Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

     lets go back to when Tezzeret was first spoiled. at that time everyone and their mothers were pretty excited to see where he would land.people were speculation on if he was going to compete with Jace the Mind Sculpter, KYT said 80 minimum and it look liked it was actually going to happen for a short time.
     now lets fast forward a bit. Chapin creates Tezzeret Build and takes it to Paris, Smi77y is going fucking crazy about Legion of Doom(i fucking refuse to use mind hammer) and i had been testing this thing for a while Sans Jace the Mind Sculpter and had pretty fair results. the deck was even doing to so well as to get coverage on SCG then on the Mothership.
      it was a grand deck and idea that most people hadnt thought of.
now lets fast forward to now...there not much with Tezz now. With the breaking out of Stoneforge mystic then the banning of Stoneforge mystic and Jace the Mind Sculpter, standard took a different route. At one point it looked like Tezzeret decks might actually become Tier decks and Good Old tezzeret might actually make a showing in some top 8s. he is now seldom talked about now and it doesnt look like hes going to get the love that he was looking for... but what happened?
     well for one Standard took a different route thank most people expected. With the Explosion of Cawblade and its variants, Tezz decks were actually pushed to the side. the closest that he saw play was in Brian Kiblers UB infect control build and even so he was a 1 of and eventually he would be removed from the deck entirely. other than Kiblers deck, you dont see much of him anywhere other than MTG salvation forums and that place is a trap for people looking for new decks to play. everyone is awful and they think their decks are the best, be warned.
hmmmm i am going to wrap this up by saying Dump the Tezzerets before the new liliana vess emerges. i dont believe that there is a future for him or there would already be a home in which he would have many victories in. Jace is gone so you cant really say that hes stopping tezzeret and Standard is a whole new world in which anything is possible...except for Tezz. the hype around him was great and its gone now so theres no real reason to keep him. and if you really want to stretch and say that he might be good in future sets...the next set has fucking vampires and zombies...pretty sure they wont be using many artifacts. OH! and Angelic destiny might open up Auras, thats just my guess. stock up on those bitches and aruamancers and ICHORIDS, get those before they hit 15 GETTEM!

I am really not even sure what to play ring now. I have a spiritdancer brew in the works right now. My pen is writing a nice little list but my brain is telling me not to do it. I am just so frusterated at the lack of results that architect is putting up. I don't have the proper cards to fill in for rebeccaw black. I don't want to buy more magic as I need to save for gencon... I seem To be lost in the world of standard... With the bannings came change, a hangs I welcomed but now... I don't know what to do...

new Grand architect.

8 island
7 swamp
1 halimar depths
4 darkslick shores
4 inkmoth nexus

4 preordain
4 dismember
4 gitaxian probe
4 grand architect
4 thrumming bird
4 everflowing chalice
3 treasure mage
3 phyrexian metamorph
3 lodestone golem
2 wurmcoil engine
1 mind slaver
1 contagion engine
1 liliana vess
1 tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

SB
3 torpor orb
2 consume the meek
3 psychic barrier
1 phyrexian metamorph
1 haunting echos
1 batterskull
4 mental misstep

its not a 60 card list so dont think your miscounting when your reading the list.

UW spiritdancer and LD

4 kor spiritdancer
2 sun titan
2 auramancer

4 mana leak
4 ponder
4 spreading seas

3 pacifism
1 spirit mantel
1 angelic destiny
3 oblivion ring
2 day of judgement
3 eel umbra
3 hyena umbra

right now this is the shell for the Spiritdancer deck. the deck will get a boost from Oblivion ring as a stronger piece of removal. i am still questioning using Days becuase of the addition of ORings. Orings will deal with threats earlier and if something is indescrutable such as blightsteel, i can just oring it and not have Day in my hand as a dead card. the only real reason to keep Day of Judgment in the main is because of the increasing amounts of talk about RDW and how it will be such a force in T2 come M12 and the rotation of Zendikar.
     What people dont realize is that Mesa Enchantress is too clunky for this deck. it costs three mana to play but at that point your going to want to be online with enchantress and starting to swing with her or spreading seas for lots of Card Advantage while you keep an eel umbra in hand for protection.
     You can see in the list that i only run 1 Angelic Destiny and it might change depending on how Spirit Mantel plays out. Right now i believe that Prot Creatures is pretty strong with the pod deck catching wind and   vampires remaining strong in standard. Prot creatures allows you to deal lethal amounts of damage when you feel you have the kill and you can defend all day when attached to Auramancer and Spiritdancer.
     As i feel with all the decks that i put together, this can use lots of work and testing and just finding the right color to complement the Auras and the Dancers. at one point i considered using black just to give the Spiritdancers Infect to kill fasters and i have access to hand disruption and multiple kill spells. but what most people have to understand that this deck can quickly become a control deck just by adding more blue counter magic and bringing in Sea Gate Oracles... you ever see an Oracle lay the beats with a Hyena Umbra? its pretty fucking sweet.


By the way i was suppost to put this up a long time ago but i forgot.
this is my friend wilsons RG LD decklist. he won a 1K with it and pretty much ruined alot of peoples day...it was fucking grand
3 lightning bolt
3 spawning breath
4 lotus cobra
4 nest invader
2 garruk wildspeaker
1 hero of oxid ridge
4 roiling terrain
4 melt terrain
4 goblin ruinblaster
4 acidic slime
2 inferno titan

4 scalding tarn
4 misty rainforest
4 copperline gorge
4 raging ravine
2 tectonic edge
4 mountain
3 forest

SB:
1 island
4 spell pierce
2 nature's claim
3 obstinate baloth
4 arc trail
1 lightning bolt

Architect...

So what's up with people looking at brad nelsons architect deck and just overlooking mine? I understand he won player of the year last year or something bit where is he now? Maybe people should actually look and try my list before they try a subpar one. What's the point of brewing something, posting results and sharing the list with people if they are just going to jump to the list that a pro posts?

Mental misstep

The card is way Better than people are giving it credit. Slowly but surely, people are starting to notice it's potential but not alot are saying it's going to be a definig card, well except for menor course. But what do I know, I just put the cards through a shitton of tests to provide results to back up my findings but hey I guess I don't know what I am talking about. The truth is mental misstep is going to be a very real and a very solid card in standard. As of now it stops rdw short of playing quality threats like goblin guide and lightning bolt, stops hand disruption and slows down the much slower splinter twin. Unjust beat ur splinter twin this past Friday after he tried to dig with preordains. Misstep handled that very nicely. I would keep going it I am in the process of writing this article for. 60cards on misstep and it's future in standard, i just want to get testing in before I continue to proclaim how great misstep is.
I am hoping that my Internet comes back so I can ship the article to smi77y soon.