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Mr. FTW, thanks for you well-balanced post. I have come to a similar conclusion over the past week as well.

The point I'm trying to make isn't that you don't have consistent access to a fetch whenever you cast Ponder; it's that you only have around 2 fetches per game to devote to Ponder/Brainstorm +...

Thanks for your responses everyone!

Your points are well taken. I completely agree with you about the benefits of Ponder including:
1. Flipping delver more reliably
2. Finding a specific card...

Hi All,

Typically, we've seen Preordain only after Ponder takes up 4 slots. The only exception I've seen so far is in the occasional Miracles deck. I'm here to suggest that Preordain is superior...

Hi FTW. Those are both very good questions; my response for both is "it's a close race".

For the first one: I think Divert is better in the current meta. The most popular abrupt decay deck...

I don't think that I have the spread of CMC for blue cards. All blue cards in this deck are 1 CMC with the exception of daze (FoW doesn't count because we would just remove Shoal to FoW), which makes...

That's a great question, and I admit that only 1 ponder may be wrong.

The short story: casting Ponder gives up a little bit of tempo that can be extremely valuable in the early game.

The long...

Hi All,

Kendrick here.

For the impatient, here's my current list. Background and strategy to follow.

[12 Creatures]
4 Nivmagus Elemental
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Young Pyromancer

Hey Stage! Thanks for your post. I'd like to ask you (or others that can answer) a few questions about your sideboard.

1) Submerge and Vapor Snag: How have these been working for you? I find...

Wow, excellent. Now I can cover multiple issues with the same sideboard card!

OK, thanks Lemnear.

EDIT: This turns out to be false! See below.

I like it alot, that's a very well-balanced suite of creatures. With this I would probably play more "controlling" spells like Spell Pierce and less PoP.

Sideboard query: Recently I've been...

Hey Why! Thanks for your response. I'm glad you are performing so well!



I'm guessing that we have different local metagames. I wish I could cut Force; this deck loves to cast all its spells...

Hi all, Kendrick here. Glad to see some of you are experimenting with my list.
Feel free to ask any questions you have about the philosophies of the deck, or some of my inclusions/exclusions. I'd...