I just feel that you have to take out Preordain for the swarms (or possibly Cabal Ritual), and that's not really worth it. The matchup doesn't feel that bad anyway. Haven't tested with Karakas...
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I just feel that you have to take out Preordain for the swarms (or possibly Cabal Ritual), and that's not really worth it. The matchup doesn't feel that bad anyway. Haven't tested with Karakas...
I agree on Surgical. However, I think a couple of Karakas are worth it, mostly because I don't really feel like I need Xantid Swarms or most such things. I know my board is a bit unconventional,...
I never really liked Surgical in the mirror anyway. You have to cut something good for it, like a ritual, a land or a probe/preordain, and I'm highly sceptical that's actually better when it stops so...
So that's it: after losing twice to Reanimator after drawing multiple Surgical Extractions I'm switching them to Karakases.
I'm currently running an extra AdN in the board. It's useful against discard and in combo mirrors where you want to race (the mirror, Tin Fins). Also have a couple of Chrome Moxes for those last...
I would never replace a ritual with Carpet of Flowers or City of Traitors; I would replace a business spell, probably.
The thing about City of Traitors is that against RUG, I usually find myself...
Okay, you guys have persuaded me to try out Carpet of Flowers in place of City of Traitors a bit.
Still don't like Chain of Vapor, though. And 3 Dread of Night/2 Massacre is what you want (or 4...
No, sorry, I'm saying that you need to fetch your tropical island to get green mana, most of the time, thus opening yourself up to Stifle. And, sticking it early means exposing yourself to Wasteland,...
City of Traitors gives you mana the turn you go off. I guess Carpet of Flowers does the same if you hold off casting it until you go off, essentially making it just another ritual. I was more...
There are a huge number of things in this thread I disagree with. I'll touch some random topics:
- I've ran AdN, PiF, ToA, EtW in the maindeck before and am doing so currently. It's only 1 more...