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I managed to secure #10 at my local game shop's FNM, and I may go back sometime. Here's a report of how I did in the five rounds of Standard:
Match 1: Naya Midrange
Game 1: We each keep our seven and nothing happens in the first few turns until he plays Borderland Ranger turn 3. I opt to Rakdos Keyrune into Deathrite Shaman the same turn. He responds with a Loxodon Smiter; the next turn I overload Mizzium Mortars to kill both his creatures and attack for 1 with the shaman. He appears stuck on four lands and has to Farseek into a Temple Garden
. I attack with my Keyrune to bring him down to 16. He indeed does Thragtusk the next turn, and i mirror with my own, all the time hurting him with Deathrite Shaman activations. He casts another Thragtusk, and I cast Sever the Bloodline, flashing it back the next turn to kill his beast tokens. He finally draws a Huntmaster of the Fells
Flip, but I topdeck a Bonfire of the Damned for seven and that sends it to game 2. 1-0
Between games, I side in the three Slaughter Games to name Thragtusk or Restoration Angel, depending on the board state.
Game 2: We each have land problems, but I'm able to get out a Deathrite Shaman and begin attacking him for 1 each turn. Once he's down to 15, I draw a second land into a Farseek for a Rakdos Keyrune the next turn. He finally draws an Avacyn's Pilgrim, but that meets a Pillar of Flame and he concedes. 2-0
The Naya deck seems to run plenty of creatures, but the Jund has so much removal that it can handle the onslaught long enough to board-wipe. I had Mizzium Mortars in my hand in game 2, and I surely would have won that even if he had stuck around.
Match 2: Bant Hexproof
Game 1: He gets off to a slow start and I am able to get three topdecked Deathrite Shamans into play. He only has Abundant Growth and an Avacyn's Pilgrim. I pillar his guy, but then he lands an Invisible Stalker into Rancor and Ethereal Armor. That is pretty much the game. 0-1
Between games, I side in 2 Golgari Charm and 2 Liliana of the Veil to deal with his low-toughness solo guys.
Game 2: He gets an Avacyn's Pilgrim turn 1, but I am confident in using a Dreadbore on it the next turn. He then makes another pilgrim and a Rancor on the pilgrim, which I respond to with a Vampire Nighthawk. He then casts Geist of Saint Traft turn 3, which I respond to with an overloaded Mizzium Mortars after taking a hit for 6, but the whole time I am hitting him with Nighthawk to gain life back. He plays another Geist of Saint Traft, which i respond to with a Rakdos Keyrune to block. He adds two Rancors and a Spectral Flight and I am bashed for 12 to go to 10, but I topdeck an overloaded Mizzium Mortars for the win. 1-1
Game 3: He gets a turn two Geist of Saint Traft off of an Avacyn's Pilgrim. I play a Vampire Nighthawk to block, but it gets hit by Oblivion Ring while I am getting hit for 7 a turn. I have a Bonfire of the Damned in hand, but I only have four mana - not enough to save me. 1-2
I did not see any of my sideboard cards at all, which saddens me because in game 3 i could have really used a Liliana of the Veil, because I could have bonfired for 1, then cast Liliana.
Match 3: Bant Control
Game 1: I work him down to a meager 4 life before he casts a Sphinx's Revelation for seven into a Supreme Verdict and Thragtusk. He got an Alchemist's Refuge into play, which allowed him to put sweepers, Jaces, Tamiyos, and Thrags into play at my end step. Overall this was a pretty bad game. At one point he cast Farseek and failed to find a land because he had drawn all of his duals and basics. I conceded after he showed me a Terminus and Sphinx's Revelation in his hand when I was in topdeck mode. It was a pretty close game until he hit that Revelation. 0-1
Between games, I side in my whole control suite mentioned above to try to win, along with my two Pithing Needle to name Jace, Architect of Thought or Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
Game 2: I play Pithing Needle turn 3 (right before he has Jace mana) and he laughs when I name Jace. He laughs again when he draws and shows me three copies of Jace, Architect of Thought in his hand. I think I'm ahead because I'm about to Rakdos's Return for his whole hand, but then he casts his singleton sided-in Witchbane Orb and I just concede. I have only lands and a Rakdos's Return and I wasn't going to draw anything to get me out of it. He also shows me two sided-in copies of Curse of Echoes from his deck, but the real killer was Witchbane Orb. I can't win that game. 0-2
Match 4: G/W Goodstuff/Populate
Game 1: He gets an Arbor Elf into a Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, which I Dreadbore, and when he plays another Trostani I cast Sever the Bloodline on it. He responds by playing a Sigarda, Host of Herons, which i ogle at because I don't think I have an answer, until I draw Vampire Nighthawk. That holds him off for a turn, which I use to cast Thragtusk. He clears my Nighthawk with an Oblivion Ring and hits for five in the air with Sigarda. However, I topdeck a Bonfire of the Damned for 6 to clear his board, then hit him for 5 with Thragtusk to leave him at 5. He scoops after his draw. 1-0
He didn't have a sideboard, and I wasn't really going to bring anything in, so I opt to leave my deck the way it is.
Game 2: He got really mana screwed and only managed to get Avacyn's Pilgrim and Arbor Elf for ramp, which is really bad against a deck full of cheap removal. I killed both of his mana guys and he was left with just two Vitu-Gazi Guildmages. I won with a Garruk, Primal Hunter into Thragtusk, and he conceded when I drew 5 cards and showed him a Mizzium Mortars. 2-0
Match 5: 4-Color Guttersnipe/Burning Vengeance control
Game 1: His deck is really cool and all about getting the most value out of cards. At one point he flashbacked a Lingering Souls to deal me 6 damage and get 2 spirits. He also had things like Pack Rat and Goblin Electromancer. It was a pretty good deck, but I won (barely) off of a Thragtusk and Olivia Voldaren killing his tokens. 1-0
He also didn't have a sideboard, so I decided to be the good guy and not sideboard either.
Game 2: He got a nut draw of 3rd turn Burning Vengeance, 4th turn Burning Vengeance, and just started dumping stuff into his graveyard with Faithless Looting and Forbidden Alchemy. Every creature I played he killed with Geistflame or Burning Oil or a trigger off of Burning Vengeance. Eventually he just dealt me lethal off of his two Burning Vengeance 1-1
Game 3: Deathrite Shaman really messed with his deck because I could exile the stuff he dumped into his graveyard with Forbidden Alchemy before he untapped. He got a Guttersnipe and Burning Vengeance online and started killing my stuff. Now, this was already past midnight and I was really tired, but I made an epic misplay. I had my Deathrite Shaman out and a Deadbridge Goliath in my graveyard, and he was at 5. I could have salvaged the Goliath onto the Shaman and won, but I forgot and instead I used Rakdos's Return for 4 to leave him at one life. People make mistakes, and this time it cost me the game because he killed my Deathrite Shaman and went on to deal me the last few points of damage. 1-2
Matches Record: 2-3 Games Record: 6-6
Final Thoughts: Deathrite Shaman is a beast. Whenever I cast him and he survived he dealt 4-8 damage to my opponents over the course of a few turns, while only costing one mana per endstep. It also really messed with the Bant Control list I played against in Round 3 game 1 and the Guttersnipe control list in Round 5. He is definitely staying as a 4-of mainboard. Another thing I noticed was that there was very little in terms of aggressive strategies. All the decks I played were midrange or control except for Bant Auras. However, I heard that there were 4-5 Zombie players and 2-3 G/W Aggro players there, although none of them top-8ed. I claimed tenth place, which didn't entitle me to any prizes, but I did get a chance to test out this deck against a variety of different strategies. Please leave comments on what you think I should change or add.
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| Date added | 12 years |
| Last updated | 11 years |
| Legality | This deck is not Standard legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 7 - 2 Mythic Rares 34 - 8 Rares 13 - 2 Uncommons 2 - 3 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.44 |
| Tokens | Beast 3/3 G, Human 2/2 G, Wolf 1/1 B, Wolf 2/2 G, Wurm 6/6 G |
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