gideon, I'm considering running that in the sideboard against Bant and aggro decks.
Does anyone think that the mirrior can be broken with a splash of black? Somewhat like what is happening in standard. With black you get thoughtseize, Inquisition of Kozilekk, and esper charm. Seems like it could destroy UW. But how would it fair against the rest of the meta, is the real question. What do you guys think?
Blad01, everytime I open a thread up anywhere on these forums, I always see A post of yours in here. You are very active which is great to see. As far as uw goes, it's still a very good deck. Alot of great opinions are in here I would just prefer faeries personally.
So, this is what I put up together yesterday. Played a few games with it, I like the deck, but some feedback would be nice. Tell me if I did something wrong...
dunno what kind of meta you're working with, but i'd like to see at least 7 counters MD. I'm also guessing you have a control-heavy meta since you run limited early creature control.
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I think some number (between 2-3) Mirran Crusaders out of the board is fine. Elves is not NEARLY such a high presence in live PTQ's as opposed to online due to the fact it is so cheep online. And really Crusader is only at his best vs. Elves and Faries, even bant still has PtE to deal pretty handily with that guy. Yes finks can't block a sword, but honestly if you are getting down to blocking incoming swords you are in a rough spot already, and finks do a fine job of beating down with a sword.
While crusader is awesome I think cutting Finks entirely for them is going to weaken our agro matchup to much.
2 Glacial fortress
4 island
1 Scalding tarn
1 arid mesa
2 Mutavault
3 tectonic edge
2 seachrome coast
3 plains
3 Mystic gate
3 kitchen finks
2 mirran crusade
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2 vendilion clique
4 stoneforge mystic
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4 path to exile
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1 sword of feast and famine
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2 linvala, keeper of silence
3 kor firewalker
2 wispmare
1 day of judgment
1 Gideon jura
4 archive trap
what do you think guys???
Archive trap is vs.every "search" deck (valakut, mirror, boros, bant...)
With Hawks, they seem great in the mirror, but I don't know where you'd fit the card in other than the sideboard.
As for Gideon, I'm considering running that in the sideboard against Bant and aggro decks.
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dunno what kind of meta you're working with, but i'd like to see at least 7 counters MD. I'm also guessing you have a control-heavy meta since you run limited early creature control.
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