Arena Standard - [MID] Selesnya Landfall

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Ramp, clear the board, snowball to victory. Struggling with sideboard so let me know if you have any ideas. So far gone from Bronze to Silver and I've been having a blast. Prosperous Innkeeperimage + Scute Swarmimage + Felidar Retreatimage and Esika's Chariotimage + Wrenn and Sevenimage are nice synergies. Used to play Ashaya, Soul of the Wildimage and Verdant Masteryimage but things just didn't go as planned ever. Today I've only seen monoW or something-white aggros and Doomskarimage is a free-win button against those since most of the white indestructible cards rotated. Have fun!

Update: Play Field of Ruinimage instead of Crawling Barrensimage against The Book of Exalted Deedsimage nonsense! Added Verdant Masteryimage for massive ramp and 2-piece feels like the right number. Removed Druid Classimage because it's basically just losing a card and you need all the value you can get.

Testing: Went 3-3 and 6-3 in standard events. Blood on the Snowimage combined with Lolth, Spider Queenimage and pretty much anything else is nuts and this was the combo that destroyed me every time. There was a single azorius party running Linvala, Shield of Sea Gateimage which countered my Doomskarimage plan and overwhelmed me. However, the deck feels good to play against most of the current decks I've found and is able to overwhelm other decks even without playing Doomskarimage (https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/pq8hb1/overwhelming_werewolfgruul_feels_so_gooood_turn_5/). Looking forward to trying it out more, but I'm super-happy to go positive in events with my own brew :)

Update #2: Went 3-3 today in Standard Event because I was completely stomped by Izzet Dragons which seems very popular at the moment. Scute Swarmimage just doesn't feel like it gives enough reward for completing its requirements and Felidar Retreatimage is way too slow in meta filled with flyers. Esika's Chariotimage and Wrenn and Sevenimage are still very powerful and playing them feels better than playing anything else in the deck. For these reasons I have decided to abandon the landfall strategy and built a Simic Ramp deck which is still based around getting lots of lands, but the payoffs like Alrund's Epiphanyimage and Iymrith, Desert Doomimage are just so much more powerful than Felidar Retreatimage and Scute Swarmimage mainly due to speed. Running Decisive Denialimage also feels like it gives me that little edge over others which is missing from Selesnya. The Simic works well in Silver ladder, but I am yet to try it out in a more competitive environment. Despite all of that, I still think this is a great jank deck that is fun to play, unique, but trying to refine it I feel like there just isn't enough payoff for running white outside of Felidar Retreatimage which is a shame. I hope the ~90 of your that exported it are having fun with it and maybe some of you figured out the secret formula to making this competitive :) Either way, breaking even in standard events with an original build is a win in my book.

I don't plan on working on this version of the deck anymore, if you wish a less janky, more competitive standard selesnya list based around lands have a look at https://mtgazone.com/deck/selesnya-landfall-by-ryoichi-284-mythic-innistrad-midnight-hunt-standard-day-2/ , unfortunately I cannot test it out as I don't have any rare wildcards left. Good luck!

Mini-update: This Selesnya looks really promising and will likely be the favourite version of this deck in the coming days: https://mtgmelee.com/Decklist/View/167708 

Link to the Simic deck I'm running now: https://aetherhub.com/Deck/mid-simic-ramp 

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JeremyJoe
Last Updated: 24 Sep 2021
Created: 17 Sep 2021
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