Ajani Needs Big Muscles to Carry

Pre-release* Control GW (Selesnya) Midrange

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Creature (13)

• 1x Aerial Responder
• 1x Aether Herder
• 1x Aether Inspector
• 1x Audacious Infiltrator
• 1x Barricade Breaker
• 1x Druid of the Cowl
• 1x Eddytrail Hawk
• 1x Filigree Crawler
• 1x Ghirapur Osprey
• 1x Lifecraft Cavalry
• 1x Master Trinketeer
• 1x Silkweaver Elite
• 1x Walking Ballista

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Revoke Privileges
• 1x Thopter Arrest

Land (17)

• 8x Forest
• 9x Plains

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ajani Unyielding

Instant (1)

• 1x Decommission

Artifact (3)

• 1x Ballista Charger
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Universal Solvent

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Creeping Mold
• 1x Monstrous Onslaught

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My Sealed deck from the Aether Revolt prerelease, for posterity. I went 4-1, and came in 3rd overall in the event (There was ~40 people there). :D

The deck is a midrange control build, with lots of targeted removal and other cards that slow the game down until a bomb shows up or you build up your board.

Major bombs are the Ajani and Barricade Breaker, and the Ballista Charger also did a lot of work. The one match I lost was to a creature-heavy rush deck, and the control tools couldn't quite keep up. I sideboarded in the Authority to deal with this, but it didn't show up when I needed it.

Overall, it was really fun to play. The midrange control style worked well for the slower games of limited, and only one of my opponents was able to answer Ajani properly. The other bombs were easier to remove (cards like malfunction showed up several times), but still did a lot of good work.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Pre-release legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 4 - 0 Rares 6 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	40
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Energy Reserve, Servo 1/1 C, Thopter 1/1 C