I also put in the Flamekin Harbinger for the Forge Tender and let me tell you, it’s pretty nice to Lark into a Lark numerous times. I am also trying to figure out how to either get a play set of Spectral Processions or Path to Exile or, now, Celestial Purge, in the deck. All seem viable options.

When I saw Path to Exile I said, that’s my answer to Sower. But at the same time Spectral Processions is the answer to faeries in general. Right now I figure I can deal with removing the rest of Redcaps, and a Finks. That leaves four spots open to be played around with.

I was wondering if you would consider putting up a video of you playing this deck against a faeries deck. I plan to find a bunch of faeries and play test my heart out against them as well but watching you would help make some decisions.

Thanks again Mike!

Oh and yea, Boobie needs to do something this year. It kind of stinks he is stuck playing behind a hot Mo Williams a lot this year.

-Jarrod

As for Boobie… Boy of my dreams that he may be, he needs to tighten up this year!

I just have a quick question for you about the Vengeant Reveillark deck.

Would you change anything since you posted it here? Especially with the new set hitting, Conflux, the only real card worthy of being put in would be Path to Exile. And in that case would you main deck it or throw it in the side board? Or would you even consider not using it at all?

It is such a great card for W to remove creature from game and give them a land. It even helps further the argument of Knight of the White Orchid. Just curious, I really want to run Path to Exile just don’t know whether it should be main decked.

I guess it was more then one question and for that I apologize =P

-Jarrod (Huge Cavs fan, Boobie Gibson is amazing)

Although one need not build a sideboard strategy this way each time, I recommend learning via the approach of “building the deck for each matchup.” I’m sure this has been written up many times (probably including an article somewhere by our esteemed host here), but I can point you at this recent article by Zaiem Beg:

http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?id=8001

If you want to see my application of this approach with a pretty, colorized spreadsheet:

http://www.giftsungiven.com/2008/11/in_the_intersection_a_deck.html

The benefit of thinking of sideboarding in this way is that it’s no longer an issue of staring at a core deck and not quite knowing what to do with it. Instead, you know what cards need to be switched around to make the /version/ of your deck that will work best for a given matchup.

I’m most concerned about sideboarding as well. I have no clue what to do. Specifically, I never know what exactly to take out. It seems like the only things you’d ever need to side out for is gutteral response for Fae and 5cc. However, what exactly do you side out? The redcaps and the forge-tender? Even though I suck at sideboarding, this deck seems alright if you don’t even sideboard at all which might help me heh. What’s a good way to learn sideboarding?

Also, thanks a lot. Your video reinforced how much I wanted to make this deck.

i’ve been thinking about spectral procession for a while too. it’s one of the best white cards and i’m not playing it. might make the deck worse against 5cc. i really liked the persisters against that deck and osyp’s plan involves removing 4 our of 7 of them. the deck was built along the idea of incremental advantage. i’m not so sure procession falls along that plan but it might just be so good that we’re dumb for not running it. finks i’ve always felt like were perfect for the deck. a great aggro creature vs. control and a great speed bump vs. aggro. the guy has midrange control written all over him. redcap is like ajani jr right. i thought he was awesome vs. opposing kitchen finks and most forms of aggro and you can double sack him to siege gang.

also considered the harbinger when i was putting the deck together, but i guess i just thought it would somehow make the deck less consistent. like you really never run out of action. you never want to draw that guy on the early turns. i told osyp that if you go the harbinger route you might want to cut a lark since one of the complaints about the deck has been too many 5 drops. i’m fine with a late game ranger into double figure if i’m sitting on high mana.

nobody really knows how good or bad the fae matchup is. osyp thinks the pro guys aren’t worth siding in against them. so he appears to think the deck is fairly potent against them.

cutting forge tender i’m not so sure about. i’ve had him on board against red allowing some pretty brave attacks with the firm belief that they could not possibly burn me out. also lets not forget that most of the sweep spells currently being played are red based damage. that said he might be unnecessary if we put the extra stopping power of spectral procession in the deck. SP helps us not at all vs. the sweep spells though. i would think you’d want the forge tender backup with that card.

The question is what kind of Fae deck are you? Do you play 3-4 main deck Sower of Temptation? The Vengeant Reveillark deck is robust and can beat any kind of deck; the same can be said for Fae. However Fae is the worst matchup for Vengeant Reveillark, particularly the kind with lots of Sowers. If you play Cliques instead it is much easier on the Boat-Brew.

Osyp barely sideboarded. Gutteral Response is for Fae and Reflecting Pool Control (obviously). Kowal sided Wrath of God against Kithkin but with the transformative sideboard I don’t think Osyp really ever brought those in — I will ask him.

@ wobblethegoose
Glad you liked it!

@ Gifts Ungiven
Thanks for the links. I was not aware of that event or the pre-existing Harbinger tech.

@ enzoreal
You sure have a lot of questions!

1) I like it a lot.
2) I would probably sideboard one still.
3) See the above… The deck doesn’t sideboard much.
4) As you can see… nope!
5) It can, but Fae is the roughest matchup.
6) I am not “sure” but Spectral Procession sure is a great card, especially against Fae. It is almost impossible to Spellstutter Sprite early, and if you draw two, they are in a lot of problems. Spectral Procession + Windbrisk Heights is just so strong v. decks like my beloved Blightning Beatdown.

Thanks for your comments everybody!

LOVE
MIKE