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Bant Beatdown (Revised)

Standard Competitive GWU (Bant) Midrange

Kier


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Enchantment (2)

Instant (8)

Unknown (3)

  • 3x [[Rootborn Defense]]

Okay, so I've been running a bant flicker deck for a while, but now I'm getting ready for Innistrad to drop. Once Theros is spoiled, I may switch some things around, but as of right now it's just Ravnica block (except for a couple sideboard cards and the check lands).

I'm heavy on the lower end and curve out to a two-of at six mana at the highest. In play testing it's done pretty well so far, and I'm going to try it in my standard environment tomorrow. I admit it might not do so hot because Innistrad is still in and I'm essentially playing a block constructed deck, but meh. I like a challenge.

The thing I'm most worried about is the sideboard. I'm not sure how it'll fare against the current meta. Since I'm not a super bad matchup for control as-is, there's a lot of creature hate in there, but I also threw in the Thalia's for some extra control hate. Let me know what you think.

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Went 2-1-1 at FNM last night. My only loss was against bant hexproof, which just destroyed me the first game. Then I sided in the 4 Celestial Flare for game 2 and won when I made him sac a Geist of Saint Traft with three enchants on it.

Once sided properly, the bant hexproof matchup basically was won or lost based on how early I got Celestial Flare vs how early they got their pieces out.

I blew straight through jund in round two. That one wasn't even close. Round 3 was the tie, and I was winning game three when we went to turns. It was just a control deck that was very good at stalling. He realized he wasn't going to win game three, so he just shot for the tie.

Game four was some funky Maze's End deck with guild gates and stuff. Not even close.

I feel like this deck is pretty strong, and given a little luck, I probably could've gone 4-0.

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Revision 5 See all

(11 years ago)

-1 Rootborn Defenses maybe
-4 Dryad Militant main
-1 Spell Rupture main
-2 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice main
+4 Elvish Mystic main
+2 Kalonian Hydra main
+1 Scavenging Ooze main
Date added 11 years
Last updated 11 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 0 Mythic Rares

40 - 6 Rares

11 - 2 Uncommons

7 - 4 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.47
Tokens Elemental */* GW, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Wurm 5/5 G w/ Trample
Folders Favorites, Maybe
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