{"id":613,"date":"2018-10-11T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2018-10-11T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:09:07","slug":"brewing-with-andy-soltari-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/brewing-with-andy-soltari-rites\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewing with Andy: Soltari Rites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello again, Premodern humans!\u00a0 With Land Tax<\/a> now seeing the Light of Day<\/a> in Premodern, I’ve seen some folks experimenting with the old Tax-Rack White Weenie deck.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve seen anyone going into red though, which was common in the old Extended version of the archetype.\u00a0 Essentially that’s what I have for you today, but with one very spicy twist!<\/p>\n

Soltari Rites<\/div>
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MAIN DECK | 60 cards<\/h4>
Lands: 19<\/div>
3<\/span> City of Brass<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Mountain<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Battlefield Forge<\/a><\/div>
6<\/span> Plains<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Wasteland<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Instants and Sorceries: 12<\/div>
4<\/span> Lightning Bolt<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Rites of Initiation<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Swords to Plowshares<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Creatures: 18<\/div>
4<\/span> Jackal Pup<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Soltari Visionary<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Savannah Lions<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Soltari Priest<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Soltari Monk<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Others: 11<\/div>
3<\/span> Scroll Rack<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Mox Diamond<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Land Tax<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

SIDEBOARD | 15 cards<\/h4>
2<\/span> Armageddon<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Disenchant<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Firestorm<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Pyroblast<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Winter Orb<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Deck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n------------------------------------------------\nSoltari Rites\n------------------------------------------------\nMAIN DECK (60)\n\nLands: 19\n3 City of Brass\n3 Mountain\n4 Battlefield Forge\n6 Plains\n3 Wasteland\n\nInstants and Sorceries: 12\n4 Lightning Bolt\n4 Rites of Initiation\n4 Swords to Plowshares\n\nCreatures: 18\n4 Jackal Pup\n2 Soltari Visionary\n4 Savannah Lions\n4 Soltari Priest\n4 Soltari Monk\n\nOthers: 11\n3 Scroll Rack\n4 Mox Diamond\n4 Land Tax\n\n\nSIDEBOARD (15)\n2 Armageddon\n3 Disenchant\n3 Firestorm\n4 Pyroblast\n3 Winter Orb\n------------------------------------------------\nDeck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n<\/div>
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This is a solid, fast aggro deck with a grindy streak a mile wide.\u00a0 The combo of Land Tax<\/a> and Scroll Rack<\/a> means that you can draw three extra cards a turn as long as you have fewer lands in play than your opponent, and that in turn means that you should be able to bury them in card advantage with nearly inexhaustible supplies of both threats and removal.<\/p>\n

We hit the ground running with Jackal Pup<\/a>s, Savannah Lions<\/a> and Soltari creatures, while Mox Diamond<\/a> keeps our land count low in order to trigger Land Tax<\/a>.\u00a0 While Scroll Rack<\/a> can use that artifical card advantage to draw real cards, we can also just kill our opponent out of nowhere with one of the deck’s namesake cards: Rites of Initiation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rites has the potential to be essentially a one-mana Hatred<\/a> with the right board state, throwing massive amounts of damage at our opponent with just a small handful of unblocked creatures.\u00a0 This is where our large number of shadow creatures come into play, which are unblockable in almost every matchup.\u00a0 I actually considered going whole hog with Soltari Foot Soldier<\/a>s and Soltari Trooper<\/a>s instead of the Pups and Lions, but the one-mana 2\/1s just provide too much value in the control and combo matchups to pass up.<\/p>\n

The deck is also quite good at removing blockers, with full playsets of Lightning Bolt<\/a> and Swords to Plowshares<\/a> being one of the main draws to playing red\/white.\u00a0 Firestorm<\/a> comes out of the side to blow out opposing creature decks, and we can also board into a pretty heavy mana denial package with Armageddon<\/a> and Winter Orb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So what do you think?\u00a0 Does this deck have what it takes to compete with Sligh and Goblins in the aggro category?\u00a0 As always, leave comments in the Premodern Facebook group<\/a>, or hit me up on Instagram<\/a> @mtgdojoera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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