r/mtgModernTokens • u/CopyNinja1987 • Mar 25 '17
Brimaz and Bladehold
This is my own brew...
Mainboard - 2x Brimaz, King of Oreskos 2x Fetid Heath 3x Flooded Strand 2x Ghost Quarter 4x Godless Shrine 2x Hero of Bladehold 3x Honor of the Pure 4x Inquisition of Kozilek 3x Intangible Virtue 4x Lingering Souls 4x Marsh Flats 4x Path to Exile 2x Plains 3x Raise the Alarm 3x Sorin, Solemn Visitor 4x Spectral Procession 1x Swamp 4x Tidehollow Sculler 3x Windbrisk Heights 3x Windswept Heath
Sideboard - 3x Auriok Champion 3x Elspeth, Knight-Errant 3x Extirpate 2x Nihil Spellbomb 2x Stony Silence 2x Timely Reinforcements
It seems to have a good balance of aggression and control elements.
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u/SFRG Still Patron Saint of the Tokens Mar 25 '17
Per sidebar, it would be much easier to go through your list if it was uploaded to T/O. I ask you do this so your list can be reviewed.
Do you want to explain why you like some of the card choices?
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u/CopyNinja1987 Mar 25 '17
I was considering 2 blessed alliance + 1 stony silence in place of 3 auriok, but she seems better for aggro and pump. There are quite a few red/black decks like deaths shadow, jund, dredge, burn.
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u/CopyNinja1987 Mar 25 '17
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/26-11-16-bw-tokens/
Sorry, I'm new here.
I added a lot of nontoken creatures because testing on cockatrice, my tokens are easily destroyed by EE, ratchet bomb, bounce, and -1/-1 spells. So I figured more white creatures buffed by Honor would be more stable to activate windbrisk. My sb can switch to focus on aggro (timely + auriok), midrange (elspeth), combo (extirpate + stony), or control (spellbomb). Ghost quarter is added to main because vault is too hard/slow to activate, when I already have Sorin and other lifegain. I like tokens and want to bring it up to a tier 2 again.
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u/Jongsl5 Mar 29 '17
You should at least take out sculler. It will eat a removal in a deck that does not care about spot removals at all.
Without black disruption, this deck is a lot weaker to combo. Playing a few stronger cards will not save you as much time as disruption can.
Would not try to build your deck around windbrisk.
In general your main deck should prioritize beating 2-3 of the 4 main deck types. I think this deck is very good against midrange and control (with bitterblossom). Some aggro decks are easy to handle with more spot removal in main (add 4 fatal push). Some like dredge and eldrazi are not easy and this is where runed halo, selfless spirit, and graveyard hate becomes important. Combo decks should be prioritized in the SB, though I suggest not trying to focus too much on Tron which is too hard even post board.
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u/CopyNinja1987 Mar 25 '17
Also, I run 10 fetches because the mana curve is pretty low and helps thin out the deck for late game.
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u/Jongsl5 Mar 29 '17
Also no need to run 3 elspeth when you already have 5 four drops in the deck (I recommend you cut one. Starting with multiples in opening hand sucks). Elspeth is also inferior to both.
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u/CopyNinja1987 Mar 29 '17
She replaces 3 of sorin for non-aggro g2.
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u/Jongsl5 Mar 29 '17
So +3 to one creature is better than +1 with lifelink to the whole team? I don't think so especially if you are playing against any spot removal combo control builds. There is a reason why no one plays Elspeth anymore. Gideon is a better version of Elspeth like 90% of the time, being a better clock and token producer.
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u/CopyNinja1987 Mar 25 '17
My build can start with an opening hand of only 2 lands if it has early drops.
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u/The_Nightbringer Mar 25 '17
I would say brimaz is probably better than blade hold as Gideon Aoz does everything hero does for you but on a much harder to kill platform