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 White Weenie. A classic deck from the olden times of Magic. Back when seeing a third turn 6/6 pro-red shadow creature was common. A time when almost any creature could be removed from the game by just tapping a lone Plains. Times have changed, greatly.
White Weenie hasn’t really been a playable deck for a few years now. This is something that saddens me because I love the deck. I was thrilled to see a WW deck placed high in a high covered Extended tournament six months ago. I naturally built the deck, but only to find the deck was pretty weak compared to other decks. I put the deck away for the most part and continued playing other decks.
Shift back to current times. Worlds is now over, and another season of Magic has ended. That means plenty of Extended Worlds decks to rummage through. I was thrilled yet again to find a few new builds of WW. These new builds seemed stronger then the one from six months ago. After some tweaking and play testing, this is what I managed to build:
Creatures:
4 Silver Knight
4 Meddling Mage
4 Ramosian Sergeant
4 Whipcorder
1 Masticore
4 Savannah Lions
2 Mother of Runes
Other Spells:
4 Brainstorm
2 Parallax Wave
4 Enlightened Tutor
2 Seal of Cleansing
1 Crusade
1 Worship
Lands:
13 Plains
2 Islands
4 Flooded Strands
4 Adarkar Wastes
SB:
4 Orim’s Chant
1 Arcane Lab
1 Seal Of Removal
2 Absolute Law
2 Parallax Wave
1 Karma
1 Serenity
2 Mother of Runes
1 Propaganda.
The power of this deck comes from its ability to change from aggro to control if needed. Playing against a control deck? Stick with aggro. Playing against Goblins? Here comes the Propagandas and Absolute Laws to control the game all day. Enlightened Tutor is the card that allows it to make the change.
Round 1: Destan
Now Destan is playing Reanimater, a deck that WW can usually stomp. It helps that he is playing a slower version of the deck too.
Both games he doesn’t really draw Reanimation spells. Even if he did, I had Waves, Whipcorders, Meddling Mages, and countless other spells to keep those creatures from getting into play. Not much he can do.
Round 2: Rudy
Rudy is playing ‘Tog. WW has a decent match up against the deck, but I did about no play testing against the deck because I am a moron. Oh well.
Game one I get stomped. We both drew too much land, but WW is hurt from drawing too much land more then Tog is.
Game two I sideboard in the Chants, the Karma, and the Moms. This game went by pretty quickly. First turn I dropped a Lions, and second turn I dropped another Lions and a Mother. Those cards alone that quickly are enough to make a slow control deck like Tog cry. The two Orim’s Chants I played were just icing on the cake.
Game three was long and drawn out. I played threat, he dealt with threat. I play three creatures, he Infests and I play three more. It came down to him having two Togs, and me with only a few small chump blockers. At that moment I knew I had to draw a powerful card, and was thrilled to draw the Karma. My thrilledness was smacked away though when I noticed that he only had one Swamp in play. I played it anyway, hoping I could chump long enough to last long enough for the Karma to kill him. I managed to live just long enough for the Karma to kill him.
Round 3: Adam
Adam, being the bastard that he is, decided he wanted to go 5-0 again with Minds Desire.
Game one I mulligan down to 5. I managed to Brainstorm into 2 Lions, but that wasn’t enough.
Game two I fucked up and didn’t play my sideboarded in Chant at the best possible time. Adam then decided to start playing solitaire....
Round 4: Scott.
Scott was playing U/G Madness, another deck I probably should have play tested more against, but didn’t.
Both games were pretty close. He got early wonder, which made me go the Whipcorder route to keep alive. It came down to my Waves stalling his creatures so that I could attack in two fatal sweeps each game.
Round 5: Paul
Now Paul is playing a random Soldier deck that I probably could have stomped, but I didn’t want to give Lady Luck the opportunity to screw me out of a T4 place. Since Paul couldn’t make it even if he won, I offered him half my prize to concede to me. He accepted after I reassured him that I wasn’t kidding.
This made me 4-1, and gave me a second place finishing. Paul got half my prize, but what I cared about was the points. This second place finish gave me enough to regain my fifth place standing.
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