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Congrats on the strong finish!

How'd you end up settling on 61-cards main?

I did some testing with Scale Up and wasn't super impressed. I don't think you ever want it as more than a one-of and there's the dream situation where it facilitates a turn 2 that wouldn't be there...

I tested out a few main (mostly so I would see it more often) and had mixed results as well. I wouldn't even say there were particular match ups where it was good/bad, but more particular board...

Lands was the main impetus (there's a couple of lands players here locally). I do bring it in against Loam as well though. Yeah, they have other kill spells, but we can Vines/counter and go 1-for-1....

I haven't had a lot of opportunity to test out Grace as much as I want to, but I've been running Absolute Law for over a year. On the weekend, I didn't bring in Grace in the top 8, because I knew he...

Played in a small-ish (32 player) 5-rounder here in Vancouver on Saturday and made Top 8 with this list:


Unfortunately got crushed by my friend Kevin on Grixis Delver in the first round of...

I tried it out when Blade decks were on the upswing after the DRS ban (there's also a lot of D&T locally for me) and love it in that meta. When the extra Stoneforge decks died down, I went back to a...

I think there's a lot more tapping out for very powerful effects on curve right now that Pierce is a better include over Snare. It feels great to snag a late game Strix, but Pierce is live so often...

I was actually thinking of Tundra once I decided on playing Mission Briefing, but I wasn't super thrilled with that.

I haven't tested Stag yet, but plan on that as well. I actually had an Absolute...

Congrats on the finish at EW!

I was checking out the Top 24 thread and was hoping you were on here.

How was running the Tundra? Also, now that you've had time to reflect on it, what are you...

Had my best run in awhile today and came in 4th at a 38 person local here in Vancouver, Canada.

Rd. 1: 2-0 vs. Sneak and Show
Game 1 was a bit of a sign of things to come in the Swiss, where I...

Another one inspired by the Eternal Durdles dudes, but has anyone played around with Mission Briefing? I am skeptical, but the fact that you can pay alternate costs and it plays nice with BI piqued...

Yeah, I should've mentioned I got the Dissenter's main deck idea from Eternal Durdles.

I was on 2 Sanctuary in the board before DRS got banned and loved it as a way to out keep pace the card...

Anyone check out the Baltimore SCG Open results? 6 Infect decks in day 2 and Todd Stevens, Aaron Barich, and Zach Alexander all made top 32.

Alexander had a 1-of Great Sable Stag in his board. If...

Hard to argue with Earl's results, but I do think this deck is deceptively mana hungry. I like the full playset of Hierarchs.

Re: Lands - I think it's one of our tougher match-ups. On the white...

I've been screwing around with different decks over the last month or so, but I finally sleeved up Infect again last night at one of the local Legacy weeklies and went 3-1, losing to Maverick and...

Did a quick 3-round local last night. I was running 2 Ponder, 1 Sylvan, 1 BI, 1 Might of Old Krosa, Stifle, 1 Pierce, 1 Fluster main.

First two rounds didn't yield much info as I drew extremely...

I'll probably test a 4th Daze as well. Probably going back to a split of Fluster/Piece main as well. I might actually test a Piracy Charm main again like back in the day.

We lost Probe, but Pile and Grixis just took huge hits and we're likely going to get an uptick on D&T and Miracles. Dust off those Invigorates boys and girls!

What are you cutting for the Ponders?

I'm going to try out a couple of copies at my weekly on Thursday, along with a Spellskite (which is something I haven't run in years). Definitely agree about having some new tricks to shore up...

Has anyone here tested Shaper's Sanctuary. I pre-judged it as pretty bad and never bothered to try it out, but James Wray's 11th place list from Seattle has two in the board.

Congrats on the strong results! I changed it up a bit for the GP (-1 Ponder for Sylvan, -1 K Grip for a Seal of Primordium), but was more or less on the same list.

I've brought in RiP against...

So, my opponent no showed round 1 and I saw Delver 3 times, but zero grixis... so I made day 2 at 6-2. Beat UR Delver, BUG Delver, ANT, TES, and UW Stoneblade. Lost to UR Delver and ANT.

I'm not driving down there to not poison people or die trying, I'll tell you that much