MTG Salvation

I have been playing around with mono red and am in the process of switching it over to UR. Besides following this thread I was watching some videos and saw it being used and hadn't thought of it. I may try it tonight. Still tinkering the list and not sure exactly what I will play tonight since I am still missing some of the cards I want/need (warkite Marauder, spirebluff canal)

Went 2-2 tonight at fnm, slotted in 3 siege gang commanders mainboard while removing the ministers (i havent seem to miss them that much). That card legit won me every game against U/W control since they have no outs to goblins being shot to face.With siege, you don't even need to rely on the combo since you can just go value town with the tokens and grind them out. I could have went 3-1 but lost a match to TSG (could not find a single warkite either game to deal with tsg). I've been thinking of splashing green to have big dudes to deal with the aggro (RUG gpg?) as well increase the versatility of our creature suite, though I'll need to play test it before posting any lists (the mana base might be way too tight to afford both commanders & jadelight while still having blue)

I would love to see cultivator of blades combo with combat celebrant I just think the combo will be a lot harder without blue and UGR I think would be a very inconsistent base

Hey guys ! What do you think of Merfolk Trickster in the UR version ? True it can't sacrifice but it can tempo the opponnent or allows us to attack if GPGed. And why not (it is just an idea) Metallic Mimic and choose zombie ? Maybe it is a little overkill. But it could be nice with Herald of Secret Streams and then we could choose type merfolk or zombie ... Well it is just an idea, I should try it out. We would need less Warkite Marauder in that configuration

Hi everyone, am on a rather stock UR Gifts list. Was wondering how's everyone else's matchups against GB Constrictor? When they curve out snake into rishka into gearhulk, it feels almost impossible to win, not to mention the MB brontodons. If you find this matchup ok, what's your MB and/or SB plan against GB Constrictor? Is warkite our best answer at dealing with their big dumb guys, or do we just ignore their board and go hard to try and combo?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

The truth is that the metagame is pretty hostile towards UR Gift right now. When this deck was first created, no one was ready for the fast combo and the metagame was inundated with UB midrange, which is a great matchup. When Dominaria came out the metagame shifted to MonoRed, Heart of Kiran decks, Monogreen, and UW decks with Teferi, which are all much more prepared for GPG. In essentially every matchup you now have to worry about Abrade, Thrashing Brontodon, Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, and/or Goblin Chainwhirler. I've been grinding leagues and have a list I like, but I can't really recommend it to anyone who wants primarily to win. I used to go 4-1 regularly and had one 5-0 on MTGO, but no matter what cards I play I can't do better than a 3-2 these days.

I liked Merfolk Trickster some when I played it, it was pretty good at sniping planeswalkers and generating tempo against large creatures. If you do play it, you often do so at the end step so that the effect lasts into your turn. This lets you kill tough threats like Gods or Rekindling Pheonix. It messes with your manabase though.

Against GB I think your best weapon is comboing fast and board wipes. I like Sweltering Suns (although they sometimes they grow out of range of 3 damage) and especially Hour of Devastation. I don't love Warkite Marauders because they play 4 Walking Ballista and because +1/+1 counters stick around even after a Marauder trigger, which means it's harder to shoot their creatures down than most. You still may need 2 or so for difficult threats. If your metagame has a lot of GB, definitely stick some Hour of Devastation in the sideboard. Also make sure to sideboard in things like Padeem, Consul of Innovation, Glorybringer, and Chandra, Torch of Defiance. Honestly though, if they curve Snake into Rishkar into Gearhulk, you usually can't win outside of comboing. That's why you don't cut the most important combo pieces like Minister of Inquiries, Skirk Prospector, Walking Ballista, and Gate to the Afterlife.

Here's my current list:



The cards I consider real draws to other colors are as follows:

Green:
Elvish Mystic
Servant of the Conduit
Jadelight Ranger

Black:
Vicious Offering
Ravenous Chupacabra

I've tried Temur, 4 color, and RB Gift. I didn't see a dramatic improvement over UR with any of them, so I went back to a more stock UR list.

Definitely look to UR Gift if the metagame shifts away from red decks and towards out-grinding each other with The Scarab God.

So UG Gift is rising up as a new thing, with Explore cards helping to fill the bin, and big tramplers to give the deck real game both with and without Gift in play. Anybody looked at it?

The Cultivator of Blades is cute; but at least you won't fold to a Brontodon sitting there

Try Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar, and think of all the lands in your graveyard. Also Verdurous Gearhulk.

Stitcher's Supplier seems like it would help the refurbish builds the most. 8 1-drop enablers is a great start for a deck with Minister of Inquiries back it up with fumigate and settle the wreckage, use Strategic Planning and Chart a Course to dig for and discard the combo.

Pretty sure this belongs here. Its a brew on GFG that I've been kicking around. It sacrifices a little bit of power for more speed and doubles down on goblins more than the other decks I've seen. It runs almost purely mono red but I play 8 dual lands for a splash of white only for anointed procession and a few sideboard cards. The deck runs pretty spicy with the discard outlets mainly being bomat courier. I had originally ran tormenting voice and then switched to the flame of keld as playsets before removing them for the 4 abrade. The neat thing about the deck is that it runs like mono-red goblin aggro till you want to play some GFG shenanigans. Best interaction in the deck is if you grab a Siege-gang with GFG while procession is on the field you get 2 siege-gang and 12 goblin tokens. I'm gonna test this a few weeks to see if it has potential or I need to just run a more standard GFG build for GP Orlando.

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Pretty sure this belongs here. Its a brew on GFG that I've been kicking around. It sacrifices a little bit of power for more speed and doubles down on goblins more than the other decks I've seen. It runs almost purely mono red but I play 8 dual lands for a splash of white only for anointed procession and a few sideboard cards. The deck runs pretty spicy with the discard outlets mainly being bomat courier. I had originally ran tormenting voice and then switched to the flame of keld as playsets before removing them for the 4 abrade. The neat thing about the deck is that it runs like mono-red goblin aggro till you want to play some GFG shenanigans. Best interaction in the deck is if you grab a Siege-gang with GFG while procession is on the field you get 2 siege-gang and 12 goblin tokens. I'm gonna test this a few weeks to see if it has potential or I need to just run a more standard GFG build for GP Orlando.

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4 Skirk Prospector 4 bomat courier 4 Goblin Instigator 4 Wily Goblin 4 Goblin Chainwhirler 4 Seige-gang commander	4 God-pharaoh's gift 2 Gate to the afterlife 2 anointed Procession 4 Abrade 4 Clifftop Retreat 4 Inspiring vantage 16 Mountain	Sideboard 3 Chandra's defeat 2 Gate to the afterlife 2 Squee, the immortal 2 Sweltering suns 3 Ixalan's binding 3 seal away

Looks spicy, but I feel like the best way to use GPG is to res an Angel of Invention, and that's so often what helps me pull ahead in matchups like aggro where the 6 point lifeswing and lifelink blocker really makes a huge difference.

U/W GPG

here is the deck list i've been running



I'm getting ready for a PPTQ at the start of next month so I'm fine tuning the list before then.

updated m19 list


testing has been promising, the match up against aggro feels favored especially post board.

If you need lifegain, you can get it. There's good options in black white and green.

Wildgrowth Walker is an option for green decks. Branchwalker and Jadelight help fill the grave, and W.W. gets huge while gaining life.

Deck below is what i'm experimenting with. A more conventional UG has
Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar, Verderous Gearhulk, and Walking Ballista, but not Merfolk Trickster or Sleep. Sleep seems pretty great btw. You can easily get 12+ power on the board and then Sleep and attack.

I took this Esper Gift (credit VTCLA) list out last night. Somehow, despite punting hard left and right, I went 2-0-1 and came in second out of 12. Deck was amazingly interesting to play when it did anything. If I tweak the manabase and the sideboard, I'll post my changes. Recommended!

Edit:
The manabase is very good at getting down a Minister or Supplier on T1. Subsequently, however ... For the low, low price of taplands, I think I would rather take this out.


I am also interested in abusing Stitcher's Supplier in a refurbish style list:


What do people think? Which seems better?

I took the list i posted above to fnm last week went 4-0-1, and have been playing it on MTG Arena to great success. very few match loss's a lot of free win's on arena. The issue with arena though is a lot of players have limited cards right now so very few truly competitive matches.

the lists i play in paper and my arena list vary slightly just due to overall meta on Arena.

deck for reference


main difference between the two is in Arena i run Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage in the sideboard, and i run -1 Champion of Wits and +1 Forsake the Worldly in the main deck. there are alot of decks that are heavy on artifact and enchants on arena, and Raff gives me some maneuvering room against Control decks I try to stick him when they go for the Teferi with 5-6 lands. or any time they tap out.

I'd like to play a GPG variant at GP Richmond coming up. The problem is I'm not sure what version is best against the field right now. My biggest goals are to beat RB and Turbo-fog.

UW Refurbish is still around, and the UB Gate version has been trending up. I've liked UW against red decks, as the sideboard is good and Angel of Invention gives them fits. However, I'm not confident against Turbo-fog even after testing 4 counterspells and 3 Sorcerous Spyglass in the side. In contrast, the UB version can use Kitesail Freebooter as a powerful tool against Turbo-fog, but I feel that it closes too slowly and without lifelink to be favored against red decks. I could play 3 colors, but the mana is always unpleasant, especially when this deck wants to play Minister of Inquiries so badly on turn 1.

Does anyone have a deck or sideboard plan that they feel is good against both of these decks? I haven't figured out the puzzle yet. Thanks.

I played Esper GPG at GP Richmond. I went 6-2 day one and 2-3 on day two for an 8-5 finish. I was happy with the deck and wouldn't change it if I had to go again.



My matchups were:

Day 1

UB midrange: 2-1 win (very close match)
MonoR Flame of Keld: 2-1 win (not close)
BR zombies: 2-1 win (not close, his deck seemed bad)
GU stompy: 2-0 win (not close)
UB midrange: 0-2 loss (not close, this opponent was great)
GU stompy: 2-0 win (not close)
UW control: 2-1 win (close)
RB aggro: 0-2 loss (not close, and I threw the second game)

Day 2

RB aggro: 2-1 win (not too close)
GU stompy: 1-2 loss (close, I think I would have won the third game but I never drew more than 3 lands)
UW control: 1-2 loss (game 2 went well but the decider wasn't close)
UB midrange: 2-0 win (not close)
RB aggro: 1-2 loss (close, but he topdecked an Abrade after I stripped one out of his hand with Freebooter)

Obviously this deck dies with rotation. But experimenting with GPG this season has been a great time and I'll definitely miss it.