Dragonlord Ojutai
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I've always been an Azorius player at heart. Those colors are what drew me to Magic in the first place: my first casual deck was some janky UW list with Serra Angel, and then I spent most of my Modern career trying to make UW as competitive as possible in my combo and aggro-infested meta. When I moved into the realm of EDH all those years ago, I knew I had to have my favorite color pairing represented.
And what better way to do that than to use my favorite card? Dragonlord Ojutai flies, gives me card selection, sort of protects itself, and is a dragon. What's not to love? I played with this card a bunch in Standard and Modern, and now it has a home here.
This deck has evolved from something cute with Dragon-matters cards like Silumgar's Scorn and a host of vigilance effects like Ajani Steadfast to what you see above. It is direct with its intentions: control the board, play your beautiful dragon, and protect the queen with an abundance of countermagic. This is accentuated by a small Equipment package that looks straight from the Stoneblade playbook, and Kamigawa All-Star Minamo.
I feel like I've come to the stage where I want to hone this even more. I've noticed that my creature-centric playgroup tends to stretch the limits of my current removal suite to the point where I feel like I'm frantically digging for answers. Part of this is obviously just a natural consequence of playing in a 3-4 player pod, but having more than 4 pieces of spot removal (not including countermagic) may help. I've also come to notice my games can feel a bit dichotomous: I either explode out of the gate thanks to my rocks, or I struggle and plod forward. Finally, there is the glaringly obvious hole in that this deck has very few no ways to win outside of Ojutai smashing people in the face repeatedly.
I'd like this to get to that 75% place if it hasn't arrived already; I'm never certain how to quantify that metric. I guess it may be better to say that I want this to reach a place where it is honed, tuned, and able to stand up the rigors of more competitive tables (although not cEDH). This would mean it would probably be retired from my dedicated playgroup, but once the world resumes I'll have more opportunities to let my best draconic gal shine.