I brought this up before. I wouldn't cut Daze if you're lacking 2 drops... If you cut Counterbalance, you might as well be playing Dreadstalker.
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I brought this up before. I wouldn't cut Daze if you're lacking 2 drops... If you cut Counterbalance, you might as well be playing Dreadstalker.
I'm using an E-Tutor package:
3 Peacekeeper
1 Nature's Ruin
1 Perish
2 Engineered Plague
1 Energy Flux
2 Enlightened Tutor
1 Ethersworn Canonist/Crucible of Worlds (depending on meta)
1...
MM will be an auto include. It's the ideal counter to go with Standstill, Nought and Dark Confidant. Besides, we'll need extra protection to fight opposing MM...
I think we can learn something...
You've got 1 extra card in the maindeck.
I'd do this
-1 Mental Misstep (or Needle if you absolutely have to run 4 MM)
-1 Trickbind
+1 Daze
-1 Polluted Delta
-1 Tundra
+1 Wasteland
+1...
You can run 3/3 Nought/Confidant to fit in a couple Jace. Take out the Trickbind and run 2 Daze, EE and Needle in the flex slots. Daze is good because you need more CMC2 for CB flips. It's also...
Enlightened Tutor helps to abuse Counterbalance. You can tutor for Oblivion Ring to get your 3cc.
This is basically identical to the one I posted a page back, except -1 Dark Confidant, -1 Spell Snare, -1 Enlightened Tutor, +3 Standstill.
What are you SB silver bullets?
Well, I wouldn't go so far as to cut bob.
Here's a list I drew up:
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
3 Dark Confidant
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Stifle
3 Mental Misstep (time will tell how good...
If you're running 4 Misstep, Standstill looks pretty good.
Basilisk Collar is infinitely better than Jitte on a Lavamancer, and its decent with Bob and Factories.
@J.V. Why Deathmark instead of Perish? Natural Order/Progenitus and Elves are more popular than ever. It was MVP in my sideboard last tournament and I'm trying to squeeze in a 3rd.
They're good against landstill, counterbalance, combo, stax, dragon stompy, MUD, and enchantress. It's only 3 board spots. Usually there's enough room for the cards you mentioned, too.
My SB is...
MUD can forge out a Duplicant or Spine to deal with Peacekeeper, so I'm not sure if that's the right card to sideboard in. It would be good against Affinity as long as they don't play red.
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If you're gonna play Red, might as well play with a couple Blasts. Also, Go For The Throat or Smother seems a lot better here than Snuff Out.
As good as REB is, Spell Pierce is a fine substitute in every matchup except Merfolk. It's also more useful against Stax, Enchantress, Dragon Stompy, and, if it becomes a DTB, MUD.
Of course you...
Peacekeeper still shuts down their deck, giving them about 6 outs between Gempalm and Weirding (using the SJ 1st place list as the model). Stifle/Trickbind can counter their Gempalms. In the time...
I've put together my sideboard notes for discussion. It's not very straightforward, and there are a number of routes one can take in any given matchup. Particularly, since Peacekeeper changes the...
I've been going back and forth as well. It's really a decision between Swords and Peacekeeper, or Firespout and Bolt/Lavamancer. Unless you're going straight U/R w/ Blood Moon, I don't see any...
I think it's a great choice with so much dredge and combo in your meta. Those matchups are byes unless they get the god hand and you mull like crazy. The red splash will help a lot vs...
I think that Uwb is the best version of the deck at present, but that may change depending on the next banned/restricted update. Dark Confidant and Peacekeeper are extremely good in the meta, with...
Placed 5th at a 46 person tourney last night with Uwb Dreadstill. Same list as my last report.
You can sideboard them out on the draw, or in matchups where your LD is less effective, and the opponent will sometimes play around them anyway.
Daze can be a hard counter after Stifling and Wasting a couple lands. Free counters are also clutch when drawn off a Standstill. The utility of Trygon just isn't necessary, and most people prefer...
Black gives you Dark Confidant and Perish. Confidant draws you into more Stifle/Noughts. You should be running 3 colors for EE anyway.
Not that I'm against 4 Spell Snares, but even if you...
I think it's naive to say Qasali isn't a problem. We have lots of ways to deal with it, true (e.g. Stifle and Spell Snare), but allowed to resolve it can cause losses. The problem is the critical...