Fugitive Wards - Alex Leblanc

November Semifinalists

Notes: I found playing this deck is very entertaining.It's mostly defensive, but there's a lot of nice combos in it. (I once wound up playing Pacifism on a most important Master Decoy to protect it from Winds of Rath...) When playing this deck, remember this: the wards are your most powerful cards. (Of course, along with the Winds of Rath...) Not only do they provide the usual advantage of protection from a colour, but (1) they provide good card drawing capacity when used on the druids; (2) they can be used as buyback disenchants against anoing creature enchantments; (3) they can be moved around before and after casting Winds of Rath (which, by the way, is also the case with the licids...). This is why you should always keep white mana handy when playing the wards. In this setting, the seekers are also very potent cards. They do great in combo with the mana-elves and decoys. They also provide defense against those nasty Puppet Strings. Also remember this: if possible, don't put down to many creatures, you might not be able to protect a lot of them from an upcoming Winds of Rath... Overall, the goal here is pretty simple. If you can't manage a quick victory, hold off your opponent until you build up a good card advantage and clean the table of your opponent's creatures using Winds of Rath. Finally, managing the sidedeck is pretty simple. The cards you most oftenly should sidedeck are the licids and pacifisms, and when sidedecking, you should go for (1) anoints against direct damage; (2) eagles against decks depending on powerful enchantments (Death pits of Rath and the like...); (3) frog tongues if your opponent has to many flyers. The rest is pretty obvious. Note: Beware of Lobotomy, Coercion and all counterspells! They can cause a lot of trouble with the management of the wards...

Deck Contents

Main Deck

Multi-coloured
3x Ranger en-Vec

Green
2x Charging Rhino
4x Fugitive Druid
1x Mirri's Guile
2x Nurturing Licid
2x Seeker of Skybreak
4x Skyshroud Elf

White
2x Disenchant
4x Flickering Ward
4x Hero's Resolve
4x Master Decoy
2x Pacifism
2x Staunch Defenders
3x Winds of Rath

Sideboard

White
2x Anoint
3x Circle of Protection: Shadow
2x Cloudchaser Eagle
2x Light of Day
2x Warmth