After some deliberation, Brenna and I have made some interesting changes to her Lark decklist. Brenna's pointed out the the Kitchen Finks are a little iffy on the aggro front, and can't be bought back with Lark, so they were an easy drop for us. Also, a lot of matches are going to be really tough with no board sweepers, especially none main, and enchantment removal could be a huge problem. Speed and tempo were also issues we were facing, specifically against aggro and control. I think the new list is a definite improvement (with a lot of help from Todd Anderson). The only problem is this list completely drops Smash to Smithereens, a card Brenna specifically requested we hang on to, and leaves her with basically no artifact removal. I'm thinking that since most people only play with one or two Needles, it won't be an issue because of how many bombs the deck packs.
3 Mogg Fanatic
3 Figure of Destiny
1 Flamekin Harbinger
4 Fulminator Mage
2 Ranger of Eos
3 Reveillark
3 Siege-Gang Commander
2 Knights of Meadowgrain
1 Stillmoon Cavalier
4 Mind Stone
4 Ajani Vengeant
3 Wrath of God
4 Spectral Procession
3 Plains
4 Mountain
4 Jungle Shrine
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Rugged Prairie
4 Windbrisk Heights
Sideboard:
4 Guttural Response
2 Burrenton Forge-Tender
3 Path to Exile
3 Volcanic Fallout
2 Wispmare
1 Wrath of God
Deck seems solid. I would just like to point out that most R/W Lark builds that are all packing Wrath and Fallout need the persist creatures in murderous redcaps and kithen finks to be able to deal with decks like doran or tokens that rely heavily on their creatures. Just something to think about as B/W token has zealous persecution to win the battles against you and G/W tokens has overrun to get there.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the the tip, Bryan, that makes a lot of sense. I was thinking that Intimidation Bolt would be good tech against BWT, but it's been hard to find someone with a deck to playtest against (surprisingly).
ReplyDeleteRedcaps and Finks have definitely been floating around in our maybe pile since we started building, and considering how many Overrun decks I've been seeing, and how badass BWT is proving to be post ARB, they might have to be put back in. Brenna's been proving that the creatures Lark needs to grab the most are Fulminator and Siege-gang, so it should work out pretty ok.