This week we talk about decks we might have played in alternate universes where Legacy bannings actually happened. We also present a brand new list for you to take to battle in THIS universe: MentorBlade, AKA “Bring the Hammer.” Check it out below.
MentorBlade
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Sensei’s Divining Top
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Counterbalance
4 Force of Will
4 Terminus
4 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Monastery Mentor
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Batterskull
4 Island
2 Plains
2 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
4 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Arid Mesa
SB:
1 Mountain
3 Pyroblast
2 Wear/Tear
2 Blood Moon
1 Vendilion Clique
2 Surgical Extraction
3 Flusterstorm
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
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U/W/R Punishing Mentor
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Sensei’s Divining Top
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Punishing Fire
4 Counterbalance
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Monastery Mentor
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Island
1 Plains
1 Mountain
2 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
4 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Arid Mesa
1 Cascade Bluffs
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
SB
3 Flusterstorm
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Vendilion Clique
3 Pyroblast
2 Pyroclasm
1 Path to Exile
2 Wear / Tear
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Thanks for the great podcast. It is always a pleasure to listen to it. Do you mi d sh ari g the nya blitz/zoo decklist? I would be really interested to se it.
Hi Johan, Wilson will get it to me soon and I will update the website to include it.
Hey love the show! I tried out the mentor blade list last night on MTGO and it felt pretty powerful but my experience was hilariously weird.
Game 1 – Played an opponent who did nothing but top and cantrip for 5 turns. I’m stuck on two lands but I have SFM, Jute, and Batterskull on the battlefield. Opponent has 5 duals that can produce every color but green on the field. I go for an attack that will leave him at like 3 life and he starts spinning the top like crazy. I have force and blue card so I’m not worried when he flips the top and miracles… Banishing Stroke? Strong main deck choice. I let it resolve because I have another SFM in hand to get my Batterskull off the bottom of my library but he scooped next turn when I used the Jute counters to pump SFM
Not entirely sure how to sideboard against a deck that has a main deck artifact/enchantment removal miracle. I take out all the white removal, bring in sword, pyroblasts and wear tear.
Game 2 I have a massive mentor board on then 5 when he casts Silence. I force it but he proceeds to go off with Doomsday into a tendrils for 14. GGs
Back to the board I take out the pyros and wear tears and the Jute, bring in blood moon, surgical, and flusterstorms.
Game 3 opponent mulls to 5. I have a mentor out on turn 3. I build a bunch of tokens on turn 4, attack, pass. On his turn he plays burning wish which I force and then surgical. He scoops.
MTGO is so weird