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Won an IQ with this deck in Bay City a few weeks back. Here's the link to the list on SCG:http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=62293The deck seems super good. I highly recommend it to anyone playing standard that wants a deck that can attack the format from a lot of different angles.If you're concerned that the deck loses to the titans of the format, it beat Mono-black in the quarterfinals, mono-blue in the semifinals, and esper in the finals (with another win against esper in swiss). I'm confident that the deck has no bad matchups.Let me know what you think!
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its aggressive as balls and has card draw to match its aggro i can see that, i just . . . have a hard time seeing it beat out esper control. does it really consistently beat mono black devotion and esper control? to be fair it looks really good off the top of my head i cant think of anything to add to it to make it better
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Esper is actually the hardest matchup, but I still think it's about 50/50. If you can play your manadorks around a supreme verdict and land a planeswalker (hopefully unanswered) things will get good for you quite quickly. In all honesty, the only thing I think that can beat a resolved garruk is an immediate detention sphere, or if it's just way too late in the game. A timely (or early) Garruk is very hard for esper to beat (although I have still beaten Esper when they found and cast 4 detention spheres and 4 verdicts). And prime speaker zegana + prophet also gets mvp in that matchup.I sideboard like this against Esper:+2 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed+1 Sylvan Primordial+2 Mistcutter Hydra-1 Forest-1 Cyclonic Rift-1 Nylea, God of the Hunt-2 Polukranos, World EaterI like to think the sideboarding there is pretty self-explanatory, but if you need explanation let me know.I think the mono-black devotion matchup is easier than Esper, but it's not necessarily a cakewalk (one of the tougher matchups). The big thing is that pack rat needs to be taken off the table at any costs. After that I think the deck is easy to beat. Their only real threat is Desecration Demon, which is very very conditional since we can pump out creatures to just keep it tapped down (or straight-up kill it after sideboarding). It's not uncommon to lose game 1 to monoblack just because the maindeck is kind of soft to pack rat and the loads of removal monoblack has, but games 2 and 3 are very very winnable after board.+2 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed+1 Sylvan Primordial+1 Arbor Colossus+2 Mizzium Mortars-1 Nylea, God of the Hunt-2 Polukranos, World Eater-1 Prime Speaker, Zegana-1 Garruk, Caller of Beasts-1 Prophet of KruphixRuric Thar is an absolute house against Monoblack. Not only does he demand an answer, he punishes them for doing so. He outclasses every creature in their deck (save desecration demon, which can be tapped down) and just swings in every turn. Arbor colossus kills demon obviously. Sylvan Primordial is sweet because you can either kill a mutavault or a swamp enchanted by underworld connections, in addition to getting a land on its own. It can also profitably block (and sometimes kill) Desecration Demon if they just cast it. Mortars isn't very good against them, but it's a necessary evil when facing turn 2 pack rat.One note on sideboarding: Try not to take out all copies of a certain creature (except maybe burning-tree emissary in some matchups), because while they might not always be super effective, there are always situations where you just need one to win. Ex: If you're playing monoblack, logic says to side out Nylea, because they can just aggressively kill your creatures and keep devotion off. However, if you're staring down an 11/11 demon with an already monstrous arbor colossus, you need to find a nylea in order to keep from dying (probably).Hopefully that helped out a bit. Honestly this just feels like a much much better version of the GR Aggro deck (because cyclonic rift is the best card in standard, no joke.)