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You're missing one pretty crucial point though: your Lords aren't recurring, while some on their removal (Punishing) is, meaning that, if they get one of their strongest engines (Grove-Punishing)...

Well, if Jund manages to get rid of your Lords (as it should, with all the removal it packs), TNN + Image just get screwed by a single Golgari charm, right?

I woudn't say RUG matchup is bad, I'd call it even.
Our islandwalking is a big factor here.

Bad matchups are Goblins for sure, and maybe BUG? (Decays and Deeds hurt pretty bad)

Also Burn is...

Merfolks won last Starcity Open!

Pretty standard list: only difference is the absence of Coralhelm Commanders for 2 Phantasmal images mainboard.
2x Dismember still in the mainboard, as well as 3x...

Well, if your meta is defined that way then you are definitely right in NOT playing Standstill, as it's bad especially against those decks.
Also playing Jitte MB seems a good choice to me, cause it...

I've decided to give Standstill another chance about 2 weeks ago, mainly because the alternative build I tried (4 Pierces and 12 counters total maindeck) wasn't working too well: since we are a tempo...

I know I know sorry, it's just I've read the last posts only today...

You are the same guy who asked this question also on MTGSalvation, so I'll give you here the same answers.


Your gameplan is aggro-control tempo, so imho you should never take out:
- most of...

+1

There was a specific article which mathematically demonstrated how the argument "fetching lands helps drawing more spells" is statistically non-sense.
But I lost the link...


EDIT:
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Of course playing Standstill after Vial is a bomb, but having a resolved Vial out 1st turn doesn't happen that often.
If you are on the draw they can Duress it or Spell pierce/Daze it, if you are on...

I like the idea of putting the Jittes on mainboard, cause they are always useful.

Maybe I could play 2 pierces and 2 Jittes with other 2 pierces sideboard instead of 4 Pierces mainboard.



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I hope so as well.
The recent printing of Master of pearl trident maybe means they want to give something else to this tribe for standard/block decks, and 1-CC would be the best imho.

But we...

In the meantime I'm back to the 20 lands build with 4 Reejerey...





I've been thinking about that for a long time, and I came to the conclusion that you are probably right.

If we consider...

Well, since I didn't want Standstill anymore, I had suddenly 3 mainboard slots to fill with something.

I decided to fill the 1st slot with the 4th Daze: since we try to be a tempo deck with some...

I've been trying Merfolks for a while, and after some testing I decided to completely cut the Standstills.
I'm sad about that cause I love this card, but since I've cut them to add 2 Phantasmal...