MTG Salvation

Ratchet bomb definitely. Pristine Talisman is certainly something to think about, thanks. I really don't need much life gain against a red deck, but I lost a couple of close ones where if I had had 2 or 3 more life I might have made it. I'm thinking about adding Solemn Simalcrum, but my 4 drop slot is already quite full. My deck looks very little like the deck above now. I dropped it to 1x Gisela, upped it to 2x Thunderous Wrath, upped it to 4x Stonehorn, upped it to 4x Ponder, dropped a dissipate and a cloudshift and a zealous conscripts and added a Temporal Mastery.

It's a slow deck but very fun. ZC is amazingly useful, although I found myself wishing I had drawn an O-ring instead of that card many times. 3x was just too much, I think.

Win cons:
-Gisela. The only time she died was when an opposing player also had a Gisela and played her for the Legend effect. Otherwise, she was an amazingly useful cards. Makes Koth's ultimate totally useless, along with other ping cards.
-Tamiyo/Venser. Two emblems means win. I pulled this off a couple of times last night.
-Venser. If I can ultimate Venser, that usually means the win by himself. I can build him up slightly and then start using his ability to make my creatures unblockable as I exile opposing threats casting spells.

Ran it @ FNM last night. I made a lot of changes, and went 2-2 against some pretty nasty decks. 2 wins were blowouts, 2 losses went to three games. Need to add more ponder, dropped the resto angels and added a snapcaster. A suture priest would be helpful to keep life totals up. I was losing to direct damage that would get me down to ~10 before I could drop a lock. After that, it was counterspells, O-rings and shocks to keep opposing threats in line. I ran two Terminus in sideboard, but I never bothered to use them. It definitely needs Ancient Grudge. I hadn't seen many artifacts in the previous weeks, but last night I ran into decks using a bunch of artifacts that weren't swords. Very annoying.

Decided to drop the Dungeon Geists and add another Stonehorn. I think the problem with Flicker Slime is that the win-cons aren't very good. I've only pulled the land destruction win if the other side misses a couple of land drops. Otherwise, if they're competent, they have too many answers for a 2/2 creature that costs 5 to cast. Unless I had buttloads of mana and a deadeye navigator in my hand, land destruction was SLOW.

The Stonehorn lock is good. I've locked up many, many games for 15+ turns. The Zealous Conscripts is a great win-con and very abusable with blink effects. I'm pretty sure most people will lose the will to survive when I keep stealing their planeswalkers with ZC and Venser. I'm very excited to play this deck, even if nobody has any suggestions. Time will tell, I suppose.

Why the Caverns? I would suggest Cloudshift or Restoration Angel and maybe fewer Delvers. Bounce a delver and he's 1/1 again. Fewer Mist Ravens as well. Restoration Angel is a way better 4 drop, and can be used to reset Aether Adept.

I've been playing a UWG Venser control deck with only a little success at FNM. You know, Slime and blink and control. It's annoying but only works some times. I'm a little bored with it and I see everybody popping up with the same deck now.
I'm toying with the idea of making a UWR deck that still utilizes Venser. Stonehorn Dignitary will stall for time until I can put out a Venser and Zealous Conscripts. Then I can blink Zealous Conscripts with Cloudshift or Nephalia Smuggler and use my Planeswalker to exile what I stole to make it mine. If it's just a creature that I stole, I can use the Nephalia Smuggler or Cloudshift to make it mine. So control and rip off their arm and beat them with it. Should be pretty fun.



If I didn't format this correctly, please forgive me. I think I used the correct tags. Let me know what you think! I haven't even play tested it yet, but I have a strong suspicion that it'll do pretty well.

Here are some cool things I think this thing can pull off:

1. Delay Delay Delay with Stonehorn and Counterspells and Weenie Roasters
2. Steal whatever bombs they drop with Conscripts: planeswalkers, lands, whatever
3. Win with direct damage and/or Gisela

What about in combat. I'm pretty sure I can dodge spells, but what about blinking to avoid combat damage but still block?

Quote from nukeman8000

Yes.
If, for example, you have 6 slimes somehow and your opponent casts Hex to kill all of them, you can blink the angel 6 times, rebonding it after each blink, to save them all.

Will it matter how I word it? For instance, should I keep blinking in response to my other blinks? Or just say I'm blinking the Angel 4 times to blink out all blockers.

I ran this by a judge at a FNM and he wasn't too sure it should work.

Thank you so much for the help. One more quick question: if I had multiple Slimes but just one Navigator and angel, could I blink the Angel several times to save several Slimes in scenario 2?

I'm toying with altering my Stonehorn deck into a mill deck. It could easily do it, I think. Geralf's Mindcrusher is amazing with blink effects. Him with a few blinks and Jace and your opponent is at 0 cards pretty quickly. Not tier 1, but definitely could be fun.

Mental misstep and gut shot. Take out his mana weenies and counter any fogs.