Hey Everyone,
So here is my Decklist for Xenagos, God of reveals! http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/xenagos-lord-of-ohko/
I'm not sure where to go with this. The only thing I'm doing right now, is not adding any artifacts for a theme. I think I might have TOO much ramp in this deck, but I'm not sure what I should take out. I would like to add Heroic Intervention, Dragonlord Atarka and likely need to add more land.
Thank you!
Posted Apr 19, 2017, 4:37 PM UTC
How much do you like Gamble?
I counted about 12 notable ramp cards with CMC <= 3 in your deck. My Xenagos deck plays 19.
After a quick look, that was my impression as well... it looks very slow to get up to speed and potentially prone to sputtering out.
To borrow a quote from Rocky:
"You see, your style's too easy to figure out. Left-handed fighters, they're the worst. They lead with their face mostly. Tryin' to throw that big left. Right's no damn good. They oughta outlaw southpaws. Now, look... ...to pull this miracle off, you gotta change everything. You gotta learn to be a right-handed fighter. This'll confuse Apollo... ...and it'll protect that bad eye. Now, he will beat you uglier than you are now. Now, listen, you start fightin' right-handed and then you change suddenly... ...and that'll make history, but first you gotta get speed. Demon speed. Speed's what we need. We need greasy, fast speed!
Xenagod is a fun deck, but if you can't get yourself ramped up and and tossing out a pumped up monster crashing through for huge damage earlyish, you're in trouble. Pound for pound, control spells are better than your creatures. Wraths, Rifts, Extra turns, Planeswalkers doing ridiculous things... you can't fight that. You need to be faster, bigger, stronger and just bash in with the biggest nasty you can, hopefully 2 turns before anyone else is anywhere near casting anything that size.
That's easy enough to change! I was under the impression I had too much ramp, but if I need more I can easily make some adjustments.
I recognize a lot of those card. :)
I don't know about any easy cuts, but I can point you to some more cards to add if you want to compare with my own list.
I'll draw particular attention to Tyrant's Familiar and Joraga Treespeaker. Edit: And Selvala, Heart of the Wilds.
Also I forget what I cut for it, but [[Impact Resonance]] is somewhere in my list now.
Impact Resonance - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD) (ER)
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Thanks, I appreciate it!
Impact Resonance looks great with Sunforger.