Spread Em’ Deck List Review
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.
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 8th 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
Well, that’s it folks thank you for reading and please return to Magic The Gathering Games!!
