Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Liliana Death's Majesty Possibilities for Standard

The Saheeli Gaurdian combo has been terrorizing standard for a good couple months now.

It has pushed for not it, but instead Mardu Planeswalker aggro to be the best deck, as the threat of winning on turn six at instant speed, or turn four without adequate pressure has kicked to the curb cards that used to be able to earn a good day's living like Ishkana and Panharmonicon.

What if I was to tell you that there was a new reason for the deck to be too many colors? Okay, it's not exciting, but it's still a cool combo. And here it is:

Deploy the Gatewatch: Get Liliana and Saheeli on the battlefield.
Use Liliana's minus two to get back Felidur Gaurdian.
Blink Saheel Rai, which copies Gaurdians of the Galaxy, and kill for the win.

This deck could not even RUN blue or red mana. Yeah you heard me, it could be straight white black.

How does this turn sequence sound?

Turn One: Fatal Push/Tapland/Harsh Scrutiny
Turn Two: Discard Spell (Transgress or Lay Bare From the Heart) or Removal
Turn Three: Oath of Liliana, they sacrifice a creature.
Turn Four: Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, get two 2/2's.
Turn Five: Liliana Death's Majesty, Make another two 2/2's! Oh and mill two.
Turn Six: Play a Felidur Gaurdian to... well you get the idea.'

Or if you want to use even more cards that should get more play how about Turn Four Yahenni's Expertise into Oath of Liliana, to really clean out their board?

And for extra hits off of Deploy the Gatewatch, you can add in Obnixilis, and Sorin who isn't seeing nearly enough play.

And for vehicles, some grasps of darkness and Anguished Unmaking. That'll do... nicely.

And you know what you could EVEN play mainboard to hedge against combo oriented Saheeli Rai? Some Authority of the consoles, as no one sees them coming mainboard, and they also slow down the Mardu Vehicles.

There's a lot of directions to take, In fact you could run Oath of Nissa and run all kinds of crazy planeswalkers!

And just remember, to always believe in yourself, and put in sideboard cards that actually win games against decks you have trouble with.

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