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hahaha, I actually get that alot (I use this name on other forums too). Although to be honest, I'm not much of a soccer (football) fan, but a HUGE Metal Gear Solid fan, so... yeah. :laugh:

Then you obviously haven't played with the combo. If you have, you'd know that your opponent's will rarely sit on their Wastelands versus you in the early/mid game and spot removal doesn't work when...

Right, but the difference is that my cards insta-win out of nowhere whereas SFM --> Equipment is probably the most prepared for line of play in Legacy right now. Pre-TNN, SFM never felt right in...

I've always disliked SFM in Maverick. It prevents us from advancing our board for a turn and we'll be receiving all of the SFM-TNN splash hate while be being not as well equipped to handle it (ie....

I'm really not losing anything by running the Dark Depths/Thespian's Stage combo. Again, it's there for when I need to win ASAP or if the ground gets stalled. It's a 2 card investment that has a...

I'm still on GW Zenith and have been loving Dark Depths/Thespian Stage as a 1-of. It give me an alternate win condition when the ground gets mucked up and it allows me to threaten lethal literally...

Ooze and GSZ -> Sigarda are the two biggest reasons Cradle is there. Cradle + Ooze is the absolute nut. Maze is still good with your own KotR and it's fantastic versus all non-TNN attackers.

This is a rough draft of what I'll be running post-BNG:

1 Dryad Arbor
1 Scryb Ranger
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
2 Qasali Pridemage
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Mother...

Spirit of the Labyrinth. Holy fuck. This might be out ticket back in. Definitely going to cut my 2 Sylvan Library, 1 Path to Exile, 1 Bow of Nylea and start running 4 of her. Thalia and SoL just...

I've found elspeth to be a really good card vs. Miracles, although I suppose nearly any planeswalker will be good versus them.

Flyers. They run Flickerwisp and Serra Avenger, both don't care about TNN at all. Also, their anti-Equipment hate (Revoker) is better than our Pridemage as Revoker can swing for 2 while blanking...

I did a fairly in-depth analysis of Maverick pre-TNN and post-TNN in the now locked "Do you want to see TNN go away" thread. In it, I showed that Maverick averaged a 9th place finish for Jan...

If you have an attacker (KotR, Ooze, etc) + Mother and/or SoFI, I'd call that being far ahead on board. Also, you stated earlier that Maverick is the best suited deck to combat the various TNN decks...

As a Stoneblade player, I've never lost to Maverick unless they're already pretty far ahead on board. Everytime I landed TNN on an even or an ever so slightly behind-for-me board, I've won as all of...

Unless you're fairly far ahead on board, Maverick just loses to TNN. Also, Maverick is unable to run traditional TNN hate cards such as Golgari Charm, Toxic Deluge, Wrath effects, as those cards...

Interesting you're running the full playset of Abrupt Decay maindeck. Is that a concession to the Equipment-based TNN matchups?

So after copying some tech from GW lists I've seen floating around, I've been running a singleton Bow of Nylea in place of my singleton Elspeth, Knight-Errant. So far, the Bow has been impressive. ...

While true, Zealous Persecution allows you to profitably block his now 1/1 Geist, etc with your presumably bigger dudes. And the fact that you can just blow him out with Zealous Persecution on his...

Celestial Flare was used by the SCG Dallas UW Stoneblade winner and also by another SCG Dallas top 16 UW Stoneblade list, presumably to combat opposing TNNs. That has potential as a maindeck answer...

Out aggro it? Maverick can often times present board states where it'll be disadvantageous for them to swing in with their 3/1 dude and they can't always count on it as defense when a lethal KotR is...

As someone who was on the fence about Gaea's Cradle, I'm glad I picked 1 up. While Maverick can operate just fine without it, it's a really nice bonus to have mid-late game when I want to Ooze my...

For those that have gone to discard and cut Thalia, how much better is your combo matchup now? Also, how are your other non-creature centric matchups? Did you ever miss Thalia versus decks like...

This is my current 75, let me know if you think this boarding plan is "right" versus Delver tempo decks:

Maindeck - 60

1 Dryad Arbor
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Scryb Ranger...

Interesting. I've found that many of my games versus Delver tempo decks either end very quickly (turn 1 Delver on the play, backed up by loads of counter + burn/removal) or they go long due to...

In Sunyveil's list, I'd imagine he boards in Elspeth and Abrupt Decay versus Esperblade and the Delver-tempo decks, right? I mean, Elspeth is such a house in those super grindy games and she's...