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Goyf is likely the best creature you can steal from them early on. Otherwise, you're stuck with a 1/1 (Ape, Nacatl, Lavamancer) or at best a 2/2 exalted. And keeping the Harness on is exhausting your...

BEB and Hydroblast are fine choices for the reasons you mentioned, DDK. The Blasts do also offer up a solution to the format's most popular sweeper for U.

Why wouldn't you want to run Threads...

They are the same if there is no Lord out. Both die to Bolt (Zoo is really popular I hear ;) ) With a Lord out, the Bolt always hits the Lord from my experience. With a Lord that lives, Selkie wins....

Kira helps a little bit game one, but once they bring in Volcanic Fallout, she's a waste of mana I think. I've had it happen to me too many times to say that Kira is the right call in Merfolk.

I...

No reason to be mean. He's made some rather...interesting...choices, but there's no reason do be an asshole about it.

I wouldn't run Dreadnought in the same deck as Kira though. That just seems...

Both. I just can't see CounterTopFolk. Are you basically rolling 20 dudes, CB, Top, FoW, Daze, CardX?

List? I think that Merfolk's list is already tight enough as is. I want to see where your thoughts are going with this.

I think the general consensus was that leaving mana open sucks. Kira does more unless they roll out a Fallout.

Absolute Law/Mark of Asylum work better at protecting from burn than SRG or Kira...

Hibernation is similar. It's in color, costs the same, is instant. But it doesn't destroy creatures. Sometimes, an end of turn Hibernation is enough of a tempo boost to win though. I've used it...

You're right. CT only improves good matches, but does squat for the poor ones. I think Wake Thrasher does better in the good matchups than CT, as CT can be a 1/1 against random decks, while Thrasher...

Sell them. It would be cute with Path to Exile or other ways to make your opponent search/shuffle. If he got 2 counters, it might be worth playing.

Against some decks, it's epic. Against others, not so much. To really abuse it, it's probably best to have a Vial out already. Vault isn't enough sometimes.

Cursecatcher can be awful against Tribal. Goblins has a few cards to counter, the mirror has some, Elves have none unless it's running Natural Order. Any permanent based control, Cursecatcher is...

Lately I've been standing behind the 24 creature build, running Thrasher and Sovereign side-by-side. I've been pretty pleased with the results. Thrasher beat Stax for me by himself (screw Ghostly...

Wouldn't Tidal Warrior be almost as good anyways? In combination with Lord of Atlantis, your guys can just Islandwalk to victory. One notable difference would be it's edge on Moat.

Not a fan of...

To Needle what? Goblins share Vial and Waste with us. A lot of lists dropped Port. That leaves the possibility of Fanatic, Sharpshooter, SGC in more common lists to Needle. I don't follow.

Allies is kinda like Mercenary or Rebel Cards that seems to be spilling into all colors.

But yeah, this card is awful in Merfolk, but in a Standard Allies deck it might be ok (I'll stop here...

The repeatable card advantage of Confidant is pretty cool. He helps you win matches that were already somewhat favorable. I'm not sure if he does well in the poorer matches though. He fits in the...

Tidal Warrior used to be in Merfolk as a color denier and islandwalk enabler., as you've mentioned. The problem is that the slots in the deck are pretty tight. The Merfolk in the deck are either good...

Dropped Wasteland because in Tucson, few people play nonbasics that are not Terramorphic Expanse. Luckily, this is changing...slowly. It used to be 3 people out of 15 played any nonbasics, about a...

I still get caught off guard by EP sometimes. One game I had about 4 weeks ago was against Mono Black Control. It was game 2, and he led off with a turn 1 EP followed by a turn 3 EP. I scooped.
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Depends on which Elf match. Hibernation at EoT resets the board and forces discard. Propaganda is kinda useless because of Priest and Archdruid however.

Run like:
8 Blast
4 Propaganda
3 Relic

For an SB then lol. But more seriously, the new guy may or may not see play. We'll have to see how that develops. People are trying to make it work, but...

Maybe if we adopted Counter Top in Merfolk. Like drop Standstill and Stifle for 4/4 or 4/3 and an extra island.

That's kinda what Kira does, but she sucks against Pyroclasm. I learned the hard way.