Wow, What's Going On?

Hello again, its been quite a while since I last posted and a lot of new things have happened. The school year has ended and the summer months are here.

Playing casual magic has stopped for the most part. Getting to FNM is a bit harder these days because I don't have friends around that play magic that can give me rides.

Since I have been home I have gotten to 2 of 5 FNM's. Each time My record for the night was 3-1-0. So what have I been playing? I have been playing a dual color deck that for the most part is Alara Block Constructed. The deck right now is called Green/White Exalted until I find a better name for it.

Deck Tech: G/W Exalted

Lands
9 [10E] Plains
10 [10E] Forest
4 [ALA] Seaside Citadel

Creatures
2 [ALA] Elspeth, Knight-Errant
4 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage
4 [CFX] Noble Hierarch
2 [ARB] Knotvine Paladin
2 [ALA] Rafiq of the Many
4 [ARB] Dauntless Escort
4 [CFX] Valeron Outlander
4 [SHM] Kitchen Finks

Spells
4 [CFX] Path to Exile
2 [ARB] Behemoth Sledge
3 [10E] Wrath of God
2 [10E] Story Circle

Sideboard
2 [ARB] Mycoid Shepherd
3 [CFX] Celestial Purge
4 [ALA] Ethersworn Canonist
2 [10E] Story Circle
4 [LRW] Burrenton Forge-Tender

The deck has been tweaked a bit since I last used it at FNM. I switched the two main board Mycoid Shepherds to main board two Story Circles. I kept finding that I would side in my story circles. I don't see to many people playing this awesome card. Why would you side in a card that is only really effective against mono and maybe dual color decks? Well, for a few different reasons. With Shards of Alara block, came a giant group of tri-color and dual color cards. With these being the highly played cards, you have a high chance of shutting down plenty of your opponents cards with a single Story Circle.

On June 27th, when I went to FNM, I played against a Jund Aggro deck. Game one was close, but I was able to pull out a win. Game two, I sided in the Tenders and Story Circles. I didn't see any Tenders that game but I was able to slam down a turn 2 Story Circle naming red. That there effectively shut down half of his cards. On turn 5, I threw down my second circle and named black. From there, I just had to keep enough mana open to deny my opponent access until I could throw down a Wrath.

Second round that night was against Boat Brew. Brutal is all I have to say. He wiped me out twice. I learned an important thing that round. And that was that I have no answer to numerous flying creatures. Considered putting firespout in the sideboard so that I can have a one sided wrath against flyers.

Third round was against a Naya deck. This was about the same as my first round, but Captured Sunlight can be annoying. Though I was able to pull a 2-0 win.

Round 4 was a waste of time though a learning experience for my opponent. My opponent started playing two weeks prior to the tournement. I had built a mono white Kithkin deck. Very fast and pretty powerful, but was nothing when I casted Story Circle. That game, he learned the importance of having a sideboard. Second game, after I played my Story Circle, my oppoent just stopped attacking because he saw no reason to anymore. He has no enchantment destruction in his deck at all, making it hard for him to continue on. He had high spirits though, he was hoping to overrun me with more creatures than I had white mana. That strategy would have worked, but a Wrath of God quickly shut down that option foloowed by an Elspeth. From there on it was 4/4 flyers coming his way. After this round I sat down with this player and discussed what he should put in his sideboard for the following week.

Well, that's all I have time for this post. Until next time, this is Deppe passing the turn.