You could go with a trio, but then you aren’t playing four Squadron Hawks. Two duos might be fine, but a quartet is really where you’re hoping to be. The other clear criteria is that they have to be named for a quartet. Naming your Hawks after your favorite whatever is all well and good, but it will be far more entertaining if whoever is on the other side of the table can recognize what you are talking about. Obviously, they had to be famous or else others would miss the joke. I try not to ride the trends too hard and generally make my own way, but this was just too cool not to copy, which led to a discussion of possible Hawk-jockings. In case you missed it, in his last article for SCG, Matt Sperling included a picture of his Squadron Hawks, each bearing the sharpied name of a Seinfeld character. Taking the words to heart, I decided this was not going anywhere I wanted to be (I hate 4 Chalice and Sphere decks) and cut my losses, focusing my attention instead on naming my Squadron Hawks. “Playsets of Chalice and Sphere seem good, right?” I asked the car.
I started brewing as a bassline joined synthesizer. A reliable way to kill of the Persecutor that didn’t involve cards that you would never otherwise play (looking at you, Consuming Vapors) seemed like the only thing standing in the way of a real Persecutor deck. When Go for the Throat was spoiled, many people – myself included – thought that the Persecutor was ready for a surge. Some time later, talk drifted towards Abyssal Persecutor. In the end I decided that I didn’t want to tweak the deck that much without having played it. With a curve that low it seemed like I would frequently not be able to truly abuse the Cobra, so it would be better as something else. My thinking was that the deck’s mana curve stopped at three, minus the Vengevines that I didn’t plan on hard casting and the two Overwhelming Stampedes. I flirted with the idea of cutting the Lotus Cobras for a short while. By this time I had been convinced that Bonehoard was criminally underrated and underplayed from my testing with CawBlade, so I decided to add a tutorable Mystic and a Bonehoard. I had initially thought that stock Jumanji lists played with Stoneforge Mystic and a few pieces of equipment and was surprised when the others in the car informed me I was mistaken. Where am I to go, now that I’ve gone to far?ġ 0 Sword of Feast and Famineġ Linvala, Keeper of Silenceġ Primeval Titan-> 2 Tectonic Edge/Stirring Wildwood So yeah, I set to work on a list that didn’t include Jace, the Mind Sculptor. The addition of protection from green swords and more blockers has made CawBlade less weak to Vengevine than previous blue decks, but it still an inconvenience that can quickly be upgraded to serious threat. Where Fauna Shamans go, Vengevines follow, allowing Jumanji to take advantage of another chink in CawBlade’s armor: like all blue decks, it is weak to nigh-uncounterable haste creatures. With a playset of both Fauna Shamans and Lotus Cobras, Jumanji is as well-positioned as any deck can be to take advantage of this. While the splashes of Black or Red have somewhat solved this, CawBlade is generally weak to an early threat that can do serious business before Day of Judgment comes online. Jumanji is a GW beatdown deck that was built to prey on several of CawBlade’s weaknesses. I hadn’t found a RUG list I liked, as I wasn’t good enough to untap with a Lotus Cobra before turn seven.
I knew Brian David-Marshall had played it and performed fairly well at a Star City Games open, but I hadn’t played with his list at all and I knew how tricky the sideboarding could be with that deck. You couldn’t pay me to play Valakut, I didn’t own any of the relevant cards for either Red Deck Wins or Kuldotha Red, and I didn’t want to bust out UG Wave again, as I hadn’t played it in a tournament since before Besieged was released. UW CawBlade was built and in my bag, all sleeved and ready to go, but I wanted to play something different. I was on my way to a standard tournament in Spokane and was working on decklists, including a list that didn’t start with four Jace, the Mind Sculptors. The lyrics of the Golden Earrings hit close to home. Help, I’m stepping into the Twilight Zone
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