[DECK] B/u Donovan Solution

[Vincent]

I recently built and have been testing this deck. I took it to a 4 round cut to top 8 tournement, and I didn't drop a round. I'll give you the original list, and what I changed it to.

4 Dark Confidant - Card Advantage
4 Dimir Cutpurse - Sustainted Card Advantage with Discard (yes, I tried SMI here, I hated him)
4 Withered Wretch - This guy was part of why I made the deck
4 Black Knight - Great against deadguy, good in goblin matchups, good against u/w/g thresh
4 Aether Vial - Even with the low amount of creatures, it's almost more there to sneak around counterspells. It was how I crushed thresh and landstill in matchups. Not to mention that I can cast all the discard and still drop creatures.
4 Duress - 2nd best counterspell to FOW in the format
4 Hymn to Tourach - Duh
4 Smother - Needed to be Diabolic Edict
3 Cabal Therapy - More about shredding hands apart
3 Umazawa's Jitte - Great all around, espeically with free men dropping off the vial
1 Funeral Charm - it was great that day, but the same reason it was good that day, are why wastelands are in now.
4 Polluted Delta
4 Underground Sea

Sideboard:
3 Terror
3 Perish
3 Engineered Plague
3 Pithing Needle
3 Back to Basics


After the tournement, I decided a couple small changes needed to happen. Most Important was getting another land in to the mana base. Too often I sat with 1 land, and nothing else. So, I made the following changes

-1 Jitte
+1 Swamp

After more testing, the real weakness ended up showing up to be agianst mishra's factory, so the current list changed, also, Edicts came in over smother, so the list is like this...


4 Dark Confidant
4 Dimir Cutpurse
4 Withered Wretch
4 Black Knight
4 Aether Vial
4 Duress
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Diabolic Edict
3 Cabal Therapy
2 Umazawa's Jitte
2 Wasteland
4 Polluted Delta
4 Underground Sea
8 Swamp
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Tainted Isle
1 Island

Sideboard:
3 Terror
3 Perish
3 Engineered Plague
3 Pithing Needle
3 Back to Basics

The deck plays really solid. It's matchup with threshold is a dream. Main deck wretch with sideboard back to basics and perish gives you infy card advantage

Against Kowal's Life of the Loam deck, wretch was again the all star.