Decklists for FNM

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The Decklists for this weeks' FNM are as follows. I will be running my Whipstacular Junk deck brewed by us here at MTG The Journey. David will be playing his Mono-Black Devotion deck. They look a little something like this.

Whipstacular Junk

Creatures: (20)

• 3x Desecration Demon
  
• 3x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  
• 1x Lord of the Void
  
• 4x Lotleth Troll
  
• 3x Nightveil Specter
  
• 2x Obzedat, Ghost Council
  
• 4x Sylvan Caryatid
  

Instant: (8)

• 3x Hero's Downfall
  
• 2x Putrefy
  
• 1x Abrupt Decay
  
• 2x Rescue from the Underworld
  

Enchantment: (6)

• 3x Underworld Connections
  
• 3x Whip of Erebos
  

Artifact: (2)

• 2x Chromatic Lantern
  

Planeswalker: (3)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
  
• 2x Vraska, the Unseen
  

Land: (22)

• 2x Forest
  
• 1x Godless Shrine
  
• 4x Golgari Guildgate
  
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
  
• 2x Plains
  
• 6x Swamp
  
• 3x Temple of Silence
  

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Sideboard: (15)

• 2x Abrupt Decay
  
• 1x Ashen Rider
  
• 3x Blind Obedience
  
• 2x Blood Baron of Vizkopa
  
• 2x Dark Betrayal
  
• 2x Gaze of Granite
  
• 3x Fade into Antiquity
  
• 2x Golgari Charm
  

This deck has come a long way from it's origins. By leveling down to the most essential functions, and working through the dead draws and screws before we finally arrived at this. And it's not perfect, but we think it's an all-around good base, and it has a strong sideboard. In a couple days we are going to link a few videos of playing this deck, but right now we are still working out a few bugs in our recording software.




Here is a video of the Whipstacular Junk deck vs. another Junk deck, there was just SO much LG going on, and I had to get to work, so I actually had to concede the game and leave. Look how long I held on though with even this terrible of a hand.

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Mono-Black Devotion

Creatures: (19)

• 4x Desecration Demon
  
• 2x Erebos, God of the Dead
  
• 3x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  
• 4x Lifebane Zombie
  
• 4x Nightveil Specter
  
• 2x Returned Phalanx
  

Instant: (8)

• 2x Doom Blade
  
• 2x Hero's Downfall
  
• 3x Pharika's Cure
  

Sorcery: (7)

• 2x Corrupt
  
• 2x Read the Bones
  
• 3x Thoughtseize
  

Enchantment: (2)

• 3x Whip of Erebos
  

Planeswalker: (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
  

Lands: (23)

• 19x Swamp
  
• 4x Temple of Deceit
  

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Sideboard: (13)

• 3x Devour Flesh
  
• 2x Diabolic Tutor
  
• 4x Duress
  
• 2x Hero's Downfall
  
• 2x Ultimate Price
  

This deck has been fun to watch come together. We have had so many people tell us that this looks like a net-deck, or a rip-off of a net-deck. But the fact of the matter is that this deck originated right here in the confines of MTG The Journey. We looked nowhere else but our card collections for what we wanted to add, and traded for everything else we didn't. So we are super proud that we came up with a product that is similar to what a pro is playing! We home-brew all the way!

   Well, we hope you enjoy these decklists, feel free to use them or modify them in any way you want to, we just ask that if you copy our templates and win big, that you tell people where you got the idea from and point them back here! We would also, of course, love to know if you are playing a copy or variant of a deck we have posted, and how it does or what you've changed and why.

    Until next time, thanks for reading and we look forward to providing you with more MTG excellence in the future!

First Video Ever!

Okay then MTG fans! We now have our first video ever on the blog. Sure, it's rough around the edges, but after all, we are new on the scene and everything is new to us. But here it is for you to check out, along with a decklist of the deck we played, our Junk ReAnimator brew, and what we plan to do to deal with these types of matchups in the future.

So in this brew we have:

Creatures: (20)
1x Armada Wurm
3x Desecration Demon
1x Giant Adephage
1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
4x Lotleth Troll
2x Obzedat, Ghost Council
3x Sin Collector
4x Sylvan Caryatid
1x Trostani's Summoner

Instants: (9)
3x Grisly Salvage
3x Putrefy
3x Rescue from the Underworld

Sorcery: (3)
3x Duress

Enchantments: (4)
2x Bow of Nylea
2x Whip of Erebos

Planeswalkers: (2)
2x Garruk, Caller of Beasts

Land: (23)
5x Forest
1x Godless Shrine
4x Overgrown Tomb
3x Rogue's Passage
5x Swamp
2x Temple Garden
3x Temple of Silence

Problem #1 - So one of the things I noticed during this game, is his planeswalkers shifted tons of control in this game. Without that Xenagos, he would have stalled very early and the game would have gone very differently. So I am going to be shifting to Hero's Downfall here in place of the Putrefy. It has the potential to rid them of the big time planeswalker shifts that so often got in the way here.

Problem #2 - The mana curve. I didn't seem to draw into that many lands, and sure this was one game, but with more access to land, it could have been very different. I would have really liked having those Elvish Mystic around in this game to sac to Rescue from the Underworld after having tapped them for mana. I'd even take the Satyr Voyager at this point to untap a target land of my choice. Oh, I'm missing Arbor Elf so much right now.

Problem #3 -  The Whip. While I love the Whip, and it's lifelink potential. In this game, it was doing nothing for me. I didn't even want to see it. And as it was, I saw too many reanimation abilities, and not enough targets. It seemed as though I needed faster stuff early game, such as the Elvish Mystic to get the ramp going fast to get out the ability to re-animate the stuff in the yard.

Problem #4 - Keeping in tune with true re-animator, I want to splash some things outside of my color range to get rid of into the graveyard. So looking forward I will probably be ditching off the Trostani's Summoner in leu of an Aetherling, and probably ditching either Giant Adephage or Armada Wurm to the SB in favor of a Prime Speaker Zegana. Both are super powerful, and not altogether completely un-castable.

But looking forward, I am going to playtest it some more and see if it comes up against the same results. This was a rough hand, and a rough game. Hopefully moving forward we see a better balance and some steadier games. As always, thanks for checking this out, and please comment with suggestions both for the blog and for the decks! Until next time, keep brewing and we'll see you then!