B/G Aggro

MatthewVII

After playing a version of B/G control at the Dublin City Champs, i realized that with Heartbeat Harvest combo decks out there, a faster deck might be needed. i was also worried by the amount of W/R and W/G weenie decks. With that in mind, i decided to make a weenie deck based around my favourite Ravnica card, Dark Confidant. heres my IDEAL decklist

1x Tomb of Urami
1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
4x Overgrown Tomb
4x Llanowar Wastes
8x Swamp
2x Forest

4x Birds of Paradise
4x Dark Confidant
4x Hypnotic Spectre
4x Ravenous Rats
4x Hand of Cruelty
3x Yukora the Prisoner
4x Nezumi Shortfang

3x Putrefy
3x Sickening Shoal
3x Umezawa's Jitte

Sideboard:
3x Dosan the Falling Leaf
4x Cranial Extraction
4x Last Gasp
4x Naturalize


The aim of the deck is to swarm the opponent. What makes this different (and better) than a white weenie deck is Dark Confidant-white weenie runs out of steam very quickly, but thanks to everyone's favourite invitational card, this deck just keeps on drawing. I originally started off with a mono-black deck but decided that a green splash was necessary for Putrefy, as well as allowing me to get a turn 2 spectre with birds. birds is also great as a flying carrier for a Jitte. In the sideboard, Dosan is designed as a counterspell hoser, Extractions work against combo decks such as heartbeat harvest (even though the beatdown should win the game anyway), last gasp is a tool against other weenie decks (watchwolf watch out) and naturalize is for anti-enduring ideal and white weenie (taking out pesky jittes and anthems).
The strong discard theme in this deck is important, as it can cripple a lot of decks very quickly. The Shortfang is golden versus blue, and ravenous rats work brilliantly against other weenie decks, snatching a card and providing a chump blocker.
Of course, that is the ideal deck. with the cards i have, i could make this deck:

1x tomb of urami
1x shizo, death's storehouse
1x okina, temple to the grandfathers
1x overgrown tomb
11x swamp
6x forest

4x dark confidant
4x nezumi shortfang
1x birds of paradise
1x hypnotic spectre
4x ravenous rats
3x yukora the prisoner
2x Hand of Cruelty
2x Ghost-Lit Stalker
3x Raving Oni-Slave
3x Llanowar elves

3x Umezawa's Jitte
1x Putrefy
4x sickening shoal
3x sensei's divining top

Any thoughts?

sephirosis

both those deckilists are perfect.........if you want to be disqualified from the tournament. your first list has only 57 cards, the second 59. and dont you dare try to subtly edit them to make me look a fool. um, other than that they look good

MatthewVII

Yeah, i'm still not deicided on what should go into those spaces. i was thinking maybe pithing needles for the ideal deck. any thoughts?

sephirosis

keep watching where the format's going for those last slots tbh. as of now gifts and jitte weenie decks seem to the fore so pithing needle seems good to me. dont be afraid to be flexible though

MatthewVII

The great thing about a weenie discard deck is that it IS flexible. against other weenie decks it keeps tempo going much better, and it ruins control style decks with discard. This deck's main opponents are going to be b/g control (due to hideous laughter and whatnot) and U/R counterphoenix (due to phoenix and pyroclasm)