If we always had access to the exact cards we need, we'd be playing Belcher. We want as many of our cards to be good before we're winning as possible. Entreat is bad until it kills them, and even...
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If we always had access to the exact cards we need, we'd be playing Belcher. We want as many of our cards to be good before we're winning as possible. Entreat is bad until it kills them, and even...
Cantrips and Force of Will are the reasons why Blue is on top. Whenever you play a non-Force deck that doesn't have a T1 kill, you accept that you cannot beat some decks like Storm and Belcher. You...
The race isn't to kill them before they kill you, it's a race to kill them before they Decay your Balance.
I play Mentor against everyone. It beats other Mentors and Mancers, stalls Goyfs and...
Because this is at core a control deck. Quad Mentor and Daze is not a control core. I was brewing a deck with Countertop and then 6 Pyromancer/Mentor, that played Daze, Gitaxian Probe, and all that...
If it wasthe latter, it'd be pretty absurd. Ætherspouts, but it exiles everything and makes a body.
People underestimate just how quickly a Mentor can take over the game. It allows you to kill combo decks so much faster than Entreat.
I started playing Mentor before Joe put it in his deck. I started playing an increased number of Snapcasters before Philipp. Brad and Joe have both cut down to one Entreat. There was a time when...
I'm playing 2 Mentors and no Dazes. If you start adding Dazes and going to a high number of threats, you're no longer a Control deck, and you're playing something totally different. I'd suggest...
Entreat is the worst card in the deck by a wide margine.
DEFINITELY on the Unban Fastbond team. I would be a fan of that.
Also Gush.
In fact, just unban Gush, no Fasbond.
Also Black Lotus.
Oh yeah, that's poo. Just take their turns properly and leave them completely dead, then don't Slave them fot a turn.
Reanimator, Show and Tell, and High Tide all want it. Storm could also use it effectively.
I do agree that it would be mostly 'safe', but I'm not 100% on that. Making High Tide better is not a big...
What lock until they deck? You Slaver them until you cast a Karn or Wurmcoil.
I think Mage is also good in a wide open meta. It's generally good against a lot of things, and sometimes you just need to pull cards like Force out of your deck and don't have anything to put in....
If Scroll Rack triggered Miracles, we could play with it. It doesn't trigger Miracles, and is a high costs Sorcery Speed Spell. It's way too hard to fit in.
Dredge has a harder time beating Priest than RiP, believe it or not. They can't get Creatures into play to trigger Bridge, and they bring in Naturalise effects, not Creture removal.
I have cut...
Banning Top would be like banning Manamorphose in Modern; it makes the format overall better because the card is completely broken, but plenty of people love th card too much and would quit playing...
Entreat is not a problem card. I have cut Entreat for Mentor. The power comes from Countertop and Terminus. If you ban Terminus, the deck's still good.
I always wondered how you actually binned your Rector. That seems like a pretty good method.
1) People who's main concern is variety of decks, regardless of colour.
2) People who cannot see past a deck's colour, and into the whole range of decks that 'Blue' consists of, being hardcore...
Venser/Karakas seems pretty inbeatable, short of Wasteland.
Obligatory "This is why Mentor is better" post, wit regarfs to DnT.
I agree it's less explosive than Angels, and that Decay is a beating, but I think I like my new plan against BUG Delver.
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SEVEN WHOLE LOYALTY.
I do really like her. I'm wondering if I can actually play her, but the amount of games I won on just 3 Lands at my win a box was massive. (I'm talking five games out of the...
So Narset just made T8 of an SCG event. I was confused, but she's the only 'Walker that gives you 'Draw a card' on a +1 for less than 5 mana (apart from Tezzeret + Top) which seems pretty sweet. The...
It doesn't even say "Draw" on it. Must be bad.