Wacky Wednesdays: Junk Enchantments

Wednesday Morning MTG? That can't be right... Well, after a short bit of time, I realized I need more content posted then just one Artist of the Week on Monday. So I wanted to do more. I didn't have the time then, but I do now...

On Release Day, Journey Into Nyx becomes legal to play in tournaments, you can buy it, etc. So I bought six packs and used pieces from my prerelease boxes to come up with what seems like a terrible deck. Well, time to go back to Junk, the colors I played during Standard for months after Gatecrash. Let's see what screwed up deck I made this time...

Good Junk Stuff (White/Black/Green)

5th Place, Red Battle Games Release Day: Danville, VA 2 May 2014

Creatures x4 Soldier of the Pantheon x4 Phalanx Leader x2 Underworld Coinsmith x1 Nyx-Fleece Ram x2 Boon Satyr x4 Loxodon Smiter x1 Pharika, God of Affliction x2 Dawnbringer Charioteers x2 Desecration Demon x1 Eidolon of Blossoms x2 Archangel of Thune Land x4 Godless Shrine x4 Overgrown Tomb x4 Temple Garden x2 Temple of Silence x3 Temple of Plenty x1 Mana Confluence x1 Plains x2 Swamp x1 Forest	Artifacts x1 Spear of Heliod x1 Bow of Nylea Planeswalkers x2 Ajani, Caller of the Pride x2 Vraska the Unseen x2 Elspeth, Sun's Champion Enchantments x3 Aspect of Gorgon x2 Sunbond
Sideboard x2 Ajani's Presence x2 Oppressive Rays x2 Bloodcrazed Hoplite x1 Deicide x2 Reprisal x2 Scavenging Ooze x2 Banishing Light x2 Mistcutter Hydra

This post does more than show some crazy deck I ran and did a decent job with; it also shows what decks I originally wanted to put up here: decks that are built using the couple cards from boosters and trades anyone could do (if you're lucky, I guess). I do have playsets of shocklands, working on scry lands (Malady and Epiphany are left), and I have other important playsets like Soldier of the Pantheon, Desecration Demon,  Loxodon Smiter, and Boon Satyr but most came from packs anyway. Either way, I like coming back to decks that don't cost an arm, a leg, another arm and another leg, a torso, neck, and a couple ears. But affordability is a different topic for a later time.

So here we are... Let's take a look:

So for some reason I figured Phalanx Leader Heroic would be great in this deck, which with five auras and two Boon Satyrs, that really didn't happen. Total waste of space, yet I now have a Phalanx Leader playset (which is odd that I don't after two boxes, a fat pack, and multiple other boosters).

  

With all the other cards, I figured I could make Pharika a creature. Only game I saw her, she was countered... It was a weird BUG control deck, which was actually pretty cool, but difficult to get around. Underworld Coinsmith was great because I had 15 total enchantments to play, and this plus Nyx-Fleece Ram would fuel Archangel of Thune (either couldn't play or didn't stick) or keep Mana Confluence from draining too much out of me.

    

So plenty of lifegain to help Archangel of Thune, plenty of green and black things to get Pharika to get Devotion, and then the artifacts to help me along, Aspect of Gorgon for heroic triggers and hopefully use deathtouch to take out something big. The planeswalkers were just icing on the cake (but difficult to play)...

    

So Ajani protects or sends something nasty into the air, Vraska destroys things, and Elspeth just gives tokens.

Partway through round two I realized this was a terrible deck and would just not work... I got a round three bye and considered dropping, but played round four against that weird BUG control deck. I actually offered my opponent a 2-0 after the first game because I just wasn't feeling great, but we played out the rest of the match and I wound up getting it 2-1. A large Scavenging Ooze and a strong Mistcutter Hydra helped a lot, especially to stop the countering of things.

  

If I ever ran this again, it'd definitely get revamped. It's not great now but struggled through somewhat. It definitely could use some work after playing it, but I've considered getting out of tournament play after Friday. Next Monday, I will be posting an article I've been working on for two months, so Modern at this week's FNM may be my last tournament for a little while (until Game Day, then I'll take another break). Might take time off to do some EDH instead of tournament play. The player base has changed and I'm not in the atmosphere I'm fond of that came with the shop in my college town. I will, however, continue building decks and testing them with friends for Standard and Modern formats, but I might just step out of playing tournaments at this shop (except when promos are involved. I do love my promo collection).

Hope everyone has enjoyed this mid-week interjection of Magic, good luck Friday (if you play at FNM), and I'll see you again Monday.