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Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief[/CARD] is no joke. Hows the pestilence demon been treating you?
I use Drana as a creature in my maga deck but ive been considering putter her in the general spot.
Then a few other people bring random decks as well sometimes. As far as the early rushes are concerned most of the decks are creature light and/or control decks so there aren't many early rushes. Since I've got so few creatures I like the wraths over spot removal and following up a wrath with Lethal Vapors doesn't affect me much at all. Infernal Darkness has been really effective for me, not against the monoblack decks obviously but most of the other decks are at least slowed down by it. If everyone is running a lot of artifact mana though I could see it not being as effective. The Mirari and the Boseiju are to help against the counter heavy blue generals like Teferi, Azami & Ertai mostly. Usually I am able to get a mass discard spell and the Mirari and Boseiju helps force it through counters. None of the decks above are aggro, even the monored one, but the guy that has the Kagemaro deck used to have a Korlash deck that was really aggressive. Sometimes it would just clobber me, other times I had enough removal but I can't justify running more than I have now against so many control decks. Pestilence Demon is a good suggestion though, he'd help a lot against Gaddock Teeg. I'll have to try and pick one up.
Im gonna keep boseiju in but im thinking about cutting mirari since i think it requires a specific type of deck that we just dont have. Its not that im saying creature heavy decks are the problem but say flickerform zur, doran with totem armor or just having power like that forces a wrath effect from you on one, maybe two creatures. I decided to add barter in blood to further help myself get an extra turn or two to set up. I just ordered most of the creatures I mentioned so im gonna wait and see how they turn out. 10-15 creatures wouldnt exactly make my deck creature heavy. I run a maze of ith as well but people can easily get around that with shroud.
Hey. I have maga as one of my generals as well, that's pretty close to your list. I'm running a few more creatures such as havoc demon,helldozer(playtesting),kozilek,darksteel colossus and pestilence demon(which you may want to consider for your build). In my playgroup we have zur,doran,slivers,nicol bolas,8 and a half tails and kresh. Since you run even less creatures than I do how successful are you in surviving the early rushes? How good is infernal darkness(in my playtesting ive had horrible luck with it)? Do you feel like you have enough targets for mirari and Boseiju. My last question is against decks like zur or doran where the general is the most likely path to victory not having some quick targeted removal hurts and turn 3-4 answers like damnation arent as frequent.
Im used to playing momir vig where I tend to have all the answers and I just wanna try to make maga less frail. Cabal coffers being removed of course hurts a ton.
Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief[/CARD] is no joke. Hows the pestilence demon been treating you?
I use Drana as a creature in my maga deck but ive been considering putter her in the general spot.
Im gonna keep boseiju in but im thinking about cutting mirari since i think it requires a specific type of deck that we just dont have. Its not that im saying creature heavy decks are the problem but say flickerform zur, doran with totem armor or just having power like that forces a wrath effect from you on one, maybe two creatures. I decided to add barter in blood to further help myself get an extra turn or two to set up. I just ordered most of the creatures I mentioned so im gonna wait and see how they turn out. 10-15 creatures wouldnt exactly make my deck creature heavy. I run a maze of ith as well but people can easily get around that with shroud.
Im used to playing momir vig where I tend to have all the answers and I just wanna try to make maga less frail. Cabal coffers being removed of course hurts a ton.