Bant Snow

Historic Control GWU (Bant) Kaheera, the Orphanguard Ramp Snow

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Land (25)

• 4x Arctic Treeline
• 4x Breeding Pool
• 2x Faceless Haven
• 1x Glacial Floodplain
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 3x Rimewood Falls
• 2x Snow-Covered Forest
• 2x Snow-Covered Island
• 2x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 2x Temple Garden

Planeswalker (6)

• 2x Narset, Parter of Veils
• 4x Nissa, Who Shakes the World

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Cast Out
• 2x Elspeth Conquers Death
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 3x Shark Typhoon
• 1x The Birth of Meletis

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Abundant Harvest
• 1x Day of Judgment
• 4x Into the North
• 1x Wrath of God

Creature (6)

• 2x Elder Gargaroth
• 2x Hydroid Krasis
• 2x Yasharn, Implacable Earth

Artifact (2)

• 2x Portable Hole

Companion (1)

Instant (5)

• 1x Commit / Memory
• 3x Memory Lapse
• 1x Settle the Wreckage

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Aether Gust
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 2x Mystical Dispute

Artifact (2)

• 1x Portable Hole
• 1x Sorcerous Spyglass

Creature (3)

• 1x Kaheera, the Orphanguard
• 2x Shifting Ceratops

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Cleansing Nova
• 2x Devout Decree

Enchantment (3)

• 2x Rest in Peace
• 1x Seal Away

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Deck used to get to Mythic - August 2021 season on MTGA

Most sideboard cards were chosen due to usefulness/versatility as this list was made to climb to Mythic in Bo3 ladder, this deck can range from a midrange approach to a more controlling posture depending on matchups and the changes when sideboarding

Click each section of the guide to expand (+).

• General tips (+)

This deck is basically a control shell that acts a bit like midrange in some matches and wants to establish board dominance through value bombs like Nissa, Who Shakes the World and Hydroid Krasis

The main interactions of this deck are the aforementioned Nissa+Krasis for a huge body + draw and lifegain, Narset, Parter of Veils + Commit / Memory combo to create irreversible card advantage and fetching Faceless Haven with Into the North

One thing that you must pay attention when playing this deck is the colors of mana you have available as we have very demanding spells with double mana symbols like Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Narset, Parter of Veils, Elder Gargaroth and Elspeth Conquers Death, so be cautious when using Into the North and don't pick any land randomly!

Another cool little trick that can be made is using Nissa's +1 ability on your Faceless Haven, then you can activate it's own ability and make it a 7/6 vigilance beater if unblocked or even to surprise a blocker.

Don't forget you can also use Nissa's +1 ability in order to ramp, just tap the land to generate mana and leave it unused on the pool, then activate her +1 and untap the land to be able to generate more mana with it.

Another common play of this deck is that you can go for Nissa, Who Shakes the World on curve and untap a Forest that adds like Breeding Pool or Rimewood Falls to keep a Memory Lapse or Mystical Dispute up, similar to playing with Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

Also there are some interactions that you need to take care so you don't ruin your own game, so avoid playing Elspeth Conquers Death and Search for Azcanta   along with Rest in Peace and pay attention before choosing to destroy all artifacts and enchantments with Cleansing Nova as it may interfere in your own hate pieces like Sorcerous Spyglass, Seal Away and Portable Hole

Usually this kind of deck runs 26 lands, but since we're running 4 Into the North and 2 Abundant Harvest I thought it'd be OK to cut the 26th land and add another versatile spell as in The Birth of Meletis which can help us keep the land drops and is amazing against aggro decks. By the way, don't be afraid to use Abundant Harvest to find your land drops, this spell is awesome to either keep you playing your lands or to find a threat when you're flooding out (which is pretty possible on a ramp deck lol)

P.S.: You'll never really know if cycling Cast Out is the right decision lol

• Sideboard options (+)

Sorcerous Spyglass is awesome against Jund Sac decks, Jeskai to name Teferi5 and several other abilities that get stopped by this card and seeing the opponents hand is a nice bonus! This is a very broad hate piece and will almost always be useful somewhere outside of the main purposes

Rest in Peace is a must against Rakdos, Jeskai Opus and Lurrus decks, don't forget to side out Elspeth Conquers Death and maybe Search for Azcanta   when bringing in RIP

Aether Gust is pretty straight forward, GR Aggro or GR Bard Class hates this card, also useful against Jund, Mono Red, Rakdos, Mono Green, Elves and even Jeskai to some extent, might be worth it to go 2 copies depending on the meta

Mystical Dispute is a no brainer with so many blue decks going around

Brazen Borrower is the bounce factor and can be a huge tempo threat when used to pressure opponents, specially on control mirrors

Shifting Ceratops doesn't care about counterspells and can attack when coming in, very useful against any blue based deck with counterspells - also very versatile abilities allow this card to be used on niche situations when reach/trample/haste are desirable

Seal Away is safer than Baffling End, guaranteed slot versus aggro and creature based decks, be careful with cards that have Vigilance, but this can hit more targets than Baffling End overall

Portable Hole is amazing, don't overlook this card and keep an eye for low CMC stuff to remove, specially useful versus aggro and Lurrus decks, this card kinda makes up for not having Baffling End and can also hit non-creatures!

Devout Decree makes rakdos players cry, also hits mono black, mono red, GR and all black decks mostly as a bonus

Cleansing Nova is a flex slot to either help against fast/aggro/swarm decks or specific hate against enchantment and artifact heavy decks, a well timed Nova can wreck a Jund or Ugin Ramp deck by getting rid of key cards like the mana rocks and Trail of Crumbs/Witch's oven

Other common cards to be considered for this SB are Kaheera, the Orphanguard, Baffling End, Tamiyo, Collector of Tales, Leyline of Sanctity and Into the Roil

• Matchups (+)

These are my general impressions and SB advice against the most popular decks atm based on my experience on the Bo3 Historic ladder with this deck, feedback is always welcome!

-•- Jeskai Control:

This version is a bit tougher as they play with 2 MD Relic of Progenitus, so it'll be hard to land a good Elspeth Conquers Death, but we have potential to overcome them on the late game, just need to get spells resolved to do so and that's the hard part. Sorcerous Spyglass on Teferi, Hero of Dominaria hurts them a lot and seeing their hand makes the game a lot easier to work around counterspells and removals, Shifting Ceratops also shines in this match up and usually can steal some games on it's own.

IN:

2 Mystical Dispute 1 Dovin's Veto 1 Brazen Borrower 1 Sorcerous Spyglass 2 Shifting Ceratops

OUT:

1 Wrath of God 1 Day of Judgment 1 Settle the Wreckage 1 The Birth of Meletis 1 Yasharn, Implacable Earth 1 Elspeth Conquers Death 1 Portable Hole

-•- Jeskai Opus:

This version is a bit easier to play against as they'll usually be more proactive trying to get value out of Mizzix's Mastery which gives us some room to interact. Also you'll want to bring both RIPs in against this version to undermine their package of Opus/Gearhulks/Masteries, although you might want to keep Search for Azcanta because if it ever gets to flip it'll basically win you the game in the long run and if not, then you'll have free card selection throughout the whole game

IN:

2 Rest in Peace 2 Mystical Dispute 2 Shifting Ceratops 1 Sorcerous Spyglass 1 Brazen Borrower 1 Dovin's Veto

OUT:

1 Wrath of God 1 Day of Judgment 1 Settle the Wreckage 1 The Birth of Meletis 2 Yasharn, Implacable Earth 2 Elspeth Conquers Death 1 Portable Hole

-•- Jund Sacrifice / Citadel / CoCo

I'll just summarize all 3 matchups against the 3 most common versions of Jund in Historic, because these are basically our prey! Our deck is overly equipped with cards that wreck Jund as a whole by attacking different angles. For starters, we have 3 copies of Portable Hole that will take care of Trail of Crumbs, Cat, Oven, Goose, Innkeeper, etc... We also have Sorcerous Spyglass to stop activations from whatever feels more dangerous at any given time, this card solely stops Citadel combo, Oven, Goose, Cat and even Fabled Passages if needed. Cleansing Nova might also be a good option to destroy their engines of Trail of Crumbs/Oven. To top everyhing off, we also have Yasharn, Implacable Earth who really disables the whole Sacrifice aspect of any of these decks and is a threat they must deal with above anything else. Not to mention we also have 2 Devout Decrees and Aether Gust to hate a little more on Jund.

The most important thing is to identify which version of the deck you're playing against so you don't oversideboard and only bring in the relevant pieces! For example, you won't need RIP against Citadel Jund, but Devout Decree and Aether Gust are always good against any version.

-•- UW/BW Auras

This is an even matchup IMO, really goes down to how fast you can answer their threats before it gets out of hand. Portable Hole and Brazen Borrower are the MVPs here, this is also a good matchup to bet on Narset as she will stop the opponent from replacing their cards when equipping Spiritdancer and Sram. RIP is good as well as this is a Lurrus deck and Yasharn is also worth mentioning as he prevents the opponent from sacrificing Selfless Savior and paying life for Adanto Vanguard For UW your biggest concern is not getting countered when removing their creatures as they usually run Spell Pierce, Mystical Dispute and Dovin's Veto. For the BW version you'll have to deal with discard spells, so if you really struggle with this matchup you can try to run Tamiyo, Collector of Tales which is something I wanna try myself, but haven't yet. Basically, you can use the same INs and OUTs for the BW version aside from Mystical Dispute so you can keep 1 Typhoon and 1 Commit in as well

IN:

2 Rest in Peace 2 Mystical Dispute 1 Portable Hole 1 Seal Away 1 Brazen Borrower 1 Cleansing Nova

OUT:

2 Elspeth Conquers Death 1 Search for Azcanta   2 Memory Lapse 1 The Birth of Meletis 1 Commit / Memory 1 Shark Typhoon

-•- GR Aggro / Legends

The difference here is that against GR Legends you need to remove Bard Class ASAP and keep it out of the field or else the opponent can combo off and bring his entire deck to kill you in a single turn and while you're at it, keep the board clean as the opponent will try to aggro you to death until he can do the combo. For the aggro version, it doesn't change much, keep yourself alive as long as possible by removing creatures and ramping to get our big boys down. Even though the way you play against these decks change a bit, the SB plan is basically the same

IN:

1 Aether Gust 1 Brazen Borrower 1 Portable Hole 1 Seal Away 2 Devout Decree 1 Cleansing Nova

OUT:

2 Narset, Parter of Veils 1 Commit / Memory 1 Search for Azcanta   3 Memory Lapse

-•- GW Company

This deck can definitely overrun us if they curve out perfectly, but I guess that's always the case when facing such disruptive hatebears. Strategy is quite simple though, take it to late game and you'll most likely win with value from our big bombs. This is a match where I'd like to test Kaheera, the Orphanguard as the global +1/+1 would be very welcome here.

IN:

1 Portable Hole 1 Seal Away 1 Cleansing Nova 1 Brazen Borrower

OUT:

2 Narset, Parter of Veils 1 Search for Azcanta   1 Commit / Memory

-•- Mono Black Aggro

This one is a hard one to deal with as sometimes you'll get discarded to death and won't have time to react, but if you can get to late game there is still a chance. Another matchup where we might need to add Tamiyo, Collector of Tales if this deck gets more popular. Even though this deck can loop creatures from the graveyard, I believe this is not a matchup for RIP as we benefit a lot more from the possibility of playing Elspeth Conquers Death which can win the game on it's own by returning a Nissa or Elder Gargaroth to the field while taking their biggest threat away!

IN:

2 Devout Decree 1 Portable Hole 1 Brazen Borrower 1 Seal Away

OUT:

2 Narset, Parter of Veils 1 Commit / Memory 1 Search for Azcanta   1 Memory Lapse

-•- Rakdos Arcanist

I consider this a good matchup as we can rely on RIP after game1 and most of our removal spells will exile their threats. Yasharn is also an MVP here preventing Village Rites to work and even Narset can be a pain for them by disabling Looting and Rites as well. Aether gust on Arcanist before combat is brutal!

IN:

2 Devout Decree 1 Aether Gust 1 Portable Hole 2 Rest in Peace 1 Seal Away

OUT:

2 Elspeth Conquers Death 1 Search for Azcanta   1 Commit / Memory 1 Memory Lapse 1 Elder Gargaroth 1 Shark Typhoon

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Historic legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 2 Mythic Rares 29 - 4 Rares 4 - 9 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.54
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Nissa, Who Shakes the World, Shark X/X U, Wall 0/4 C