[Deck] UG Merfolk

UG Merfolk

4 Kumena's Speaker
3 River Sneak
4 Deeproot Elite
3 Lord of Atlantis
3 Master of the Pearl Trident
3 Merfolk Branchwalker
2 Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
4 Merfolk Mistbinder
2 Jadelight Ranger
2 Deeproot Waters
3 One With the Wind
3 Waterknot
4 Forest
4 Island
3 Breeding Pool
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Botanical Sanctum
1 Sleep


Sideboard
1 Kopala, Warden of Waves
4 Silvergill Adept
2 Merfolk Trickster
2 Aetherize
1 Echoing Truth
4 Force of Negation
1 Sleep

Will likely edit it at Sally

This deck was originally formed on (of all things) ARENA.... of course that was standard.. so porting it to modern I was seeking to still retain the green portion of the deck will harnessing what modern had to offer.

I deliberately tried to not use aether vial. However spreading sea's synergy with Lord of Atlantis and Master of the pearl trident's island walk ability does pull this deck in a different direction..

I did not use spreading seas as the deck had evasion in the form of unblockables and flying via one with the wind... however spreading seas is very tempting.

One thing that I did not have is main deck echoing truth.... I figured since it was a substandard answer to T2 Hogaak which I think will likely not happen so often, I will take my chances and try to race via evasion. T2 Hogaaks are just part of the meta and are not consistent anyway. at least I am counting on that :p

Spreading seas and aether vial would slow down the deck... a little....

Foggy Kiora

This is a recent decklist I am messing with.

20140209_kiora_fog

Instant
4 x Sudden Storm
4 x Simic Charm
3 x Opportunity
3 x Ætherize
4 x Fog

Planeswalker
3 x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
3 x Jace, Architect of Thought

Sorcery
1 x Whelming Wave

Land
10 x Forest
4 x Temple of Mystery
6 x Island
4 x Breeding Pool

Enchantment
4 x Courser of Kruphix

Creature
4 x Sylvan Caryatid
3 x Prognostic Sphinx



The whelming wave is pretty iffy, the worsepart being that it returns all creatures including yours. It is bad enough that it is sorcery, but that it is subpar to things like Aetherize and sudden storm is just sad.

Still. 

Whelming wave is a free hit if you ever amass an army of Krakens. Well that and if WOTC decide to print good quality cheap Krakens, octopuses, Leviathan, or serpents.

The problem with that thought is often a timely fog or aetherize or sudden storm should leave the opposition board empty anyways.

Courser of Kruphix together with Prognostic Sphinx is pretty nasty, as the scry for 3 can present the free land more often than not.

Still this is all untested so it may be too slow for all I know =)

Still it does look somewhat viable.



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If you have tried this deck you would have noticed it has a serious flaw. It can fog for pretty long, but eventually it has no way to deal with the opponent's creatures. This is very risky. Hence I have tweaked the deck to this:

20140227_kiora_fog

Instant
4 x Polukranos, World Eater
4 x Simic Charm
3 x Opportunity
3 x Ætherize
4 x Fog

Planeswalker
3 x Kiora, the Crashing Wave
3 x Jace, Architect of Thought

Sorcery
1 x Whelming Wave

Land
10 x Forest
4 x Temple of Mystery
6 x Island
4 x Breeding Pool

Enchantment
4 x Courser of Kruphix

Creature
4 x Sylvan Caryatid
3 x Prognostic Sphinx

I have changed the Sudden Storms to Polukranos. The reason being that polukranos serves as both removal as well as threat. It also stabilises your board.

Sudden Storms are nice, but not that great against a swarm. For reference I goldfished the deck against a regular Blitz deck. Yes its a modern deck, but it is just representing aggro with a four turn clock, something I feel a deck should be able to have a 50% chance against if it is to be competitive.

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20140209_kiora_fogv3

Legend

4 x Polukranos, World Eater

Planeswalker

3 x Jace, Architect of Thought

3 x Kiora, the Crashing Wave

Sorcery

1 x Whelming Wave

Creature

3 x Prognostic Sphinx

4 x Sylvan Caryatid

4 x Courser of Kruphix

Instant

3 x Opportunity

3 x Ætherize

4 x Fog

2 x Cyclonic Rift

2 x Simic Charm

Land

4 x Breeding Pool

10 x Forest

4 x Temple of Mystery

6 x Island

Sideboard

1 x Pithing Needle

1 x Ætherize

2 x Simic Charm

3 x Gainsay

1 x Jace, Architect of Thought

1 x Kiora, the Crashing Wave

1 x Dispel

4 x Nullify

1 x Opportunity

Actually the only change I made is the exchange of simic charms for cyclonic rifts. Cyclonic rifts were found accidentally, its very nice for finishing your opponents off in an alpha strike (since you are Mr Fogman himself, you no fear the counterstrike!!)