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So, I'm playing in a local invitational tournament tomorrow, and if my estimates are correct, there will be six Miracles players in a field of sixteen. My board is appropriately geared for the...

I second this. In my experience, Chalice is only bad against Lands when we aren't beating them anyway. Setting it at 1 forces them to play fair; setting it at 2 shuts off almost all their relevant...

For some input on Chalice against Lands, check my TR post a few pages back. It doesn't quite break the matchup wide open, but with any sort of relevant action it comes close.

Against DnT I'm...

As mentioned earlier, my tech against burn is Dromoka's Command. While it doesn't break the matchup wide open like some other cards might, it counters any one burn spell (which is particularly handy...

Nice job! I'd love to see some tips against S&S too; I have dodged that matchup for the most part and have no real idea of how to handle it best.

Regarding dredgable wincons: Wasn't Worm Harvest a...

This is pretty much what I concluded with, but I'm not intimately familiar with the nuances of storm decks, and with the information I had while sideboarding it seemed better than keeping in spot...

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It was a small tournament, only eleven players, but there was a league finals invitation on the line, so it was run competitively, with four rounds of swiss into top 4.

My list was the...

My next tournament is likely to feature more burn decks than the previous, and while I was brainstorming for sideboard tech I thought of Dromoka's Command. While it doesn't gain us life, it counters...

Quick report from the aforementioned league tournament:

Round 1: Deathblade. This went pretty much according to the textbook; I landed an early Chalice, ground him out with Fire/Grove+Loam and...

I'm taking this puppy to local league tournament tomorrow; wish me luck! My most unique piece of tech will probably be Stirring Wildwood, which has been pretty good so far. Other than that, it's a...

In my last outing with Loam, I faced Miracles in three rounds out of six. I won the first against a very experienced Miracles player. Then I got paired against some unknown guy, but the judge...

My first thought is that running both Depths/Stage and Maze is rather greedy unless you cut some of the more color intensive cards (which in practice means Liliana). Having all of those will pretty...

Well, to be honest, Punishing Abzan is a less misleading deck name than anything with "Loam" in it. It really is a Loam deck by pedigree only.

Well, both Miracles and Omnitell might have been good or at least somewhat favorable with a good sideboard, but in different ways, both felt very precarious because they had the ability to come from...

Regarding sweepers: when I failed to find the second Toxic Deluge that I could swear I traded for at some point, I added a Firespout to my sideboard. I wanted something against Green and Taxes, who...

Earlier there was some disagreement over inevitability in the Miracles matchup, and I'd like to explore that a bit further. Assuming a hand that could go either way, do you default into aggression or...

Miracles, especially the Mentor version, is easily the single most played deck in my meta these days. Do you guys have any tips for gearing my sideboard to beat it? In any case, I want to add an...

I actually like Nihil Spellbomb a lot, but not in a Chalice deck for fairly obvious reasons. I think the combination of Zenith targets in the main and leylines in the side is pretty much perfect.

Does anyone have it built online? I'd love to see a video series. I couldn't find anything remotely recent on YouTube, but if anyone has a twitch link I'd be grateful.

It almost sounds like chalice on 2 is better than chalice on 1. Managing both sounds ideal.

Iona doesn't stop them from simply casting Emrakul, but I see your point on Canonist.

Has anyone tried Trinisphere in the sideboard to combat Omnitell? As opposed to hate cards that use the stack, it shuts down any and all Omniscience shenanigans they might have unless they already...

Those aren't names, they're descriptions, and not even very accurate ones. The deck isn't really a goodstuff deck; it's very much built around synergy. It's also not a prison deck, although with...

I agree that Punishing Blue is a cool name, but a poor choice. Mostly because it sounds like "A blue deck with Punishing Fire", which I imagine isn't quite what you're going for. How about we keep it...

How important is Tabernacle? Are there any matchups that are hopeless without it? what's the next best thing if I can't get my hands on one?