Comments on: How is War Priest of Thune Real?

By: Five With Flores » Super Secret Felidar Sovereign

Five With Flores » Super Secret Felidar Sovereign — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:41:46 +0000

[...] cut one Celestial Purge, the Sun Titan, and the War Priest of Thune from Gavin’s original deck list. My reasons were basically that the deck is already hard [...]

By: Vigil

Vigil — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:39:12 +0000

lol @ Squadron Hawk as a “draw engine”, this isn’t 2005.

By: hudnall56

hudnall56 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:08:35 +0000

I’m pretty horrible at mana bases myself. Even if I go rogue, I usually just try and search for a decent looking manabase for a deck with similar costs and use that mana base as a template for mine, tweaking to taste.

By: hudnall56

hudnall56 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:00:51 +0000

Squadron Hawk is going to be tough card to figure out. I’m sure that it’s going to be a sick draw engine in some deck within the next year, but it’s definitely pulling itself in a few directions. On one hand, you want all four as you want to stoke your hand as best you can, but on the other you don’t really want to cast until you spend enough cards to be able to use them. In the context of a Fauna Shaman deck Ranger of Eos is abstractly a better card, enhances your ability to grab bullets, and probably comes online around the same time you actually want to cast the Hawks. Perhaps you’d want both.

The deck should probably sport at least another one of finisher as a silver bullet, the obvious candidates are Baneslayer, Bloodwitch, and/or the black Titan.

And Tutelage seems pretty greedy/weak here. The deck doesn’t seem fast enough to end the game Tutelage “cheats” your opponent across the finish line, has no way to recoup the loss of life if it gains a superior board position, and has no way to manipulate the deck to prevent dying the deck from dying from it’s own enchantment. Plus, it’s not like you’re lacking in card advantage with this color combination anyways. I would certainly want to max out on Rangers and then would probably look to Borderland Ranger and maybe Cultivate before even thinking about the enchantment.

By: net_vagabond

net_vagabond — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:04:25 +0000

Monument works now but when artifact hate becomes more normal in the sb it might not be as good I guess. Instead of squadron hawk I guess you could use a ranger package with two ranger and two scute mob. I’m not that great with manabase construction but some combination of verdant catacombs, marsh flats, sunpetal grove and stirring wildwood ought to do it.

By: apop

apop — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:18:47 +0000

Something along those lines but my problems are:

1. I get the point of suntail hawk but I think there might be a better way to cast little dudes for Vengevine.
2. Does the Eldrazi Monument really work?
3. More War Priests because leylines are going to be ugly.
4. What about the mana base?

By: net_vagabond

net_vagabond — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:41:47 +0000

doh!, revised

4 Birds of Paradise
4 Fauna Shaman
4 Vengevine
4 Bloodghast
4 Squadron Hawk
1 War Priest of Thune
1 Sun Titan

3 Dark Tutelage
3 Eldrazi Monument

4 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Condemn
2 Path to Exile

By: net_vagabond

net_vagabond — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:39:39 +0000

So, not to be too forward but something like

4 Birds of Paradise
4 Vengevine
4 Bloodghast
4 Squadron Hawk
1 War Priest of Thune
2 Sun Titan

3 Dark Tutelage
3 Eldrazi Monument

3 Elspeth, Knight Errant

4 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Condemn
2 Path to Exile

roughly?

By: apop

apop — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:14:47 +0000

Above I left out, probably some grave digging like Grim Discovery.

I’m worried this concept has too many concepts though.

Thanks!

>>I am in love with the idea of creating a black/green/white standard deck when M11 hits that employs:

Black- bloodghast, removal (or maybe this is overcome by white’s powers in these areas), maybe reanimate
Green- fauna shaman, vengevine, mana accel
White- this guy, that new hawk that grabs its buddies, other removal

Possibly using the new titans (green and black)?

I would love to hear your opinions on this.

Love,

Apop

By: apop

apop — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:50:03 +0000

I am in love with the idea of creating a black/green/white standard deck when M11 hits that employs:

Possibly using the new titans (green and black)?

I would love to hear your opinions on this.

Love,

Apop