Death Gaara's Junk Walker Control

Lol, in any case the villager is bad. We really want to see a T1 dork so we can accelerate into a borderland ranger or lingering souls T2. A dork that comes down on T2 just does not let us do that.

Timely reinforcements?

Sometimes it's slow and helps reset by t-2/3 (aggro)

Timely reinforcements?

Sometimes it's slow and helps reset by t-2/3 (aggro)

I already mentioned that card for the SB lol.

Quote from: Willthomjr on May 10, 2012, 07:34:35 PM

Timely reinforcements?

Sometimes it's slow and helps reset by t-2/3 (aggro)

I already mentioned that card for the SB lol.

Touché! Forgot, but it works great against quicker decks like you said.

T1 noble and t2 berserker can get out of Hand quickly.

Quote from: Death Gaara on May 10, 2012, 07:54:22 PM

Quote from: Willthomjr on May 10, 2012, 07:34:35 PM

Timely reinforcements?

Sometimes it's slow and helps reset by t-2/3 (aggro)

I already mentioned that card for the SB lol.

Touché! Forgot, but it works great against quicker decks like you said.

T1 noble and t2 berserker can get out of Hand quickly.

I feel its still more of a SB card against the red decks than a MD card. It just doesnt do enough against other decks to matter. I would rather be dropping Sorins, Rangers, and Lingering Souls on every other deck T2 or 3. It really does improve the mono red match up though.

What aboot vault of archangel?

What aboot vault of archangel?

Its okay if you want to make your opponent make bad trades with your tokens. Gavony is better for the dead draws though, so its entirely up to the player.

Been testing it on Cockatrice and I like this deck.  I made minor changes.  I put in 2 intangible virtue took out 1 land and 1 o-ring for em.  I put in 2 Elspeth tirel took out 2 Sigarda.  I woulda ran it as you built it but didn't update with AVR yet.  The virtues made sense after adding tirel and they help a lot.  So far I been pwning peeps in standard and I don't even play standard.  Cool deck tho and I look foward to testing others.

Been testing it on Cockatrice and I like this deck.  I made minor changes.  I put in 2 intangible virtue took out 1 land and 1 o-ring for em.  I put in 2 Elspeth tirel took out 2 Sigarda.  I woulda ran it as you built it but didn't update with AVR yet.  The virtues made sense after adding tirel and they help a lot.  So far I been pwning peeps in standard and I don't even play standard.  Cool deck tho and I look foward to testing others.

My version has a Garruk or two for getting sigarda out. 5/5 Hexproof flier is tough to deal with.

Gaara have to say, saw this deck and said, I must have it lol I loved it and I'm almost done making like how you have it and I already had esper control but I finally got to play it and I got shat on 0-2 first two rounds and dropped so I'm worried it won't make it with the fast meta and where I'm at the meta is so messed up you really can't predict what to see there so I'm hoping a junk deck will make it

Gaara have to say, saw this deck and said, I must have it lol I loved it and I'm almost done making like how you have it and I already had esper control but I finally got to play it and I got shat on 0-2 first two rounds and dropped so I'm worried it won't make it with the fast meta and where I'm at the meta is so messed up you really can't predict what to see there so I'm hoping a junk deck will make it

I am flattered you like it. I tuned it for the aggro matchup, in anticipation that Wolf Run would be running nuts. It doesn't seem like I was to far off. In any case, it should have a good match up against most aggro with all of the MD removal, Gideon, and Lingering Souls. In a fast Meta, the deck should do reasonably well. You have early birds, pilgrims, and rangers to block for you (not including lingering souls). After you get to the mid game, Sorin will make tokens and protect himself/you until you reach gideon. Gideon should keep fire off of you and allow you to deal with creates via removal spells or Gideons ability. At this point, you have gained control and will likely start hitting with tokens that are not blocking for you, maybe a pump or two of the township in between. You will likely come into a Sigarda at some point, if she resolves, you are going to win. She cant be removed easily and puts a lot of pressure on the opponent. If worst comes to worst, you can beast within your own permanents to obtain attackers/blockers. G2 aggro matchup gets better because you bring in Liliana and Timelys to have even more answers to aggro. This is a control deck that likes to slowly grind the opponent out of answers, it does not come out of the gate winning fast, but rather creates situations where you have so much aggro hate the opponent will not be able to stick a huge relevant threat. This decks main weakness is other more traditional control style decks since alot of your cards dont do anything (being the removal package). It still aims to grind out wins with either tokens or unanswered sigarda. On the plus side, Vapor Snag is weak against you as it is bad to use on dorks and tokens. If used on a ranger you thank them and just get more value, and it cant be used on sigarda. With so much removal, you should have an okay Delver matchup. I anticipated a very aggresive meta after the release of AVR, so this was designed to handle it.

NOTE: An new article will come soon. New college semester has kept me pretty busy. I did not forget you guys though. Thanks for reading my material, I appreciate all the feedback you give me.

Well your articles are worth the wait!
Their awesome!

thanks for the info

Interesting read, Ty!

Your amazing at explaining things