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Phyrexian Metamorph is a good Dredge and SnT hatebear.
Gaddock Teeg is a good Dredge hatebear as well
Ooze is a good Dredge hatebear as well.

Neither Gaddock Teeg, nor Canonist can win the game...

For my current deck I run enchantment removal, artifact removal, land removal and creature removal as an aggro deck. Alongside ~12 tutors that can find them.

It depends on the deck, if your deck...

On the one hand, it's only 4.50$ for those articles, you can subscribe for a month as well.

On the other hand, I really doubt those two articles are worth 4.50$

On the one hand, it's only 4.50$ for those articles, you can subscribe for a month as well.

On the other hand, I really doubt those two articles are worth 4.50$

Well it's mostly under the assumption that I'm lazy and just made a simple model to illustrate my problem to bring the point across.

Even when decks are 3/4/5% you want to prepare for the decks...

I agree that this is calculated risk assessment. But then you get at the point where eventually, there are several matchups that you could prepare for and they're all more or less equivalent in terms...

No, because the amount of decks you expect exceeds the amount you can prepare for. It's pretty obvious if you don't read that sentence out of context.

Unexpected decks = no problem.
Expected...

What you quoted in no way implies that I claim that being underprepared against the unexpected is a problem. I EXPLICITLY say that it's not a problem in your quote.


I haven't claimed that...

Please point out to me where I argue that being underprepared against the unexpected is a problem at all. Use direct quotations and don't take things out of context.

I acknowledge that there's a...

I don't disagree and I'm not claiming otherwise. Read.

Sure you can.

If the metagame consists of 9 decks that each represent 10% and 1 deck that represents 5% of the field and many randoms. If you can only prepare for 9 decks with maindeck and...

Bullshit.

I got a mainboard with 10 tutors mainboard in mono green and a sideboard of mostly 1-offs to prepare for as much decks as possible, this is by far not the strongest maindeck, but done...

No that's your conclusion.

I imply that it's stupid to lose to a deck you expect but can't prepare for due to sideboarding retrains.

Use logic, how would an increased sideboard help agaisnt...

You entirely misread. And that's actually mostly because you read what you want to read instead of what is actually there.

The problem is not that you lose against a matchup that you didn't...

Then this is where we disagree.

In my above example it was statistically the right thing to prepare for 10 decks and not those 2 decks (even when you expected them). If you had prepared for those...

Just so I get this straight

Lets assume we're playing Merfolk now.

You prepare for a metagame and somehow managed to get positive matchups against Reanimator, Dredge, TES, ANT, TA, Tempo...

I'm sorry but I very strongly disagree with you here. In the standard meta's of the past ~5 years this variance you are talking about was not present at all. Especially not in the big tourneys.
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@Hollywood, I'm really not talking about a local meta or small tournaments. I'm talking about big tournaments.

My problem is that you can make a perfect - spot on metacall with the right deck and...

Like many legacy enthusiasts I think about the format and where it's heading. I also think about how the format would be better or be worse.
Just recently I was thinking about larger sideboard...

Geist of Saint Thraft
Skaab Ruinator

Look playable.

It's 4th edition BB so it can't be japanese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Edition_(Magic:_The_Gathering)), Korean is much thinner and less... busy? I also believe korean cards had thick lettering...

Just so you know, the only reason this needs to be locked is because there are people like you (Hanni) who feel the need to degenerate a topic when they consider it unneccesary or dumb, even though...

Breaking Academy is much different than breaking Tinker. And even if it wasn't, I wouldn't ask the question because I already did break it. So I don't need the knowledge. The same counts for most of...

That's entirely irrelevant to the topic. This isn't a prediction or a wish.

I appreciate your comments, but this was just unneccesary. I did a lot of testing trying to break it as a combo deck, I just wasn't capable of producing anything better than the High Tide lists. So I...