Semi-budget (didnt want to buy monastery mentors) FRF deck. Focused around citadel siege khans mode giving counters to relatively cheap value creatures.
Please leave a comment or suggestions.
Sideboard plans:
UB control
- 3 rams, 2ephara, godswilling/spear
+ 4 disdainful stroke, 1 negate, 1 revoke existence
Sidisi whip
-2 gods willing, -2 daxos, 1 ephara, 1 sheep
+4 disdainful stroke, 2 banishing light (2 erase)(2 end hostilities)
abzan whip
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+3 hushwing gryff, 4 disdainful stroke, 2 erase
abzan aggro
-2 daxos,
+3 hushwing gryffs, 2end hostilities
boros aggro
-2 ephara, -1heliod,
+2 end hostilities, +negate
Took to FNM: Jan 23, 2015
bye-win-win-chop got prizes.
1-0-1 vs UB control. game1 got a citadel siege down, played creatures without over extending. eventually opponent couldnt draw any more board wipes to kill a cloudform. daxos exiled a vault. grinded out the win
game 2, opponent landed a vault: i couldnt resolve enough. went to time. had a wing mate roc and token to block 2 lethal pearl lake ancients on turn 5
2-1-0 vs red black one drops and rabblemaster
game1 he thoughtsiezed taking a daxos, then played a fire drinker satyr, i played a face up master of pearls, he plays rabble master, i block token. he keeps attacking with his 1 drops and tokens while i play 3 lightforms, first 2 get lightning striked, the 3rd sticks and i land a citadel siege i just win from that
game 2. overrun with 1 drops
game 3. opponent got mana flooded. i played cloudform -> citadel siege for a quick game
Played a bunch of games vs Sultai and 4 color whip decks. I think i have the advantage overall. pretty much only lose to hornet queens or multiple wingmate rocs.
0-4 games vs WR aggro bears: monastery swiftspear, seeker of the way, soulfire grandmaster, monastery mentor, something else, valorous stance, shock, lightningstrike, stoke the flames, gods willing, 20 lands.
Essentially, I die by t4-5 as all my blockers come down on t2-3, and get removed quickly. I'm brought to like 6 and then burned out. Need to figure out what to main/sideboard for this matchup.
played more games vs UB control
if they resolve a vault, it feels pretty much gg.
sheep and ephara are pretty useless in this matchup.
-3sheep,2 ephara,1 spear/gods willing
+4disdainful strokes, 1negate, 1revoke existence
Took to FNM again: Jan 30th, 2015
3-0-1
2-0 vs a kid, 2-0 vs temur, 2-0 vs UB control, split(played the games anyways, 0-2 vs RG aggro... t3 stormbreath dragons are pretty brutal)
play creatures
play citadel siege khans mode
put counters on creatures
Win game in a few turns
with a Siege, you only need 1 creature to attack
cloudform is your best creature. flying hexproof combined with the 2 counters per turn is really hard to deal with.
lightform is your main source of lifegain when racing. use it the same as cloudform, but be wary of removal
sheep is to stall, gain life, block rhino, etc. When you have a citadel siege, you can make it grow and it becomes a win con too.
brimaz, daxos, fabled hero. These are just some value 3 drops that are especially great when buffed with counters.
jeskai sage- 1/1 prowess dudes that can chump or attack. does decently. when it dies you draw a card. pretty good value. very impressed with it.
wingmate roc. a great card... not so sure about it in this shell. probably worth more than i give it credit.
Heliod - worked really well in the games i've seen him. makes dudes. can be turned on relatively easily
Ephara - card draw engine. just play a dude a turn and win. Devotion is easy enough to get to, just like heliod
Need to test:
Mastery of the unseen - equivalent of heliod that you play on t2 and can gain life off of. At the very least, probably good vs control as extra non legendary heliods.
chariot of victory - makes the guy that its equipped to have first strike and trample.
perfect for the double strike dude or just getting through hornet queens.
costs 3 and 1 to equip. possibly good as reuseable way to break through board stalls
soul of theros: good for alpha striking. BUT dont have a good way to put in graveyard or on the battlefield. Likely to just sit in hand at 6 mana
Elspeth: best 6 drop?
reality shift, turn to frog, polymorphist's jest - anti stormbreath or other crazy creature technology