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I think it is worthwhile to explore new ideas but it is also important to look to the past. There is a reason that none of the Top 8 lists for Merfolk run Stifle MB or Brainstorm at all. Both cards...

So I have been working on my boarding strategies and I am pretty clear about what I am bringing in, but a lot of times I am having trouble deciding what to cut. I know it basically comes down to who...

Jitte is great and all, but it isn't solving the fundamental problem we have with Maverick and the other aggro decks floating around, they simply have better creatures. I would say that Jitte is...

Yeah, I decided on three in the main. I have started to get a feel for just how often this deck goes into topdeck mode so I wanted to focus on increasing the quality of my topdecks. Maybe I am...

Yep. That is what I thought too, but after being angrily argued down on Cockatrice I doubted myself as I couldn't find a relevant thread/ruling on the web. I guess I should trust my intuition...

Edit: This is true, don't trust people on Cockatrice to have any idea what they are talking about when it comes to rules.

So essentially Stifle isn't worth running because the turns where it has...

I don't think a black splash is going to solve any of the deck's fundamental weaknesses. It just waters the deck down and reduces redundancy. One of the greatest strengths of Merfolk is how well...

Against a two or three color deck, Hydroblast simply isn't doing as much as their Pyroblast does against us. At that point you are basically playing a glorified Dispel.

The format is simply...

Maybe it is just me, but Standstill seems pretty awful in an environment where you are seeing tons of Delvers and Stifles. You can't really afford to sit under a Standstill if they drop a T1 Delver....

My point was that you should mostly rule out the possibility of getting to recast him from your GY when evaluating Ruinator. Whether or not I articulated that well is in question, but I just don't...

My point wasn't that people were going to bring in GY hate against Merfolk (it would be awesome if they did), but that they can and it is another reason that you shouldn't count on him being cast...

The idea of getting to recast Ruinator from your yard is pretty ambitious (lots of hate + StPs floating around) so his value should be assessed mainly from how good he is coming in from an Aether...

Here is the sideboard I am going to try out:

3x Submerge
2x Surgical Extraction
1x Relic of Progenitus
1x Tormod's Crypt
2x Echoing Truth
2x Umezawa's Jitte
2x Spell Pierce
1x Dismember

I am actually going to be starting with a carbon copy of your list. The numbers looked really balanced and I think I prefer starting with the 13th Island over a Mishra's Factory.

So would you...

I am putting together Merfolk (finally making the jump into Legacy!) and I am wondering how useful/necessary Jitte is to the deck. I have been reading through the thread and looking at T8 lists and...