2. Hey :) Thank you great article!
    I really like your list.
    I have one problem with it though.. 2 Doom Blade in main seems a bit risky.. they could be just two dead cards if the other person plays any black cards.

    I gathered alot of information about White Weeny..
    The list I want to play would be something like that:

    4 Temple of Triumph
    4 Mutavault
    4 Sacred Foundry
    10 Plains
    4 Soldier of the Pantheon
    4 Boros Elite
    4 Dryad Militant
    4 Precinct Captain
    4 Daring Skyjek
    3 Imposing Sovereign
    4 Banisher Priest
    4 Brave the Elements
    2 Boros Charm
    2 Spear of Heliod
    3 Ajani, Caller of the Pride

    3 Fiendslayer Paladin
    1 Renounce the Guilds
    2 Boros Reckoner
    2 Pacifism
    2 Boros Charm
    1 Burning Earth
    2 Electrickery
    1 Glare of Heresy
    1 Wear & Tear

    Also I don’t really like the swamp in the sideboard.. even if i see your reasoning for it. You thought about your list a bit or got an update.. Wanted to go to a T2 tournament tomorrow. Friday Night Magic and wanted a good list for that :-).
    Or maybe you got a thought / update for my list?

  3. @Zach Thanks for the kind words, hopefully the article wasn’t too long.

    @NoWz I think that the Doom Blades are really, really good against decks like mono-blue, mono-red (both kinds), mono-green, the mirror or pseudo-mirror… The life loss from Orzhov Charm really adds up in those matchups and removal is very valuable. At the same time, even against mono-black, they aren’t actually dead cards — killing their Mutavaults can actually be decent for getting whole your team through with Brave, or even just keeping them from blocking. I also think that the matchup is good enough that I can accept the one in ten or so games where it’s actually dead. I don’t think that game 1 against Esper wouldn’t be meaningfully improved by replacing them either. If you expect a ton of people to play mono-black and Esper — like 70% or 80% — then you should definitely move them to the sideboard, but I think that in more balanced fields the Doom Blades are one of the big payoffs to the splash. In such a metagame, I think that it would be best to play something like -2 Doom Blade, +1 Orzhov Charm, +1 Arrester/Imposing Sovereign in the maindeck, and +2 Doom Blade, -swamp, -1 Xathrid Necromancer in the sideboard. That said, I still wouldn’t recommend that unless you’re sure you have a very good read on your metagame.

    I think playing Cox’s Wr list is good if you like the red splash. I’ve been trying out Sovereigns recently and currently like Arresters a little bit better, but I haven’t been trying them for that long. It’s close enough that both are likely fine though. I’m not a fan of the Renounce the Guilds, however.

  4. Wonderful article — nice combination of deck strategy and GP report. Like Zack, I kind of felt like I was playing in the GP myself.

    BTW, if you want to include names in the future, just pop over to planeswalkerpoints.com and look up who you played in the tournament as you write the report.

  5. Thanks man for your detailed explanation of things.

    When you were in my shoes what would you play?
    I am still in the deckbuilding process.
    You really like the Arresters more? Cox wrote he likes the Sovereigns a bit better.

    I am facing at my local shop for 100%
    1x Mono blue
    1x BG Dredge
    1x Mono Black
    1x RW Devotion
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    4 Temple of Triumph
    4 Mutavault
    4 Sacred Foundry
    10 Plains
    4 Soldier of the Pantheon
    4 Boros Elite
    4 Dryad Militant
    4 Precinct Captain
    4 Daring Skyjek
    3 Imposing Sovereign(or 2 Arrester 1 Sovereign)
    4 Banisher Priest
    4 Brave the Elements
    2 Boros Charm
    2 Spear of Heliod
    3 Ajani, Caller of the Pride

    3 Fiendslayer Paladin
    2 Viashino Firstblade < do you like that card
    2 Boros Reckoner
    2 Pacifism
    2 Boros Charm
    2 Electrickery
    1 Glare of Heresy
    1 Wear & Tear

  6. @cz4ever Thanks for the suggestion. I apparently need to sort out making an account to see my history, but I’ll definitely look into it if I ever write another one of these.

    @NoWz I think that you should likely just try things out and decide for yourself. I think the decision points like red vs. black or Arrester vs. Sovereign largely come down to how you like to play the deck, even. Regarding Arrester, I personally like having 2 extra outs to a good attack to draw when the board stalls against a Reckoner or Frostburn Weird, and haven’t been too impressed with the Sovereign even when it’s been in my opener. The Sovereign is definitely a more powerful card, though.

    I would personally be okay just playing the list from the article with just that information about the metagame, and wouldn’t be too interested in playing Firstblades in Wr. Firstblade seems okay against pretty much just Supreme Verdict decks, and I’m not sure that it’s actually better than something like Gideon in that regard. It could be worth trying, though. Good luck.