Ideas for a 'The Wanderer' deck
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Posted on April 3, 2019, 3:09 p.m. by NefariousNemo
Hey there,
Of course, war of the spark spoilers are still on their way but I can't help but want to build around the new planes walker 'The Wanderer':
I'm not sure where to start as I've only not too long ago started playing Magic but any ideas would go a long way, or at least help me get thinking on the right track. I'd like it to remain mostly white but am open to the ideas of white + other colours.
Thanks!
So, if the Wanderer shuts down non-combat damage (very useful for planeswalkers), you just need a way to shut off combat damage and now the opponent cannot damage you at all. Thus, you can use green for combat damage prevention spells like Root Snare or even white helps - Baird, Steward of Argive helps by taxing any attacks.
April 4, 2019 4:14 a.m.
NefariousNemo says... #4
Thanks for the suggestions! I already have a black / white deck based around entering the battlefield so I'm thinking mono white or maybe white, green and black but I'll need to look at some cards further to see how well they can work together.
April 4, 2019 11:38 a.m.
stensiagamekeeper says... #5
You guys aren't thinking big enough. Form of the Dinosaur CONTROL BABY!!!!!!
Alternatively there's Midnight Reaper , damage based board wipe or random fight spells (note all these are technically non-combat damage).
Then of course there's Demonlord Belzenlok . If your entire deck is 4 or more cmc DB's etb with The Wanderer out draws your entire deck. Cards like Bedeck / Bedazzle , Response / Resurgence just have to get you to the later turns. For wincon you could just run a single nexus that you discard to handsize so as not to mill out and keep casting it swinging with your 6/6 flier backed up with a deck's worth of removal.
Finally there's proliferate shenanigans. The Wanderer has no +1 so cards like Karn's Bastion or Grateful Apparition mean recurring removal. Otherwise she's just 2 Reprisal s against non-red decks most of the time.
April 9, 2019 12:29 p.m.
NefariousNemo says... #6
And here I am struggling for ideas and whenever I have one, it involves blue cards which I'm trying to avoid haha.
Seriously though, thanks for those ideas, gives me even more to work with and I hadn't ever considered using red for control, always whacked them into the aggressive camp.
channelfireball12345 says... #2
Mono-White Control. Noncombat damage such as burn is shut down by her, and she kills fatties, so I think you just need more ways to control the board state of your opponents, and finish them with angels. I would suggest not going into blue, as that basically makes you into the typical Azorius/Esper control shell, with a flavorful PW added in. Instead, I would go into black for some more removal/powerful threats/card draw. An angel subtheme might do a deck such as this well.
April 3, 2019 9:41 p.m.