4 Color Aggro

[thomasdm]

4c Aggro
// Lands 3 Swamp 3 Plains 3 Marsh Flats 3 Rupture Spire 4 Exotic Orchard 4 Savage Lands 4 Jungle Shrine // Creatures 2 Wild Nacatl 3 Woolly Thoctar 4 Putrid Leech 4 Sprouting Thrinax 4 Bloodbraid Elf 1 Baneslayer Angel	// Spells 3 Sign in Blood 3 Lightning Bolt 3 Blightning 2 Naya Charm 3 Path to Exile 2 Vines of Vastwood 2 Burst Lightning	// Sideboard 1 Sign in Blood 4 Thought Hemorrhage 2 Doom Blade 1 Lightning Bolt 2 Naya Charm 1 Path to Exile 2 Vines of Vastwood 2 Baneslayer Angel

Any criticism or suggestions would be great. Main concerns are Vines of Vastwood and a good finisher/5cc or 6cc drop. I went ahead and put Baneslayer Angel in, just because it's only 5 and typically runs well more or less no matter what. Also, any advice on the mana base would be great. I tried to get it balanced well on MWS' George Baxter analysis, but I forsee issues stemming from relying on four [/card]Rupture Spire[/card], which wouldn't be a problem if it were just slow, but it puts me back a mana each turn. Exotic Orchard seemed like a no-brainer given the prevalence of Jund and Naya.

[battlemaster]

Not a fan of Wild Nacatl in a deck that runs 3 plains no mountains and no duel lands. I'm sure you can find somethin better.

[BleinMono]

I think pure jund or naya will be more efficient, then there mix.
There will be a lot of mana problems here, and I cannot see a lot of advantages.
There are only two first drops and only 4 second drops - so the deck will be rather slow, mid-game aggro. And the mid-game creatures don't look very strong here.

[Zazirik]

Originally Posted by BleinMono

I think pure jund or naya will be more efficient, then there mix.
There will be a lot of mana problems here, and a cannot see a lot of advantages.
There are only two first drops and only 4 second drops - so the deck will be rather slow, mid-game aggro. And the mid-game creatures don't look very strong here.

This post is pretty much spot on.

Naya seems to be just better than this, as it's faster, has better card advantage, and a more stable manabase.

[Scouter3000]

Okay so I'm going to disagree with everyone else on this one. I think that a deck like this (Specifically a Naya deck with black for Blightning and Putrid Leech) can work well in the current standard environment.

However I see problems with the mana base. If I were to run this deck I would try something like this for the lands

Deck
Lands: 24 4 Arid Mesa 4 Verdant Catacombs 4 Rootbound Crag 4 Dragonskull Summit 2 Mountain 2 Plains 2 Forest 2 Swamp

That should run rather smoothly because the fetches will grab what ever basic you need for your duel and adding mountains will justify Wild Nac.

I would also run 4 Nacs, 4 Thoctars, 4 Blightning, and 4 Steppe Lynx. I'd run the Lynx because on it's own (playing one land a turn) its a pretty decent one drop but with 8 fetches he becomes a pretty big threat in the early game

[thomasdm]

Thanks!