4 Hand of Honor
2 Hunted Lammasu
4 Lantern Kami
4 Leonin Skyhunter
4 Suntail Hawk
2 Hokori, Dust Drinker
4 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
4 Glorious Anthem
4 Suppression Field
4 Otherworldly Journey
1 Shining Shoal
22 Plains
1 Eiganjo Castle |
 Kick
Out the Jitte.
Description of deck by Mike Flores (quoted):
The above is a version of White Weenie
proposed by Star City Games columnist Mark Young. It is interesting that
White Weenie came out of a format where all it wanted to do was to gain
and hold onto Jitte advantage... and then go in completely the other
direction and not play Umezawa's Jitte at all.
That said, Glorious Anthem is a reasonable offensive
alternative. While not as singularly dominating against other creature
decks as the Jitte, Glorious Anthem is somewhat faster and more
synergistic with the weenie swarm approach. That said, a deck like this
one could fall prey to an opposing Umezawa's Jitte, but for a new card
from Ravnica.
Suppression Field is actually much stronger than it
looks. I originally valued this card as a faster, purely white (rather
than de facto white) Damping Matrix... that didn't quite finish the job.
However Suppression Field hits decks with activation costs all over the
place, not just in their creatures and artifacts. For example, under
Suppression Field, it costs two more mana to sacrifice a creature to Miren,
the Moaning Well. In terms of Champs preparation, Suppression Field, while
not as generally powerful as Jitte itself, makes Jitte extremely clumsy.
Not only does it cost four big mana to move a Jitte under the Field, each
removal of a Charge Counter costs two as well! This card has no fan in
Meloku the Clouded Mirror, either. |
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