Pro Tour winning Mono-Blue deck for playtesting
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Posted on Oct. 19, 2013, 11:30 a.m. by Long_Con
Jérémy Dezani's Mono-Blue Devotion Just posting it in case people want to sharpen their Standard skills against the Pro Tour winner. I know I will be!
Schuesseled says... #3
Yeah, doesn't seem that great, he got lucky.
Golgari Charm laughs at his deck.
October 19, 2013 1:08 p.m.
Schuesseled says... #4
Just playtested it, and i kicked it's ass out into orbit. Blue can't do aggro.
October 19, 2013 2:11 p.m.
Yeah, Legions of the Sun God has been beating it very consistently as well. I hope people keep running this deck!
October 19, 2013 9:37 p.m.
The mono-blue devotion deck was a metagame call. Notice the four Tidebinder Mage and four Frostburn Weird in the mainboard. Both of these cards are there to stop RDW game one, which was played heavily at the Pro Tour.
Master of Waves just made sense to add into the deck. It gives an additional creature with protection from red to the deck, then forces them to lose card advantage dealing with multiple 2/1s that can block their Firedrinker Satyr s and Rakdos Cackler s no problem. The sideboard can punish midrange strategies by playing a tempo game.
Luck had absolutely nothing to do with it.The players that took it to the Pro Tour understood the metagame and made the right call. That being said, feel free to laugh at anyone showing up to your local FNM with this deck if no one in your area plays any RDW variants.
October 20, 2013 6:22 a.m.
Netdeckers depress me. Being competetive is important, but simply copying a deck that won a pro tour is just lazy. That being said, sylvannos is right. Speculation was rampant for how awesome RDW would be, and how Purphoros was the BEST god. The pro tour players did what any good player would do, build to beat the meta. They did. That gives us the benefit of knowing what all those unimaginative netdeckers will be playing and how to beat them.
October 20, 2013 12:27 p.m.
Quadsimotto says... #8
My mill deck got its chops busted by a deck that pretty much mirrors this one. I ain't laughing. When your opponent has nine 3/2 tokens not to mention a Nightveil Specter plus the two mages and your fresh out of board wipes you realize mono blue CAN aggro.
October 21, 2013 5:28 a.m.
SharuumNyan says... #9
I'm playing a slight variation on Dezani's mono-blue right now. From my experience it's totally dominating everything except control decks.
It doesn't matter if the matchup doesn't include R or G, Tidebinder Mage is two devotion for (2) That's enough to give it a place in this deck. She can sit there and look pretty for all I care, as long as she turns Thassa, God of the Sea into a creature.
Another huge bonus for mono-blue is the flyers. So many aggro decks can't deal with them. Nightveil Specter is a beast. He's like the mono-blue version of Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver for screwing your opponent out of cards.
Mono-blue devotion wasn't just a lucky build for the meta, or it wouldn't be top 8 at SC Opens now. It's just a freaking awesome deck. And this deck didn't just win the PT. It won 1st, 2nd, 4th...
I'm also pretty sick of people criticizing "net deckers". Why reinvent the wheel? Why not take something that a pro with way more time on his hands than me has put so much thought into and run with it? If you spend time brewing up a good deck, you're going to probably end up with the same thing they built anyway. And that's why Team SCG and Team Revolution were playing mirrors at the Pro Tour.
October 21, 2013 12:40 p.m.
Schuesseled says... #10
Because that's not how you become better at the game. If you net deck, the skill level of your club/lgs/whatever goes down.
October 21, 2013 1:18 p.m.
SharuumNyan says... #11
Sorry Schuesseled, but I just don't agree. Netdecking still requires playtesting and adjustment for local meta. You still have to thoroughly understand why each and every card exists in that deck, or it won't help you win consistently. Thinking about a deck and actually playing that deck will make you a better magic player, whether that deck is yours or not.
October 21, 2013 3:32 p.m.
Netdecking still robs the game of creativity. There's only so much tweaking you can do on a deck like this without changing t he whole idea. It's not interesting if you go to FNM and everyone's playing MBD.
I'm incredibly proud of my current standard because I picked a card I loved and built an entire deck around it without looking at anyone else's builds. With help from the TO community, out of 4 events I've taken 1st, 2nd, and made top 8 at game day. When I see 5 people roll into FNM with almost the same exact deck, I die a bit inside.
The only real upside is that those Nightveil Specter I had a stack of shot up in price.
October 21, 2013 4:25 p.m.
SharuumNyan says... #13
There are so many good decks to choose from right now, but the fact remains that there will always be a limit on the number of competitive decks in standard. There is only so much room for creativity in constructed formats if you want to be competitive. If you independently built a deck that is practically the same as a Pro Tour deck, what difference does it make?
My SO built B/W Midrange and dominated with it without looking at a net deck list, but you can bet people think he net decked it because an almost identical build showed up many times at the PT and at SC Opens. He doesn't care whether they know it's his or not. I also know a guy who built mono-blue devotion before the PT. Again, he doesn't care whether people think he net decked it or not. If you have a good deck and can play it well, it just doesn't matter where you got it from. If you enjoy creativity in deck building then EDH is probably a better format.
When I see 5 people roll into FNM with the same deck, I'm interested to see who does what with each matchup, and who ends up playing that deck the best. I don't automatically judge them because they may or may not have independently built those decks.
October 21, 2013 4:37 p.m.
Quadsimotto says... #14
I've only been to FNM twice but it seems like every match up I've had has been against a slight variant of one net deck or another...- one. A red/ direct damage Plainswalker deck that I really had no answer for but was one of the only people who lost to it. I still need to put it my time,pay my dues, and gain some respect as a player in that shop.However the games I have won against some of the players there i have been complimented on for not running the same old stuff. So that made feel like I am doing at least something right. I have this website and its users with great advice to thank for that as well.
October 21, 2013 6:07 p.m.
notamardybum says... #15
i feel like all people do at my lgs is copy tournament winning decks. its hilarious when they lose with a $500+ deck
gnarlicide says... #2
Already did... I kicked the absolute dog shit out of it. I figured devotion was going to be a thing, so I began building against it weeks ago. I am thinking about changing my Jund decks name to "where is your god now?"
October 19, 2013 11:36 a.m.