Topic: [Standard] [Opinions] Selesnya Deck

Looking for some opinions on this deck:

http://deckbox.org/sets/316391

Just got into Magic last month and don't know much about deck building, so I've been calling this midrange without even really knowing if that's at all correct. 

I've played this quite a bit on Forge and Mage against friends and with another guy at work and it seems to work well, but I don't know how well it would do if I took it to my first FNM or in any other competitive setting.

Any help is appreciated

Re: [Standard] [Opinions] Selesnya Deck

This is a fairly standard Selesnya Midrange actually.  My one issue is that I dont think you need Farseeks.  I generally prefer to just run Arbor Elf, as it effectively gives you one more mana for one less, and it is also a little bit of board presence.  But beyond that this would do quite well at FNM.

Re: [Standard] [Opinions] Selesnya Deck

Tr11pod wrote:

This is a fairly standard Selesnya Midrange actually.  My one issue is that I dont think you need Farseeks.  I generally prefer to just run Arbor Elf, as it effectively gives you one more mana for one less, and it is also a little bit of board presence.  But beyond that this would do quite well at FNM.

Hey thanks for the reply.

I mainly added the farseeks to be able to pull the temple gardens out of my library since they are forest-plains and I have very few basic plains cards.

Do you think that's a good idea or would you still recommend substituting arbor elf?

Re: [Standard] [Opinions] Selesnya Deck

Well, the big question you need to ask yourself is how often do you miss the second plains for Silverblade Paladin.  Because that is the only 2 white card you have in your whole deck.  If you feel like you keep missing the 2nd white source, then I would keep them in.  However, if you draw Arbor Elf and Temple Garden, that acts as your second white source due to it being able to untap forests.  This allows turn 2 Silverblades, which is something you cant do with Farseeks.

Re: [Standard] [Opinions] Selesnya Deck

Tr11pod wrote:

Well, the big question you need to ask yourself is how often do you miss the second plains for Silverblade Paladin.  Because that is the only 2 white card you have in your whole deck.  If you feel like you keep missing the 2nd white source, then I would keep them in.  However, if you draw Arbor Elf and Temple Garden, that acts as your second white source due to it being able to untap forests.  This allows turn 2 Silverblades, which is something you cant do with Farseeks.

Ahh.. okay, great point.  Thanks for your help i'm going to try this out with Arbor Elf.