Bluemagex2517
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« on: February 11, 2010, 09:01:47 pm » |
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Hello,
Before I begin taking about the deck I've been working on let me explain where I'm coming from. I'm serious legacy player who has had some moderate success. I've been playing around with vintage decks for a while now, but I'm no expert, and have very little actual vintage tournament background.
As the title alludes to what I've been trying to build around is Erayo, Soratami Ascendant. Now, I've never seen a deck built around the card in vintage (if there is one feel free to the point the way). I think that the card does have vintage potential. His effect, once flipped, is pretty potent from my understanding of vintage. He also is rather easy to flip in a format with fast mana and a lot of counters. He creates a hard lock with Ethersworn Canonist, which is already a vintage playable card. Multiples of the ledgendary Erayo can pitch to force. Erayo is especailly good against blue decks like Tezzeret, which rely on tutors to get powerful effects online, and whose own countermagic can help to flip Erayo.
My deck starts with Some number of Erayo, Canonist, Rebuild and/or Hurkyl' s, fast mana, and 4 FOW. It certainly includes some restricted blue cards like recall, timewalk, thirst, tinker and maybe ponder, brainstorm, FOF, Gifts, merchant scroll. Beyond that I'm not certain where to go. Time Vault is certainly an option, but it is ran in so many Vintage decks now. Do I make the deck more of a fish deck with meddling mage ect.? Use mystic Remora? I originally tried Mirrodin lands with thoughtcast and Master of Etherium. This was too much of a glass jaw to Null Rod. The version I am currently testing on MWS looks like this:
Lands 1 Academy Ruins 2 Flooded Strand 2 [UG] Island 2 Misty Rainforest 1 Plains 1 Scalding Tarn 1 Snow-Covered Island 1 Tolarian Academy 2 Tundra Creatures 4 Erayo, Soratami Ascendant 4 Ethersworn Canonist 1 Inkwell Leviathan Spells 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Black Lotus 1 Brainstorm 4 Force of Will 1 Gifts Ungiven 1 Lotus Petal 1 Mana Crypt 4 Mana Drain 1 Mana Vault 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire 4 Mystic Remora 1 Ponder 4 Rebuild 1 [JGC] Sol Ring 2 Spell Pierce 1 Tezzeret the Seeker 1 Thirst for Knowledge 1 Time Vault 1 Time Walk 1 Tinker 1 Voltaic Key
If you think Erayo is just not viable, I'd rather come to that conclusion on my own through testing. If you have ideas on how to build the deck please add input.
Thanks, Matt
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