I've been playtesting it since yesterday and it is absurd how much value this deck has. Not having spell quellers makes the linear matchups feel a bit more scary, but BBE > Queller feels pretty bad so it's understandable. Likely bringing this pile to FNM this week.
Looks pretty interesting, but I'm super hesitant to run a deck with no removal that can't assemble a combo fast. Jund is very popular in my local meta and showing up with a deck that can't answer Bob is playing a dangerous game. We all can't win by Bob flipping a BBE off the top.
Also I've been playing some games of the GP deck. I've been having fun, it's definitely more of a Vizier combo deck that coincidentally has a Retreat that you can win off of, not that there's anything wrong with that. Super pissed I can't find my copy of Worship though. I don't know how necessary it is to run Jace, but the one time I was able to play him I won off of it.
Probably my favorite thing about this configuration is I've been able to consistently win through the combo by quite a larger margin than with CoCo or Jace being the curve topper. I've probably had more turn three or four wins the last couple days than I've had the previous month--Dork into Knight into BBE cascading into Retreat is very much real. It's faster, more proactive, and more consistent with the combo which I feel is a better place to be in the meta. Knightfall is a deck that likes to fight on the ground and have high-value cards, BBE is imo a better enabler. Also, Lightning Bolt is a good card.
To this point I have never had a situation where I needed it, but I will experiment with Rouge's Passage sometime in the future and see where that leads.
Rogue's Passage always felt somewhat useless to me. With Retreat to Coralhelm being able to tap down creatures, it's very rare that a situation would come up to where you're getting roadblocked by a hexproof dude or the board is flooded to the point where you can't tap everything down. I recently started playing without Kessig, and I had a heart attack the first time an opponent actually made me get the Knight to 20 while he was at 20 (turns out my current configuration gets Knight to an absolute maximum of 20 thank god). I don't know if I really do like moving away without Kessig since it's won me a fair number of games I couldn't have without it.
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Looks pretty interesting, but I'm super hesitant to run a deck with no removal that can't assemble a combo fast. Jund is very popular in my local meta and showing up with a deck that can't answer Bob is playing a dangerous game. We all can't win by Bob flipping a BBE off the top.
Also I've been playing some games of the GP deck. I've been having fun, it's definitely more of a Vizier combo deck that coincidentally has a Retreat that you can win off of, not that there's anything wrong with that. Super pissed I can't find my copy of Worship though. I don't know how necessary it is to run Jace, but the one time I was able to play him I won off of it.
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1x Breeding Pool
3x Forest
1x Gavony Township
1x Ghost Quarter
1x Horizon Canopy
1x Kessig Wolf Run
1x Plains
1x Sacred Foundry
2x Stomping Ground
2x Temple Garden
4x Windswept Heath
4x Wooded Foothills
3x Birds of Paradise
4x Bloodbraid Elf
3x Courser of Kruphix
4x Knight of the Reliquary
4x Noble Hierarch
1x Qasali Pridemage
2x Scavenging Ooze
2x Tireless Tracker
4x Voice of Resurgence
Instant (7)
4x Lightning Bolt
3x Path to Exile
Enchantment (3)
3x Retreat to Coralhelm
1x Domri Rade
1x Aven Mindcensor
1x Bojuka Bog
2x Choke
2x Dromoka's Command
1x Gaddock Teeg
1x Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
2x Izzet Staticaster
1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1x Reclamation Sage
1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
2x Stony Silence
Probably my favorite thing about this configuration is I've been able to consistently win through the combo by quite a larger margin than with CoCo or Jace being the curve topper. I've probably had more turn three or four wins the last couple days than I've had the previous month--Dork into Knight into BBE cascading into Retreat is very much real. It's faster, more proactive, and more consistent with the combo which I feel is a better place to be in the meta. Knightfall is a deck that likes to fight on the ground and have high-value cards, BBE is imo a better enabler. Also, Lightning Bolt is a good card.
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Rogue's Passage always felt somewhat useless to me. With Retreat to Coralhelm being able to tap down creatures, it's very rare that a situation would come up to where you're getting roadblocked by a hexproof dude or the board is flooded to the point where you can't tap everything down. I recently started playing without Kessig, and I had a heart attack the first time an opponent actually made me get the Knight to 20 while he was at 20 (turns out my current configuration gets Knight to an absolute maximum of 20 thank god). I don't know if I really do like moving away without Kessig since it's won me a fair number of games I couldn't have without it.