Lands:
2 Forest
2 Plains
4 Brushland
2 Horizon Canopy
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Murmuring Bosk
4 Reflecting Pool
4 Vivid Meadow
3 Yavimaya Coast
1 Pendelhaven
Creatures:
4 Aven Riftwatcher
3 Cloudthresher
4 Mulldrifter
4 Riftsweeper
4 Shriekmaw
3 Wispmare
4 Saffi Eriksdotter
3 Venser, Shaper Savant
Other Spells:
3 Cauldron Of Souls
4 Momentary Blink |
   Soulblink.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
...I wrote about [TurboBlinkv2] quite a bit in
the original column, but as a recap basically the deck was all about
abusing Momentary Blink, with Saffi Eriksdotter functioning as a "free"
Momentary Blink when the creature is going to die, and Galepowder Mage
functioning as a slow-roll, reusable Blink provided he gets to attack.
The deck was incredibly powerful but struggled with mana problems and
sometimes felt like it just fell a tad short.
With Shadowmoor, I think the deck has the tools it
needs to step up to the next level. Here’s how I’d bring the deck into
the new Standard [see deck list].
...Friends of mine will surely laugh at this deck
since it’s got my fingerprints all over it - chock full of utility
creatures and recursion. Maindeck Riftsweepers? Well, consider this:
nearly half of the winners of the City Champs finals played Faeries
running Ancestral Vision, and a good number of Merfolk won and many of
them ran Ancestral Vision. Various Blue/Green concoctions are running
it. Richard Feldman’s Spectral Vision deck is named after the spell.
People have certainly caught on to this card in a big way, so I suspect
there will be plenty of occasions to use the Riftsweeper’s ability in
the coming metagame... and if nothing else, it can shuffle your
Momentary Blink back into your deck once you’ve flashed it back.
Maindeck Wispmare seems to be another natural metagame
inclusion due to the huge amount of Bitterblossoms running around out
there.
I’m a little torn between Aven Riftwatcher and Kitchen
Finks... right now I’m leaning towards the Riftwatcher because of its
flying ability, but I’m considering trying out the Finks. If nothing
else, I’ll probably run a couple Finks in the sideboard just to really
bury everyone who’s feeling like Dan Paskins now that Flame Javelin is
out there.
Let me just say, God bless Wizards for bringing back
Reflecting Pool; I didn’t mind the Shimmering Grottoes in earlier
versions of TurboBlink, but I was also running Birds and Walls of Roots
so the extra mana to color fix worked out okay. Reflecting Pool + Vivid
Lands = Good mana, yay! |
