UW aggro control

buda · Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 46

The Deck

7 Plains
4 Adarkar Wastes
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Island
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
1 Minamo, School at Water's E
1 Eiganjo Castle
1 Azorius Chancery
2 Shining Shoal
3 Condemn
3 Mana Leak
3 Faith's Fetters
4 Remand
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Savannah Lions
3 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
3 Azorius First-Wing
3 Azorius Guildmage
3 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
3 Paladin en-Vec

Sideboard
1 Shining Shoal
2 Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
3 Umezawa's Jitte
3 Hokori, Dust Drinker
3 Sacred Ground
3 Bathe in Light

What you people think about it?

Dr_Moo · Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 987

Your creatures are just worse than other aggro decks, and I don't think your tricks are good enough to bridge the gap. I am quite interested by u/w Tallowisp, and my suggestion would be to change to that. I can't think of an advantage to u/w; you have worse creatures, conditional (Condemn) or slow (Fetters) removal, and no burn. The sole advantage is countermagic and Ninja, which is inferior to Dark Confidant.

This may be better against control decks. That would need testing to determine. While you have counters, you're slower and have no Chars to win after the board is stable.

synch987 · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 266

what creatures exactly do you have a problem with? paladin? isamaru? ninja? i think all these creatures have proven themselves.

my only worry is that you wont get ninja out turn 2 that often, so i would drop a ninja and a fetters for 2 azorius herald. also this deck will run out of steam against anyone who can stop the ninja.

replace condemn with reciprocate, as in an aggro deck with no giant finishers (meloku), the life you may be forced to give them could lose games, and you have 16+ life gain in the deck.

i think the board is spot on, and overall its a very nice deck. unfortunately WW aggro is probably overall better than this Sad

congrats on posting a deck that didnt suck as much ass as the other ones round here Very Happy

buda · Joined: 18 Jun 2005 Posts: 46

thnx i'm working in the deck constantly to improve until its perfect for me!

Dr_Moo · Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 987

It isn't that there are problems with your creatures, it's just that they aren't as good as the creatures in other decks (Kird Ape, Watchwolf, Scab-Clan Mauler, Dark Confidant, Nantuko Husk, Ghost Council, etc). You have to make up for this disparity somewhere, and I don't think countermagic is enough.

Visara · Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 55

Dr_Moo is exactly right. I agree 100%.