Hawks and S-words

[froggy]

Trying out this new deck, which I think is pretty good, but just needs some tweaking. I KNOW it's similar to CB, but I thought the Stoneforge/Sword thing would be fun to try. Plus it runs Squadron Hawks!
Here's the list:

Creatures:
4x N hierarch
4x Tarmagoyf
4x Squadron Hawk
3x Stoneforge Mystic

Instants:
4x Fow
4x Daze
3x Brainstorm

Artifacts:
3x Top
Equipment:
1x Sword of LaS
1x Sword of FaF
1x Sword of FaI
1x Sword of MaB
1x Jitte

Enchantments:
4x Counter Balance

Lands:
4x Trop
4x Tundra
2x Savannah
7x Fetches
2x Island
2x Plains
1x Forest

I have a Sideboard, but it's pretty much just for the meta in the area, but suggestions are always welcome too.

[Deck Dont Matter]

I like the idea but I think you are running WAY too many pieces of equipment...I think cutting the BaM and LaS swords can easily be done...also think you can cut a plains as well...That can open 3 slots main deck for swords to Plowshares...some removal can really help

[Grymer]

Yeah i also think there is too meny equipments..

When you play S hawks then you need to play 4 Brainstorms = Ancestral Recall
I would also get some space for Jace TMS he can also brainstorm the hawks away again and he is just good in every CB deck

Grymer :)

[4eak]

These will perform better for you:


// Lands
1 Polluted Delta
4 Tundra
4 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Windswept Heath
1 Marsh Flats
2 Plains
2 Island
4 Wasteland

// Creatures
2 Vendilion Clique
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Squadron Hawk
4 Mother of Runes
4 Stoneforge Mystic

// Spells
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 AEther Vial
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Brainstorm


// Lands
1 Flooded Strand
4 Marsh Flats
4 Scrubland
1 Windswept Heath
1 Polluted Delta
1 Verdant Catacombs
2 Swamp
2 Plains
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Wasteland

// Creatures
4 Squadron Hawk
4 Mother of Runes
4 Tidehollow Sculler
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Dark Confidant

// Spells
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Vindicate
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Thoughtseize
4 AEther Vial


// Lands
1 Marsh Flats
4 Savannah
1 Karakas
4 Rishadan Port
1 Forest
1 Flooded Strand
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Plains
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wasteland
1 Dryad Arbor

// Creatures
1 Gaddock Teeg
4 Squadron Hawk
4 Mother of Runes
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Qasali Pridemage
3 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Noble Hierarch

// Spells
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 AEther Vial



Admittedly, everything in which Hawk is worth playing begins to look the same. Approximation of Legacy's Good Stuff White-based Aggro-Control deck (with or without Hawk):



4 AEther Vial
4 Swords to Plowshares
2-3 Equipment
4 SFM
4 MoR
4 Wasteland
4 Dual
6-8 Fetch
2-4 Basics
1-2 Utility Lands
6-12 off-color creatures
8 off-color disruption/bombs

Voila, a deck. *Snooze* -- but, /shrug, it works.


peace,
4eak

[claudio.r]

I've been running a list close to 4eak UW list, and is been doing quite good. The number of interactions between mother of runes, squadron hawk, stoneforge and equipment are really good. I'm also running serra's avenger instead of spellstutter, i also tried stifle but that's more of a metagame call.

With combo on the rise and tempo strategies on the rise, i think a deck like this has a legitimate chance in the meta.

[Scatterbrain]

With combo on the rise and tempo strategies on the rise, i think a deck like this has a legitimate chance in the meta.

I agree. I've been running a version that plays U/W/b splashing Dark Confidant and sideboard spells. It has solid matchups against the entire field except mono-u merfolk, which crushes it. Maybe this is just a bad version of Team America?

[claudio.r]

Yes... Merfolk is indeed the worst matchup i've faced so far. You have to get your sword of fire and ice pretty fast or else is not easy at all!

[ivanpei]

The only reason I see that you should play squadron hawk is aether vial and because it's vialable. 2 nana for a 1/1 flyer seems really slow in this format. I know 1/1 evasive + stoneforge and equipment is the nuts but bitterblossom+ equipment does the same thing without the effort of casting a caw everyturn. I think you guys might want to have a look again at the mighty blossom.

[Final Fortune]

The only reason I see that you should play squadron hawk is aether vial and because it's vialable. 2 nana for a 1/1 flyer seems really slow in this format. I know 1/1 evasive + stoneforge and equipment is the nuts but bitterblossom+ equipment does the same thing without the effort of casting a caw everyturn. I think you guys might want to have a look again at the mighty blossom.

Bitterblossom doesn't turn Brainstorm into Ancestral Recall, and if you guys haven't figured out Squadron Hawks + Sylvan Library = ridiculous card advantage you're welcome.

[mrjumbo03]

I'm pretty sure that for sylvan library, you'll have to put back cards that you have drawn this turn...

[Final Fortune]

I'm pretty sure that for sylvan library, you'll have to put back cards that you have drawn this turn...

Ah you're right, you can only put the card you normally draw on your drawstep back on top, my bad. Anything else besides Jace that can filter Hawks and doesn't suck by itself?

[Infinitium]

Scroll Rack used to be decent, and also somewhat work with weathered wayfarer if you're into that. Still quite slow however.