This is my last magic deck, so anything and everything is on the line with this one. I plan to take it to Mega-Con coming up and from there train for regionals. Inbetween I am going to FNM.So to brass tax.The deck I feel is in it's late stages, much of the base is complete and the main idea is firm. Acting as mana accleraters there are Birds and Elders. Utility cards would be the dual lands, the legendary lands and Svogthos. Card advantage is the Top. Board clear is the Boilers. Win conditions are the Koks, Inky, Kodama, and Scarabs. Point kill is Mortify, Putrefy, and Last Gasp. Finally as an element of recursion there is Recollect. All the bases for deck building are covered. As for sideboard, 4 Cranials, 3 Nightmare Void, 3 Erradicates, 1 Mortify, and 4 Hideous Laughter. Cranials is proactive combo killer, Nightmare Void is disruption, Erradicates is reactive killer, Mortify is heavy enchantment coverage, and Hideous runs crowd control. So here is the conflict, does the rubric really have to be present in a tier one deck? Does the deck need to focus it's strength in another area to run more successfully? Are there holes in the sideboard?

 

Llanowar Wastes x4

Overgrown Tomb x4

Miren the Moaning Well x1

Shizo, Death's Storehouse x1

Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers x1

Svogthos, the Restless Tomb x2

Swamp x3

Forest x6

Plains x1

 

Sakura-Tribe Elder x4

Birds of Paradise x4

Kokusho, the Evening Star x3

Ink-Eyes, Servant of the Oni x2

Kodama of the North Tree x2

Grave-Shell Sacrab x4

 

Mortify x3

Putrefy x4

Last Gasp x4

Recollect x2

Plague Boiler x2

Sensei's Divining Top x3

 

A friend of mine uses a similar deck, the only variations in his deck is that he runs 4 Mortify, no Gasps, no boiler, 2 Temple Gardens, Wood Elves, Llanowar Elves and fewer win conditions. So any ideas?

 

Thank you very much,

Alex