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  • posted a message on Death And Taxes
    Hey Jake,

    I like the build without Collected Company. For your main board or sideboard, have you considered Shalai, Voice of Plenty? Seems like it would be a good card to have. Gives you and your creatures hexproof. Have found it pretty good against burn and storm. Also, since you are running green, there's a fringe late game benefit of using her activated ability.
    Posted in: Aggro & Tempo
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    Quote from AllanGuldager »
    I went 4-0 with this deck last night:



    2-1 vs KCI
    Game 1 - loss:
    I knew my opponent quite well, and he always play either Lantern or KCI. Today he was on KCI, which is a deck I have no idea how to play against pre-board.

    He comboed off in turn 4, and I couldn't really do anything about that.

    Game 2 - win:
    +3 Rest in Peace, +3 Stony Silence, +1 Eidolon of Rhetoric, +2 Phyrexian Revoker
    -4 Leonin Arbiter, -4 Aether Vial, -1 Thraben Inspector

    He kept a sketchy hand, and basically he didn't do anything.

    Game 3 - win:
    This was a very interesting and intense game. I had 2 Rest In Peace early in the game, and he was on his Sai, Master Thopterist plan. Tokens is quite hard to beat, but I had a Phyrexian Revoker on Sai also. It went on for a while, but I had a timely Resto Angel in hand: he was on 11 life, I was on 5. He had 6 tokens, and I 1 Flickerwisp, 1 Selfless Spirit, 1 Restoration Angel and 1 Resto Angel in hand. I only blocked with the Resto Angel, and flashed in the other Resto Angel end step, flickering his last token and swung for the win.

    2-1 vs. Storm:
    This is a matchup, I thought I was heavily favored against, but I was wrong...

    Game 1 - loss:
    I knew my opponent was on Storm, so I kept a hand with two Thalias and some other stuff. But it was not enough - he had a Baral and an Electromancer and he Stormed off.

    Game 2 - win:
    +3 Rest In Peace, +1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
    -4 Thraben Inspector

    I had a quick Rest In Peace, and basically did anti-storm stuff. Although he had 10 Goblin Tokens, I could fly over them - if he had attacked some more with those token though, I think he might have won.

    He did make some errors - he played the fourth land and I had 2 Tec Edges - so he was left with two Shivan Reef and 2 life.

    Game 3 - win:
    We went to ekstra turn, and I won on turn 5...but I made a huge error - instead of playing either Thalia or Rest In Peace in turn 2, I did nothing, because I was afraid of a counterspell...and then he played 2 rituals, spliced 2 rituals, drew some cards and...shot me for 8 with a grapeshot. Luckily he didn't manage to get the win there.

    After some intense magic, I finally had to many fliers for him - and Shalai pretty much won me that game.

    2-0 vs. Archlight Phoenix
    There is not much to write about here - I had two easy wins, because I also have fliers Smile

    2-1 vs. 8 Rack
    Game 1 - win:
    He tried to do 8 Rack-stuff, but Shalai is good against The Rack, and he didn't drew any Lilianas, so I had a lot of cards in hand all the time.

    Game 2 - loss:
    Sideboard:
    +2 Rest In Peace, +2 Phyrexian Revoker
    -4 Path to Exile

    He had a turn 4 Liliana, 2 The Rack and 2 Shrieking Affliction, and that was just to much for me.

    Game 3 - won:
    This was basically a free win, because he mulled to 4.

    Conclusion:
    I like this iteration of the deck. The blue splash for Spell Queller is really good. I have some minor tweaks though:

    I think I will try with 4 Seachrome Coast instead of Hallowed Fountain. Shefet Dunes didn't do anything, because I have 10 lands, that I sometimes sacrifice, so I want to drop those. And I would like to try 4 Spell Quellers instead.

    Sideboard-wise I'm thinking, that Worship and Eidolon of Rhetoric are the flex-spots, but I do not know what, I want insteas. Perhaps 1 Shalai and 1 Settle the Wreckage.

    So next time (in two weeks, since last Friday in each month is Legacy FNM) I will try this:


    I'm a new DnT player, and I really enjoyed reading your write-up.

    I found your blue splash DnT deck list really interesting. And, I want to know better how Spell Queller performs in DnT.

    Did you find the less stable mana base give you any troubles and what did Spell Queller help you accomplish? Does it essentially help you tempo by keeping either sourceries and instants from occurring or other creatures while you continue to swing in?
    Posted in: Aggro & Tempo
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