Duels 2014 deck lists: Avacyn’s Glory and Masks of the Dimir

Exactly, it looks like a deck for dicks who can’t win by any other means than to bumrush their opponent in a format which is built around long-ish games.

Yes, Aggro is a valid playstyle and I use it sometimes, but from the tendencies, many decks in DotP don’t and won’t have the capabilites to deal with it due to their design.

Well, I certainly am looking forward to making Dimir work this time around. It seems that Wizards have realised that you might need to toss some noncreature card advantage, mill, and res into a deck built around the colours best at noncreatures, card advantage, mill, and res.

Then again, I wouldn’t really call three cantrips which happen to mill 2 a mill strategy, nor one res spell (which recurs, but still) a res strategy. Hmm. And only one counterspell out of the many delicious ones which would be available.

Well, maybe I’m looking at this deck wrong. I’m expecting a decent deck, that’s it. Oh, am I not clever. Anyhow. It might be playable, with some radical unlock swapping. 3 Vedalken Dismisser? Oh how kind of you, Wizards… can I now have a card which at least Timmy would play?

This might not sound like it, but I am looking forward to the Dimir deck. It looks to have a decent amount of ways to ensure the stuff which wants to hit can hit. If nothing else, we get a B deck with some actual Black spells in it. (Removal, because spamming that is literally all that Black does, all day.)

I even understand why it seems weak right now. Draw/Discard strategies can be very unfun against which to play, and it must build on synergy. I just hope that Wizards doesn’t overbalance it… again. In my opinion, if you find yourself empty-handed versus a deck like this one or maybe a slightly stronger one while they still have cards, then you entirely deserve to lose because you didn’t prevent them from going off.

Wizards knows. Wizards cares. Wizards won’t implement decks which win by turn 4 regardless of what you do, or such with OP Yeva.

On another note, it’s also refreshing to see some cards which are less than six years old. Powercreep is a real thing sometimes, and blame me for saying that, but playing exclusively with cards from four blocks back feels a bit off-time. Especially when 60% of the game’s decks are multicoloured and you’re excluding one of the most multi-friendly blocks printed. (In fact, I wouldn’t call RTR multi-friendly as much as “If you play mono, I will come to your house and murder you with a thousand papercuts while you sleep”-mono-unfriendly.)

I agree with toraka. Wizards made the decks pretty broke. dimir in 2013 was so bad for what I expected it to be and with this deck-list it might be just as bad, especially going against a deck like goblin gangland or the such. But on another wizards also tried to balance peacekeepers to not be a straight aggro deck. no matter how hard you try you wont have a very effective aggro deck with more one drops than twos with peacekeepers. that deck has the most 3 drops out of anything and most people that play online will leave those sort of things in. its only really when you play smart people who know how to build their decks that it becomes very aggressive and there are still ways to deal with them that wizards provides, albeit the the best, but still some options. For example, Crosswinds has a deck speed of 3 stars and yet everyone online runs it as a late game deck centered around bouncing time warp. but the truth is it is supposed to be a face paced deck centered around early drop fliers and bouncing back enemy creatures to make them not block or attack, so for example crosswinds should be a fair match-up to peacekeepers but thats not how a lot of people build their decks. But I do agree that gangland is really overpowered because it is the only truely aggro deck in a game where most deckas are mid range and even the late game decks that should be centered around control have shitty options

Rogue is very very good in 2 v 2. Granted, pairing up with someone with a few removals is pretty necessary.