Legacy: Bant 'Maverick' update.

With Reid's recent win at SCG Legacy at Indianapolis, Bant has been put back on the map. While his particular build seemed a bit underpowered to me personally, I do think the deck has potential if a few changes are made.


In particular: Commander 2013 all-star True-Name Nemesis seems like it gains a lot of value with Exalted, and mana acceleration to cast it on turn 2 consistently.

I would be thinking something like this:


W: 15
U: 14
G: 14

//23
4 Windswept Heath
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Karakas
2 Tropical Island
2 Savannah
4 Tundra
4 Wasteland
1 Horizon Canopy

//18
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Gaddock Teeg
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Knight of the Reliquary
3 True-Name Nemesis

//19
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Batterskull
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Brainstorm
3 Daze
4 Green Sun's Zenith
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Sideboard
4 Force of Will
3 Enlightened Tutor
1 Humility
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Grafdigger's Cage/Tormod's Crypt (RIP is kind of bad with your knights)
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
2 Flusterstorm
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Bojuka Bog

I've always personally been a fan of the Enlightened Tutor sideboard plan in Maverick-style decks, since it gives you a TKO vs a lot of decks for very little cost. Is Humility the best card to play in that slot for Sneak/Show? I would assume so, and it has a lot of utility vs decks like Elves, and even Reanimator to a lesser degree (although it's really really really slow versus them).

Honestly, the mana is shakier than I'd like, and perhaps Jace isn't even that 'good' anymore here (especially since enemy TNNs kill it on sight). If Jace is bad, we can definitely shave down on the blue commitment and play more annoying creatures.