Go hard in the GWU paint. Bant Scales is comin to put the hurt on all y'all.My 4/4 make sure all your kid's don't grow.
Rap puns aside, this is my version of Bant Scales.
The name of the game is aggro. It takes a few turns to get the machine running, but once it starts, it's racing towards the finish. Big creatures hit the board right off the bat or become investments that you foster into massive size. Start off humbly with Hardened Scales into a turn 2 2/2 Servant. Maybe even two of those. Then progress to your turn three. Managorger? Avatar? Either will do. There after, it's time to put down the beating. Valorous Stance to defend, remove or pop your filled Hangar Back Walker. Get rid of pesky blockers with Dromoka's Command or beef a guy up. You've got four options with this card, use as you see fit. By the time you're done, the other guy's gonna have blue, white and green bruises.
Your swole creatures will bring the pain, that you can count on. What you can also count on are kill spells to get in your way. That's where our blue comes in. Thwart their instants/enchantments/sorceries with our cheap counter spell, Stubborn Denial. Hey, it ain't Gods Willing, but it'll do the job nicely. And should they succeed, we have a recourse for that. Treasure Cruise let's us unload a full grave to skim the top three cards off the deck.
Sideboard offers a variety of answers for whatever we might encounter. Silkwrap for the small irritations that can very well grow into larger one. For red aggro, we have two Surge of Righteousness and Winds of Qal Sisma, though Qal can also be good when you attack into death touchers. For those control decks, we put in Dispel, Disdainful Stroke, Mastery of the Unseen, Evolutionary Leap and Abzan Beastmaster. Evolutionary, Mastery and Beastmaster allows us to keep digging for threats should a board state be able to develop. Dispel is the aid to help us do just that while Disdainful keeps their big guys from landing. Hidden Dragonslayer is also good in that regard although his focus is on creatures and not so much the planeswalkers, i.e Ugin. Inspiring call is the answer to board wipes as well as targeted kill spells, which is the only reason we entertain the notion of Feat of Resistance in the side board.
Go forth, Bant Scales players, and rock the world with the biggest, baddest creatures.
