April 27th - Nats Qualifier CawBlade

In today's installment of Daily Decks, I will show you the CawBlade deck I played at last Saturday's Nationals Qualifier at Get Your Game On. Tournament report will be coming soon.


Before Regionals I talked about Caw and why I believed it was the deck to play. Unfortunately some shenanigans regarding my phone prevented me from going, so it was time to step up my game a week later at the GYGO qualifier. I played the following list:

U/W CawBlade | The Rusty Machete

9 Creatures:  
4 Squadron Hawk
4 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Sun Titan

24 Spells:  
3 Gideon Jura
1 Into the Roil
1 Jace Beleren
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Mana Leak
1 Mortarpod
3 Oust
4 Preordain
2 Spell Pierce
2 Sword of Feast and Famine

27 Lands:  
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Island
3 Plains
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
4 Seachrome Coast
2 Tectonic Edge

15 Sideboard:  
2 Condemn
1 Deprive
1 Divine Offering
1 Jace Beleren
4 Flashfreeze
3 Kor Firewalker
1 Celestial Purge
1 Volition Reins
1 Twisted Image

I chose the 4 Inkmoth route instead of 4 Tec Edge as I didn't respect Valakut enough. Inkmoth is an excellent Sword holder, and just having one in play makes opposing Jaces fateseal instead of Brainstorm. I was happy with the majority of the list.

Into the Roil was fantastic. I used it to bounce an opposing Mystic and to time walk an Overgrown Battlement. I also played against Precursor Golems from Valakut, but failed to draw it when it would've been amazing.

The Celestial Purge was intended to answer Koth, but I brought it in against B/R Vampires to good effect.

Twisted Image killed Overgrown Battlement twice, and I brought it in against Golem decks as another value card when Oust would've been bad.

Spell Pierce I actually never cast, and will likely be replacing it with a more aggressive card like Emeria Angel, Hero of Bladehold, or Tumble Magnet.

The I lost three games on the day, and two of them I misplayed pretty heavily before bricking on many outs. The deck's power level was absurd, with many games just totally out of grasp for my opponents by turn 5.  I highly recommend anyone playing in Qualifiers this weekend to play CawBlade.