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Has anyone tried Engineered Explosives and/or Council's Judgment over Unexpectedly Absent yet with the Portent build? I'd be curious about your results.

4x Meddling Mage would be useful against both combo and lands.

RE: SFM Package

I'd rather have SFM in a Delver heavy metagame than an extra pyroblast and a land. I get a lot of flack from my local for playing Stoneforge in Miracles, but I do it anyways...

Most of my wins against MUD seem to come when they're stuck in topdeck mode. They don't have much deck manipulation, so I put extra focus on dealing with their first couple of turns. Ideally, I...

Is Sphinx's Revelation good in this deck? Seems like if you cast it "late," you're probably drawing ~3 cards and gaining ~3 life?

Are you only running the 1 copy in your sideboard? How frequently are you able to dig for that?

Dzra: Your evolutionary sense on Batterskull makes sense to me. The one deviation I'd throw out there is that these decks are playing double Batterskull. Generally decks are able to deal with one,...

@AnziD: I'd leave all copies of RIP in against Dredge. I've had opponents just scoop after resolving RIP against them. I also like STP to -exile- their creatures.

BBD's exact 75 with 2 SFM main, 2 SFM side popped up again, this time winning an SCG IQ: www.tcdecks.net/deck.php?id=14375&iddeck=106066

Cutting Entreat takes away your "oops, I win"...

That's fine -- it's just a personal preference with the deck. I'm not sure that Stoneforge allows you to close out a game any sooner than Entreat normally would, it just allows you to deploy a...

I play SFM because it's a cheap efficient threat. I board into Sword of Feast and Famine against combo decks. Between that and batterskull, it seems to work well. I'm always a little antsy to tap...

Cool. I'd be curious to see his list--I pilot an SFM version, too. Does Joe B. lurk these forums? :)

Is Joe Bass still running SFM in his list? If not, is there any reason why?

Hey Koby,

Is this still your sideboard? How do you deal with Karakas?

Thanks,

Jimmy

Surgical Extraction / Extirpate effects work well against Punishing Fire.

Anybody running Pithing Needle in the sideboard right now?

Question 1:

I run 22 lands, with all of them being color producing lands. The land base feels pretty decent to me. I almost always mulligan 1 land hands with this deck though. Here's my land...

I usually go -3 FOW, +3 Dark Confidant, because FOW tends to be bad against control decks. This leaves 3 Jace and 1 Batterskull I can flip -- but you usually pull Batterskull from the deck with one...

@Wizard:

RE: Lingering Souls

Souls was helping me win against aggro and control, but seemed bad against combo. I don't play Souls because I kept finding Souls in my hand when I was losing to...

Hey Wizard!

Good game to you as well. I noticed that about Liliana too--I didn't like having to discard my good stuff. I think at one point I discarded a Sword of Feast and Famine just to tick...

Has anybody tried Liliana of the Veil coming out of the Esper Blade sideboard? If so, how have your results with it been?

I thought it might be good against combo and control decks. I've only...

Terminus not putting cards into the graveyard can also be relevant. A couple things that come to mind right away are Dredge and Sam Black Zombies.

@Guy: Are you using the list on the prior page still? Grafdigger's Cage is sort of rough for you, since it shuts off your Snapcaster. I've never liked that interaction with this deck.
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In the list above, 3x EE, 4x Terminus, 4x Surgical, plus spot removal and Pierces/FOW probably makes it pretty favorable.

I don't think I've dropped a match to Dredge yet--probably played it 10ish times. Terminus is reaaaally good here. I also tend to focus the spot removal on Ichorid. Post-board I'm usually...