Flash Bant (Standard)
Currently, I have been playing this deck quite a bit and most things are figured out for the most part. The most recent changes was that Augur of Bolas used to be Elvish Visionary. Due to my issues with fast aggro though, I was forced to move to the higher defense Augur. I am running more creatures than I really like for Augur to work however the added defense has been quite big.
Past Testing:
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Total Comments 5
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Updates after further testing:
1 Sphinx's Revelation -> 1 Supreme Verdict I am just moving sideboard stuff around. I had been running 3x Supreme mainboard with one side and decided that aggro matches were my worst so I pushed one of the Revelations to sideboard in favor of a heavier maindeck wrath package.
1 Rancor -> 1 Feeling of Dread: Rancor was a lot of times really bad vs other aggro decks especially the really fast ones. Due to this I just wanted a lower consistency on the Rancors. I think they fit in against the midrange decks a lot better.
2 Temporal Mastery -> 2 Righteous Blow Temporal was bad in a lot of situations which ended up with me axing them from my list. I cant just take a miss a card draw vs aggro matches. Righteous Blow has been amazing vs aggro decks and even some midrange decks.
1 Wolfir Avenger -> 1 Righteous Blow against aggro decks there was such a thing as too many wolfirs. I like the guy but he feels hard to cast sometimes especially when trying to peel him off on turn 3. I also really didnt like seeing multiples of him most of the time. I think moving to 3x will be a good move.
Also... sideboard has moved around a bit due to the mainboard changes. I am not going to bother logging all of them.Posted 01-04-2013 at 11:49 AM by ISBPathfinder 
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Just as a side note, I played my list at FNM last night and went to top 2. The person I was paired up against in top two had beaten me earlier in the night though and there was no incentive to play the game out. So we just drew the top 2 and called it a night.
The list worked really well and on occasion just not knowing sort of what was being run for decks currently hurt me a little when it came to sideboarding and my own play. Still the list worked out very well. I will say though that I feel like I dodged a lot of my bad matchups though.Posted 01-05-2013 at 03:26 PM by ISBPathfinder
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Posted 02-10-2013 at 12:12 AM by ISBPathfinder
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Updates for Gatecrash:
CUTS:
2 Rancor I had been having some issues with this against aggro decks as well as whiffing with augur. It did have some great moments though but overall I feel like enchant hate, control decks, and Detention Sphere type things are on an up swing currently. These are a few reasons for me to cut it currently.
1 Feeling of Dread I had some issues with the fact that I already use a lot of flashback with snapcaster mages so this doesnt really open me up much. It might be a different deal if I ran either more aggro or more control but as it stands its sort of odd in the build.
2 Supreme Verdict with things like Boros Charm on the rise I am curious to see how Aetherize might serve as a substitute. As I can flash dudes in and I have creatures it really seems like it opens up some doors.
2 Essence Scatter I love counters, I just have no clue where Cavern of Souls is going to be sitting going forward. For now I think I will just keep this sideboarded and bump my Syncopate count to 4x. I am a bit worried as to where humans might be sitting going forward as the aggro deck and control is creaping up as well so Syncopate seems good in a few ways currently.
3 Righteous Blow I dont know how much aggro to expect currently.... For now I am going to put it in the sideboard as my meta seems to be more about the midrange / control decks. I love this thing and depending on how I fare against aggro and how much of it there is I will consider putting it back mainboard. I love this thing though.
1 Augur of Bolas expecting less aggro. Less creates = less whiffs as well. I really hate when this guy misses....
1 Grove of the Guardian it was cool but I see an increase in control decks making me want to shift a bit to some townships.
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2 Aetherize I am looking forward to what this does as a new wrath like effect. It slows aggro down significantly and buys me some time. Obviously it has some issies... (thragtusk) but other than that I think its interesting and I look forward to make people always question if I have it
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2 Pit Fight I have been really looking forward to playing around with this thing a little. I am currently adding the keyrune as well which is a great target to use the fight with. I had some issues answering things like Huntmaster so this seems like a good option for messing him up. I have TONS of pump in this deck too with the Simic Charms coming in for some testing so some fighting seems like it could be cool. I considered Smite but it seemed incredibly more situational.
3 Simic Charm big fan of the fact that it can bounce things out or be used as a nice big buff to beat people up. It seems like some great versatility I really look forward to beating someone up by hitting a snapcaster mage into a 5/4 creature lol.
1 Syncopate dropping down one counter but increasing my versatility with the counters. I dont know where aggro decks will be at going forward.
1 Sphinx's Revelation It seems like more people are going to control and less to aggro in my meta. I want more draw for sure.
2 Gavony Township bumping the land count by one and I like the idea of township in this deck.
Well, sideboard needs some work as well after all that goes through.... I hope to push it together for next week.Posted 02-10-2013 at 11:01 PM by ISBPathfinder
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2 Pit Fight -> 2 Midnight Haunting with the addition of township I think Midnight Haunting might finally have a place in this deck. I want to play with a few of them and with dragon seeing a little less play I have some high hopes for it.
1 Simic Charm -> 1 Midnight Haunting I want to play with some haunting and am afraid of overdoing the new charm as I don't know how potent it will be yet.Posted 02-15-2013 at 10:17 PM by ISBPathfinder
