// Lands
3 Jungle Shrine
3 Savage Lands
2 Seaside Citadel
1 Crumbling Necropolis
4 Rupture Spire
2 Exotic Orchard
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Marsh Flats
1 Arid Mesa
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Plains
2 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Island
// Creatures
4 Rhox War Monk
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Baneslayer Angel
3 Broodmate Dragon
// Spells
4 Blightning
4 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Captured Sunlight
3 Ajani Vengeant
3 Bituminous Blast
// Sideboard
SB: 4 Jund Charm
SB: 4 Esper Charm
SB: 3 Lightning Bolt
SB: 3 Day of Judgment
SB: 1 Broodmate Dragon
This deck is a more rapid departure against the Esper Charm / Blightning deck, and I consider it to be the "fair ground" point between Four Colour and Five Colour Cascade. The problem with the Four Colour Cascade deck is that while it does indeed address the correct meta and doesn't think a t3 Maelstorm Pulse will kill Boros Bushwhacker, it gets owned by the Five Colour or anything that can transform into the Infinite Blightnings of Doom in the mirror.
This deck has the same preboard plan as Four Colour Control... use a solid blocker (Rhox) and solid removal (Pulse) to actually answer the opposing aggro deck. It is not coincidental that all three cascade-into spells are the three best to handle Eldrazi, while also being solid against Jund and Boros.
When it comes time to play unfair against other control decks, you can easily take out 4 Rhoxes and 4 Pulses and put in 4 Esper Charms, 1 Broodmate, and 3 Day of Judgements. You are now playing the Infinite Blightings of Doom.
Another departure from this deck and a few other decks is the Broodmate Dragon over Enlisted Wurm thing. This is a smart choice, because even if you don't Enlisted Wurm into Blast into Bloodbraid into Blightning or don't Enlisted Wurm into Baneslayer, you're not beating Broodmate. Broodmate is like a 4/4 flier that cascades into a 4/4 flier all the time. (And even if you do Wurm -> Slayer, it's handled by the same removal as Broodmate.)
The boarding is what makes this deck great. I've figured I probably should include board plans with each deck, so:
Boros: -4 Maelstrom Pulse, -3 Blightning / +3 Lightning Bolt, +4 Jund Charm
Jund: No boarding (Or -3 Ajani Vengeant / +3 Day of Judgement)
Eldrazi: -3 Ajani Vengeant, -1 Broodmate Dragon, -1 Bituminous Blast, -1 Rhox War Monk / +3 Lightning Bolt, +3 Day of Judgement
Vampires: No boarding (Or -4 Maelstorm Pulse / +4 Jund Charm)
Mirror / Other Control: -4 Maelstorm Pulse, -4 Rhox War Monk / +3 Day of Judgement, +1 Broodmate Dragon, +4 Esper Charm
Crypt/Graveyard/Unearth Decks: -4 Maelstorm Pulse / +4 Jund Charm
Mill/Fog: +4 Esper Charm, -4 Rhox War Monk
Monday, November 16, 2009
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