hkfui
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Post by hkfui on Jul 28, 2010 21:13:45 GMT -6
4 birds 4 cobra
4 shaman 3 liliana’s specter 4 vengevine
3 grave titan
3 eldrazi monument 2 liliana 2 garruk
4 duress 4 doom blade 2 disfigure
21 lands
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Post by pr0b4bi1i7y on Jul 30, 2010 2:33:59 GMT -6
I think your mana curve could be better. You only have one creature at 2 mana and 3 mana. Having 11 cards that cost 4 seems like overkill. Of Garruk, Vengevine, and Baloth, I think you should eliminate one of them and get it down to around 6-8 cards at this casting cost. 4 Sword of Vengeance also seems excessive; it seems really strong but you don't want a hand of equipment with no creatures. Dropping to 3 would probably help. Although the Sword may better off left out of the deck as it makes your creatures powerful, it does nothing to protect them, and with 3 to cast and another 3 to equip if you run into a removal spell, you will have probably lost too much tempo to recover. Grave Titan and Avenger of Zendikar seem out of place. A deck like this should usually try to take advantage of the opponent early and try to stay ahead, but these guys seem clunky and slow which means you probably don't get to cast them against aggro and control counters them. However, I do like to have one card like this in the deck for those situations where the game draws out and dropping a monster can swing it for you.
I think there's two ways to go from here: reduce black to a splash and have a primarily green beatdown deck with Doom Blades or add some discard elements to keep the opponent off balance. In either case, I think you need to lower your curve to get a more aggressive start and stay ahead of your opponent.
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Post by hkfui on Jul 30, 2010 14:33:30 GMT -6
Yeah i agree. the Baloth is in there for the meta alot of people are still running blightning and dropping that guy for free could quite possibly win the game. the thing about the swords cause i've been testing it is if you drop grave titan, or bring back vengevine, and have nighthawk they have to remove the creature or they probably lose. the sword is alot better than people think. the second grave titan hits the board if you have a sword you get way too much momentum if you live to see your next turn. My only thing is at the two and three drop i don't really have access to alot of creatures especially once the rotation hits like next month. i can probably drop down to two swords and go another direction.
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Post by hkfui on Jul 30, 2010 14:41:36 GMT -6
I'm looking at some decks that are splashing white in for squadron hawk and a few other cards it actually makes alot of sense. pretty solid
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Post by vanguardian on Jul 30, 2010 23:53:06 GMT -6
I also have an idea for a G/B Titan deck. It's different from yours, but it shares to colors and may give you an idea or two so I'm going to post it here. I'm spit-balling this btw. (I'll keep up with your post-rotation theme as well)
4x Primeval Titan 4x Lotus Cobra 4x Birds of Paradise 4x Oracle of Mul Daya 3x Ob Nixilis 2x Avenger of Zendikar 3x Fauna Shaman 2x Grave Titan 1x Eldrazi Monument
x Removal/Disruption 4x Verdant Catacombs 4x Marsh Flats
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