We're in it for the long haul!
Short Summary:
The name of the game is stalling, until either Elspeth, Sun's Champion or Ugin, the Spirit Dragon can end the game. Outpost Siege lets me churn through my deck looking for one of the planeswalkers as a win-con.
Details!:
This deck does great against mid-range and tempo, dealing with early threats with
Mardu Charm
, Magma Jet, Lightning Strike, and Despise. End Hostilities will clear the field of tokens and bestowed creatures, Crackling Doom takes care of Turn 4/5/6 board-changers, like Stormbreath Dragon or Siege Rhino. Sign in Blood lets us keep pace with card draw that we'd otherwise get from playing Esper. Soulfire Grand Master gives us the life back we lose to the pain lands and Sign in Blood, and he also serves as a board presence, attacking if they have no creatures and blocking if they do, stabilizing our life total all the while.
Our late game threats, Ms. Elspeth, Sun's Champion and Mr. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon both become clocks after wiping the field with End Hostilities, which thankfully gets rid of pesky bestow creatures.
Our sideboard is prepped to take care of Azorious Heroic aggro, Devo decks (Whip of Erebos) and
Jeskai Ascendancy
, with a compliment of Drown in Sorrow, Bile Blight, Anger of the Gods and Erase, removing some of the card draw and
Mardu Charm
s. Against Esper control we can take out some of our card draw and burn, putting in
Glare of Heresy
, to deal with the late game threats that we'll face.
I took a more creature based version of this to FNM a while back, and have tested this version against a friend's Temur Monsters with me coming out on top a good 3/4 of the time.
Let me hear your thoughts! (But not Thoughtseizes. None of those here, no matter how useful you think they'd be.)
