MTG Salvation

Thanks for the suggestions. I was able to locate a 4th Hallowed Fountain and a 3rd Flooded Strand. I was also able to get a 3rd Path to Exile and Restoration Angel as well.

I wont be able to get Serum Visions or Remands for this tournament, as no one local has them.

What would be some non-budget recommendations, if I were to want to be competitive?

Thanks.

So, my local store has decided to do at least 1 modern FNM per month, so I decided to jump on the bandwagon with some of the cards I have.

This is what I have so far for a build, based on what I already own.


I have no idea what my local meta will look like as we are just starting up next Friday but am open to suggestions. My main plan is to simply remove all active threats, attack with the planeswalkers or creatures and plug away, resetting life with the Sphinx. I will be looking at getting some mana leaks, I have a few somewhere in my boxes, just not sure where. I think I have one other Path to Exile as well. That pretty much taps me out for older stuff as I am just starting up and mostly play commander and standard.



Thanks for looking.

Quote from drakeavril »

Baral, chief of compliance auto 4 of...same with disallow

T2 copter, t3 baral, tap copter, negate backup.

Deck may be along lines of

DeckMagic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
4 thraben inspector 4 baral, chief of compliance 4 selfless spirit 4 smuggler copter	4 negate 4 disallow 3 glimmer of genius 4 gideon, ally of zendikar	2 baral's expertise 2 archangel avacyn 25 lands

I too am liking that Disallow, its a cheaper Summary Dismissal, and being able to counter an ultimate is wonderful. I was thinking along the lines of 2 or 3 of the Barals, and 2 Disallows in place of the Revolutionary Rebuff I have now.

Quote from nexus99 »

What is the thinking with Bruna and Gisela in the sideboard? Where do they come in to be effective?

I use them in against control decks and some slower aggro decks that dont run a lot of removal. The Gisela is a nice target that is okay to have in the yard due to Bruna, and I usually follow it up with an Avacyn. Her lifelink and first strike come in handy. I have had great luck with her so far and had her main board for awhile and she performed well, but moved her sideboard to run the 3 Rattlechains to protect the Spell Quellers and give my Selfless Spirits flash for that unexpected sacrifice to flip Avacyn.

So, I will be playing in a tournament today and am hoping to gain some new ideas.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Perhaps cards or combos I may have missed?

So , with the new cards slowly being revealed, who has any ideas on what sort of changes they want to make to the deck?

Any plans to maybe add a third color? I have some ideas, but am curious what everyone else is thinking.

Updated the list again, changing perspective. Open to suggestions.

Quote from drakeavril »

What's everyone's opinion on the 4th Gideon? I like multiple Gideons, almost never dead.

I rarely ever use Gideon. I've played 100+ games and maybe used him a handful of times.

I personally run 3 Gideon's.

Switched Dominus of Fealty for Humility to help against the Sigarda match up and circumvent her creature abilities. Not sure if I will keep it, it is in play testing mode.

I can always destroy it if it gets in the way. I run many means of destruction for artifact and enchantment.



Thoughts?

It appears you are right, I have a 4th Stasis Snare that I did not list.


You had me worried for a minute.

The deck was updated yesterday afternoon with some of the cards I purchased.

I made some adjusments with the new cards I got and entered a commander tournament this afternoon. We played 3 rounds and it was an absolute blast. I literally controlled the entire game. This deck list ended up turning more into a Stax build then intended, but it seems to work great and everyone had some laughs along the way.


I ended up coming in 1st place for the whole tournament. I won the first round against a Yidris and graveyard deck (I forget his commander, because he never casted it). I cast Illusions of Grandeur 4 times that match. It ended up timing out with me at over 80 life. I had a turn 2 Meekstone that shut down both decks. Neither one seemed to run any artifact or enchantment hate.

Second match was against a Sigarda Aura Voltron deck and an Azami Infinite Turn and other stupid stuff combo deck. I essentially sat in the corner and did nothing while the Azami and Sigarda deck battled it out, I just Pillowforted myself, and the Sigarda deck took out the Azami deck. The Sigarda deck then came at me with a mass of aura enchantments hitting for over 200 commander damage. Not much I can do about that when they pay 12 mana to attack and I cant target, destroy for make him sacrifice Sigarda. I came in second this match.

The third match was against a Saskia and the same Sigarda deck. The Saskia deck and myself teamed up to take out the Sigarda deck. The Saskia deck was successful in eliminating the Sigarda deck, but ultimately lost to me due to me using Transcendence with him at 29 life and me at 7. I ended up winning this match, but just barley. Sigarda decks are very tough to beat, for sure. I just was not able to get my Rule of Law or Arcane Laboratory fast enough. It doesnt help with they have a Sigarda's Aid which gives auras and enchantments flash

Taking this same deck to FNM tomorrow night. Does anyone have any changes they would like to see me try?

Let me know and I'll give it a whirl.

Quote from daugarten »

If you like giving out gifts, why not try the "hunted" creature cycle such as Hunted Phantasm?

I do not yet get the Zedru trigger off the creatures, I had considered it. I have Forbidden Orchard for that regard, it's split second and can provide a blocker for someone in need.

• Arcane Laboratory
  
• Argivian Find
  
• Burnished Hart
  
• Codex Shredder
  
• Cyclonic Rift
  
• Dawn Charm
  
• Desolate Lighthouse
  
• Detention Sphere
  
• Dismantling Blow
  
• Dispeller's Capsule
  
• Double Negative
  
• Hallowed Burial
  
• Hanna, Ship's Navigator
  
• Karmic Justice
  
• Return to Dust
  
• Rule of Law
  
• Springjack Pasture
  
• Terminus
  
• Terrain Generator
  
• Transcendence
  
• Vandalblast
  
• Venser's Journal
  
• Hallowed Fountain
  
• Humility
  
• Flooded Strand
  

Ordered the above cards to experiment with. Play tested the deck some more, my play group is very aggressive it seems, so adding in some of these cards should slow them down and even the odds a bit. Ill be looking at getting some better dual lands when funds become available.

Open to suggestions for any other cards.

Backstory:
I originally built this list for some holiday fun time as sort of a joke around the local shop. More or less that Zedruu was a joke and could not really amount to anything great. I perused some lists and build my variation of the deck using a few deck lists a as baseline and it took off. I won one commander tournament, placed third on one on last Friday and have got the itch to make it as savage as possible. I mean, I want this deck to be as competitive as humanly possible. This will become my main deck, and as such, no budget.
I am open to all suggestions.

Here is the list:




I plan to replace the follow cards shortly, as fund become available;

• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  
• 1 Azorious Chancery
  
• 1 Boror Garrison
  
• 1 Shivian Reef

I will be replacing them with:
1 Tundra
1 Plateau
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Steam Vents

There are not other intended changes as of yet.

Thank you for looking.