[Deck]Angel Blink

[Rush]

CCClark originally posted a thread (http://forums.starcitygames.com/viewtopic.php?t=309572) about this deck on the Starcity Games forums. Here is the list:

1 Plains
5 Forest
3 Savannah
1 Tundra
2 Wooded Foothills
4 Windswept Heath
2 Horizon Canopy
2 Karakas
3 Birds of Paradise
1 Llannowar Elves
1 Fyndhorn Elves
3 Eternal witness
4 Loyal Retainers
4 Essence Warden
1 Soul Warden
4 Saffi Eriksdotter
2 Akroma, Angel of Fury
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Mangara or Corondor
3 Exalted Angel
1 Stonecloaker
1 Eight and half tails
4 Survival of the Fittest
4 Swords To Plowshares
3 Momentary Blink

(Temporary Board)
1 Genesis / Kataki, War's Wage
3 Krosan Grip
1 Wispmare
3 Pithing Needle
3 Tivadar of Thorn
4 Runed Halo

I tried playing this deck for awhile and found it to work surprisingly well. I'm trying to work on a better version of the deck, though. According to Clark, this deck's biggest weakness is combo. That being said, I believe the deck would benefit from the addition of 5 cards to the main:
4 Enlightened Tutor
1 Solitary Confinement

From when I played, I found Momentary blink to be less than adequate, but he has several tricks he likes to do with the card. Additionally, I believe the deck would benefit heavily from the addition of Caller of the Claw. Sorry this post is so short, but I'm in a bit of a hurry. Thoughts?

[Peter_Rotten]

Momentary Blink was so stupid with Mulldrifter... Is it worth it to try to fit him in?

[Nihil Credo]

The deck (Blink/Otherworldly Journey included) already exists and has a well-developed thread under the name of I Will Survive.

[Mantis]

Seems like this deck would just pack it in to decks with graveyard hate + counters. So although this deck is wildly different to Ichorid, they seem to have the same weaknesses, but Ichorid just seems 10x more powerful. Perhaps this logic sounds strange, but why play this over Ichorid or Aggro Loam? I would at least play a Harmonic Sliver from the SB, to Survival up and have a good weapon against any graveyard hate. Also, the Exalted Angels probably make this deck a lot less dependant on the graveyard, but still.

Other than that, the deck looks very nice and I can imagine it has been catching a lot off people off guard due to the surprise factor, so that might be it. But perhaps this deck is a lot more powerful then it looks.

[Isamaru]

I love it when people steal my decks, then pass them around and then after the 5th bastardized version, they still don't know what the point of the deck was. That might explain why they don't know what to add or subtract.

In the Star City Games thread, he began it by saying that it is "significantly" different than I Will Survive.... is that what using the exact same proportions of the exact same cards means? And it seems nobody understands the actual meaning behind the name of the deck. The 7th line of text in my thread even describes the scenario that has just occurred. How predictable can people be?

Peter_Rotten, why was it confined to N&D's back pages, instead of moved to the Established Decks forum? I want it to be as easy as possible for people to steal it and claim it as their own.

Anyways, Rush, sorry you couldn't see the original (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8245) first before the copies. Take a look through my huge explanation of it that nobody seemed to have read.


Finally a Survival deck that runs just fine without the Survivals. You can laugh to yourself when someone Pithing Needles a Survival. Grave hate doesn't do too much aside from stopping you mid-combo. Just go get some more. It's very resilient. I've managed to pull a win out of being hit by a Haunting Echoes before. Hence the reason I play so many one-ofs and three-ofs. The entire deck has so much synergy it's silly. It's the first deck I have ever played with Green where Tarmogoyf seems out of place. (Blastphemy!)
... That's how I designed it.