Comments on: September ’20 Brew Report, Pt. 2: Hard Landings

By: Steven Givens

Steven Givens — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 04:04:42 +0000

I’m sure I will sometime soon. I will say though, the one thing I learned with that deck is that if you can build a Mana base with nothing but plains-typed lands (easier than ever with shocks, battle lands, dual cyclers, and triomes, that wants to play a longer game, Endless Horizons is sweet. 4 Mana to guarantee you hit every land drop for the rest of the game AND every draw step will be a spell AND since Irrigated Farmland/etc have cycling, you can even spend two Mana to cash that land in for another spell if you don’t need more Mana. I won so many games against jund-style decks with the deck specifically because as the game grinds longer in the midrange mirror, they are still drawing lands se portion of the time, whereas I’m drawing not necessarily gas, but at least I’m drawing spells every turn. I don’t know that W/x Endless Horizons is going to set the format ablaze anytime soon, but it is a really really fun and cool card to play with if you ever get the opportunity.

By: Jordan Boisvert

Jordan Boisvert — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 02:25:12 +0000

In reply to Steven Givens. Ha, that is wild! Any desire to try out the new-and-improved?

By: Steven Givens

Steven Givens — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 14:02:49 +0000

I feel like I’ve pretty much played every weird modern deck at one point or another. I even played (mostly) mono-white Charbelcher a couple years ago to some decent success (using Endless Horizons to pull all the lands out of the deck). Let me tell you, that was one of the most fun decks I’ve ever played, because sometimes you ended up with a Charbelcher in play, but still had a bunch of lands in play, so you’re just aiming Charbelcher at your opponents creatures to stay alive and knocking the top of your deck and hoping you flip enough cards to kill them

By: Jordan Boisvert

Jordan Boisvert — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 02:57:15 +0000

In reply to Steven Givens. That seems like a sick top-end threat in this kind of shell! Very cool that you've tried this sweet deck :)

By: Steven Givens

Steven Givens — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 15:37:24 +0000

I played the mono-W devotion list a while back before the Heliod combo existed, and it was definitely a cool deck to play. The one card that that version ran that this one doesn’t (and I would recommend anyone trying our this deck to consider), is Thalia’s Lancers. You can run 2-3 copies of it, and it can tutor up Nykthos, Heliod, or any other legendary one-ofs you decide to run. If I recall correctly, my old list had an Elesh Norn, an Elspeth Sun’s Champion, a Karn Liberated, etc.