Doran Assault
Treefolk Harbinger tutors up Doran, and Spellskite helps to redirect something uncounterable like Abrupt Decay to it, instead of one of your key permanents.
Tower Defense is your combat trick to stop flyers, and can help you swing for lethal much faster.
More card advantage would be nice, but since wall of blossoms isn't modern legal, we have to suffice for ONLY Wall of Omens. Still good, but more card advantage would be nice.
Birds of Paradise is for ramping and mana fixing. Plus, with Doran out, and throwing down a Tower Defense, it can deal 6 damage, yum!
Abrupt Decay is our only permanent removal, and can be sideboarded out for Maelstrom Pulse if they're getting stuff out that costs more than 3 CMC, faster than you killing them. More removal would be nice, but with the high toughness creatures your blockers can deal lethal damage to attackers if they swing in.
Lands are lands, they are designed to filter out and get you the colors you need, quickly. They help make the deck what it is.
Still looking for ways to make the deck better and more competitive, however. I would like to be able to run it at my LGS and see how it does, but not sure how it will perform against Tier 1 decks yet without more playtesting.
Any suggestions or improvements that could be made to the deck are welcome.
Thanks for taking the time to view my deck idea.
UPDATE 7/8/16:
I've been playtesting this deck pretty heavily the past few weeks, and slowly accumulating the cards necessary to try it out at my LGS. What I can say so far, for sure, is that the deck is SUPER consistent. Almost every game, I've had Doran out around turn 3. I've playtested the deck against Jund, and it seems to hold it's own against one of the best decks in the format, winning as many matches against it as it loses, at least. It does okay versus Affinity and Infect, but seems to struggle against Burn/Red Deck Wins decks.
I am in the process of doing a win ratio test for this deck versus the current decks to beat, and will report my results here once I have them.
UPDATE 7/18/16
I dropped 2 Ranger's Guile for another Spellskite and a 3rd Nyx-Fleece Ram for more targets of Collected Company. Spellskite can be used interchangeably with Ranger's Guile since it is essentially allowing protection of Doran, the Siege Tower or other creatures.
I've done a probability analysis of the deck to find out what the chance is of having one of the pieces integral to the deck in my opening hand.
There is a 82.37% chance of having 1 of the following cards in my opening hand:
This makes the deck extremely consistent, allowing the deck to do what it needs to do by turn 3/4.
Still working on win ratios against the current decks to beat in Modern this year. Hope to have that sooner than later.
UPDATE 8/27/16
Beginning to list out deck wins/losses versus other modern decks. More info below:
UPDATE 1/8/17
Decided to drop 1 Doran, the Siege Tower for 1 additional Assault Formation. This decision comes because I am always able to search up Doran with Treefolk Harbinger, and Assault Formation allows my Wall of Omens to attack at times. It's a minor tweak, but I hope to see it make the deck a tad more consistent.
Below is a list of decks I've played against and match wins/losses against each. Stats broken down as Wins/Losses/Draws
Overall Win Ratio: 22/5/0 (81.48%)
Top 8 Decks
- Jund: 1/0/0 (100%)
- Affinity: 0/0/0 (-)
- Infect: 3/1/0 (75%)
- Burn: 1/0/0 (100%)
- Jeskai Control: 0/0/0 (-)
- Dredge: 0/0/0 (-)
- Eldrazi: 2/1/0 (67%)
- Death's Shadow Zoo: 0/0/0 (-)
Others
- GW Tron: 0/1/0 (0%)
- Grixis Delver: 0/1/0 (0%)
- Kiki-Chord: 1/0/0 (100%)
- Mono-B Obliterator: 0/1/0 (0%)
- UWx Gifts: 1/0/0 (100%)
- Abzan Company: 1/0/0 (100%)
- Mono-U Control: 1/0/0 (100%)
- UW Humans: 2/0/0 (100%)
- UW Spirits: 1/0/0 (100%)
- Mono-R Blood Moon: 2/0/0 (100%)
- Gruul Land Loss: 1/0/0 (100%)
- Valakut Breach: 2/0/0 (100%)
- Instant Reanimator: 1/0/0 (100%)
- Others: 2/0/0 (100%)
I will update this list as I playtest. I hope to encounter more Tier 1, Top 8 decks, and gather a more representative look at where my deck stands.
