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Over the time I've played UW on MTGO I've played against the naya allies deck 6 times, going 2-4. It was probably the only deck I actively didn't want to face. Note, though, that my list was generally focused on beating Control/Jund and not the hyper aggressive decks.

The only relevant cards in UW are basically path and DOJ. If you can't DoJ them, you're pretty much gonna lose. They have a t4 clock; you need to wrath on T4, or 3. Path can sometimes buy you a turn; if they have a terrible draw, and you have several paths, sometimes your slower cards can come online and do something. Baneslayer does very little against them; they have guys that are too big for it, or Evangel to walk right by it. Gideon at least fogs for a turn.

Allies is terrible against the removal heavy jund lists. If you think there won't be much removal around, Allies is a fine deck. G'luck with that.

Jund is on the decline with Obstinate Baloth. Naya Allies is fast enough to take out turbo decks and time-sieve. If the meta doesn't shift too heavily this deck could be a decent choice for nationals.

if u/w decks become too worried about winning the mirror and dial back thier day of judgements, then it could steal some wins there also. mana leaks and essence scatters might still be enough to slow it down. definatley will want to test that out.

I'd be more worried about Fauna Shaman decks just making Collar + Pinger literally every game.

With the rise of Sparkmage gl on having many allies on the field.

Implying there was a time Sparkmage wasn't being used.

Pre-Rise.

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