Blue White Kithkins For Standard
June 29, 2009 by Mark Ian
Filed under Magic The Gathering
Last Friday, I decided to tweak my Mono White Kithkins deck by splashing blue for Negate. The mono white list was based from Daniel de Almeida Alves’ Kithkins list that got first place in GP Sao Paulo. Here’s my mono white kithkins list.
Mainboard
2 Mutavault
16 Plains
3 Rustic Clachan
4 Windbrisk Heights3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
4 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Figure of Destiny
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
4 Wizened Cenn
3 Ranger of Eos1 Ajani Goldmane
4 Glorious Anthem
4 Path to Exile
4 Spectral Procession
This list earned me 3rd and 4th place in our local tournament the other week. Now with the blue white list, I noticed the deck’s problem is lot of mass removal spells which promptly nullifies the deck’s card advantage that’s why I think Negate would be the right answer. Also, I really wanted to try this list even before the Regionals but didn’t have the opportunity because the community switched to Alara block constructed tournaments. Here is my version of blue-white kithkins:
Mainboard
4 Adarkar Wastes
4 Mystic Gate
11 Plains
2 Rustic Clachan
4 Windbrisk Heights2 Burrenton Forge-Tender
4 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Figure of Destiny
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
4 Wizened Cenn
2 Ranger of Eos4 Glorious Anthem
3 Negate (secret tech)
4 Path to Exile
4 Spectral ProcessionSideboard
2 Burrenton Forge-Tender
2 Celestial Purge
2 Elspeth, Knight Errant
1 Negate
2 Oblivion Ring
1 Ranger of Eos
2 Reveillark
3 Wrath of God
I piloted the list on Saturday’s local tournament and here are the summary of the match-ups:
Round 1 - Jund Blood (Won 2-0)
Round 2 – Boat Brew (Lost 1-2)
Round 3 – 4 Color Control (Won 2-0)
Round 4 – Jund Midrange (Won 2-1)
Round 5 – Bant Crashers (Drew 1-1-1)
Top 8 – B/W Kithkins (Lost 1-2)
The Black White Kithkins eventually became the champion of the tournament. A few highlights of my matchups include several negating of crucial spells like Infest, Blightning and Zealous Persecution. Overall, I think the deck performed well despite of a few mana flooding which probably because of my shuffling. Oh well, can’t avoid that.
I suggest you try the list and adjust the sideboard depending on your local meta. I’ll guarantee you will have fun with it. 
Interesting idea. I’m glad you were able to see success with it. I do think that you need Ajani Goldmane at least in the sideboard.
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I think I can have that instead of Elspeth. Thanks for the suggestion…
nice mark…negate lng gd gali blue mo…^^