Is white weenie playable in ext?

LiTaNia · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 16

Decklist of my white weenie in extended. It's for new ext but no ZEN cards.

// Lands
1 [CHK] Eiganjo Castle
4 [FUT] Horizon Canopy
4 [TSP] Flagstones of Trokair
4 [LRW] Windbrisk Heights
10 [ZEN] Plains (1)

// Creatures
4 [EVE] Figure of Destiny
3 [CHK] Isamaru, Hound of Konda
3 [ALA] Ethersworn Canonist
3 [CS] Jotun Grunt
4 [LRW] Knight of Meadowgrain
3 [SHM] Kitchen Finks
3 [TSP] Celestial Crusader

// Spells
4 [CFX] Path to Exile
3 [PLC] Mana Tithe
3 [BOK] Umezawa's Jitte
4 [SHM] Spectral Procession

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [ALA] Ethersworn Canonist
SB: 1 [PLC] Mana Tithe
SB: 3 [9E] Circle of Protection: Red
SB: 3 [TSB] Disenchant
SB: 4 [SOK] Kataki, War's Wage
SB: 3 [SHM] Wilt-Leaf Liege

Some of my questions:
- I want to put Honor of the Pure in my deck, but no slot Sad

- Maybe Paladin en-Vec or Stillmoon Cavalier needed. but also no slot Sad

- Is there any better creatures/spells for WW? (I think Knight of the Holy Nimbus/Soltari Priest/Elite Vanguard/etc..)
- Is there any ZEN card suitable in ext WW?

Spyx · Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 1009

I'm pretty sure that splashing any color makes the deck stronger. The only advantage of going mono color is not taking any damage from your manabase, which is why I would cut the canopy's.

I think you also need more removal to deal with the opponents superior creatures (nacatl, goyf, kotr).

How about this:

1 Eiganjo Castle
1 Flagstones
20 plains

4 Figure
3 Isamaru
1 Forge Tender
3 Ranger of Eos
4 Finks
3 Canonist
2 Jotun Grunt
4 Spectral Procession

4 Path to Exile
4 Journey to Nowhere
3 Jitte
2 Elspeth, Knight Errant
1 Ajani Goldmane

joe_mauer · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 8

honor of the pure might be better than the planeswalkers,quicker at least.

coolcreep · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 530

boeda · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 79

add red for helix, bolt and maybe ajani vengeant. sb options with blood moon and magus are great too. Ive won some tournaments before zen came out with a WWr deck. Back then maindeck magus and canonist were wreckingballs, nowadays u need the canonist but I dont know about Moon effect.

You should consider mox and knight of the white orchid too btw.

ChuckNorris · Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 143

I actually played White Weenie to a top 4 finish in an extended ptq last season. This is what my list looked like

4 Forgetender
4 Figure of Destiny
3 Isamaru
4 Ethersworn Cannonist
2 Kataki
4 Spectral Procession
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Wilt-leaf Liege
3 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Path to exile
2 Oblivion Ring
2 Chrome Mox
1 Eiganjo
4 Mutavault
15 Plains

In the SB I had extra katakis and jitte, rule of law, jotun grunt. It was a sweet deck, it stomped Naya Zoo, Mono red, Elves, Teps, Affinity. It couldn't beat Fae or Bant aggro to save its life though. Obviously one of the strengths of the deck is that it loaded up on hate for much of the format, so its a very metagame dependent deck... it's not good on its own. But at the time, it was awesome, I played 3 zoo decks, 1 affinity, and 1 mono red on my way to the top 8.