Mono-Blue Devotion Is Back!

Standard* EssTea

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I don't mean to attack you, but I think that you should take off the "Click here" button in the description, because it sort of tricks the reader into giving you an upvote even if he/she does not want to, and just clicks out of curiosity.

February 3, 2015 9:57 p.m.

kyuuri117 says... #2

Not to nitpick, but with the old blue devo list, you really only needed 2 other creatures on the board to make thasa go live, because of nightveil spector. With this, you need four plus thasa, and that's just over extending into a board wipe. It's a great idea man, but it just seems super fragile.

February 3, 2015 10:26 p.m.

bloodshed343 says... #3

Technically you could do it with two creatures thanks to Cloudform and Wall of Frost. Enchantments like Military Intelligence and Singing Bell Strike help also.

To the op: I would play Singing Bell Strike over Voyage's End due to the extra devotion.

February 3, 2015 10:45 p.m.

HiddenStrings says... #4

Lol Polluted Delta doubles deck price overnight. Nice deck, btw +1

February 4, 2015 5:14 a.m.

SaschaCory says... #5

A Void Snare or two in this deck would be absolutely overpowered with Master of Waves

February 4, 2015 10:50 a.m.

briansch says... #6

I'm loving this deck so far, and will be playing at this FNM. But why isn't Ordeal of Thassa being used? I took out 4 of Hypnotic Siren for it and it has been working great so far. Pumping a Triton Shorestalker or Cloudform to a 4/4 or 6/6 then drawing two cards can win you the game alone.

February 4, 2015 12:44 p.m.

awesomemaxi69 says... #7

Yeah I am now running two reality shifts. I originally didn't like the card in my blue red control but it isnt for a control deck, it is for temp. I can see my mono blue deck having problems with green decks, more importantly temur. So now i have a mainboard way to kill a polukranos

February 4, 2015 12:51 p.m.

HollowPoint82 says... #8

Just curious if you'd considered supplant form. Using it on your opponents end turn targeting master of waves puts a good chunk of tokens on the board

February 4, 2015 3:47 p.m.

nashbridges52 says... #9

I like this better than the old Mono-blue devotion lists that were dominating standard last year, especially everything that Cloudform adds. +1

February 4, 2015 4:26 p.m.

kenyashi says... #10

I built this deck to play at my local standard group and i loved it. It really caught them off guard. Went 2/1 in a Swiss tournament so far. Went up against a U/W heroic and Esper Control. Lost to Abzan Midrange deck though. Had problems with dealing with multiple copies of elspeth. Outside of tournament wise, i versed a Narset control deck and did poorly, the side board helped a lot though, Monastery Siege was a key card.

February 4, 2015 6:27 p.m.

Abubroki says... #11

Hey, blue devotion! +1 for sure

I run a very similar deck and won my last FNM with it: Master Skulker fall 2014; I still have not updated it with the report on winning FNM.

I will go through all the description and comments and then post a comment, I'm really interested in learning everything on better playing this archetype.

February 5, 2015 9:56 a.m.

HiddenStrings says... #12

Why Treasure Cruise? I think you could work Quickling into that spot. Quicklng works well with MoW, too. Or even as a flashed-in blocker/fizzle. You aren't running a lot of spells, and you really aren't hoping your creatures die, so, iow, your graveyard desires to be as empty as you can muster, therefore not fueling Treasure Cruise. I honestly hate Cruise in this deck, otherwise it's awesome. Put an Encrust back in the main, it's a great card, even as a one-of.

February 5, 2015 7:53 p.m.

Echoes says... #13

I would recommend splashing Green for Courser of Kruphix and Red for Stormbreath Dragon.I know that they don't fit the theme but they are such value cards, you cannot have a deck in standard without them. However these are only suggestion. What you do need to do is to splash white for Brimaz, King of Oreskos. No deck can go without one, even if you have seven in you opening hand you must not mulligan because it's just too much value and money.

Can you please go and give advice on my mono-red whip deck and my green-red control deck? THanks a lot.

February 5, 2015 8:56 p.m.

faolmor92 says... #14

I used dakra mystic at the platinum pro tcg tournament and placed pretty well. It does help if you are running certain decks. I was running blue red burn artifact then.

February 5, 2015 9:55 p.m.

ezkirb says... #15

Bought the deck minus the Polluted Delta's until I can afford them and we'll see how I do at my first FNM next week. Thanks EssTea and everyone for all the good reading on the tech!

February 6, 2015 12:28 a.m.

Gop says... #16

Looks like a fun deck. Any FNM reports yet anyone? +1

February 6, 2015 7:19 p.m.

I love the idea, but I cant see it honestly putting up that good of numbers...Maybe I'm wrong.

February 7, 2015 1:59 a.m.

Also, if budget isnt an issue, what would make this deck better?

February 7, 2015 2:01 a.m.

awesomemaxi69 says... #19

Hi there again I just played my mono blue deck at fnm and I went 2-1, I just narrowly lost against a Mardu deck which is fair considering it is probably the worst match up considering they can kill thassa with crackling doom. I was really impressed by how well my deck performed and it turns out Mono Blue devotion is pretty competitive. And wall of frost is such a hoser against abzan my opponent could not do anything

February 7, 2015 7:38 a.m.

What do you think about slipping some Polymorphist's Jest in there? I think it would go quite well with the elemental tokens.

February 7, 2015 9:34 a.m.

Love this deck and have been playing it since fate reforged release day. My variant runs more counters mainboard. That may be my meta but, whatever. One card you should seriously consider is Nullify since you're in mono blue it shouldn't be that hard to cast it and it an amazing card to disrupt aggro strategies containing rabblemaster. I've even played it against the new Mono-Green devotion to disrupt its tempo.

February 7, 2015 1:26 p.m.

DalDakota says... #22

Just wondering, why did you take the Chasm Skulker's out? They worked nicely with Bident of Thassa and like you said in the description for it, "every deck needs some stupid creature that needs to be dealt with immediately'' :P

February 7, 2015 4:02 p.m.

EssTea says... #23

I'm switching things around every now and then and see how they work out, I'm never completely satisfied with a deck haha :P They will probably come back soon!

February 7, 2015 4:12 p.m.

Kre says... #24

Makes sense :D! I plan on trying this out at one of my FNM's. I think it'll be a fun time ;P

February 7, 2015 8:13 p.m.

I really like Monored Aggro decks and I usually play those competitively. When I saw your Monoblue Aggro/Devotion deck, I was intrigued. I noticed that you edited your deck since Thursday, but I ran this previous edition of your deck (with the 3x Chasm Skulker and 4x Reality Shift) last night at FNM. At my local FNM, we play five games, and I ended up going 2-3 with it. I soundly defeated a Mardu midrange and a Mono Black Devotion/Aggro deck; I lost to Green Devotion, Abzan Midrange, and Jeskai Aggro-Burn decks.

Reality Shift really helped me remove a fatty off of the battlefield, and each time I used it, my opponent manifested a land that they needed.

Chasm Skulker really didn't get off the ground. In one game, I got it up to five (because of a Treasure Cruise), otherwise, it would get nuked after a turn or two.

In my opinion, I really like this deck, but it requires really aggressive mulligans otherwise you cannot set up your board to do enough damage quick enough. From my experience, this deck (like any aggro deck) is weak against token generation (I'm looking at you Brimaz, King of Oreskos, Goblin Rabblemaster, or Monastery Mentor), burn, trample, and opponents with a strong late game.

February 7, 2015 10:26 p.m.

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