I've been playing this deck on Magic Online for a few weeks now, and it fits pretty nicely into the current meta. the overall goal is to beat them down with Omnath, Locus of Rage or Glyph Keeper while out-valuing your opponent with Bounty of the Luxa and sweepers. Importantly, this deck also has some great answers to the big threats in the meta.
Glyph Keeper is a freaking undervalued hero of a creature. 5 power flying for 5 mana makes it the most important beater in the deck, and meanwhile it's nearly impossible for most decks to remove. If they do remove it, you can bring it back with embalm and they have to do it all over again. This creature makes a fantastic target for Altered Ego, which will typically come in with 2 +1/+1 counters. (Note: Altered Ego's ETB ability doesn't target Glyph Keeper, so it isn't countered). Glyph Keeper has a good matchup against Aetherworks Marvel decks because it will counter Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger's ability if they try to target Glyph Keeper.
Creeping Mold
... mainboard. First, it's important to remember that this deck can ramp like crazy with Bounty of the Luxa, and Baral's Expertise can play this card for free. I have had a very good experience with
Creeping Mold
card in the mainboard in the current meta. The most popular decks right now are Aetherworks Marvel decks and Mardu Vehicles. Many more decks are playing Heart of Kiran, a ridiculous card that is hard to answer.
Creeping Mold
gives you an answer to these popular threats, as well as many more slightly less popular threats like Cast Out, Drake Haven, Faith of the Devoted, Always Watching , and Aetherflux Reservoir. I have found that almost all decks right now have a nonland target for
Creeping Mold
. With that being said, destroying a land is often the right play when the opponent misses an early land drop.
Baral's Expertise: This is a powerful tempo sweeper than can allow us to play Bounty of the Luxa or
Creeping Mold
for free. As a bonus, you can bounce and replay Rogue Refiner for a free draw/energy trigger. I've found this particular sweeper to be strong against Aetherworks Marvel decks, and can be a pretty excellent answer to Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. I board the second copy in against those decks.
Fun Trick: Play Altered Ego to make a copy of Omnath, Locus of Rage, forcing you to sacrifice one and giving you two triggers of 3 damage to the opponent's face or to creatures.
Sideboarding
Essence Scatter
is most important against White angel decks playing Archangel Avacyn
and Gisela, the Broken Blade, but can obviously be effective against any creature based decks (at the moment this is my only answer to gods like Rhonas the Indomitable).
Arborback Stomper
is my anti-aggro creature, healing us and lowering the deck's curve by replacing two Omnath, Locus of Rage. This can also just be another threat when you need to race the opponent.
Lay Claim is a great card for this deck thanks to the mana you get from Bounty of the Luxa, and it is particularly strong against decks with lots of Planeswalkers. I moved it to the sideboard because Cast Out is popular mainboard, so my opponents were stealing back their Gideon, Ally of Zendikar after one turn :(
I think the rest of the cards are obvious enough. Please leave comments and suggestions!
