It's pretty good. Main deck we still seem too fast with the bigger version and have a resilient burn out plan. Flamecaller is a house out of the board and going to 4 pw makes them all must answers. Warping wail is back breaking if they expect hour of devastation to be their catch up plan. It also has accelerated out bigger threats or helped play around censor.
toolcraft exemplar into authority of the consuls plus thraben inspector has allowed mardu some explosive starts and even in the uw monument match up it allows them to become the aggressor. It is beatable, but very, very hard if either deck curves out with authority thrown in somewhere.
It is one of the reasons I've kept TKS and Glorybringer in the deck so that I can side into sweltering suns and Chandra Flamecaller. Being able to do three damage across the board and keep a couple creatures has been very good.
Did Monday night standard last night. 3-1 with wins over zombies,ur control and uw monument. Losing to BUG emerge. Elder deep fiend is one hell of a card.
This is what I have been testing to good results. I can see why soul-scar mage is falling out of favor. I'll be switching to bomat courier tonight. This "big" version is still plenty fast, but I love TKS.
Edit: My play test group has already adopted authority of the consuls as a 2-3 of side board card. Anyone else seeing etb tapped hate already and have a fix?
I cut 2 Secure the Wastes and the main deck sweeper for three Grafwidow for a Monday night standard tournament tonight. Went 3-1 and loved the spiders. I only once didn't have delirium and that's because the board was heavily in my favor. I also played one swamp to fetch with evolving wilds and it won me a game from Grafwidow activations.
I lost to BG delirium in 3 games. Whiffed with 2 oaths in game three mid game, sad days.
I beat bw control, bw angel control and the new burn deck all 2-0.
Obviously dodged the bant decks and still don't know how we line up there with Grafwidow. I know it wants to be bounced so I'm looking forward to that testing.
It is one of the reasons I've kept TKS and Glorybringer in the deck so that I can side into sweltering suns and Chandra Flamecaller. Being able to do three damage across the board and keep a couple creatures has been very good.
Did Monday night standard last night. 3-1 with wins over zombies,ur control and uw monument. Losing to BUG emerge. Elder deep fiend is one hell of a card.
4 ramunap ruins
4 sunscorched deserts
1 hanweir battlements
15 mountains
Creatures (26)
4 soul-scar mage
4 village messenger
4 earthshaker khenra
2 kari zev, skyship raider
4 ahn-crop crasher
2 hanweir garrison
4 thought-knot seer
2 glorybringer
2 chandra, torch of defiance
Reach (8)
2 shock
3 incendiary flow
2 abrade
1 collective defiance
2 sweltering suns
1 abrade
2 magma spray
2 chandra flamecaller
2 warping wail
2 glorybringer
2 invigorated rampage
1 seagate wreckage
1 scavenger grounds
This is what I have been testing to good results. I can see why soul-scar mage is falling out of favor. I'll be switching to bomat courier tonight. This "big" version is still plenty fast, but I love TKS.
Edit: My play test group has already adopted authority of the consuls as a 2-3 of side board card. Anyone else seeing etb tapped hate already and have a fix?
I lost to BG delirium in 3 games. Whiffed with 2 oaths in game three mid game, sad days.
I beat bw control, bw angel control and the new burn deck all 2-0.
Obviously dodged the bant decks and still don't know how we line up there with Grafwidow. I know it wants to be bounced so I'm looking forward to that testing.