Viability of Soul Sisters in todays meta?
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Posted on May 9, 2015, 4:43 p.m. by AdmiralAbzan
Do you guys think Soul Sisters is viable with the current meta?
And I've been thinking of running a version with Launch the Fleet. The potential of that card late game with an Honor of the Pure amazes me.
AdmiralAbzan says... #3
What do you think about adding Torpor Orb, Celestial Purge, or Spellskite in sideboard for twin matchups.
Surgical Extraction for combo decks.
Aven Mindcensor to limit scapeshift / Tron.
Maybe mainboard Ghost Quarter or Tectonic Edge for Tron?
I've found that Affinity is a really good match up.
Against burn I could mainboard Auriok Champion.
If abzan becomes enough of a problem I could up the curve and add [Mirran Crusader]
Thoughts?
Here's my deck as of now. I'll probably end up main boarding some of the paths.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/explosive-soul-sisters/
May 9, 2015 5:39 p.m.
AdmiralAbzan says... #4
Also what about Brave the Elements and Valorous Stance versus Junk and Jund?
May 9, 2015 5:53 p.m.
Eh. You have sideboard options but you're just going to end up trying to do everything and therefore doing nothing as well as you could do.
Valorous stance is good.
Tectonic edge or ghost quarter would be good.
Torpor orb is essential but count on it being counterspelled.
May 9, 2015 5:58 p.m.
Focus hard on the most common matchups and accept losses in others. Torpor orb addresses twin. Ghost quarter does tron. Mirran crusader or sword of light and shadow is tough for abzan.
May 9, 2015 6:03 p.m.
AdmiralAbzan says... #8
What about Ghostly Prison?
Torpor Orb seems to not have too much application other than Splinter Twin, and misc. cards like Siege Rhinos
May 9, 2015 7:13 p.m.
lemmingllama says... #9
Soul Sisters will always be tier 2. It's good, but it won't consistently put up results. If you have a lot of aggressive decks and few combo decks in your meta, then I would suggest going for it.
May 9, 2015 8:13 p.m.
JexInfinite says... #10
ChiefBell Since Abzan has become a more creature based deck than previous BGx lists, it becomes a lot easier. Twin also has a hard time comboing off against Auriok Champion.
It's a great deck against creature strategies, and anything counting to 20, but non-interactive decks like Amulet Bloom, Gifts and Tron are impossible to beat. Everything else is playable.
Still, it's a solidly T2 deck which always has been, and always will be, T2.
ChiefBell says... #2
Low viability. It dies to removal heavy decks like Abzan and Jund, which are both key players.
I also dies to combo decks that are tricky to interact with like Twin, Tron, and Scapeshift.
All of the above are big players in the meta.
May 9, 2015 5:14 p.m.