Naya Lightsaber Decklist Review

Naya Lightsaber Deck List Review

Naya Lightsaber

As all of you know Andre Coimbra took worlds this year in Magic The Gathering! I will be reviewing the deck list Naya Lightsaber the one he won with. Naya Lightsaber is a excellent deck, I mean thats obvious since the deck won worlds. When you first look at the deck its mana base seems fragile and that it wouldnt do well. I would agree with you but I would say that is about the only thing wrong with the deck

Jund has a big weakness and that is its mana base cards that are common in a Jund deck like sprouting thrinax and jund charm can be easily taken care of by goblin ruinblaster or any land destruction at all (both of these are in the deck). So questions come to mind why not use decks like the spread em’  deck that Matt did a review on? The big reason is the cards in the deck beat the cards in the standard meta game.

Win Cards

Baneslayer Angel: One of the best white cards in standard right now and plus it has protection from your big enemy dragons.

Bloodbraid Elf: the elf is nice for its cascade/haste combo is comes with being able to cascade into a wolly thoctar is nice.

Ranger of Eos: A great card for one drops especially in this deck it helps give you board advantage quickly for later in the game

Removal

One of the best thing in the meta game right now is good removal cards.

Lightning Bolt: Of course great removal card for one red mana or if necessary kill card

Path To Exile: best white removal card in standard in my opinion the only bad thing about it is drawback from mana

Control

Ajani Vengeant: The only control card in the deck being able to keep thing from untapping is always great and of course anytime you can destroy all lands is great and slows down your opponet

Sideboard

The sideboard more than anything takes care of Jund with celestial purge, goblin ruinblaster, and great stable stag.

Celestial Purge: Removal you can never have too much of it especially if your opponent is playing Jund

Goblin Ruinblaster: Dual lands or the new life gain land wont mean help you if you pay the kicker, like I said land destruction is very vital

Great Stable Stag: Against blue dont worry about any counters, and of course it takes care of those fast Vampire and Jund decks.

The Conclusion

Well the deck obviously being aggro is suppose to kill your opponent as fast as possible and I think this deck really does that while slowing down major decks in the meta game at this point.

Naya Lightsaber vs. Spread em’

As I mentioned at the beginning of the review the deck has a fragile mana base so when decks like this make your mana diffrent colors its hard to get anything out at all. First round I thought I was doing well I had him at 9 life until he brought out his Ajani Vengeant and bloodbraid elf and that was it for the first round. Second round I had mostly red cards in my hand for most draws so I couldnt do much about it and he made sure that most of my land were islands this game so I had no chance-LOST 0-2

Naya Lightsaber  vs. Jund

As I said this deck is meant to be able to take anything Jund can throw at it well it did! First round I had 2 wild nacatls and baneslayer angel out and thats all I needed to beat that Jund. Round 2 I sideboarded in the great stable stag and goblin ruinblaster just in case and they helped make me win the game easier!-WON 2-0

Naya Lightsaber vs. Mil

Well Mil is always a pain to play against I find it quite annoying actually. The deck handled it better than I thought I got my baneslayer angel out my 5th turn and after that his mill didnt matter to me for I was dead 2 turns after thanks to wolly thoctar and lightning bolts. Round 2 went about the same way he was running some counters so I did throw in the great stable stag in case it was needed.-WON 2-0