November Post

Another month, another Homebrew. I decided to turn my Gruul Ramp list into a Naya Aggro one. Gruul is the term used for the guild that uses the colors Red and Green. Naya is a Clan that utilizes three colors. Red, Green, and White. The reason for this change was that I figured my deck would be more consistent in each phase of the game. It would have the ability to utilize more removal spells as well as stronger finishers and creatures. The hard part about the Naya transition was trying to balance out the essential cards I need, with cards that would synergize with/without them. As well as trying to determine what cards I could afford.Also dealing with the stats for the new mana base I would have to implement due to the addition color added (white). I bought the cards for my new Naya list recently, and I'm looking forward to play test it at events.

As you can see from the Charts provided the new Naya list has a more balanced mana curve which peaks at 3.  However the mana distribution doesn't correlate with the mana source distribution. This is due to a confounding factor called shock lands. They basically provide mana for 2 colors instead of the basic one color. Because of the shock lands, the distribution of the mana source is about 30%, 30%, 30%. This was necessary and it can't be replaced by trying to get the mana distribution/source to correlate to one another without running the risk of ruining my entire mana base.