The sideboard cards are mostly self explanatory, Relic of Progenitus good for fighting off any GY interaction, mostly sees play against control decks running lots of Snapcaster Mages, great for shutting them down.

Kataki, War's Wage pretty much exclusively there for Affinity, it pretty much hoses that deck and makes that match up incredibly lopsided.

Linvala, Keeper of Silence shores up our games against creature based combo decks such as Kiki-Pod and Twin and is good in the mirror.

Leyline of Sanctity for Burn/8 Rack/Jund/Scapeshift, pretty much any decks that runs a lot of targeted effects, also can be useful against U-Tron to stop Mindslaver locks.

Runed Halo fills so many rolls, great versus a ton of decks in the format functioning as a cheaper leyline is some cases.

Angel's Grace once gain in there for combo most of our SB is dedicated to fighting combo decks.

Tempest of Light this is kind of a meta call, it's there for Bogles because screw that deck.


Now let's look at my deck list, i'll go over some of the cards and explain my reasoning for them, Mana Tithe is probably the strangest card in here, now i've not had a ton of time to test it MB so it's probably the shakiest card MB right now, but it catches people off guard, and making them play around it early/mid game can be crucial, especially against combo where this card more than pulls it's own weight.

Gideon Jura is probably another card people might not think is super great in this deck, but he's a big body that can help close out games, he gives us another form of creature removal which is never a bad thing, and if need be he can absorb pressure from creatures for a few turns, plus he fits in our mana curve very well, unlike Elspeth who is often fighting Ranger or Wrath for T4, and has very little impact on the game initially, but in my opinion Elspeth just doesn't belong in this deck whatsoever.

Batterskull is another strange card, but i wanted to test it during the tournament and didn't really get to use it beyond 1 game that i had already lost, so i'm going to leave it in for now and see how it works.