#mono blue devotion

Mono-Blue Devotion updated for Khans of Tarkir. The main win-cons are Master of Waves and Chasm Skulker, with the rest of the deck being a control shell.

Hello and welcome to the first deck review I have done here. C: I am just going to jump straight into this one because there is a lot of ground to cover here, or should I say there is a lot of seas to cover today. Here is the Mono-Blue Devotion list that took first place at a TCGPlayer Platinum on 3/29/14.

4 Cloudfin Raptor 4 Frostburn Weird 4 Judge's Familiar 4 Master of Waves 4 Nightveil Specter 4 Thassa, God of the Sea 4 Tidebinder Mage

2 Bident of Thassa 3 Cyclonic Rift 4 Rapid Hybridization 20 Island 4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

SIDEBOARD

2 AEtherling 4 Dispel 4 Gainsay 1 Jace, Architect of Thought 1 Jace, Memory Adept 1 Pithing Needle 2 Ratchet Bomb

The deck pilot and designer is Barry Piotrowski. This deck is a very hard aggro deck that can side into a more mid-range style. This archetype has been prevalent in today's standard competitive play.  This deck has a very strong early game due to the very low mana curve and does well against aggressive decks such as Gruul rush and Gruul monsters. It has a pretty good match against Mono-black devotion, but lacks late game power once the remove your board and drop a demon. Which can be turned into a frog-lizard mutant thing which can be quite fun.

The ideal hand will have 3 Islands, a one drop, a two drop, a three drop, and a Master of Waves. This is you nuts hand, you get this to go smoothly and it can be GG turn five. It is also has Bident of Thassa which can be good for getting your hand full of tasty spells. Thassa, God of the Sea is really cool in stalemate situations where you both have big board states and then you just drop Thassa, make an metric ton of mana and make all of your creatures unblockable. You can just swim right under everyone. :3

This deck, like all decks have its weakness's it is very weak to and Anger of the gods and Mizzium Mortars.  Some Jund lists can do some serious damage to you, but that is when you side in AEtherling, and Jace 4.0.