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Right down to business —July 10, 2018
Main:+3 Kari Zev -1 Hokori -1 Verix -1 Alesha. SB: -3 Kataki +3 Stony Silence
Sarkhan has proven his worth, a very loose treath against opponents without creaures, that evades Lilianas, Paths and Pushes. Most of the time he's just there providing a clock while turning on your Mox and Blast, and I'm ok with that. The +1 in which you discard extra legendary cards and lands is just an added bonus that way.
Since that takes use of the 'midrange strategy' part of the deck, I took out Verix, you're more than welcome to try a variant in which more dragons are there to help out Sarkhan's second ability.
Given how I added more Planeswalkers and not creatures Alesha doesn't have the best of targets in the graveyard, she's out too. Again, a very fine card and I'm sure there's a decklist that it can try it, Maybe taking out Thalia, Heretic Catars and Hazorets and adding Kwende, Pride of Femeref.
In fact, A.E. Marling made a monowhite version of this deck, there Hokori will be better used, you can try that out or just adding a litle bit of red for Alesha (maybe with Simian Spirit Guide for those sweet faster Thalias).
Given how 3 slots are now free, Kari Zev is returning to lower the curve and try to get her on turn one plus a faster DoD for massive damage.
Regarding SB, given current configurations of Affinity and the rise of Modular and/or KCI decks, I think Stony Silence is better hate than Kataki, maybe trying a 2-1 composition would still work if you really want him there.
The sideboard is where I would put it if the battlefield is unknown to you, if you happen to encounter a particular kind of deck more than other you are more than encouraged to add more copies and decrease the rest. I think Shalai is the card with the least applications of the bunch.
Have fun!