Inferior to Esperdeathblade, Esper Control (3-4 Lingering Souls hurt a lot), Jund, BUG Standstill and Shardless BUG. So why should anyone play this deck?
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Inferior to Esperdeathblade, Esper Control (3-4 Lingering Souls hurt a lot), Jund, BUG Standstill and Shardless BUG. So why should anyone play this deck?
The deck is quite dead i would say. The BUG archetype is only viable with Standstill, Ancestral Vision or as a tempo deck. Everything else can't compete with Tier 1 Decks.
To improve the RUG...
For me it's a TA Control list that plays Standstill ;-) Jund is the best midrange deck, and all the other BUG lists (except maybe Shardless Agent) fail to beat Jund with conistency. My list is...
After playing a lot with various BUG decks i present to you my final list for the upcoming Legacy Grand Prix in Strassbourg:
Creatures (3)
3 Snapcaster Mage
Planeswakerz (4)
4 Jace TMS
Yeah he's fine for those decks, but not for BUG, because we have better cards in the current meta to play: Snapcaster Mage, Baleful Strix, Shardless and Ancestral Vision. Jund, the biggest enemy of...
Dark Confidant is bad in the current Meta. Baleful Strix is awesome.
From a discussion in the Jund thread:
Maverick, Punishing Maverick and Junk are bad matchups for Jund. I don't know why it's so extraordinary that BUG Control/Midrange can have a positive matchup...
Jund is more inconsistent than BUG because it doesn't play blue. I'm really tired of "Jund is the best BGx Midrange Deck- no other Midrange Deck can beat it". This is not Modern, where Jund is the...
What do you think about Bitterblossom in a BUG control list?
I've built this list and i need your feedback:
After Sideboarding i have a blue count of ~ 20 to support FoW.
I would really like to play FoW in the maindeck, but i couldn't figure out how...