MTG Salvation

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You're correct, it is 4x Rally and 4x CoCo, sorry! I did some testing with 3x Rally, 4x CoCo and 1x Eldritch Evolution (the value of sac'ing Voice, getting rallier, a token and returning voice is insane) but I didn't test enough.


This is the correct list:

DeckMagic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
4x viscera seer 2x Cartel Aristocrat 4x Blood Artist 2x Zulaport Cutthroat 4x Satyr wayfinder 4x Renegade Rallier 2x Saffi Eriksdotter 4x Birds of Paradise 4x Voice of Resurgence 2x Tidehollow Sculler 1x Dryad Arbor 4x Collected Company 4x Rally the Ancestors 4x Windswept Heath 2x Marsh Flats 2x Verdant Catacombs 1x Forest 2x Plains 1x Swamp 2x Temple Garden 2x Overgrown Tomb 1x Godless Shrine 2x Razorverge Thicket		3x Path to exile 1x Abrupt decay 2x Qasali Pridemage 2x Kataki, War's Wage 1x Abzan Ascendancy 1x Surgical Extraction 1x Eternal Witness 2x Kitchen Finks 2x Stain the mind

I'm saving this list so I can later use it, because I had a lot of fun with this deck. Here were my matchups:

First Match: I played against a burn deck, I find the match against burn fairly easy, I filled the board quickly and got some points of life through blood artist. The post-sideboard match I added 2x Kitchen Finks, which combined with saffi have an even greater value. I try to fetch only basic lands (as I never know when they're using blood-*******-moon as main, and fetching for shocklands against burn is often not a good idea). On the second game he managed to deal me so much damage, so fast, that I just couldn't keep up. Ended up 2-1.


Second Match: I played against a Jeskai that employed the Nahiri/Emrakul combo, together with the Restoration Angel/Kiki Jiki combo. The match was fairly easy, even though my voice of resurgence always gets exiled, I managed to beat him with a massive rally sac-wave in the first game and comboing for infinite dmg/life with blood artist+ saffi+viscera+rallier on the second. I only sideboarded path to exile in. 2-0


Third Match: This was a really good game for my self esteem, as I always lose to this guy. He has a nasty mardu deck, with paths, fatal push's and Kalitas. The first game he had some bad luck and flooded with lands. I managed to combo him with aristocrat/saffi/rallier+artist pretty fast. On the second one he casted Kalitas, but I still managed to beat him by attacking with an unblockable aristocrat on my turns while blocking his Kalitas and sac'ing my blockers before damage was applied on his turns, preventing lifelink. I sideboarded paths and Qasali (which were useless, as he uses Nihil spellbomb, and he only casted it the moment I already had some considerable graveyard)

Fourth Match: Against a friend of mine, we just decided to split prize but played anyway. His deck is an abzan midrange with 4x goyfs that managed to beat the ***** out of me. Satyr wayfinder only grew his goyfs and Ooze, and guess what he uses a Kalitas as well. I managed to win first game by beating him with massive elemental tokens, but in the second and third games the hate was just too strong. p.s: In the third game I could've actually won, had I played better. I managed an infinite scry with viscera/rallier/saffi and I left a rally/land sequence on top of my deck. He casted a kozilek and I discarded the rally on the next turn. Had I found a land/rally sequence I'd have won. I didn't put a CoCo on top because he extracted them'all from me.


This deck is insanely fun to play, and I also find the blisterpod/doomed traveler version together with Abzan Ascendancy and Copters really fun. I tested both and this one I'm using was more to my taste. My sideboarded is adjusted to my local game store (combo decks, affinity, burn) and I strongly suggest that you come up with your own as well!

I don't mean to scare everyone off from the archtype and thread... I'll still probably mess around with Aristocrat lists here and there. Hopefully I'm off on my analysis and there really is a list that irons out some of these problems. But for now play what you love and don't get your sights set on tiered status

I agree. Our engine requires more pieces to fit everything together, while other decks can do the same thing with fewer pieces (e.g. Vizier+Devoted Druid). I think that's also good, I mean, when you put together all those combo pieces, when you rally into a huge sac-wave with 3 blood artists or when your voice tokens are so freaking huge and you just mow your opponent down with them, killing his goyfs and dreams... that's priceless