4 Competitive Lists. What would you play any why?

standarizeMA · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 188

Title says it all, im going to give you my lists for four competitive decks in the current metagame, you tell me what you think I should play and why.

Big Red
4x Valakut
20x Mountain
1x Gargoyle Castle

4x Lightning Bolt
4x Burst Lightning
4x Volcanic Fallout
2x Earthquake
2x Banefire
4x Armillary Sphere
3x Chandra Ablaze
3x Chandra Nalaar
3x Siege-Gang Commander
2x Magma Phoenix
3x Obsidian Fireheart
1x Bogardan Hellkite

Sb:
4x Goblin Ruinblaster
4x Wall of Fire
3x Pithing Needle
4x Seismic Strike

5c Control
2x Sphinx of Jhar Isle
1x Broodmate Dragon

4x Esper Charm
3x Maelstrom Pulse
3x Day of Judgement
3x Essence Scatter
2x Negate
3x Cancel
3x Cruel Ultimatum
2x Traumatic Visions
4x Lightning Bolt
2x Ajani Vengeant
2x Jace Beleren

3x Crumbling Necropolis
3x Arcane Sanctum
2x Seaside Citadel
1x Savage Lands
2x Drowned Catacomb
2x Glacial Fortress
1x Rupture Spire
2x Exotic Orchard
2x Scalding Tarn
1x Marsh Flats
3x Island
2x Swamp
1x Mountain
1x Plains

Sideboard:
1x Negate
1x Ajani Vengeant
1x Jace Beleren
2x Pithing Needle
3x Naturalize
1x Day of Judgement
3x Anathemancer
3x Terminate

Vampz

4x Vampire Lascerator
4x Gatekeeper of Malakir
3x Bloodghast
4x Sign in Blood
2x Doom Blade
4x Vampire Nighthawk
4x Tendrils of Corruption
2x Malakir Blood Witch
3x Duress
2x Mind Sludge
3x Vampire Nocturnus
4x Marsh Flats
4x Verdant Catacombs
17x Swamp

Sb:
1x Duress
1x Mind Sludge
2x Doom Blade
4x Disfigure
4x Underworld Dreams (Meta call, good against control)
3x Sacrament Card (Jester's Cap sorcery)

BGw Rock

4x Putrid Leech
4x Tidehollow Sculler
4x Knight of the Reliquary
4x Vampire Nighthawk
3x Cudgel Troll
2x Malakir Bloodwitch
2x Garruk Wildspeaker
3x Maelstrom Pulse
3x Duress
4x Path to Exile
2x Soorin Markov

3x Sunpetal Grove
4x Marsh Flats
4x Verdant Catacombs
5x Forest
5x Swamp
4x Plains

Sideboard:
1x Duress
2x Mind Shatter
2x Doom Blade
2x Pithing Needle
4x Acidic Slime
3x Day of Judgement
1x Malakir Blood Witch

Those are my current lists, if there are any changes you'd make please let e know, thanks!

SJM · Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 361

Jund Blightning.

Aphasic · Joined: 17 Dec 2006 Posts: 26

i would agree jund blightning should be up there. i've been messing around with 5CC a lot and it seems to be really good, im playing against the meta i guess, assuming that jund, vamps and all the other aggro out there, so instead of assuming on countering everything i just upped the massive removal. it seems to be working out really well...

jordman2 · Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 78

The Rock Deck it looks like it would do the best in this Metagame

Tonya · Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 55

4x Bloodghast
4x Vampire Hexmage
4x Vampire Lacerator
4x Vampire Nocturnus
4x Malakir Bloodwitch
4x Gatekeeper of Malakir

4x Sign in Blood
4x Tendrils of Corruption
4x Quest for the Gravelord

4x Verdant Catacombs
4x Marsh Flats
16x Swamps

SB

Hard to say really, but lot's of choices. Obvious cards are Mind Sludge, Doom Blade, Black Knight, Infest, etc. Make up your own.

As far as the main deck, I honestly wouldn't change anything. Malakir Bloodwitch and Bloodghast are such bombs, they have to be a four-of. I also have had huge success with Quest for the Gravelord. You're basically pumping out creatures going aggro on them, and this gives you a huge backup plan if they wrath the board somehow.

I've played almost 100 games with this deck and haven't lost a single set of 3 yet. It's pretty stupid good.

standarizeMA · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 188

I think vampires also is insane and could probably blow out most decks but I'm not 100% sure I buy it. Probably loses to anything with a board sweep? Not really sure though - no testing behind this. The big Red Deck is what I would like to play most but not sure if its actually, GOOD. I have standard FNM's weekly and this week's is the first one so my testing results will be based on that. Just not sure what to play yet. And i dont have jund cascade cards, therefore, are not playing it lol.

tbone · Joined: 20 May 2009 Posts: 85

no deck should ever have 6 versions of the same walker in it... i wouldn't play any of those decks. They seem far from optimized

jonproject · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 445

Why is there Cudgel Troll in BGw Rock?

On second though, play Five Color Owls. It's soooooo good right now.

standarizeMA · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 188

Cudgel troll is amazing in any form of rock mirror and it's great against Jund. It's staying, im pretty sure it's a solid fit. And what's 5c Owls? lol