I Like Casting Boon Of Erebos On An Agent Of The Fates

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Tribal Centaurs

Gonna tool around with a mono centaur deck. Between my brother and I, we opened three of the lords in the pre release. It will be a really cheap deck to put together and looks like it might have some power. Call Of The Conclave can become a 4/4 with vigilance and trample for just WG? Craziness. And it might have some play against WU control. Rootborn Defence does negate Supreme Verdict pretty well. Against black you can side in some Sundering Growth's to take out whips or Underworld Connection.

Journey First Impressions

I won my pre release. And it was a fun one. Picked black, had green as a secondary and splashed white. I built it accidentally, but a deck full of constellation creatures does business. A few times I was able to give all opponent creatures -2/-2 in a turn by just playing out permanents. The random bits of damage and life gain I kept eeking out through normal play really showed how powerful the BW deck can be in the new limited. I will try to brew up a standard BW enchantment deck and see if constellation and Ajani's Chosen together  can compete with the top tier decks.

Of all the new stuff, Dawnbringer Charioteers was the single most powerful card I saw all night. It just might have the oomph to be a constructed staple. In every game it was allowed to stick around, it just won on its own. Backed up with Gods Willing or Ajani's Presence, it is an unstoppable force. The only other card that caused me any issues was Godsend. It looks absurdly powerful, but actually doesn't do a whole lot on offence. You can still chump block all day. Where it shines is on defence, the ability to flat out exile your best threat makes combat math miserable. It is a fun draft card, but just that. It's mana costs are too much for standard. 

Herald Of Torment

I can't ever see myself playing less than three of him in any black standard deck I make for the next year. Herald is just so damn good. As a three drop he is a more than competent creature that can beat in the air early and hard, but where this card truly comes alive is being bestowed. Yes five mana is a lot, but if he doesn't stick you still have a 3/3 in the air. When he does get attached uncontested, he just makes your life easy. Against any monster based strategy he can put a useless bear in the air to close out a game against their blockers on the ground. His current home for me is in my B/W extort deck. A Tithe Drinker or Alms Beast becomes an incredibly deadly finisher once in the air.

Extort

Built a new version of my old extort deck and tried it against my brother. First impressions were promising. Hot tip, Alms Beast works stupidly good with Erebos.

Pre Release

Next Friday I am going to my first pre release. I have never made one due to the wife and kids, but I will bite the bullet and do the midnight one. I'm excited. I just need to decide on which colour. I am leaning towards black. 

Thoughtseize On A Stick

Brain Maggot will be a very fun card in limited. A 1/1 with built in thoughtseize will turn out to be pretty powerful for standard too. I want to throw four into my budget mono black deck.