![]() ![]() It’s good against Stormbreath Dragon and it can save a creature from removal along with all its auras, but you can’t really bring it in for the mirror for that same reason, so Voyage’s End got the nod.Īt the end of the day, I chose this deck because I felt underprepared for the tournament and wanted a deck with a simple, powerful game plan. I would play a 4th Glare or 2nd Reprisal over the Voyage’s End if it weren’t for those pesky Stormbreath Dragons that I like to bounce from time to time. The mirror match isn’t something I tested much, but it’s obvious that cards like Glare of Heresy, Reprisal, and Voyage’s End are crucial. But the idea is that usually protecting your big threat is what matters most. The cost is real, giving Birds away can lose you the game either because of the flying chump blocker created or because you weren’t that far ahead to begin with. Swan Song is the closest available option to Gods Willing number 5 and 6. When they do have to use a Downfall, all the better. Sure, sometimes they have the Silence the Believers or the Glare of Heresy and you only get 1 card back out of the Fate Foretold, but that’s a valuable break-even point-it lets you develop your board while keeping your hand stocked to reload. Fate Foretold is a card I found at the last minute for the matchups where cards like Hero’s Downfall and Feast of Dreams threaten to knock out your creatures. I tried going “transformational” at one point with 4 Brimaz, 1 Spear of Heliod, 1 Hall of Triumph but I found that trying to “play fair” was trying to play my opponent’s game and walking into it, rather than doing what this deck does best: build a monster or two and hope to protect them. The sideboard of this deck is deliberately a bunch of incremental improvements and tweaks on what’s going on the main deck. This comes up often if the opponent has Stormbreath Dragons in their deck. Don’t forget that you can Stratus Walk an opposing creature to prevent it from blocking non-flyers. Many an opponent will try to sit behind a Brimaz and some Cat tokens or a Fleecemane Lion or Polukranos, World Eater and you’ll need to make a flier or unblockable guy. They take a big creature and turn it into a big unblockable creature. Stratus Walk and Aqueous Form make up another critical component of the deck. By the time they have their 3 mana for Hero’s Downfall they’ve taken a bunch of damage, you’ve gained 10 life or drawn 2 cards, and the next threat is probably out there waiting to get pumped up. The opponent is likely in the scry land phase of their game plan, or is doing something like casting Spiteful Returned or Pain Seer. Favored Hoplite plus one of the 7 Ordeals means you’ll be attacking for at least 4 on turn 3. So it’s this soon-to-be-large threat that’s also essentially producing mana. Very often it will save you 1 or 2 mana on the turn you play it and/or the following turn. Even though Eidolon of Countless Battles and Fabled Hero are the “splashier” and more powerful cards, the Hero makes so many cards in your deck cheaper and it comes out on turn 2. Hero of Iroas is the best of the creature suite. So it’ll work some of the time and when it doesn’t work the game is probably over. Ajani’s Presence reads like it might work, but recall that people are using Silence the Believers, Banishing Light, and Chained to the Rocks. Gods Willing is the deck’s most difficult effect to replace. The limitations of the removal give you room to both get ahead and plan ahead. Chained to the Rocks and Glare of Heresy are much cheaper, but those are sorcery speed. The deck has to fight through a lot of good removal like Hero’s Downfall and Silence the Believers and Banishing Light, but fortunately most of these cards are expensive. Linear combo-ish decks are fun to play and opponents who aren’t prepared will not beat you.īear with me as I state the obvious: this deck puts out a heroic creature or two, pumps them up repeatedly with Auras, and then protects them with Gods Willing (or Swan Song or Ajani’s Presence after sideboard). The deck isn’t Affinity, but it plays somewhat similarly. ![]()
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