Khans of tarkir junk control.
Hey guys, there has been a lot of midrange, but now I'm going to look at more of a control deck:
25-26 lands
{3-4 courser of kruphix}
{4 sylvan caryatid}
{3-4 seige rhino}
{2 Elsbeth Suns champion}
{4 abzan charm}
{3 heroes downfall}
{4 end hostilities}
{2 utter end}
{1 banishing light}
{2 murderous cut}
{4 thoughtseize}
Bunch of removal, thoughtseize, azban charm also gives us card draw. Low creature count for utter end, sylvan for early game ramp, sometimes you need turn 4 utter, courser to stall and gain life, seige rhino like a thragtusk can be a finisher too. Elsbeth win con, this is a rough draft, plans to play like jund midrange from old standard might want more threats
Do you think {reaper of the wilds} would be good with all this removal and as a finisher. ?
Elspeth an siege rhino are your finishers, and I'm not even sure that many rhinos is necessary in the list.
Finisher? {Wingmate Roc}. Dodges Elseth's - and gains life. I played Abzan last night and the Roc is an all star!
-3 rhino
+2 roc
+1 banishing light
With sylvans and courser 26 lands is an overkill.
I ran a similair list to the mid ranges on the opening night of FNM I didn't open rhinos and went with nissa since I owned two. Long story short I was getting flooded some games with only 25 I cut to 24 on a Saturday and I played a more control version with only 4 fleece 2 reaper 4 sylvan 4 courser in my main. Which is a similair approach you're going for.
Anyhow, if you're taking a more control approach I would Main board 2-3 copies of either bile blight or drown in sorrows.
{end hostilities} blows out most green devotion decks and other mid range deck. However, it's too slow for the jeskai tempo deck that just burns your face and smacks with mantis and black aggro with marauders or torments will get around your "walls". This is my exp from last week.
I would focus on beating some number of jeskai tempo and maradu/sultai/abz mid range typically a control deck just molds to the format and atm those will be your local net deckers go to!
I feel like my reply is all over the place TLDR; find room to main board {Bile Blight} -> kills {mantis rider}, Green/Constellations Ramp, Maradus {rabble master}, abz mirror will be the only next to useless effect
PS.HOWEVER if you're ahead in land drops ex. My opponent kept a one lander scry because of two sylvans on a mul to 6 on the play. He hit his second land on turn three, I bile blighted my own sylvan on turn 5 after he played out all three and I thought seized away his courser. He didn't know the rulings got upset and scooped jumping me into top 4!