Banty Goodness

GOLDNGOD · Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 5

Trying out this little baby, feedback wanted

//lands
x2 treetop village
x4 Mystic Gate
x3 Flooded Grove
x4 Reflecting Pool
x4 Adarkar Wastes
x2 Yavimaya Coast
x2 Islands
x1 Plains

//Creatures
X4 Rhox War Monk
x4 Kitchen Finks
x4 Mulldrifter
x2 Stoic Angel

//Spells
x4 Wrath of God
x2 Bant Charm
x3 Cryptic Command
x2 Hindering Light
x4 Oblivion Ring
x1 Kiss of Amesha
x2 Remove Soul
x4 Ponder
x2 Elspeth, Knight Errant

//Sideboard
x2 Hindering Light
x2 Remove Soul
x2 Negate
x4 Pithing Needle
x2 Condemn
x3 Naturalize
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zturchan · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 46

Hindering Light is not a mainboard card, I've tried it.

In its place I suggest 2 more stoic angels

DESTRUCTOR · Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 117

i agree cut those and add 1-2 stoic angels...i dont think elspeth (which is a great card) is need it in this deck maybe you could add instead a couple more counters (broken ambitions, or negate or the 3º maybe 4º bant charm)

i think you need to run 2 main cloudtrheshers and 1-2 on sb because faeries are popular and seem like a hard matchup

Vedrfolner · Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 2146

I prefer the more aggroish variant. Right now it is a control deck with win conditions that are inferior to those found in other control decks.

Flametongue · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 21

I like Bant and play it weekly. I started with a build sort of similar to yours but since then went in a different direction.

Suggestions:
+2 Bant Charm (this is pretty much the best card in the deck)
+2 Treetop Village (you really want to be aggressive)
+1 Elspeth (the second best card in the deck)
+1 Loxodon Warhammer
+1 Cryptic Command

Your manabase needs to be reworked. Seaside Citadel is a must and the best land you can have for this deck.

-All Hindering Light, run Negate instead. Although you don't cantrip it counters a lot more and is easier to cast.

-1 Kiss the Amesha is terrible. Tidings is better.

Take Wrath out. Its good, just not in this deck. You should be more aggressive.

Remove Kitchen Finks. You want a 2cc creature. Knights of the Meadowgrain is what I play or you could play Jhessian Infiltrator who is really awesome with Warhammer and Elspeth.

Add Chameleon Colossus to the sideboard with Cloudthresher vs Fae. Guttural Response is awesome against almost every deck right now.