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I play Crucible too, and it does a pretty good Loam impression. It helps against Extractions, obviously, and bringing it back with Academy Ruins brings inevitability against Miracles.

In...

The old lists certainly are charming, both for those of us who were actually playing the deck at that time and more recent converts to Marit Lage. They have a different flow to them, depending on the...

Yeah, a 20/20 factory is a beautiful thing when they can't interact with it.

Lately I've been taking a walk down memory lane and exploring ancient builds of the deck, you know: back when it used...

Yeah, Prime Time has a special place in my heart as a former 12 Post player. Actually, I bought my Tabernacle originally not out of a desire to play Lands, but as a sideboard card for my 12 Post...

I threw together an initial list designed to go hard on blue, running Vendilion Clique, 2 Trops, Intuition, Tolaria West, the whole show really... and I'd say it's a bust. Even taking into account...

I don't think it's the 3 mana that kills T West, it's the UU in the cost that must be paid at sorcery speed. That's pretty poor against DRS, and I think the UU necessitates double Tropical Island......

TNN has never been a problem for me. Either he can't be cast to begin with because I'm all up in that manabase, or he lands before I get all up in that manabase and Tabernacle takes him down, or he...

Port and Karakas are some of my favorite cards in the deck, and I love even just talking about them. I'll start with Port.

Awhile ago I made as thorough a "+/-" list as I could for Port and Ghost...

I deserve no credit for this list, I just take Sparkii's lists and tweak a few cards here and there to suit my tastes.

// 60 Maindeck
2 Engineered Explosives
4 Mox Diamond

4 Exploration
1...

I'm quite chagrined that Miracles is somehow in the DTB section while we're down here with "hoi poloi" in coach. We shall see what the real control deck in the format is! They cannot contain the...

But.... but... Tracker makes the pretty little light in their eyes go out, that light that began sparkling when they resolved Surgical Extraction and Pithing Needle...

My sideboard against Delver:

-1 Manabond
-3 Gamble

+2 Tireless Tracker
+1 Chalice of the Void
+1 Seismic Assault

I simply try to avoid any graveyard hate they've brought in (mostly...

Jody actually did a really long and excellent deck tech right after the GP performance, and he explains all of his choices at fairly great depth: especially Drop of Honey. I'll be happy to summarize...

I tried Wail in a couple of iterations of the deck, eventually passing the card over. The two useful modes of Wail put it in a strange position, it's an extra way to kill DRS (secondarily) and a...

I think that's an interesting question, Krosan Grip is the traditional answer but it's thinkable (at least) that some other spell might offer a feature more valuable than split second: in this case,...

I just realized today that the implications of the Miracles ban are far reaching and should change my deck and sideboarding more than it has so far. For instance, why do I still have Molten Vortex...

I'll certainly test out a couple of Mirrors in the arsenal, it looks like it should shore up a few points in this atrocious MU without being a liability in others. I'm on blue to boot, so Ruins will...

The few games I've won against Sneaky Show have been early Spheres with Marit Lage following without delay, but it's pretty predictable that this situation is one of the few ways to get a point.
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I'm not sold on the needle, though I collect them and hold page after page of them.

Why aren't we more into Revoker?

I've gone over to the feather-light blue splash a la Sparkii, with just the Academy Ruins, Trops, and Engineered Explosives. I like it this way. I feel like this is the ever-shrinking ground where...

I think Moat is a very apt comparison and shows why the price is highly unlikely to stick to the same degree Moat did. Drop of Honey is a convenient way to kill creatures, particularly Leovold and...

Typically when Lands does well, some of the cards spike. I think we're lucky in that the majority of the spike so far has been limited to Drop of Honey, an utterly optional card. No one is going to...

Just make sure you've got enough time left in the round for the judge call!

@Sparkii

Thanks for the report, boss.

I often play your lists, so they are really helpful :)

I'd probably wait until the spike wears off in any case. The price on this card is so inelastic that probably a couple of folks buying it after seeing it in action in that top 8 Lands list caused it...