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I've been very happy with 2 Forest, 1 Island, 1 Swamp, 1 Hierarch, fwiw.

Went a pretty dismal 2-3 today at our 1K, beating BR Reanimator (2-0) and Grixis Delver (2-0), and losing to D&T (0-2, he just had everything in g1 when I cast Aluren and I got mana denialed out in...

Cutting Carpet seems like a horrible idea in general. It's the best way to beat soft permission, too.

I haven't played much since last Friday. Still trying to find thr best way to distribute my Leovolds and how much/what kind of anti-combo cards are best. I'm considering Mausoleum Wanderer/Judge's...

4-0'ed FNM last night with the following list:

4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Baleful Strix
4 Cavern Harpy
4 Shardless Agent
2 Glint-Nest Crane
2 Parasitic Strix
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Sedraxis...

Since we're talking about the 3-drops in BUG anyway, what are everyone's thoughts on Vendilion Clique? It's not quite as good at assembling the combo as Shardless Agent since you can't cycle lands...

:( Sounds like the problem was more than just the Harpys.

My biggest issue with Aluren is definitely flooding out, though.

It becomes pretty great with any of the other non-Deathrite creatures.

D&T and Soldier Stompy are the only decks where I'm scared of being locked off of the combo frequently. I've been running 2 Glint-Nest Crane in my list lately and that's allowed me to just minimize...

I think a big part of it is that it puts up more results on MODO than in real life, and on MODO the extra clicks required to combo with Healer are worse than the extra clicks required if you have to...

I definitely agree that the find a land mode is relevant. I've tried the deck with as few as 18 lands (4 duals, 5 basics, 9 fetches) and while that felt a little light, 19 + Ponder + Traverse worked...

I tried the Crane and liked it as a 1-of. I think I said this a few pages back, but there's also some merit to running a Traverse in the main, probably over the third/fourth Ponder. Agent and Strix...

I've been working with Cartesian's lists lately and I've started to feel like 20 lands is too many. Flood is the most common reason I'm dropping games, and with 4 Brainstorm, 4 Ponder, and 4 Coiling...

Since people are debating the merits of the various Recruiters and splashes, I'm going to argue for the straight BUG version now that I 've got a decent number of reps with it. Like the the SCG...

I'm cross-posting this to the Food Chain thread to see more opinions.

I've viewed recent incarnations of Aluren and Food Chain as being quite similar for the past few years and I've always...