SIMIC FLASH
This Standard deck is all about playing in your opponents turn with both your creature spell as well as your instants.
Starting of with the creatures this deck plays 23 creatures in the main deck all having the FLASH ability.
At the one-drop slot playing four times
Spectral Sailor
this is a cheap creature with the ability of being a mana sink in the late game, gaining you card advantage.
This creature can function as a early blocker playing against Aggro trading with your opponents creatures most of the time whilst gaining you the late game advantage playing against other control decks.
At the two-drop slot playing the full play-set of
Brineborn Cutthroat
and
Wildborn Preserver
as a three off. Both creatures have the ability to grow as the game advances providing decent blockers against opposing creatures. Brineborn Cuttroat will grow every time you play a spell during your opponents turn while
Wildborn Preserver
will grow every time a non-human creature enters the battlefield under your control and you have some spare mana to invest. Playing three Wildborne Preserver and not four because of the mana investment however I think it deserves its slot because off the reach ability against the flying threats on the other side of the battlefield.
Only playing one creature at the three-drop slot being the
Brazen Borrower
. This card is an auto-include in this deck not only because its able to pressure the opponent as an evasive threat but mostly because of the adventure ability being able to bounce opponents NONLAND permanents. there is nothing more satisfying than bouncing your opponents planeswalker end of their turn and countering it on their following turn. I know this is a "perfect world" scenario but it will happen occasionally but it being able to provide some tempo plays slowing your opponent down is also a great ability to have trying to catch up in the aggro matches.
At the four-drop slot playing the play-sets of both
Frilled Mystic
and
Nightpack Ambusher
. Again both flash creatures with very relevant abilities.
Frilled Mystic
is a 3/2 creature for four not being that impressive especially as it requires both GG and UU to cast however it is all worth it as it is able to counter any spell as it comes down.
Nightpack Ambusher
a 4/4 flash for four is not bad, pumping your other wolfs (and there will be other wolfs) also pretty nice, create a 2/2 wolf if you haven't played a spell during your turn.. sign me up. If your opponent is not able to deal with this it can go out of control real fast. if you are able to play this and protect it with counter-magic it can kill your opponent in just a few turns. I think this is one of the most important mana slots as it contains the creatures to gain the advantage in the match.
At the 6-drop slot a single
Dream Eater
as i think this has the potential to be the game changing card in the grindy matches where it can bounce a relevant threat or a vital permanent on the other side of the battlefield. Whilst doing so it sets up your next couple of draws or gets rid of unwanted draws in the process leaving behind a 4/4 evasive threat able to swing in the following turn.
This concludes the creatures in the maindeck now moving on to the spells.
This version of the Simic Flash deck plays 15 spells of which 8 are counters.
Starting at the one-drop slot I play one
Unsummon
and two
Veil of Summer
.
The
Unsummon
is one of the cards I have most of my doubts about especially as a one off. It can interact with your opponents creatures, sure, bouncing your own creatures when targeted by removal also pretty good but being able to bounce your
Frilled Mystic
in order to counter a spell is some interaction that did it for me. I play it as a one off because of the inclusion of
Brazen Borrower
and
Dream Eater
both being able to interact with opposing permanents. Also
Veil of Summer
being able to protect your creatures against blue and black interaction.
Veil of Summer
is included in the maindeck because of the current meta, with black and blue being among the most played colors. When this changes this card will also move to the sideboard again because of it doing nothing against the mono-red match-ups and Gruul aggro.
At the two-drop slot four
Once Upon a Time
deserve their slot making it able to keep hands you would normally have to mulligan and four
Quench
. If you have a opening hand with only two lands or even one land
Once Upon a Time
could make sure you do not have to mulligan and play a seven card, spells, heavy hand. This card also has value in the late game when keeping up counter magic. When your opponent does not play anything counter worthy you can end of turn play
Once Upon a Time
and find a threat to pressure your opponent or a land if you need to.
Quench
is a card which shines during the early turns and losses value quickly whilst the game advances. Again within the current meta where I believe
Oko, Thief of Crowns
dominates, it is vital to have some answers to a turn two, when you are on the play and turn three when on the draw,
Oko, Thief of Crowns
. When playing against an
Oko, Thief of Crowns
deck this card will most likely make room for
Mystical Dispute
and
Negate
and the same needs to be said for
Teferi, Time Raveler
because this card completely shuts down our game strategy. This being said I do belief this still deserves its four maindeck slots because it is able to counter relevant threats in the other mach-ups and is not a complete blank in the
Oko, Thief of Crowns
and
Teferi, Time Raveler
matches.
At the three drop slot a full playset of
Sinister Sabotage
as this counter any opponent spell and provides a form of card selection.
The mana base is pretty straight forward playing four
Breeding Pool
four
Temple of Mystery
and one
Castle Vantress
.
Adding six Forest (254) and seven Island (251) making it a twenty two land mana base.
Sideboard:
Starting off with three
Aether Gust
which will be sided in against the Gruul color opponents. This card will counter their spells or bounce their permanents by returning the spell to either the top or bottom of the owners library. This will not only slow the opponent down but also gives you a change finding the answer to the bounced threat.
One Disdainful Stroke which will be sided in against the
Fires of Invention
decks. For now this is only a one of as
Negate
is also in the sideboard most of the time doing the same in this mach-up, however when the fires decks will be played more often I might add another copy most likely in exchange for the
Ashiok, Dream Render
.
Two
Essence Capture
when playing against the creature heavy decks and two Negate when facing decks relaying on their powerful non creature spells.
The
Ashiok, Dream Render
will find its way into the deck when playing against any graveyard recursion decks or deck willing to search their library in order to ramp or tutor for cards.
At the three drop slot we can find two
Mystical Dispute
which were already mentioned above. This card will be sided in against opposing blue decks providing a one mana counter spell against any blue spell.
Last but not least three
Shifting Ceratops
which will provide an decent threat against blue decks however after rotation the mono blue decks have lost their momentum so changing the numbers for this slot would be something to take into consideration.
This concludes the deck description, if you like the deck please up-vote and if there are any comment and/or feedback let me know.
Please take into consideration that all off the stated above is from my own experience and I have only played this deck seriously at one four round FNM last week going 4-0 (four times 2-0)
