Standard Selesnya Midrange

by silvervahyu on 14 March 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (2)


Planeswalkers (1)


Artifacts (4)

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Deck Description

Trying to build a decent competitive Selesnya deck on a budget, any suggestions to make it more competitive are appreciated.

How to Play

The idea is early ramp with Arbor Elf and Avacyn's Pilgrim, and Ideal turn two Smiter or Wolfir Avenger. Then round it ut playing later game with silverheart, armada wurm, and silverblade paladin. Sigarda is there for any wrath spells, as well as to cope with liliana of the veil.

Deck Tags

  • Selesnya
  • Green
  • White
  • Sigarda
  • Armada Wurm
  • Garruk
  • Standard
  • Midrange

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

2200043

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Standard Selesnya Midrange

it looks pretty decent, if your looking for any criticism on it though, id suggest some field control such as oblivion ring, pacifism, or arrest. and maybe switch out the fogs with druids deliverance. it costs 1 more but you get a populate out of it. but yeah, i like it :)

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Posted 14 March 2013 at 01:10

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Rather mana costly and slow for aggro isn't it? Don't get me wrong, I love the idea, but you have expensive creatures and not much on the early "oumph". Yes, Strangle root geist, Call of the conclave and Rancor will help you early game, but it's very little in the way of early support. Since you don't have a sideboard yet, you could make it up of 1 or 2 mana creatures that will speed it up if you come across another fast deck. Guildgates will slow you down too much as well, so if you can get more sunpetal groves and temple gardens that will help greatly... Anyway I'm gonna like it because I get the idea that you're going for, reckon it could use some minor tweaking though. Check out mine for ideas if it will help. Also I just noticed, you're running too much land for it to be aggro, 25 land is more a control deck. Aim for around 20 - 23.

http://www.mtgvault.com/bennyboy777/decks/super-fast-angry-aggro/

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Posted 14 March 2013 at 01:17

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Awesome feedback. Took some of my thoughts and worded them better. Benny brings up awesome points.

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Posted 14 March 2013 at 01:19

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Thanks for the feedback. Added some early ramp like arbor elf and avacyn's pilgrim as well as two oblivion rings, hopefully to speed things up. Trying to build on a budget, so dual lands are difficult. Can squeeze in some Silverblade Paladins though. I would switch out Fog for Druid's, but I took out the Call of the Conclave, so the only one to populate is Armada Wurm.

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Posted 15 March 2013 at 00:51

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if you can't get the dual or shock lands the cheaper option is chromatic lantern

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Posted 15 March 2013 at 02:25

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I think you have to decide wether you want to be aggro or midrange. magic is a game that punishes you for not being consequent, and that is your probleme here =)
If you want to go aggro, consider playing militant dryad, experiment one and boros elite as playsets and curve into silverblade and smiter.
but i really think selesnya is midrange all the way:
If you want to be midrange, play the pilgrimn and arbor elf as playsets and consider running faarseek and a single temple garden (will be within your budget i think). then play the smiter, lambholt and silverblade and curve out with armada wurm and silverheart. play all those as playsets.
also, consider playing centaur healer and trostani for insane lifegain to counter aggro decks and play selesnya charm as removal.
...well, all that would make a totally new deck, i know... but you wantet tips to be more compoetitive, so there you are =)

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Posted 15 March 2013 at 21:19

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