Tuning Basic Plains

At the end of the day, templating an existing archetype isn’t done just because you like certain cards better than the ones that are accepted in particular deck types; templating is done specifically to gain a legitimate strategic advantage in a matchup. It is successfully accomplished by understanding what threat cards are in the decks you expect, and by correctly answering those threat cards using mana efficient and consistent means. This build of White Weenie just does that by consistently holding the ground against opposing aggressive decks while providing a stronger late game via Spirit bombs. Other White decks can’t win fights, fail to remove whole classes of your key permanents even when their bombs are online.

I know that last week I wrote about Mono-Black Control and G/R Legendary Paddle, but something stuck in my head during all that testing. *White…

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