As all of you know magic the gathering games first post was on the spread em’ deck list that seemed to be one of the best control decks in the standard meta game. This spread em’ deck list is a revised version Matt and I experimented with the deck and got this deck list which we think may be some what better than the original spread em’.

Spread Em’ Deck List

Creatures 4 Bloodbraid elf 3 Sphinx of lost truths 3 Woolly thoctar Spells 4 Ardent plea 4 Naya charm 4 Convincing mirage 4 Spreading seas 4 Captured sunlight 3 Stormcaller S boon 2 Ajani vengeant Lands 3 Forest 3 Plains 1 Mountain 3 Terramorphic expanse 4 Misty rainforest 2 Exotic orchard 1 Scalding tarn 4 Jungle shrine 1 Crumbling necropolis 3 Seaside citadel 1 Island

Mana Base

One of the main differences with this spread em’ deck list is that its mana base is alot different Matt and I thought a way to make the deck cheaper for people who cant afford all of the expensive cards in the deck was to put in the awesome tri lands from shards of alara. This makes the deck cheaper but also gives you more variety to put in the deck.

Spells/Creatures

One big thing we changed is that we added wolly thoctar to the deck to help for blocker against big aggro decks. The last big difference with the deck was that we added another awesome spell Naya Charm. We felt that naya charm would be good for it is all around a great charm its removal, prevention, and return all in one card (too bad you can only use one).

Cascade

The last thing we decided to change to the spread em’ deck was cascade. We noticed the amount of cascade in the deck was awesome and we thought that it would be fun to add some more to make some endless cascade deck. The other great thing that helps cascade is naya charm being able to play captured sunlight and then return it to your hand with naya charm to gain 4 more life.

Battle Record

Spread Em’ vs. Jund

This deck main enemy is jund because of jund’s fragile mana base. The deck won both rounds of the game the game was completely locked down for my opponent and he was aggravated by the deck. WON 2-0

Spread Em’ vs. Red Green Elves

Red Green Elves are fast and sometimes too fast. Both games they started out fast but once I locked down all his mana with spreading seas and convincing mirage and of course that allowed me to win the game. WON 2-0

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Cruel Control

It seems these days people want to see ways to hate on Jund. A lot of people are also running control decks, well here is a combo of both this deck hates on Jund and it’s a great control deck. There are a ton of good choices in this deck and I would definitely give this deck a try if you like the control game. Now there are several variants of this deck so feel free to experiment with some different choice and find what works for you. With that said here is the break down.

The Deck List

Creatures 2 Sphinx of Jwar Isle Instants 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Terminate 4 Double Negative 4 Negate 4 Into the Roil Sorceries 3 Cruel Ultimatum 3 Divination Planeswalkers 4 Jace Beleren 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker Lands 4 Crumbling Necropolis 4 Scalding Tarn 4 Dragonskull Summit 4 Drowned Catacomb 4 Island 2 Swamp 4 Mountain 1 Magosi, the Waterveil

Here is the breakdown and reasons why to play the deck :

Lots of Removal

The best way to mess with the opponent

Lighting Bolt – everyone knows the card and 3 damage for 1 mana equals a huge pay out

Terminate – For two mana kill anything does it get any better than that

Cruel Ultimatum – The bomb of the deck this card is huge and cost seven but its definitely worth it.

Counters

To you I say “NO!”

Negate – this card is a great counter it gets rid of any non-creature for 2 mana.

Double Negative – this card is amazing for3 you can get rid of those pesky cascades.

Card Draw

just a little speed

Jace Beleren – This planeswalker is a great card draw engine and for only 3 mana can you pass it up.

Divination – Just some more card draw.

Into the Roil – a card that can bounce something and give you card draw now that’s nice.

Late Game

The fun part

Nicol Bolas – This planeswalker is just tons fun to play with.

Sphinx of Jwar Isle – The one creature in the deck, it wins games.

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FIRST DECK REVIEW

Hello and welcome to the first deck review here at MTGG, I’m Matt and I will be the person in charge of deck reviews here on MTGG. The deck I’ll be reviewing today is a real interesting deck, its called spread em’ and its a deck that looks to smashes the meta game. With many of the top deck centered on fragile mana bases this deck looks to hit them where it counts. It aims to obliterate top decks such as, I don ‘t know “Jund” the beast that’s storming through standard at the moment. But, for a Jund player,what good is two maelstrom pulses in hand if they don’t have the mana to play them. This deck looks to really screw with them but lets see how!

Here is a look at the deck and an in depth analysis:

THE HOLD DOWN CARDS

these cards are used to hold your opponent at bay

Spreading Seas & Convincing Mirage: these are the key to victory in this deck

Day of Judgment: What better than some good old mass removal

Ajani Vengeant: this in my opinion is one of the best planeswalker and it fits this deck to the T.

CASCADE FOR SPEED

self explanatory

Ardent Plea: a great three cost cascade/exalted enchantment for three which is perfect to get the mirage.

Bloodbraid Elf: the best cascade card and it only feeds off the ardent plea and also gets the mirage.

Captured Sunlight: gain 4 life and cascade are we seeing the pattern.

POWER CREATURES

for the late game sweep

Sphinx of Jwar Isle: a nasty little card at 5/5 and a flying with shroud, this can win the late game.

Sphinx of the Lost Truth: a 3/5 flyer with card advantage what more do you need to finish the game.

THE SIDEBOARD

aka plan: B

Wall o f Reverence: This is a life saver for those nasty Boros decks that are floating around

Deft Duelist: 2/1 first strike and shroud for to this is the card to hide behind for Boros.

Baneslayer Angel: Is there really anything else to say its the best card in standard!

Rhox Warmonk: life-gain is the only way to go against aggro for this deck and here is the answer!

THE BREAKDOWN

If you haven’t figured it out at this point, the idea of the deck is stall jund and the other fragile mana decks. This buys you time to set up some defense and pound away. Now as many of you can tell the main deck is very vulnerable to Boros. There is an answer for that the side board is designed just for this. You really need to rely on the life gain side board against those decks and side board out the hold down cards and really push the life gain. This is the only way to get ahead of them.

So this is the plan in a normal match up. Early game you have to set up the hold downs these will be critical to your win. By third turn you want to play ardent plea to get another mirage. To flow this up you want to lay a Bloodbraid to get another plea or mirage. This sets you up to be swinging for five by fourth turn and just keep cranking from there.

Against Boros we switch this up a little, we want to side board out the hold downs even though this is the deck idea the better way to play when facing a strong mana’ed aggro is to switch in the Wall of Reverence, the Rhox Warmonk, and the Deft Duelist. The new idea is to play the duelist early and from there keep cranking out the life gain. This could possibly be one of the better new decks out there and it just takes some good piloting and know how to play it.

Creatures 4 Bloodbraid Elf 4 Sphinx of the Lost Truths 2 Sphinx of Jwar Isle Spells 4 Ardent Plea 4 Spreading Seas 4 Convincing Mirage 4 Day of Judgment 4 Captured Sunlight Lands 4 Seaside Citadel 4 Misty Rainforest 3 Terramorphic Expanse 2 Jungle Shrine 4 Arid Mesa 1 Scalding Tarn 3 Plains 3 Island 1 Mountain 1 Forest Sideboard 4 Deft Duelist 4 Wall of Reverence 4 Rhox War Monk 3 Baneslayer Angel

Now here are the results of the decks test me and my good friend Zach preformed. In the test we found this deck to preform very solidly with easy victories over decks such a Jund and Boros. We enjoyed playing this deck but it did have a slight down turn, it had a slight trouble dealing with those pesky vampires you run into every once in awhile. But overall this deck is solid and will offer consistent wins against the current meta game staples. Here is the overview of how that went.

Spread em’ -Vs- B/R Vamp’s

This deck took an early advantage in both games we played, as it should. I ran into a couple problems along the way though. Blighting hurt my chances of any card advantage and had me playing on top decks. This was very frustrating and I feel lead to my demise. The other then that went against me bad was the Vampire Nighthawk and Doom Blade. This deck runs on very few creatures and those to seemed to keep them at a very very low level of play time. In the end I lost to this deck but we had to very close matches, which we both enjoyed.

Record = 0-1

Spread em’ -Vs- Jund

The news we’ve all been waiting for… this deck easily beat Jund. Early lays of spreading seas flowed by ardent plea really started off the beat down on Jund the first game. Before my 8^th turn I had them ready to scoop with there lands locked down and a Bloodbraid hit for five due to Ardent Plea. The second game was a quick repeat but there was a huge moment in this game. We experienced the best cascade we could have hoped for. It began with me playing a Bloodbraid Elf, it cascaded into Ardent Plea, which cascaded into Spreading Seas, that draw gave me Convincing Mirage and so for six mana I locked down two land and had a creature that was hitting for five due to Ardent Plea. So in the end this was a easy match up.

Record = 1-1

Spread em’ -Vs- Boros Aggro

Boros was a challenge with the standard Spread em’ layout I had some difficulties, but I won. Boros had a few bad draws and I got lucky is what I came down to but I won after I locked down most there land and pounded with Bloodbraid Elf . The next game I swapped out my hold down cards for my life gain and easily won again. Things seemed to fall in place smoothly for this deck. I enjoyed playing it and had lots of fun.

Final Record = 2-1

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