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Could be yeah. Also, I didn't find your decklists in some forum here, so I don't know if you are playing builds with Man'O-Wars and Spike Feeder or builds with Wirewood Savage and Soul Warden likes. These builds are extremely different to pilot, so a year of experience with these is really nothing. They only have their core card in common, but play totally different.
I've been playing the kind that goldfishes twice as fast as yours with as much disruption. The kill condition doesn't matter.
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Landstill's "unrestricted Ancestral Recall" is hot against first turn Goblin Lackey, first turn Aether Vial or first turn Nimble Mongoose. Landstill's "unrestricted Ancestral Recall" is also hot after the opponent dropped his turn 2 Lightning Rift. It's also awesome to have that on the board when your opponent is going to Cabal Therapy 3 times in a row.
And in EVERY SINGLE OTHER SITUATION, it's an Ancestral Recall. You can't discuss the worst possible situations to use a card.
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But whatever, Aluren outdraws Landstill.
Aluren can outdraw Landstill? That's pretty difficult, seeing as how Aluren runs NO CARD ADVANTAGE SPELLS AT ALL.
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Cabal Therapy is so much better than Counterspell in billions of matchups you know?
It does wonders against a Ringleader ripped off the top. Or, for that matter, a Sphere of Resistance, a Glowrider, a Rule of Law, an Arcane Laboratory, Pyrostatic Pillar, Pithing Needle, Engineered Plague, Meddling Mage, etc.
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Are you really telling me you are planning to resolve a Wrath of God, a Moat or a Humility against Threshold's 4 Force of Will, 3 Counterspells, 3 Dazes?
When I have 4 Wraths, and 2-3 Moat/Humilities, and 8 Counterspells, yes.
Are you telling me that resolving a Chain of Vapor on Meddling Mage against Gro's counterwall is easier with your far more meager disruption package, draw engine, and threat base? Let me remind you that you have to find the Chain first.
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Ah, and Wall of Blossoms is a board Control card that cantrips and has synergy with Cabal Therapy. Good luck doing something useful with Swords to Plowshares and Wrath of God against MWC, WR Rift, High Tide, Belcher, Ill-Gotten Storm, Confinement, Aluren and some others.
OMG Landstill has bad matchups against storm decks and cycling decks? YOU BLEW MY MIND!
It's a good thing those are a lot less prevalent than, say, aggro decks and aggro-control decks, which your deck topples over to like a drunk on a unicycle.
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When playtesting the Aluren vs. Landstill matchup, nothing was more funnier to see Landstill with a hand full of powerful control elements like Wrath of God, Swords to Plowshares, Akroma's Vengeance and others when going off through Cabal Therapy.
When playtesting the Aluren vs. Goblins matchup, I found that I died about three turns faster than I could assemble the combo. Tell me how knowing the stack will solve that problem, mmkay?
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I doubt so. Proof for that is easy, I just have to read your feelings after your early goldfishing cessions.
It's not rocket surgery. You choose the card that keeps you going off, like Chain, Manowar, Harpy, or Familiar. Unless you roll a Chord or a feeder, in which case you take those. There is absolutely no skill involved in going off at that point. It's not like you have to make any difficult decisions. It either helps you find the combo, is the combo, or isn't. The problem lies in that finding double 2-ofs requires you to search through pretty much your entire deck, which saps a significant total of life. I foudn that about half the time, I could continue the combo, and half the time I couldn't. That is seven life right there.
You still haven't answered me with your strategy for fighting against fast aggro decks that play burn spells.I'm interested to know why you don't get completely massacred by those decks, seeing as how they kill you about two turns faster than you kill them.
-Slay