Comments on: How Good is Naya Lightsaber?

By: Key

Key — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:42:42 +0000

With the idea of garruk being here, i would also wonder why Sarkhan vol isn’t aswell. He’s a nice 4th turn drop or turn 3 with noble, and works well with ajani. What i like to do is use the -2 on sarkhan, steal their creature, beat them down, and then use ajani’s +1 and keep it tapped. It’s like being jacked and beaten with your own weapon, but then not allowed to use to block or attack with. Lols

By: Boss Naya Zoo Deck For Standard (Pro Tour San Diego Decklist)

Boss Naya Zoo Deck For Standard (Pro Tour San Diego Decklist) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:14:40 +0000

[...] Naya Zoo bears a passing resemblance to Naya Lightsaber. However, it has 0 Baneslayer Angels. Instead, it plays a Stoneforge Mystic package of Basilisk [...]

By: bro

bro — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:58:32 +0000

i like garruk for this deck, and exploiting the most powerful mechanic ever with spells like explore and creatures like plated geopede or dragonmaster outcast

By: kyle

kyle — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:28:43 +0000

Sure we would have seen birds of paradise but i think it would have been lotus cobra instead because of the simple pack that he plays fetch lands sure only 4 but that’s still enough to get the well needed red on any turn you need basically and sure jund can bolt it but i be like sure waste your bolt i will just get my land the old fashion way.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:25:19 +0000

noble hierarch is strictly better than birds simply because of it’s late game capabilities. Where birds is usually straight useless later on, heirarch can still be dropped as a 1-mana continuous pump for your baneslayer or other fatty.

Sure jund can just bolt it, but in my eyes it’s almost like making them waste a bolt on something you don’t necessarily need in the first place. I’ve done alot of testing with the deck and can, more often than not, get the mana I need the old-fashioned way, hierarch seems like he’s more there as a tempo accellerator than anything. If the slot was there for more of a mana-fixing standpoint, then I’m sure it would’ve been birds of paradise instead.

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:38:59 +0000

yeah, spellbreaker behemoth may be a great sb card now that blue control has started to be good again.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:28:49 +0000

I took out the extra vengeant in the board and put in spell breaker behemoth because vengeant was countered always when I played against grixis control.

By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:43:08 +0000

Yeah, exalted is crucial to make your other guys bigger. Exalted is much better than the ability to make red especially late in the game with Ranger of Eos.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:45:49 +0000

Why hierarch instead of birds of paradise. Is it solely for the exalted bonus. Birds could produce red.

By: Nic

Nic — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:31:05 +0000

It’s still the perception of a lateral mana base that’s screwing with your math. While ruinblaster does require 2 red to play kicked, it does not require that mana until the fourth drop. Similarly, Baneslayer does not require 2 white until the fifth drop, though it is helped by the presence of hierarch and the ability to fetch on 4 with ranger. The other source of the misperception is vengeant, who can tie up key resources. Getting from one red to to red is relatively hard in a tricolor without lands that come into play tapped, which ajani capitalizes on, but even worse than that is going from 2 to 3.

Long story short, higher colorless cost presence and vengeant make the line between a weak manabase more blurred due to allowing a less scripted manabase.