Blinking Goats

4x Figure of Destiny
4x Turn to Mist
3x Runed Halo
4x Kitchen Finks
4x Mirror Entity
4x Oblivion Ring
3x Springjack Shepherd
4x Wrath of God
4x Mulldrifter
3x Reveillark
4x Adarkar Wastes
4x Mystic Gate
13x Plains
2x Springjack Pasture

sideboard
4x Wispmare
3x Oversoul of Dusk
3x Unmake
3x Condemn
2x Story Circle


If I play goats FNM it might look something like this. Last night I was laying out cards trying to come up with an FNM goat deck, and I ended up looking at Mulldrifter and Reveillark. A few minutes later I didn't have enough cards with white mana symbols to warrant playing Springjack Shepherd. And I had to run either Ajani Goldmane or Mirror Entity as the win. (I took out wizened cenn because I have to combo her with the entity, and I don't like the chances of a bulky combo like that actually getting pulled off more than one out of three games.) Since I went reveillark, i took out finks in favor of bottle gnomes, which come recur. Which removed even more white mana symbols. So my goat deck slowly evolved into the esper deck I posted yesterday. I like that deck a lot, but I may not have the lands to play it, if Drok doesn't have them to let me borrow. So this will be my alternate.

As David pointed out (and I realized last night), turn to mist works well with reveillark and other comes into play/leave play creatures. Imagine a reveillark getting blinked at the end of my opponents turn, targeting a shepherd and a mirror entity. I get two or three goats and get my flier back. On my turn they'll have to figure out a way to stop five or more big creatures.

I still don't think it will be as consistent as the esper deck, but unlike the esper deck, it has a clear victory condition (my esper build pretty much relies on staying alive long enough for bitterblossom to kill off my opponenet). Either deck could be fun, so I'll just see what I can get the cards for and play it.

Any more thoughts or suggestions about either of these decks will be appreciated. I have a big paper I have to work on all night and tomorrow, so I won't have much chance to mess around with any of this until tomorrow afternoon.