Friday Budget: Divine & Swift

Of course. That is natural. It is good that you make some tuning so the deck is as pleasant as possible to your friend.
If you or your friend need anything else, don't feel bad to ask!

Thank you, you are a great friend, I wish we could meet
Same to you, even though I doubt you would need anything from me
By the way I will keep you posted on the final results

I'm really looking forward to hear how this one handles fighting.
...and Barracuda, maybe we will meet one day. Who knows.

Maybe...
We have exams this week, so we will be able to get together after school since we have half days, so you won't have to wait that long, but right now what we did and will test today:
-2 emeria angel
-1 shepherd of the lost
+1 reya dawnbringer
+ 2 blinding angel
-2 sakura (didn't work well with sigarda)
+2 farseek

I am also thinking about making room for increasing savagery, as it will instantly drop his angels' costs by 5 if done to Herald of war

Good thinking mate. Good thinking.

We took out the last shepherds for increasing savagery, put sakura back (I misread sigarda's ability, and it works great with reya dawnbringer)
It worked really nice overall, going 7-3 with my only real life deck (boros from monsters vs heroes type of thing)
The one thing I noticed though, is that you tend to drag the game on very late and have nothing to cast, so we were thinking about adding card draw or instant power boosts to the angels, but we don't know what to switch anymore

Mono white angel life gain, temur midrange morph, black decks (a lot of them), token-ish lifegain, slivers (5-color not that good), and orzhov exalted midrange that is surprisingly pretty good, are the decks that are played at my school.
I was wondering how good would the spellslinger deck do against them (except the angels), do you have any idea?

That spellslinger I created a while back?
http://www.mtgvault.com/northernwarlord/decks/friday-budget-ur-spellsling/


Well, Morph should be surprisingly easy foe because Morphed creatures die to Lightning Strike. They might always have cards like Secret Plans though, but I guess you are on safe waters as long as you get a swift start.

Nowadays black decks often bear cards like Herald of Torment, Master of the Feast and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. While Herald dies to Lightning Strike, Master of the Feast can even be profitable card to you, since burn decks enjoy additional card draw. Merchant on the other hand... Lifegaining is always highly annoying if you are playing burn. Guess you should keep their field as small as possible, so their devotion doesn't get too high.

Token decks can be crushed with a surprise Anger of Gods. I also suggest that you go and find a few copies of AEtherspouts for your sideboard. It is deadly against all horde decks.

Sliver decks can be quite problematic, since you never know what is coming in next turn. I suggest you keep one Curse of the Swine in your hand just for those annoying moments when they choose to drop Megantic Sliver and Bonescythe Sliver at the same time. As mentioned above too, AEtherspouts could work against slivers.

Orzhov Exalted should not be too big of a problem, since you can always kill small threats with burn when they choose the attacker but those exalted abilities have not yet resolved. Curse of the Swine works here too: Turn all those annoying hard-to-block creatures like Tormented Soul into pigs.


So, I guess you should be able to handle those foes with your deck. I only suggest getting few copies of the AEtherspouts as soon as possible.

Thanks! I'll get those as soon as possible, skullcrack to deal with the lifegain issue and keranos, if possible, for the card draw mixed with damage

Sounds good.

So he decided it was ok like that (we made no more changes), it did fine against control (all the hexproof) and moderately good against aggro
He thanks you again!