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The matchup is generally pretty great. There's a reason that wrapter has three copies of dread of night in his board. That's a lot of slots to devote to cards that only come in for one matchup, but...

D&T showing up big at the Pro Tour, but no one's playing brightling. I'm surprised to see no brightlings based on what everyone else says about the card (even though I virtually never draw it in a...

Why is he scoffing at the idea of having brought in pithing needle? That card is great against us.

When I've played him as a recruiter target, I never felt like he was worth fetching. The card is already slow, and when you have to recruit him, wait a turn, cast him, wait a turn, use him, then it's...

Why does delver feel like a bad matchup? I played against delver six times at the GP and only lost once to really bad draws. Delver is what we're meant to be preying on, so if we get to the point...

I haven't played cataclysm in ages. What matchups has it been great for?

Took (approximately) Bahra's WRb list to the legacy win-a-box at my local store today and crushed everyone (storm, shardless, bug delver, eldrazi). My draws were good, and those were good matchups...

I have played sharpshooter in the past. He sounds great in theory, but he's incredibly slow, as he costs three and does nothing when he hits play. I would never play him over cunning sparkmage, as...

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Do we even need to bother splashing anymore? They're just giving us so many white cards that there's hardly a way to find room for green or red cards.

That card is insane. I haven't played D&T for a while, but that is so good that I'll have to try it.

Yeah, people get a bit carried away with how good it is. It's obviously great, and you should play as many as you can, but plains is a totally reasonable alternative if you just don't have them. In...

That is interesting, and the fact that it gives us a window to tag a cradle before even the first use is pretty relevant. Even one cradle activation can kill us if the elves player knows what they're...

I just got back from Columbus, here's what I played:

Main:
4 Mother of Runes
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Thalia
3 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Flickerwisp
1 Mirran Crusader
1 Vryn Wingmare

The card is powerful, but I would be shocked if this were the right deck for it.

Yeah, I was expecting more mirrors, where I think red is a liability, and I thought that stoneblade would be nonzero. I almost cut manriki for a lightning bolt at the last minute, but decided to keep...

Yeah, topdecking the second wisp was pretty savage. My notes do say that it was 4, not 5, so that's a typo.

Judgment is a nice catch-all in matchups where you want another removal spell. I killed a knight with it in top 8, and a few walkers and creatures over the course of the day. I played against zero...

I haven't used holy light because it feels a little too narrow. If it killed 2-toughness elves, I'd like it a lot more, but maybe I'm underestimating it. I've killed them with ratchet bombs and such,...

1. I never played against elves or d&t (or goblins or anything like that), so neither of them was great. I don't think that I'll be playing the sharpshooter in Seattle, as it's just a little too...

Figured I might as well write up a report. Some details may be off because this is from memory 2 days later. I'll probably wind up making myself sound like I'm terrible at magic because mistakes...

In g1 I thought retreat cost 4, so I thought I had him locked from casting it with mirran sofi for exactly lethal on the way back. It turns out it costs 3 and I died. G2 I drew a million lands and he...

If you were wishy-washy about picking up recruiters, you may want to move now. I just top 8ed the open with imperial taxes, so they may or may not spike. These things are hard to predict.

I never ever play karakas against reanimator unless I absolutely need the mana from it or they've already seen my hand. In your example, you're trying to guarantee t2 rip without having to spend your...

7 fetches and 5 targets is fine. You almost never run out of fetch targets, and it's usually not a big deal if it does happen, since if you've got 5 lands on top of some number of your 11 other...