There is a lot more Maverick popping up in my area, and I want another slot either MD or SB to combat it. One suggestion I've had was to try Fight Bear (Ulvenwald Tracker). Any other suggestions?
There's lots of good cards in the mirror. Gut Shots, Linvala's, planeswalkers, etc. What does your list look like currently?Originally Posted by AlmostGrown
Ulvenwald tracker is probably the best and the easiest answer for the mirror. Having mother active to protect it is key though.
At GP Ghent it helped me win the mirror although he had a better board position (not counting tracker) and 2 active mothers. Don't forget it has great synergie with scryb ranger as well.
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for lunch.
I'm currently running Chas Hinkle's list from SCG DC and really liking it. I'm not sure what to cut for the Fight bear. Maybe a Fauna Shaman?
Maindeck:
Creatures
2 Fauna Shaman
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Mother of Runes
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Qasali Pridemage
2 Scavenging Ooze
1 Scryb Ranger
Enchantments
2 Sylvan Library
Instants
1 Path to Exile
4 Swords to Plowshares
Legendary Artifacts
2 Umezawa's Jitte
Legendary Creatures
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Planeswalkers
1 Garruk Relentless
Sorceries
4 Green Sun's Zenith
Basic Lands
3 Forest
1 Plains
Lands
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Horizon Canopy
4 Savannah
4 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath
2 Wooded Foothills
Land Creatures
1 Dryad Arbor
Legendary Lands
1 Karakas
Sideboard:
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Faerie Macabre
1 Harmonic Sliver
2 Crop Rotation
1 Path to Exile
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Gideon Jura
1 Life from the Loam
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Karakas
I've never been a fan of the 1-of Garruk Relentless. You can't tutor for it or get it with any sort of consistency, so I'd cut it.
The worst cards you have in the main for the mirror are Thalias. If you're looking for a mainboard slot to cut, that would be my choice.
dunno whether its been mentioned yet or not, but
the flashy bird is boss in the mirror: Aven Mindcensor.
He's unable to fetch, use the knight, zenith or use fauna shaman in a proper way.
I feel the bird might have a come back since there are lots of decks running around using effects to tutor for certain cards.
@AlmostGrown
I would suggest cutting 1 Thalia and 1 Fauna Shaman for 1 Tracker and 1 Gaddock Teeg. The teeg does nothing in the mirror but I find it more useful instead of the 4th Thalia. I should probably mention that I am not sold on Fauna Shaman at all (I currently run 1 but it might get cut).
I would certainly not cut garruk (I recently went from no PW to 1 Elspeth to 1 Elspeth and a Garruk). Miracle control is attracting some well deserved attention in my metagame and both PW's are needed to neutralize jace. Infinite tokens are also useful in the mirror of course :)
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for lunch.
@the12yearoldwithacomputer (almostgrown) Cut the thrun and the second crop rotation for 2 gut shots
I have been having the worst luck with this deck, I attract nothing but Storm/combo decks in my meta and they keep me off thalia/teeg/canonist with a turn 2 silence or just go off way to fast such as spanish inquisition and belcher. im seriously thinking about putting in Leyline of sanctity in my SB or run elvish spirit guides so I can get a turn 1 thalia when needed.
im running sneak and show now with great results, but I would like to get Maverick playable again.
I think you could try Mindbreak Trap in your SB or a blue Splash for Flusterstorm (that is also more versatile) and Ethersworm Canonist but i really don't like to waste 4 SB slots for Leyline!
How many copies of Thalia and Gaddock you have MD?
I run 4 thalias in the main, and a single teeg in SB but they can't do their job if they can never hit play in time due to disruption/ orims chant/ silence and against Belcher and inquisition they can go off on turn 1 with ease. mindbreak trap would be the best SB against storm not sure why I forgot about that card, much better than leylines.
Judge's Familiar
Creature - Bird W/U
Flying
Sacrifice Judge's Familiar : Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays 1.
What do you think about this new RTR spoiled card? Will this see play in Maverick?
^ Doubt it.
I have a question regarding this scenario. My opponent has terravore and declared attack. I declared blocker with dryad arbor and then bounce my dryad arbor with scryb ranger. Does the trample damage still come thru?
Thanks!!!
yea of course. his damage has been dealt.
I think Judge's Familliar (the new flying Cursecatcher) will see play in Maverick.
All our anti-storm dorks cost two mana which means that ANT/TES can go off without us stopping them on turn1 or turn2 if they're on the play. Not any more.
Great synergy with Thalia too, making it even harder for slower combodecks like Sneak/Show to resolve SnT early.
Also, it carries Jitte like a BAWS!
TTP
Theory crafting for Judge's Familiar, but I think it'd be awesome against most of Maverick's weakest match ups, from Storm, Reanimator and Dredge as well as useful in the aggro-control and control match ups. Against Dredge, you could literally turn 1 Judge's Familiar, turn 2 Thalia and lock them into manual dredging.
Something like,
4 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Scryb Ranger
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Gaddok Teeg
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Judge's Familiar
4 Mother of Runes
4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Exalted Hierarch
seems like a completely reasonable creature base to me
What do u think should we take out?
If you are going to put in Judge's Familiar, I would suggest maxing out on Exalted.
I think it becomes a lot more of an aggro deck, but would benefit from equipment to beef up the weenies. Also, unlike BoP, the Familiar can carry a Jitte and deal damage without an exalted effect. Cathedral of War might have a place in the deck as well.
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