Second Changes, part two

Only got one game in tonight (we played Horde variant, which is pretty rough -- horde needs to be less swingy).

So, first off -- Anger is incredibly good. I kinda hate it, but them's the breaks. I'm trying to chalk it up as yet another bit of utility, but haste is sooo good in multiplayer.

Secondly: Haakon needs something a little better. Ethersworn Adjuticator and Knight of the Reliquary are both solid drops; one's a beater that can also kill dudes and play on defense, while the other's a solid beater that can grab a touch of utility before it starts crashing through the gates. I don't have an Adjuticator at the moment (but I will -- $1 mythics ahoy!), but I do have my Knights of the Reliquary, which are just wasting their time in the Conflux box. Both will come in, but we're going to start with what I got -- Knight of the Reliquary. (On the utility side is Court Hussar, who's crazy solid, too, for a slower game.) In addition, one or two karoos might go in with Knight; Plains --> Bojuka Bog --> Karoo --> Bojuka Bog --> Karoo --> Bojuka Bog, /hip thrust. You can just picture it, you know?

Second: My tutors need to be more targeted. Mystical is terrible, because it's almost always fetching other tutors, it's usually too slow to get answers and I don't have any powerful, game-advancing sorceries or instants to grab when it comes down to it. There's quite a few better tutors for this deck -- Eladamri's Call, Liliana Vess, even Sylvan Tutor all spring to mind -- but I think that, since I can't play with Gifts Ungiven, I'll go with No. 2 (with an air pellet) Intuition. Intuition's really nice in that it can grab answers (Path, Swords, Crib Swap), it complements Haakon, it can grab Haakon, and it does it all at instant speed with no inherent card disadvantage. I'm kinda in hearts with you, Intuition, but you're no flashy one-night stand like Aluren. You're solid, you're a workhorse, you can bring home the bacon. Your brown eyes make me swoon, baby.

So, that leaves us with two cards to drop. Avatar of Woe is going to go out for Ethersworn Adjudicator, but we haven't crossed that particular threshold yet. (We've also only played Avatar once so far.)

Paradoxically, Ashes of the Fallen is high on my list of "meh" lately. I'm trying to hone Haakon a tad more, and "you can play your crappy dudes from the grave over und over" just doesn't cut it. That being said, it's staying on for a little while longer -- I've got some other nonsense to cut first, and Ashes + Haakon gets a lot better with small utility dudes that like to die. (Magic: It's more vicious than you'd think.)

So what's coming out? Crop Rotation and Mystical Tutor. We've gone over Mystical Tutor's painful, sad life in this deck. Crop Rotation, though, is truly miserable -- its entire job in life is to get Bojuka Bog. That's literally all it's there for. Before I over-fixed the mana base, it would sometimes fix colors; those days are done, though, and unless I put in a Maze of Ith and an Academy Ruins, Crop Rotation just ain't earning its pay.