Astral Slide

Daveslusher- · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 37

// Lands
3 [RAV] Temple Garden
2 [ON] Windswept Heath
2 [LRW] Forest (1)
2 [LRW] Plains (1)
4 [ON] Secluded Steppe
4 [ON] Tranquil Thicket
2 [ON] Forgotten Cave
3 [ON] Wooded Foothills
2 [GP] Stomping Ground
1 [RAV] Sacred Foundry
2 [10E] Treetop Village

// Creatures
4 [CHK] Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 [RAV] Loxodon Hierarch
3 [LRW] Gaddock Teeg
4 [FUT] Tarmogoyf
2 [SC] Eternal Dragon
2 [FD] Eternal Witness

// Spells
4 [ON] Astral Slide
3 [RAV] Life from the Loam
4 [ON] Renewed Faith
3 [MR] Chrome Mox

// Sideboard
SB: 3 [TSP] Harmonic Sliver
SB: 4 [SOK] Kataki, War's Wage
SB: 4 [SHM] Vexing Shusher
SB: 4 [SHM] Firespout

It's an aggro control deck that uses the card astral slide offensively and defensively.

MUS:

Storm - 20/80 PRAY....PRAY FOR GADDOCK TEEG. Even then you're not even close to being safe.

Mono Red - 65/35 They can come out of thew gates charging and your hierarchs and faiths won't save you from that. If they get a sub par or slow start the game will often be yours. Sliding Herarch means you win.

Affinity - 50/50 Landing Slide in this mu is godsend as they really cant depend on 1 attacker which they are very good at.

T&N - 50/50 Pushing your aggro clock with gaddock on the board is key here. That matchup goes either way. Sometimes they can race you with acceleration into T&N. sometimes you can finish them.

Shackles Blue - have yet to test this one i suspect that you lose until game 2/3 with almost all your board coming in

I am currently considering maindecking kataki because everyone in the format has some artifact in their deck.

ZW · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 183

Why not play maindeck viridian shaman/harmonic sliver?

f3bras · Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 18

wtf?!

you play 4 astral slide and 4 renewed fatih? WTF!

b4il3y · Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Posts: 8

Glittering Wish could find a home in your deck.

Take out 1 Elephant and one Teeg, put in another Witness or maybe go with 4 of them, and SB the Elephant and Teeg and other good wish targets, such as the mentioned Harmonic Sliver. Firespout would be good, but have room for Krosan Grips for Top+Counterbalence decks, since it's one of the best options you have for it. I like the idea of slide post-rotation, since right now options are pretty open for testing.

f3bras · Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 18

ivanmexican · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 79

// Lands
4 [RAV] Temple Garden
4 [MR] Cloudpost
4 [TSP] Vesuva
3 [UNH] Plains
1 [UNH] Forest
2 [ON] Secluded Steppe
2 [ON] Tranquil Thicket
1 [PLC] Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

// Creatures
4 [FD] Eternal Witness
4 [SC] Eternal Dragon
3 [RAV] Loxodon Hierarch
4 [ON] Exalted Angel

// Spells
4 [ON] Astral Slide
2 [SC] Decree of Justice
4 [FUT] Glittering Wish
1 [MR] Mindslaver
4 [10E] Wrath of God
4 [ON] Renewed Faith
3 [10E] Condemn
2 [8E] Plow Under

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [RAV] Loxodon Hierarch
SB: 1 [JU] Mirari's Wake
SB: 1 [TSP] Harmonic Sliver
SB: 2 [TSP] Krosan Grip
SB: 1 [TSB] Mystic Enforcer
SB: 1 [IN] Dueling Grounds
SB: 1 [GP] Debtors' Knell
SB: 1 [RAV] Congregation at Dawn
SB: 1 [IN] Aura Mutation
SB: 1 [IN] Armadillo Cloak
SB: 1 [GP] Angel of Despair
SB: 1 [IN] Aura Shards
SB: 1 [GP] Culling Sun
SB: 1 [AP] Vindicate

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 919

your building slide wrong it should be built as a control deck not aggro control, and why dont u play decree of justice

b4il3y · Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Posts: 8

Ivan:
I think the guy was going for a list that is post-rotation. I like your list still, and you would only have to change a few SB cards to make it legal post-rotation.

Giacomo · Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 2

Gilded Light might help against storm decks useing Tendrils of Agony, Brain Freeze or Grapeshot to win. But I think Dragonstorm will be the best storm deck in the new Extended Format.

arkadias · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 12

flex20 · Joined: 31 Aug 2008 Posts: 23

what the gentelmen below me ment to say the there's two four ofs in the deck for creatures eternal witness obviously the best card in the deck and eternal dragon fetches lands thins the deck and is a crazy good 5/5.um you don't want vesuva's or cloudposts there to slow play tron it's just better. Beyond that point you don't play urborg, why you ask play godless shrines why help your opponent out with there swamps? not needed.and is there a point to play plow under and mindslaver? [/quote]

Tritemio · Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 41

// Lands
4 Temple Garden
1 Forest
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
3 Plains
1 Mountain
4 Secluded Steppe
4 Tranquil Thicket
2 Forgotten Cave
2 Sacred Foundry
4 Flagstones of Trokair

// Creatures

4 Wall of roots
4 Eternal Witness
3 Kitchen Finks
3 Tilling Treefolk

// Spells
4 Astral Slide
2 Lightning Rift
4 Edge of Autumn
3 Wrath of God
3 Renewed Faith
2 Plow Under
2 Idyllic Tutor

What do you think about this decklist?
1. Kitchen Finks instead of Loxodont.
2. Flagstones + Edge, for a CC0 cycling card.
3. Idyllic Tutor for search Astral or Rift
4. Tilling Treefolk for return cycling lands, instead of Lftl.
5. Selesnya Sanctuary is a bad land, but u can start some game also with a cycling land, and take it back few turns later.