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Eli Kassis played Jund Depths to a 2nd place finish at a 2K recently, adding in red for W&6 (main) and Ancient Grudge (side): https://mtgtop8.com/event?e=22480&d=352888

PS: Nice playing ya the...

It really depends on the texture of your hand but among the cards you mentioned, I usually take Swords first if I have a faster hand. That answer requires the least setup and only needs one open...

Let's all chill and just take this as a learning experience for anyone else who happens upon this thread. To be clear, there is no activated ability component of Rector. Perhaps the discussion became...

Miracles and Grixis Control. Maze of Ith can't become a clock.

You can expect more hate going forward as more well-known players have been picking up or trying the deck... Bob Huang has been putting up good results online while David Long has been doing well in...

The popularity of Miracles and Grixis Control has pushed Dredge into a great position, as well as the continued dominance of Surgical Extraction over more effective, but slower grave hate.

If you're having difficulty with the Lands matchup then perhaps that would be a compelling reason to use Assassin's Trophy?

Ego = Unmoored Ego

As for Elves, if you're on the traditional Turbo plan then it's a good matchup for us. We're typically a turn faster and G1 they have no ways to meaningfully interact with our...

Also with Sejiri Steppe and Karakas to generate white mana.

She was played in the Lands sideboard right at the end of the Miracles CounterTop era. Not sure how much I like her here but I would be open to testing out a Liliana, the Last Hope. Helps pick off...

I don't think Crop Rotation will help in most scenarios. Your opponent will likely try to hold Assassin's Trophy until after your Dark Depths has the counters removed (i.e., you've already lost your...

Steely Resolve had been tested out at least as far back as 2013 and had a minor price hike after the deck featuring it out of the sideboard did some good work on camera a year or two ago.

All things which, aside from Dark Depths, can be addressed with Pithing Needle/Sylvan Safekeeper. I think there are better options to battle the mirror/Lands than splashing for red.

What kind of absurd metas are you playing in where people have playsets of Repeal (??), Vapor Snag, or Dead // Gone in the sideboard? :eek:

Anyway, if hate ever increased to that level it's not...

First off, congrats on the performance! Bummer it was a team event though.

Regarding this particular sequence against Grixis Delver, I think I would have led off with Hexmage over Stage. Besides...

Speaking of spice, check out this fresh take that got 6th at the SCG Milwaukee Classic: http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=119994


Living Wish package
Glacial...

I'm kind of loving that spicy Rancor in the main. Jam it on a Vampire Hexmage and you've got a 4/1 first strike trample. Then when you sacrifice it to make Marit Lage, you get the opportunity to put...

Nice work! Few questions:

Why Fatal Push in the main? What creatures are you afraid of?
Why Leyline of the Void in the side instead of Surgical Extraction?

I tend to avoid bringing in Sphere against Elves and Burn. I find both matchups to be pretty decent and they don't have a lot of ways to interact with your combo so what you want to be doing is...

Maybe Collective Brutality? Two mana is not an insubstantial amount against fast combo but it's of course very flexible in other situations too.

Also, congrats to everyone, we've made it into the...

The best defense to Wasteland is Pithing Needle. There's a reason there's usually a full playset in the 75. Negator mentioned other common defenses of Crop Rotation and Ghost Quarter. In terms of...

These are great! Who is the artist?

For what it's worth I find Elves a pretty good matchup for us and boarding in Spheres isn't where we want to be since all it does is slow us down. While it's true that is can prevent some early...

I've been playing Factory as well and while attacking comes up rarely it does make a pretty good blocker too.

I've tracked about 60 paper games so far with a 72% match win rate, most losses have come from Sneak & Show and Lands.