Decklist of the Day Kick a Frosty

It seems to me that you can do all the deck design you want, synergize every card, create amazing combos and still have to deal with the complexities of a metagame that might just shut your deck out for months at a time. I have lately begun to ascribe to the "Play the Strongest Cards" style of deck building.  As an example I present to you Kick a Frosty: 


Main Deck:
4 Primeval Titan
4 Frost Titan
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Joraga Treespeaker


4 Explore
4 Growth Spasm
4 Preordain
4 Mana Leak
2 Rite of Replication
1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn


4 Khalni Garden
2 Tectonic Edge
1 Eye of Ugin
3 Eldrazi Temple
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Island
1 Halimar Depths
6 Forest


SB:
4 Summoning Trap
4 Overgrown Battlement
4 Obstinate Baloth
3 Flashfreeze


Every few weeks some pro puts out a list of the best cards in standard and I generally agree with their approximate ratings.  Without further ado here is a list put out by prominent pros Mike Flores and Patrick Chapin:

1. Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2. Jace Beleren
3. Primeval Titan
4. Preordain
5. Mana Leak
6. Joraga Treespeaker
7. Lotus Cobra
8. Lightning Bolt
9. Pyromancer Ascension
10. (Frost Titan)

They also hotly debated Frost Titan as the tenth and I believe it is currently the most relevant creature in standard therefore it got the nod to this list.  Now while you may not love this particular list of ten cards I believe we can all develop our own list and as an aggregate they will look pretty similar as long as we all make them around the same time frame.  After looking at this list I basically decided that I wanted to cram as many of these cards into one deck as I possibly could.  Add a dash of synergy and slight amounts of combo all combined with some cards I had Jace TMS and some I didn't Lotus Cobra and the Kick a Frosty deck was born.  In testing this deck blows other aggro decks out of the water as those matchups are mostly determined by, "Do you have an answer to this Primeval Titan?"  This deck promptly responds yes, whether it is using Mana Leak or Frost Titan.  This list also is able to crush the late game through unleashing its Eldrazi monsters or of course by all time favorite method of putting my opponent on ice, a kicked rite of replication targeting my Frost Titan...

The board primarily addresses the decks largest weaknesses; anything red and the Baloths, flashfreeze, and battlement comes in, while if there is the hint of counterspells the summoning traps find their way into the deck to trap an opponent on the wrong side of a big fatty...(on a side note I will featuring Gaea's Revenge in my next article as one massively underrated card and I have yet to play test it in this list, but I think it probably deserves a slot in the SB especially if control lists continue to gain in popularity.)  This list plays 6 of the 10 best cards in Standard today...seems good.

Sleeve it up let me know how it went and as always Happy Gathering!

Stay tuned tomorrow as Wally shares his "Best Cards" list that also features six of the top ten cards in standard today...Then after that we will battle them out and let you see which "Best Deck" triumphs.