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Very well written article, love the personal touch stories/reasoning. I look forward to reading more in the future.

+ Merfolk, and that's usually about it for me.

Number 4 is what I have been using to great success against miracles. I board +3 Abrupt Decay, +1 Tendrils for -2 preordain; -2 cabal ritual/1 CR and -1 lotus petal/-2 lotus petal depending on if...

Watching the miracles video I would have played a lot differently as well, but to each their own. You clearly did something right which shows by your finish.



True, I prefer to board the 2nd...

It just depends on how you want to play the miracles matchup, I choose to play the slightly slower game with the 3rd AD and 2nd tendrils to be able to mini tendrils or empty (aka always present a...

Congratulations on your top 8 finish! Was the dark confidant swap because of an expectation for discard decks?

Pretty good song. Don't forget, great wings of silence = xantid swarm

I bring the 2nd tendrils in against U/R delver, burn, and any games I expect to be grindy. What I take out depends on what I saw game 1, so it varies. So far most people are completely surprised...

That sums it up pretty well. Bob typically has a home in a lot of US player's sideboards since (at least in my metas) discard is still a thing.

I played in 2 local 4 rounds this week finishing...

Finally made it back to my local event (I travel a lot for work) and played ANT for the first time in over 6 months. Here was my list:

Lands
4 polluted delta
4 scalding tarn
2 underground sea...

I've recently come back to my true home of ANT and bolts are what I am currently testing as well. I've been trying a 2 MB (-2 preordain)/2 SB (-2 flusterstorm) approach and have liked it. I seldom...

Random question for other ANT players: How aggressive are you with your mulligans against different archetypes? I've been doing a lot more in depth analysis about my opening hands and find that I...

I used to play pyroclasm as well. Since life loss hasn't been an issue so far, it has proven to be a main 2 color pyroclasm with greater potential.

If you are concerned about threats such as teeg and want a general sweeper. then you may want to look into Pyroclasm or toxic deluge, but as CabalTherapy said chain of vapor is usually sufficient.

The first post/primer in the thread is the best starting point. It also includes links at the end to some notable ANT articles.

I actually play the 4 therapy/3 duress split. The slots in the board are cards I would board in anyways during game 2/3. Empty for me is normally for the turn 1 or 2 against decks like delver which...

Congrats on your recent tournament win and finding an optimal list to your liking. It all comes down to preference, and I can understand your reasoning for keeping it in the sideboard and removing...

Congrats on the results. I currently am playing 1 burning wish in the main and haven't looked back yet. In testing it has proven worthy against meddling mage/hate bear/discard decks for the...

Congrats to End3r000 on your recent finish!



I ran 2 burning wish in my build at the most recent SCG in Dallas. I usually ended up with too many tutors in hand for my liking. I've gone down...

I understand, my reasoning isn't based so much on BEST sideboard utility cards (I fully admit that), more along the lines of even 1 swing after playing it drops the storm count by 2/nostalgic factor...

I know many years ago Phyrexian Negator had a home in some vintage sideboards. It is one of my favorite mtg cards so I may put a few in the board and test them out just for the hell of it.

Deleted my last post since my computer hates me and submitted nothing, but wanted to say it's always good to go and get tournament experience with the deck. It's much different when interacting at...

Southfloridamagic: If xantid works for you and not carpet in your meta then by all means keep at it. Thanks for your input and write up.

You may want to consider -3 DoN and -1 for Hurkyl's and go for +1 Massacre, +1 Pyroclasm or Toxic Deluge, and +2 Bob if you want to leave needle.




If you currently have a grim tutor in the...