MTG Salvation

Discovered a couple typos - Glaive of the Guildpact without the 'the', Collar the Cultprit. Fixed those.
Forest had been left out. Added that and did find/replace to change the card numbers from /273 to /274.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/3t6xo2pwrvap9pg/GRN.txt/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kg77abei6qm38o3/Master_[through_GRN].mwBase/file

Quote from Ronnie328 »

If you're wanting to play tokens, and why wouldn't you, they're fun, you just have to find a way to get your tokens pumped up out of that x/1 range. There's lots of anthems/lords out there. If I was looking to get past Chainwhirler, I'd look for enchantment based anthems over artifact based and lords. Both decks run Abrade giving them an easy way to get your tokens small enough to be smacked around by a chain. There are other cards too. Heroic Intervention is good.

Personally, my main deck is UW Embalm/Eternalize and Cats mashed together. Typically, it takes more than just a chainwhirler to kill my lifelink cat tokens, and my Sacred Cats and Adorned Pouncer just come back, and in the case of Pouncer, even meaner.

Chainwhirler is a good card, but not unbeatable. I don't think it should be banned. Red-based aggro was already the boogeyman of the format. It makes Chainwhirler seem amazing because it slotted right in. In a few months when most of the red aggro cards rotate out, Chainwhirler won't have a home and won't be so burdensome.

Not sure how good this is in general, but I'm building a Selesnya tokens deck, and several things I'm running anyway answer 'whirler. Several token makers are 2/2's and Conclave Cavalier beats 'whirler by itself, Song of Freyalise chapter 3, Divine Visitation making new tokens 4/4's instead

Soul-Scar Mage as it's a fairly unique effect that plugs a red weakness of a creature being out of burn range

Devious Cover-Up totally failed in playtesting, antisynergy with Drakes. It seems great in a lot of control decks but not this one.
Experimental Frenzy was a pain the butt, Blink of an Eye or perhaps other bounce SB seems useful for problem permanents I can't just burn (or big creatures I'd have to 2 for 1 burn), could bounce a planeswalker and pressure opponent rather than attack the walker
I was often colorscrewed blue, -1 Mountain +1 Island seems useful with the increased emphasis on that color in this build

The idea is a solid tokens/weenie deck that’s bonkers with Divine Visitation. I only own 3, I might get a 4th if I go with this, similar for March of the Multitudes.

I prefer Llanowar Elves over ramp spells like Grow from the Ashes to fit creature theme.

Camaraderie and Bounty of Might seem overcosted. So do Flourish and Assemble but maybe the cheaper halves of those split cards would help.

Do Shanna, Sisay’s Legacy, Worldsoul Colossus and Might of the Masses work with the weenie approach? Would History of Benalia work without many other Knights? I avoid Saprolings because the Solider lifelink is better on 1/1’s with saproling synergy.

Arboretum Elemental and Join Shields are quick sideboard choices if spot removal is a problem. Crush Contraband seems like a good sideboard card in general, I like Sprouting Renewal because it can be a token maker rather than a dead card. Demotion seems possible for cheap removal especially if activated abilities get annoying

I have a more burn-focused build
Are Risk Factor and Ral wrong here? RF can be inconsistent. Ral is a bomb, is he too slow or high CMC? What's wrong with Steam-Kin though?
I don't like Crash Through and Warlord's Fury mainly cantripping. At least Opt filters
I also prefer counters that can hit anything - here, Sinister Sabotage or Devious Cover-Up, maybe Syncopate. If I run Cover-Up, a lot sounds good since recurring previous copies is part of the fun

Well, I didn't get to it soon, but once I finally called that number I got "please enter your remote access code". Assuming that number's still associated with adventuresON, they might've given out the number for their voicemail box.
I tried using the contact form on their TCGPlayer store, initially I ruled that out since my issue had nothing to do with TCGPlayer but maybe that's the way to get ahold of them.

Not sure what to take out for more counters especially since that would be a different kind of deck.

I had a Golgari matchup, I don't recall the details but I don't think it was a blowout either way.



I went Izzet instead. I still have a strong matchup against other aggro and can outrace combo but fall apart to control. I like Sinister Sabotage or Devious Cover-Up (since they counter anything), in blue also Unexplained Disappearance or Chemister’s Insight.

4 Risk Factor is too many since especially with jumpstart and/or situations when 4 damage is harmless. I’ve never found anything to do with Dire Fleet Daredevil, so I’ll cut it. Artifacts haven’t been a huge threat so I may reconsider Cratermaker. I used it to replace Abrade but 1 to 1 card changes might not be the best response to rotation.

Arclight’s haste sometimes seems better than Rekindling’s less conditional resurrection. Steam-Kin is boss especially since it triggers on cast, and removing 3 counters for 3 mana to cast another red spell essentially costs only 2 counters.

Enigma Drake for similarity to Crackling Drake seems obvious. Against non-weenie decks, ‘Whirler does little, and the drakes also have a big body, so maybe I’ll sideboard ‘Whirler.

I wasn't playing when the first two Ravnica blocks came out but it makes sense a similar rule would apply. How about the three color sets/blocks?

played a blue Painter's Servant/Grindstone deck. 1st game I couldn't quite win before he combo'ed out. Sided out a lot of tutors but could've sided out pump as well. had a very good matchup post-sideboard. Aegis of the Gods totally shuts it down and Cavern of Souls gets around his counters. Non-Soldiers like Suppression Field are still vulnerable but I drew 3 and was able to get 1 out.

my pool often lends itself to several cards of another color, or I don't have enough strong cards of my 2 main colors, however you want to look at it.
Boros bad by itself eh? One of my poor draft performances was pack 1 pick 1 Swiftblade Vindicator and not adding other colors and using W/R at prerelease didn't work either. I did relatively well going straight Selesnya at a prerelease.

I ran mono red aggro in old standard, Izzet burn was my first idea post rotation and I finally made a rough draft of a decklist.

Will Arclight Phoenix be too inconsistent? Since aggro plays fast I don’t like Izzet Guildgate.

Enigma Drake for similarity to Crackling Drake? Are there other useful blue cards I’m missing from older Standard sets?

Beat me to it but I'm not complaining about not having to finish the project myself

Goblin Hero on slightlymagic has updated his whole database to include GRN but that crashes for me.
I've started to compose one myself but I haven't done the commons yet.