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Blinckx Aug 30, 2015 @ 6:11am
White/Green is a boring deck
Today I played against 6 GW deck, they were the same kind of deck, same cards, same strategy and i won every time, using blue/red spell only deck, mono black, artifact deck and blue/black milling deck.
GW is a silly deck guys, try something new, experiment with new synergies, read the guides over here but get over that deck.
Green/White is is so easy to counter that it is almost embarrassing, even mono red is a lot better than GW deck.
Of course it's just a suggestion, if you are so in love with that deck and you're having fun it's good for you, but with 251 cards available I'm sure you can find something better
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MrModeste Aug 30, 2015 @ 6:31am 
Well it's a pretty straightforward deck, without much control, but I like to play it sometimes.

I am having less success with it than with other easier decks such as a B/R (Rakdos) sacrifice, as it is indeed very easy to counter, and has little to none synergy.

Blinckx Aug 30, 2015 @ 7:18am 
Originally posted by MrModeste:
Well it's a pretty straightforward deck, without much control, but I like to play it sometimes.
I am having less success with it than with other easier decks such as a B/R (Rakdos) sacrifice, as it is indeed very easy to counter, and has little to none synergy.

The funny thing is that the deck has great synergies but i never seen a GW deck using them
Battlefront Krushok + Patron of Valiant + two or three creatures with Renown is a terrific combo
Herald of the Pantheon is a gread card if you're going to use all those Enchantment
Valeron Wardens can speed up your deck a LOT
White has cards like Tragic Arrogance and Green has Evolutionary Leap
And so on

but the only GW deck i see around are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 2/1 creatures with nimbus wing.
MrModeste Aug 30, 2015 @ 7:25am 
I use Herald and Valeron Wardens, as well as Patron of Valiant. I have never thought of Battlefront Krushok, it might be a good idea. I feel like Nimbus Wings are quite useful in this deck, since they allow to easily reknown your creatures.

I'm not a good player in any stretch of mind though. I should consider improving it.

Maybe adding a third color, in order to increase control ? Like the "Destroy 3 power creature" black card ? I have never played 3 colors decks, so I don't know how it would go.
fafar Aug 30, 2015 @ 8:16am 
Originally posted by MrModeste:
I use Herald and Valeron Wardens, as well as Patron of Valiant. I have never thought of Battlefront Krushok, it might be a good idea. I feel like Nimbus Wings are quite useful in this deck, since they allow to easily reknown your creatures.

I'm not a good player in any stretch of mind though. I should consider improving it.

Maybe adding a third color, in order to increase control ? Like the "Destroy 3 power creature" black card ? I have never played 3 colors decks, so I don't know how it would go.
I think the problem of green white is indeed its lack of control. But splashing black seems interresting. With "Destroy 3 power or less creatures" in black, and "destroy 4 power or more in white you can handle almost everythink.

The problem of the 3rd color splashing is that it slow you down because you need a lot of dual lands. But for this purpose gatekeeper vine helps you to tempo and be reliable.
Voilodion Aug 30, 2015 @ 8:20am 
Originally posted by Blinckx:
Originally posted by MrModeste:
Well it's a pretty straightforward deck, without much control, but I like to play it sometimes.
I am having less success with it than with other easier decks such as a B/R (Rakdos) sacrifice, as it is indeed very easy to counter, and has little to none synergy.

The funny thing is that the deck has great synergies but i never seen a GW deck using them
Battlefront Krushok + Patron of Valiant + two or three creatures with Renown is a terrific combo
Herald of the Pantheon is a gread card if you're going to use all those Enchantment
Valeron Wardens can speed up your deck a LOT
White has cards like Tragic Arrogance and Green has Evolutionary Leap
And so on

but the only GW deck i see around are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 2/1 creatures with nimbus wing.

To be fair, most of the cards you listed are uncommon or rare. Perhaps you have just recently been matched up with a lot of players who haven't acquired that many cards yet. Not to dismiss your overall point, which is legitimate, but it's a possibility.
joefitts63 Aug 30, 2015 @ 8:56am 
Yep, the GW enchant deck is one of the few simple builds when you don't have anything but the starter and the few boosters you get easily. Most of the synergy cards you have to get through boosters, so they are often missing. Plus, with the AI decks being so slow, it is an easy deck to use to farm gold against the AI.
Last edited by joefitts63; Aug 30, 2015 @ 9:07am
Netherpongo Aug 31, 2015 @ 7:02am 
I've been playing GW primarily since I got Duels and I went 9-0 before I started losing at all. After that things got a little more rough, (seemed like 50/50 for a while) but I'm rank 16 now so I must be winning more than I'm losing. Almost got a rank 25 guy last night.

Removal is hard to come by in those colors, so it is a somewhat straightforward deck, but there are still important choices to make while playing. The subgame of figuring out how to trigger all my renown creatures keeps things interesting.

It can be a challenge to get the cards you need. For a while I couldn't get even a single copy of Wild Instincts, which left me with trying to trick them into a bad block for removal options. It's getting better now though.

Sounds like bad GW decks to me. Probably not enough renown critters.

And yeah, solo games vs the AI are usually a joke. I go two games in a row sometimes without the AI casting a relevant spell.

Sidenote for #4: Gatekeeper Vine is not tempo. It's completely opposite of anything we could call tempo. Maybe you meant card advantage?
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