I was previously brewing on a 3-color Dega list, but the rise of fatties like Tarmogoyf, Siege Rhino, Primeval Titan made me think that single-target removal (Path, Orzhov Charm) will be better as damage-based removal (Lightning Bolt, Lightning Helix) becomes worse. I cut the red and went straight black-white to support my hard human theme with access to MD Liliana, who becomes immeasurably better with Delver gone.
There's some nice synergy between all my 1-drops and Orzhov Charm, letting me re-buy my dudes in the long game. I can also use it as an unsummon to save my dudes from removal in a pinch.
[deck]BW Humans[/deck]
I brewed this up last night on my phone, and I'm currently playing it for the first time in the daily (because #yolo, $6 playtest is good EV
).Round 1: Win vs. Junk Midrange (2-0)
G1 - I'm on the draw. He strips my hand of a Dark Confidant with IoK. I play a Champion of the Parish. He strips my hand of a Path. I play a Thalia. He plays a Tarmogoyf, I kill it with Orzhov Charm. He plays another Tarmogoyf, I kill it with Orzhov Charm. He plays a Siege Rhino, I get rid of it with Path to Exile. I drop a pair of Student of Warfare and we play the go-wide game with his Treetop Village vs. my team of weenies.
G2 - I sideboard in Rest in Peace for an Orzhov Charm. The game plays out much the same way, except I draw a Liliana and he's forced to sacrifice a Scavenging Ooze and a Tarmogoyf before trying to stabilize with a Siege Rhino. I Orzhov Charm it for great justice.
Round 2: Win vs. UB Mill (2-0)
G1 - I'm on the draw. He plays a Watery Grave and passes, I think Grixis. I play a Champion of the Parish and pass. He plays an Island and targets me with Glimpse the Unthinkable. This is unthinkable! I play a Dark Confidant. He hits me with an Archive Trap after I fetch, which spills 3 Bloodsoaked Champion into the graveyard, among other things. I attack with my team, slap a Bloodsoaked Champion down (for a free +1/+1 counter), then do the same thing next turn with the other 2. He can't mill me fast enough, and I Orzhov Charm the two Hedron Crabs that he recruits for defense.
G2 - I sideboard in 1 Rest in Peace, 2 Runed Halo, 4 Leyline, 1 Linvala for 4 Path and 4 Orzhov Charm. I keep an opener with 2 Leyline, 2 Liliana, 1 Swamp, 1 Champion, 1 Runed Halo. I decide that being up a game, I can risk being stalled on land if he can't mill me. I indeed stall on land, but he has nothing to do with a hand full of mill spells. I finally draw a Plains, play my Dark Confidant which meets an Abrupt Decay, then find an Isolated Chapel to either play my Liliana or a Thalia. I go AFK for a bit to fill up on water, during which he concedes since mill is a deck for weak, ineffectual men.
Round 3: Loss vs. Nykthos Devotion (1-2)
I suppose I can't be mad, he had once-in-a-lifetime draws. G1 he hit me with the nut draw of Burning-Tree Emissary into another BTE into another BTE into a Wistful Selkie and then a giant Nykthos Genesis Wave on turn 4 to find a Craterhoof Behemoth. I beat him down the old fashioned way in G2, then he nut drew me again in G3. The only thing I had in the SB was a pair of Revoke Existence for his Utopia Sprawl.
Round 4: Loss vs. Affinity (1-2)
Mulled to oblivion in G2, then lost G3 to 3 Etched Champions
