Are there any viable superfriends/Planeswalker-heavy decks in the current standard environment? Do any of you play any decks like this?
Posted Dec 22, 2016, 4:23 PM UTC
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At my local LGS there's an Abzan superfriends deck that consistently won FNM for a month straight. It runs the usual suspects: Gideon, Nissa, Sorin, Ob Nixilis and just removal. The game goes pretty quick between Nissa making 5/5s and Gideon making himself a 5/5.
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Interesting, seems like it would run
Servant of the Conduit to ramp Gideon on turn 3, play Nissa on turn 4 for a huge swing.
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It didn't even run servants. It runs [[Sylvan Advocate]] though because then Nissa makes you 7/7 land creatures. The other beef in the deck is just straight up man lands.
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Sylvan Advocate - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD)
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The early drop was [[Oath of Nissa]]. It allows the deck to not worry about colors to get out the various planeswalkers and it lets you tutor for a planeswalker. The deck is basically inevitability.
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Oath of Nissa - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD)
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This deck sounds like oath of ajani could make it even dumber
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Yeah. Not looking forward to it. I run a mono-red home brew. I'm hoping they print some good burn in Aether Revolt.
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You poor soul. It's like looking into red players' past few years.
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At more LGS there are a few WUG super friends decks that perform very well, frequently winning the event
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http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/standard-showdown-decks-and-oath-live-2016-12-15 I built the Superfriends decks listed here and have been having a blast playing it with two of my friends who one was running Red/White Vehicles and the other was playing Paradoxical Colossus. I plan on playing it at this FNM.
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I'm running Mardu Superfriends. Has a good matchup against all 3 T1 decks, but gets crushed by every janky brew and other control decks.
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@FNM level sure, Naya Superfriends or whatever should do fine (Servant of Conduit, Harnessed Lightning, 15 walkers and chill, etc).
@Actual events? Nope. Can never beat an Emrakul and isn't fast enough to go under it. UW/Vehicles aren't great matchups either, but at least they don't have a one card GG against you.
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I do and it's Jund.
3 oath of nissa
4 Advocate
4 Harnessed Lightning
2 Transgress
2 Cultivators Caravan
2 Liliana
4 Tireless Tracker
2 Murder
2 Kalitas
2 CHandra
1 Arlin
2 OB nixilis
2 Nissa
1 Noxious Gearhulk
.... this is roughly it
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Abzan would be something like this ...
4 Oath of Nissa
4 Advocate
2 Transgress
2 Liliana
4 tireless tracker
4 Stasis Snare
2 anguished unmaking
2 cultivators caravan
2 GIdeon
2 Kalitas
2 Nissa, vital force
2 Ob nixilis
2 Sorin
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I play at an LGS in my small town and my first opponent played 90% removal and a few planeswalkers that I couldnt deal with in standard. I dont have the deck list but he ran good chandra and good ob nixilis or however you spell it. Hope this helps a little bit
good chandra as in OGW chandra right?
It was the chandra with exile top card you can play it. Gain red mana. Deal 5 dmg per spell he casts
That was what I thought, but apparently not. OGW Chandra seems better in a control deck by far. Swinging for 6 a turn or wiping the board seems stronger in a super friends deck.
KLD Chandra.