Magic Origins Standard G/B Midrange

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Posted on July 7, 2015, 6:01 a.m. by magicalideas

See build process here: https://magicalideas.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/standard-brewing-step-by-step-with-magic-origins-gb-midrange/

deck:Creatures

4x Elvish Mystic4x Satyr Wayfinder3x Den Protector4x Courser of Kruphix4x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  Flip 4x Sidisi, Undead Vizier2x Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Sorceries

2x Thoughtseize2x Read the Bones2x Languish

Instants

4x Hero's Downfall

Planeswalkers

2x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Lands

4x Llanowar Wastes4x Temple of Malady9x Forest4x Swamp1x Urborg

Comments and critique welcome!

Could you please post this as a TappedOut deck? Using these forums to get us to go to your blog is all well and good I guess but TappedOut exists for looking at other member's decklist on here. Also this isn't midrange, this is a control build. You're running boardwipes and two 8 drop win conditions. That sounds like control to me :P

July 7, 2015 8:37 a.m.

Why would you run Languish in a your main with sooooo many of your own creature just plainly dying to it.

July 7, 2015 3:52 p.m.

magicalideas says... #4

BlueEyes: Yeah sure thing I'll post it as a deck too. In my mind, if this deck played against a control deck with counters and card draw then we would have to take the aggressive role, and if we played against an aggro deck we'd take a control role, therefore it's a midrange deck because its role changes based on the matchup. i definitely agree with you that it's on the control side of midrange, in that against some other midrange decks it would be the control potentially. I appreciate you looking at it, thanks!

UpperDecker: The creatures that die to languish can be exploited to sidisi, become a planeswalker, or otherwise generate enough value on their own that when languish needs to be cast its ok. And when languish is in our opening hand we can sequence our spells accordingly. Decks like abzan midrange run 2 boardwipes that kill all of their creatures but it still is a good card to have access to. I would agree that doing something like jamming 4 languish would be not particularly great though, but 2 seems ok. What do you think?

July 7, 2015 8:18 p.m.

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