White Winnie

By Frédéric Meurin on Monday 23 July 2007, 12:25 - Decks - Permalink

White Winnie is an all-time classic. In every format, you can find a deck with hundreds of low cost white creatures, high power, and a basic strategy : CHARGE !!!

White winnie (WW) is not the best aggro deck in peasant. Affinity is. But White winnie, with the recent additions from the Time Spiral block, has found some solutions to most of the gauntlet decks.

Ramosian Sergeant

The best peasant version is a Rebel engined WW, designed - again ! - by Christophe Deslandes, the Rebel mechanic providing the library manipulation and tutoring you might need.

20 Plains
4 Bonesplitter
1 Defiant Falcon
1 Whipcorder
3 Amrou Scout
3 Zealot il-Vec
4 Benevolent Bodyguard
4 Children of Korlis
4 Crimson Acolyte
4 Icatian Javelineers
4 Pegasus Charger
4 Ramosian Sergeant
4 Swords to Plowshares

Sideboard
4 Dust to Dust
4 Holy Light
4 Rune of Protection: Red
3 Divine Offering

It can deal with Affinity thanks to Pegasus charger (blocks a plated orni withouth dying, thanks to First strike), Whipcorder (by tapping the big Atog), and post side, with Dust to dust and Divine Offering (both spell will help against any heavily artifact based deck).
The classic RoP : red cuts Burn strategy out. Crimson acolyte doesn't help Burn nor Gobs, and it can be replaced with Obsidian acolyte (although a good build of Mono black should play Diabolic edict, and thus, don't fear the acolyte ability).
Decks with numerous creatures can be halted with your own hordes, and their abilities (Zealot and Javelineers are plagues for Gobs and Elves) and post side, Holy light can stand the Wrath of god slot.
On top of all these, you can use your Swords to plowshares to gain tempo. Against Affinity, it might be all that you need (hard to come back with an empty hand and an empty board after your 'tog's been "sworded").
Children of Korlis is probably the best answer you can afford to damage-based combo deck, and good news, it's a rebel !

Once you've dealt with menaces, you can use your own, that is, basicaly everything able to swing a Bonesplitter (sorry, no Jitte allowed in PEZ...)

WW might be a good deck to play if you don't know what your metagame is made of. As it is very polyvalent, it's also a good testing deck : everything loosing too many times to that deck should worry (although there is a most definitive test deck, that we'll discuss later).

Comments

1. On Friday 27 July 2007, 06:37 by kanoyams

I like Chris's build of White Weenie: It looks like it can do all the things that most WW builds need to do, like slow opponents down, while beating with small creatures. Ramosian Sergeant is probably the best one-drop available for the deck.

Personally, I prefer using Ancient Tomb as an accelerator in the uncommon slot. In place of Swords to Plowshares, I substitute in Gaze of Justice. It's not as good as Swords, but it's common and sometimes card advantage if you can get Ancient Tomb online.

Frontline Strategist should be a must have in most White Weenie decks, as it can be played as a Fog effect.

How has Chris's deck done in testing?

2. On Wednesday 12 September 2007, 19:33 by Ufactor

*cough* Empirical Armor *cough*

3. On Thursday 27 September 2007, 14:25 by Frédéric Meurin

I guess you're talking about Empyrial armor. It's a great Aura, all right. But it only works with a good drawing engine. Rebels offer one, but it's quite slow, and Land tax is just better at doing the job.

It's a choice, but it's not this deck's choice.