UB Faeries

[HopDizzle]

Hello,

I never had the opportunity to play with Bitterblossom or Jace, TMS before. Now that Legacy (with the exception of Vintage) is the only format left where these cards are legal, I decided to build a legacy deck that included both of them. Any feedback is welcomed. I was able to top 32 at the SCG Denver Open last month with this deck, but it still needs some tweaking.


Land (23)
2x Scalding Tarn
2x Marsh Flats
1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Misty Rainforest
4x Underground Sea
3x Watery Grave
2x Cavern of Souls
1x Riptide Laboratory
2x Island
1x Swamp
4x Mutavault

Instant (16)
4x Brainstorm
2x Stifle
4x Force of Will
3x Daze
1x Spell Pierce
2x Diabolic Edict

Creature (9)
2x Mistbind Clique
3x Vendilion Clique
4x Spellstutter Sprite

Artifact (2)
2x Umezawa's Jitte

Enchantment (4)
4x Bitterblossom

Planeswalker (2)
2x Jace, The Mind Sculptor

Sorcery (4)
2x Inquisition of Kozilek
2x Cabal Therapy

Sideboard (15)
3x Leyline of the Void
2x Massacre
1x Yixlid Jailer
1x Jace, The Mind Sculptor
2x Engineered Plague
3x Spell Snare
2x Go for the Throat

[kiblast]

Seems like your manabase can easily support 4 Wastelands. How come you don't run the full playset? I would probably cut 2 shockland, the second basic Island and probably the Riptide ( you need lots of mana to use it... I'd rather run something with immediate effectiveness such as Waste) to accomodate them. I never had problems in playing 4 Wastelands in bicolor decks with 21-23 lands.

[HopDizzle]

Seems like your manabase can easily support 4 Wastelands. How come you don't run the full playset?

I honestly wasn't sure if I could support the 4 Wastelands. What would cut to make room for the Wastelands?

[HopDizzle]

Seems like your manabase can easily support 4 Wastelands. How come you don't run the full playset? I would probably cut 2 shockland, the second basic Island and probably the Riptide ( you need lots of mana to use it... I'd rather run something with immediate effectiveness such as Waste) to accomodate them. I never had problems in playing 4 Wastelands in bicolor decks with 21-23 lands.

What do you think of me running Cavern of Souls in this deck?

[kiblast]

I'd rework the manabase like this:

4 Usea
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Shockland
1 Creeping Tar-Pit (so you now have an evasive beater which carries jitte like a champ in late game, and a mana fixing land which doesn't fold to Choke.)

4 Wasteland
4 Mutavault (not really sure if the full set is needed. But I do like the sinergy with SSSprite)

4 Polluted Delta
3 Misty Rainforest

Try it, I don't think you'll have any problems with getting the right mana!

Edit: I'm missing Cavern of Souls. I get that is amazing to have 13 uncounterable cards in your deck, but it doesn't give you coloured mana for JTMS just like Wasteland. It all comes down on what do you prefer: I prefer Wasteland as it is an all star in this format, you almost always want to crack it to keep opponent in check - Daze and Stifle come to mind.

[kwis]

Perhahps 1-of karakas would be nice for the cute tricks with clique and defense against reanimator?

[Mr. Safety]

There is a faeries thread, its just buried. Its in the established decks section. I've been running u/b faeries for a long time in legacy, this is my current list (hint: the only faeries worth playing in legacy are Bitterblossom and Spellstutter, Vendilion Clique if you play 21-22 lands)
My current list (a concession to budget because I don't have 4 Useas, but everything else is fairly stock):

4x Delver of Secrets
4x Spellstutter Sprite
3x Tombstalker

4x Brainstorm
3x Force of Will
4x Daze
2x Spell Pierce
1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4x Bitterblossom
2x Inquisition of Kozilek
4x Hymn to Tourach
3x Go for the Throat
2x Umezawa's Jitte

3x Wasteland
1x Underground Sea
2x Watery Grave
1x Creeping Tar Pit
1x Sunken Ruins
2x Mutavault
4x Misty Rainforest
2x Verdant Catacombs
2x Island
2x Swamp

Sideboard
4x Ensnaring Bridge
2x Pithing Needle
2x Deathmark
2x Perish
1x Surgical Extraction
4x Faerie Macabre


Your worst matchups are the aggro decks and the combo decks that use countermagic (zoo, maverick, merfolk, Sneaky Show, Reanimator) but against most everything else you can do really well. My sideboard plan is to take out the delvers and tombstalkers for Ensnaring Bridge and other hate. Bridge deals with most of the bad combo matchups and also deals nicely with maverick.

As far as the maindeck goes, I run only 3 Forces because of the card disadvantage mostly. I could play 4 but right now 3 feels right. Hymn to Tourach is probably the best black disruption you can use...its difficult with the double black but its a great alternative turn 2 play if you don't open up with a Bitterblossom in your starting 7. The 3 Wastelands rather than 4 is simply because I only have 3. Mutavault is at 2 because of the double black of Hymn and Tombstalker and also because the deck also relies so strongly on blue. I think I can only afford 2 in the maindeck. Creeping Tar Pit has been really great for me in the control matchups, I at one time played all 4 (playing 22 lands and more of a mid-range approach.) Alas, Wasteland ruins your day when it enters tapped. I'm back down to 1 copy.

Future upgrades will definately be a 2nd Jace (probably at the expense of a Daze) and the 4th Wasteland.

Check out the other faeries thread, too...I think its under 'BitterStalker' in the established decks section.

EDIT: I dug out the old Tempo Faeries deck, its on the first page of the established section.

[feline]

This might help: I was able to find a successful list for Faeries, though the list is a bit old, it is still of the "post mental misstep" banning, or "the current era" of legacy for the past year or so:

15th place - Cody Napier StarCityGames.com Legacy Open - Nashville September-10th-2011 (169 players)
2 Vendilion Clique
3 Dark Confidant
3 Snapcaster Mage
3 Spellstutter Sprite
1 Darkblast
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Dismember
1 Go for the Throat
2 Stifle
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Thoughtseize
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Bitterblossom
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Verdant Catacombs
2 Flooded Strand
2 Island
2 Polluted Delta
3 Swamp
3 Underground Sea
4 Mutavault
4 Wasteland
~SB:
1 Phantasmal Image
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Hibernation
2 Spell Pierce
2 Stifle
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Liliana of the Veil
1 Perish

[metamet]

I was just thinking about the UB or UW Wizards list this morning... as I really want to play Patron Wizard. And playing AEther Vial.

I feel like Stoneforge Mystic works really well in a build full of flying utility creatures. Anyone toyed with that direction?