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4-3 at the Dutch Open with mono white D&T. Only match-up that felt unwinnable was bant snow. True-name blade with Oko and a ton of basics is kind of stupid.

Lands (23):
6 Plains
4 Snow-Covered...

Tomik is a very intriguing card. Compared to Serra Avenger:

Plus:
-Human if you play Cavern.
-Can be saved by Karakas.
-Hoses a few combo decks, like lands, loam, enchantress and depths.
-Can...

Played a 61 man tournament today and went 4-2 just short of top 8.

List:

Land (23):

4 Plains
4 Flooded Strand
1 Windswept Heath
2 Scrubland

27 player tournament, I went 3-2.

List:

Lands(23):
4 Plains
4 Flooded Strand
1 Windswept Heath
3 Karakas
2 Scrubland

I'm not so sure. If you could play more than 4 vial, you'd probably go to at least 5-6, but more than that? The problem is that, by cutting lands in favor of extra vial effects, you weaken many...

For me, the interesting idea of these critical cards is why they are so critical. Why would people play a deck, where strength in the game depends so much on 4 cards in their whole list?

I think...

I didn't say omni wasn't beatable by LRW. I said it was unlikely to be in the first turn. My train of thought is: turn 1 show and tell? I expect Emrakul or Griselbrand. Because I know I won't be able...

The risk is not that high. D&T plays only 3 karakas. And Karakas only really ruins the show and ape game if they drop Emrakul.


It depends on the amount of mana they start out with and how...

Matchups where either has considerable added value:

SoWaP: Mirror, burn, maverick, stoneblade, lands, loam, miracles, grixis control, (omni)show, patriot, goblins
Ballista: Mirror, infect,...

Burn, infect, lands, elves. It is the card you board in the most, but it's also a card you tend to want to see one copy of and no more.

Magus is not great in the match-up. Can you reliably resolve P&K against a waste/port/revoker deck if you remove that option to facilitate it?

I expect wasteland's stock to stay mostly the same. The loss of DRS will be compensated by manabases less susceptible to wasteland. The stock of port will go up more, because people need to get more...

Decided to try Brightling today. I had already kicked out cavern, so I just dropped an Avenger and a Crusader for two copies and my flex 61 slot for a 24th land. Went 4-0-1, then lost in the QF to UR...

4-2 at a 50 player tournament today (T8 was 4-1-1+ locked in). Decided to stick with B/W, but do something fancy and put in a Chains of Mephistopheles. Sadly, I only faced match-ups where that card...

Concerning the splash manabase, you are mostly balancing the ability to cast your splash spells as reliably as possible and the ability to stabilize your manabase with basics as reliably as possible....

Verdict is another reason mom is not as great as she seems in this match-up.


I don't think Shalai is very good against miracles. She's legendary, but her creature type does not align well with...

Cutting mom was great before conspiracy 2. Now, the possibility of Prelate + Mom makes you think twice. Of course, the portent ponderers always have a council's judgment handy the few times when I...

The upside of Harm's Way is that it is a two-for-one. I see people putting extra removal in their sideboard against delver, but the reason we lose to delver (post side) is not that we get outtempo'd,...

I think we want more proactive rather than reactive cards. Apostle's Blessing only does its work if you manage to stick that awesome card it needs to protect. And even then, it trades just 1-for-1....

Knight isn't all that impressive anymore in deathrite.format, never mind the megatons of strix, push and true-name running around. But he's exceptionally underwhelming in d&t, where your manabase is...

Played a 33 man tourney yesterday. Lost in the finals to sneaky show. He had show and tell emrakul both times and I did not have karakas. Game 1 he went off turn 3, despite uncounterable thalia. Game...

Dumb things in (grixis) delver decks like true-name, null rod, jitte, needle, dread of night, liliana... are the reason why I've been boarding in council's judgment against them for a while now. The...

Prelate is devastatingly good against delver. Takes this list for example: http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=18363&d=314016&f=LE

Post side, she still neuters a third of the cards in their deck. Huang's...

Man, imagine using the guy to predict their terminus away...

Rest in Peace might have been considerable main in the grixis meta, but now our topless terminators have found Azcanta, those archetypes are going to take a big drop. There's just not that many good...