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Cameron Wisniewski was on UBr Tezzeret.

What's been giving you trouble out of the white version?

No additional mana investment with Aluren down seems like the big one. You can ignore some disruptive permanents until going off and Sage...

Stalker being better on defense is very relevant when plan A is a combo kill. I've won games where Stalker walled off an attacker for several turns and Merfolk can't do that. Merfolk's bounce as cost...

Elaborating on TTX's answer, you're only really vulnerable to removal when Harpy is on the stack and you have no other bounce creatures in hand. If you don't stack any gating triggers, you end up...

I finished off my set of Sneak Attack to try this out (more of an excuse, really - I already wanted to do that). I have no idea when I'll actually get a chance to play it but I'll certainly report...

The link changed somewhere in there and I missed it. Try http://i.imgur.com/c3Dzld7.png instead.

Opponent can still respond to the Harpy cast by removing the two bouncers, which is what was being said earlier. The combo is always at it's most vulnerable while Harpy is on the stack. You can only...

Fireweaver: Can this be made more compact than the existing kill? I don't think there's a CMC <= 3 artifact creature that can work alone and including one as part of the Cavern Harpy loop is more...

Agreed. There are faster and more compact combos available, so Aluren should occupy a different spot in the metagame. Having a combo more resistant to removal and a decent midrange plan as a backup...

DRS is eating opposing lands and instants/sorceries at least as often as it's eating your lands. Probably more often. It's not like fetches are a rare sight in legacy lists. I expect those numbers...

Shrieking Drake is another flier, has less of a chance to get you 2-for-1'd than either Faerie, and plays nicer with Shardless Agents. I think if you're going for most impactful outside of combo,...

Whitemane Lion can't be bounced by Cavern Harpy, which makes it a poor replacement. Arctic Merfolk is still the better choice and it even offers some improvements over Stalker. Bouncing as a cost...

Most of the art from Robert Bliss, Quinton Hoover, and RKF. Probably Teferi's Curse, Tragic Poet, and Jasmine Boreal respectively for individual favorites. I understand the value of having more...

Expert insight is almost certainly giving me too much credit. I just really like casting Therapy and aluren is good at doing that, so I hate to let the opportunity slide. I would go more heavily in...

Which nic fit lists are you looking at? I've been playing that deck for years and I don't think I've ever seen a list run anything but the full set of Therapies. Even if a list shows up occasionally,...

Only playing 3 Therapy in the Vet list seems like a mistake.

Basic plains over Tundra in the second list is a little odd. The only cards that need W are Recruiter and the 1-of Sculler MD and 4 SB...

Agree completely. I haven't played around with a white version, but I'm assuming you want similar amounts of each color and basic, tweaked slightly to fit your specific needs.

I would consider...

It is. Pact versions are definitely a lot more all in, which is also a downside against disruption. That said, you've probably effectively lost if you try to go off and fizzle with or without a Pact...

The main reason for 20 lands is that I'd like to fit a Confluence main, largely as a meta call. Cutting Magus could be a good spot - I'm a lot more likely to see DnT/Elves than Delver or Shardless,...

I just put the deck together but I haven't actually played it yet, so I have nothing to contribute. It's a pretty stock list right now, but I'd like to experiment with Nahiri and Confluences main at...

It depends on how many permanent mana sources you have/how much mana you can make the following turn too. It's a lot less risky to fire it off if you can try again with the Pact trigger on the stack...

I was a spectator in this case, but I saw her take over a game Thursday. Shardless couldn't get rid of her and she pulled back 7-8 creatures in a very grindy game, and Shardless couldn't keep up with...

I played Aluren for the first time last night, taking it to our weekly without even goldfishing it after getting the last piece in the mail that afternoon. I played:

4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Baleful...

That's not how Elsewhere Flask works. Turning lands into a basic land type doesn't turn them into basic lands. Ruination/Wasteland still get them. It works to get around City's sacrifice trigger and...

Brad Nelson is 6-0 and a featured match in Portland playing Ascendancy combo right now. Just lost the first game to UR Delver.

edit: 6-1 after losing 0-2 to Delver. What was shown of the list...