Dies to Removal

[deck]1 Arid Mesa
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Flooded Strand
3 Forest
1 Gavony Township
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Plains
1 Savannah
1 Sunpetal Grove
1 Temple Garden
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Bastion
1 Wooded Foothills

1 Altar of Bone
1 Regrowth
1 Sylvan Library

1 Auriok Champion
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Benevolent Bodyguard
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Essence Warden
1 Eternal Witness
1 Fauna Shaman
1 Loyal Retainers
1 Mother of Runes
1 Soul Warden
1 Soul's Attendant
1 Suture Priest
1 Unruly Mob
1 Wall of Roots
1 Blade of the Bloodchief
1 Genesis Chamber
1 Lightning Coils
1 Apostle's Blessing
1 Chord of Calling
1 Eladamri's Call
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Path to Exile
1 Ranger's Guile
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Vines of Vastwood
1 Worldly Tutor
1 Fecundity


SB: 1 Saffi Eriksdotter
SB: 1 Grand Abolisher
SB: 1 Luminarch Ascension
SB: 1 Reclamation Sage
SB: 1 Harmonic Sliver
SB: 1 Dosan the Falling Leaf
SB: 1 Stony Silence
SB: 1 Umezawa's Jitte
SB: 1 Stoneforge Mystic
SB: 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
SB: 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
[/deck]

I was just thinking the other day that if I ever got around to building a Tiny Leader, it'd be Saffi. I think I'd try to have a bit more of an aggro backup plan though. Seems to me your entire gameplan revolves around Loyal Retainers, without whom you probably just lose. Not that you shouldn't play him, because he's awesome, but I'm thinking Emancipation Angel and Kor Skyfisher to get some beats in while helping with an EtB plan, and Serra Avenger just seems too good to pass up. Saffi does a passable job at protecting key attackers.

With a 50 card deck, is Altar of Dementia good enough? Life is so much harder without Reveillark... Probably not.

How much do artifacts and enchantments feature in this format? Is Aura Shards a good sideboard card?

Kitchen Finks is one you probably considered, but it seems good if you wanted to move away from the combo a bit more.

Yeah I realize it might be a little to combo focused. It has yet to be fully tuned, as I didn't really enjoy playing the list that much, just not my style.

Grand Abolisher, however, is a house in this format.

I mainly plan on focusing on my nin deck, and anex or zo zu. I think Saffi has a lot of potential in this format, because other than playing a heavy double red deck with 3 mana board wipes, it can be hard to overcome the advantage she can generate.

Aura Shards seems legit. Swords/Equips are everywhere, so is library.