TJP Control

I just made it to masters with this deck. Last week, I made this deck to combat all of the Rakano Armory and FJT Armory decks that seemed to be so popular. It proved to work very well and quickly put a stop to all of that nonsense. Many thanks to Larai, the Appraiser and Qirin Ascendant. It worked so well that I decided to keep playing it, to see how it faired against other decks. To my surprise, it worked well against most of the other popular expedition decks as well. I crushed just about every armory deck, dragon deck, unseen deck, and sac deck that I faced. I only remember losing once or twice to a sac deck and once to a dragon deck. I could be wrong but I don't think I lost to any of the unseen decks that I faced. Although some games were close. Mono fire aggro was probably about 50/50. I had a few close matches there. Xenan strangers were also probably about 50/50. They use some very powerful cards and many of my wins and losses were heavily dependent on timing. If you let Makkar's Stranger and Grodov's Stranger stick around for too long things can get out of hand fast! Using your removal / board wipes wisely is key.

The climb from Gold 3 to diamond 1 was fairly easy, with very few bumps along the way. However, once I reached Diamond 1, I faced some pretty crazy decks and climbing from Diamond 1 to Masters was quite a grind. I'm not claiming that his is the best deck around, by any means, and I don't think it's particularly easy to play but it worked well for me. Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think. Questions and constructive criticism is always welcome.