ninja-less pauper faeries
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:00 am
So I started off building a blue skies deck, and before I knew it the list was mostly faeries, so I just rolled with it and splashed black.
[Deck]
Dudes
4 zephyr sprite
4 cloud sprite
4 spellstutter sprite
4 briarberry cohort
4 pestermite
4 theiving sprite
4 latchkey faerie
2 sentinels of glen elendra
Spells
4 peppersmoke
4 faerie trickery
Land
4 dimir guildgate
4 swamp
14 island
Board
3 waterfront bouncer
4 aura flux
4 counterspell
4 exclude
[/deck]
The basic idea is getting flyers in the redzone, and it has just enough carddraw to keep from petering out. The sideboard is somewhat transformative, becoming fairly controlly, and don't be afraid to take that angle, as the deck can have a lot of really awkward matchups. Waterfront bouncer is a techy choice, based on local meta. Aura flux has all sorts of plays in ways you would never expect, but the
original reason was to deal with hexproof, but I found it has a lot of play against turbo fog, and there are a number of decks with really annoying enchantments that flux either destroys or ties up their mana. Counterspell will probably become annul if affinity ever rears it's ugly head in the local meta.
[Deck]
Dudes
4 zephyr sprite
4 cloud sprite
4 spellstutter sprite
4 briarberry cohort
4 pestermite
4 theiving sprite
4 latchkey faerie
2 sentinels of glen elendra
Spells
4 peppersmoke
4 faerie trickery
Land
4 dimir guildgate
4 swamp
14 island
Board
3 waterfront bouncer
4 aura flux
4 counterspell
4 exclude
[/deck]
The basic idea is getting flyers in the redzone, and it has just enough carddraw to keep from petering out. The sideboard is somewhat transformative, becoming fairly controlly, and don't be afraid to take that angle, as the deck can have a lot of really awkward matchups. Waterfront bouncer is a techy choice, based on local meta. Aura flux has all sorts of plays in ways you would never expect, but the
original reason was to deal with hexproof, but I found it has a lot of play against turbo fog, and there are a number of decks with really annoying enchantments that flux either destroys or ties up their mana. Counterspell will probably become annul if affinity ever rears it's ugly head in the local meta.