My current competitive deck that I'm running.
It was developed as Super Friends but slowly incorporated the Squadron Hawks. I haven't been able to test it at any events, but during playtesting, it gives U/B a hard time.
Gideon Jura and Celestial Colonnade swing for game! Squadron Hawks sit there and be annoying forever. They can chump block for you, or just be a complete nuisance. Does your opponent really want to go for the Squadron Hawk's throat, or even Doom Blade it?
STARCITY 5K
Washington DC
02/26/11
TOTAL : 7/7/0
FINAL : 3/3/0 Drop
ROUND 1: Valakut
Game 1: Overall had a bad game in general with bad drops. Countered his main threats such as Titan and Avenger, but in the end the Valakuts got to me.
ROUND : 0/1/0 (0/1/0)
Game 2: Boarded in Leylines, Seas, and singular Sun Titan (Getting Tec Edges back.) Starting hand Leyline and by turn 8 handled all the Valakuts. He ended up landing a Thrun and I had no responses available. Thrun got there.
ROUND : 0/2/0 (0/2/0)
TOTAL : 0/1/0 (0/2/0)
ROUND 2: Knights
Game 1:Honestly, I can say this was the most disgusting, depressing, and infuriating match I have ever played in my life. He played a unique take on mono-white knights. He ran whispersilk cloak and echo circlets. Also, adding insult to injury, he didn't have a sideboard. At first, I knew none of this and expected something big, so I played with caution, countering nothing. Thinking there's nothing to fear, I tap out and swing in with colonnade. He reacts with double knight exemplar on his turn, and eventually whispersilk cloaked level 7 Student of Warfare for there.
ROUND : 0/1/0 (0/3/0)
Game 2:Boarded in bombs. Turn 4 Jace, Turn 5 Gideon, Turn 6 Elspeth. Nothing really much he could do. Completely overwhelmed him.
ROUND : 1/1/0 (1/3/0)
Game 3: Lady luck was completely against me this game. I ended up wiping the board multiple times, stabilizing at 4 life. He's top decking with 5 mana and an Honor of the Pure, clear board. I had a condemn, Frost Titan, and a Wurmcoil in hand. I play Frost Titan. He rips journey. I think, okay, no biggie, another bomb in hand. I draw Sun Titan. Alright, I'll be fine. I play Frost Titan. He rips journey. I'm thinking he's pretty damn lucky. I play Sun Titan, nothing to fetch. He rips journey. I'm sitting with a Condemn and a land in hand.. He rips Hero. I draw. Land. This has easily been my worst match in the world. I don't think I've ever seen anyone rip more like a god.
ROUND : 1/2/0 (1/4/0)
TOTAL : 0/2/0 (1/4/0)
ROUND 3: U/W Control
Game 1:The game goes something like island go until turn 6 when I try to resolve a Jace 2.0. He attempts to mana leak and I respond with a negate, followed by the next X rounds with superior card control.
ROUND : 1/0/0 (2/4/0)
Game 2: Similar to game one, though he tried to resolve Jace turn 6 this time. I attempt to mana leak, but he fires his negate. I respond with a baby Jace the following turn. Another few turns go by and I end up resolving a Gideon. Gideon and his best buddy, Celestial Colonnade, got me a game.
ROUND : 2/0/0 (3/4/0)
TOTAL : 1/2/0 (3/4/0)
ROUND 4: G/W Control
Game 1:Mimic Vat Baneslayer seemed to be the play of this match. He also had 2 tumble magnets available, none used. With Gideon and 2.0 on the board, he was on a clock. He would have won the race, but when I animated colonnade to block for Gideon, he DIDN'T tap it with a tumble magnet in response to me declaring blockers. I mind sculpted him.
ROUND : 1/0/0 (4/4/0)
Game 2:
Boarded in my bombs, tried to race him. After playing Wurmcoil, he ended up scooping.
ROUND : 2/0/0 (5/4/0)
TOTAL : 2/2/0 (5/4/0)
ROUND 5: Caw-Blade
Game 1:I had absolutely no idea what he was playing. He must have kept the worst hand in the history of the world because it was the first time I had ever seen a Squadron Hawk get there. Only thing that stood in my way was an attempt to Day of Judgment when he was at 4 life.
ROUND : 1/0/0 (6/4/0)
Game 2:I understand now. He turn 2 mystic'd, fetched feast and famine. Turns into a race. He ended up getting there.
ROUND : 1/1/0 (6/5/0)
Game 3:Opening hand: one land. Mulligan. Hand: one land. Mulligan. Hand: No lands. Mulligan. Mulligan'd down to 4 cards: Spreading Seas, Gideon Jura, Island, Seachrome Coast. I think this game was karma for my match with knights. Turn 1, Coast, Go. Turn 2, lay island, draw baby jace, play spreading seas, drawing preordain, go. Turn 3, draw glacial fortress, lay land, play baby jace, draw 2.0, go. turn 4, draw plains, lay land, play doj, draw elspeth. turn 5, draw tec edge, lay tec edge, play 2.0, brainstorm. Stabilized to win.
ROUND : 2/1/0 (7/5/0)
TOTAL : 3/2/0 (7/5/0)
ROUND 6: Tezzeret Control
Game 1: Intensive game of back to back trades. Board full of my Gideon, Elspeth, and a few hawks, he had Tezzeret at 4 and metalcraft. He ended up resolving a battlesphere and using tezzeret's ultimate for the game.
ROUND : 0/1/0 (7/6/0)
Game 2: Boarded in my usual bombs for a control race, and the leylines as tezzeret and jace 2.0 hate. Ended the game around turn 15 with 3 lands.
ROUND : 0/2/0 (7/7/0)
TOTAL : 3/3/0 (7/7/0)
With no hopes of advancing onto anything important I ended up dropping. It was pretty interesting play testing against match-ups that I have never encountered before. Overall, I feel like I didn't completely fail in the big first competitive event that I participated in. At least 3/3/0 is balanced.
Please, give me advice if you can think of anything that could make my deck better, and no, I will not turn it into Caw-Blade.
