So, recently I've been trying to solve the Vintage puzzle of beating Shops, PO, AND Jeskai all at once and I've come upon an old friend: Selkie Strike! I'd love to make this deck good again as I was it's original founder back in 2008 or so. So I won't give a whole back-story on the deck unless folks want a whole article on that at some point. Suffice it to say, I think I've found a new variant of the deck that runs some new mana-denial elements that fit a lot more now than Stifle did back then. I believe the time may again be right for this sort of mild mana-denial deck backed up by counters, null rod effects, and tough to deal with beaters. So here is my current iteration of the list:
Selkie Strikes. . .Again!
// 60 Maindeck
// 4 Artifact
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
// 15 Creature
2 True-Name Nemesis
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Cold-Eyed Selkie
3 Qasali Pridemage
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
// 3 Enchantment
3 Stony Silence
// 15 Instant
4 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
3 Daze
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Ancestral Recall
// 18 Land
3 Tropical Island
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 Tundra
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Island
4 Flooded Strand
// 5 Sorcery
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
3 Chart a Course
// 15 Sideboard
// 6 Creature
SB: 4 Containment Priest
SB: 1 True-Name Nemesis
SB: 1 Kataki, War's Wage
// 4 Enchantment
SB: 4 Energy Flux
// 3 Instant
SB: 2 Steel Sabotage
SB: 1 Swords to Plowshares
// 1 Land
SB: 1 Plains
// 1 Sorcery
SB: 1 Retribution of the Meek
I would really be interested in the community feedback around this list. Thanks in advance!
-Storm