Idea to upgrade Azorius flyers into, I want to make Sephara, Sky's Blade work. This deck is sort of a midrange deck where you trade life for board and utilize your flyers and counters to control or pressure the opponent until you can gain it all back and deal a lot of damage with Sorin, Solemn Visitor and Sephara, Sky's Blade. Thinking of cutting some cards for Prismatic Ending or something like Bone Shards. Suggestions are welcome.
8/6/21 Went 2-2 at fnm first timing this deck.
1-2 vs jund, kept a really bad starting hand and be land capped. Second match grinded out and won with a very clutch kitesail freebooter right before he could power spike. g3 i got seized and opponent saw that i was vulnerable to racing as i had no bb and sorin + eagle and 2 spell queller. try to start blockers but eagle got pushed and queller got bolted in resp to the push, as a result i couldnt live to sorin.
1-2 vs blitz, I misplayed frequently in this match, played sprite prematurely g1 and had no token generation g1 and opponent comboed off, almost stabilized with sephara but as soon as i summoned it he bounced it with vapor snag and he was out of range of mausoleum wanderer. g2 I got the sorin and bb off and had too many creatures with lifelink for him to get through and kill me. g3 I have seph but think he has snag and delay my spell queller while he is tapped down with 3 cards in hand because i am scared of snag with a freebooter and queller holding removal, it costs me the game because he has an abrade and 2 bolts in hand.
2-1 vs squirrels, bitterblossom and kitesail freebooters gave me the most ridiculous edge in games 1 and 3, always got to take either a verdant command or chord of calling and blossom blocked so many buffed squirrels which gave me time to get to sorin, the reveal also made queller and sprite counter choices optimal as i could stop his lords, might have looked bad if he drew blood artists either of those games. g2 i flooded pretty bad and he got the chatterfang blood artist 5 mana lord combo and ran over me really hard
2-0 vs izzet tempo, these matchups were insanely long and grindy and cant remember how g1 went but g2 i got fairly lucky after a hand with 2 mausoleum wanderers and sephara + lands and forced out counters early, got bitterblossom then got kitesail off and saw that all he had was 2 murktide regents. I could build slowly toward sephara and drew both sorins which stabilized me very well, and it was hard for him to get any value off his ragavans because i drew bitterblossom both games and they pretty much made it a dead card with him only being able to hit me once. he got bloodmoon off but i was also pretty fortunate as i had fetched for basics with fabled passage and had basics in hand, causing only 3 of my 7 lands to actually become mountains and my mana base still possessed all colors.
Its pretty clear im still new to the deck but i think this deck is very strong so far. heavily considering swapping an eagle for a bone shards and moving a kitesail or sprite to the sideboard for another copy of lingering souls.
8/7/21 Edit
Mainboard: +1 Lingering souls, +1 bone shards, -1 empyrean eagle, -1 kitesail freebooter (moved to side)
sideboard: -2 Counterspell, -1 Force of despair, -1 Sephara, -2 Leyline, +1 Kitesail freebooter, +1 Subtlety, +1 Liliana of the Veil, +1 Golden Demise, +1 Magus of the moat, +1 Soul guide lantern
