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Christian Hauck and I came up with this when we practiced for PT25 and he said it didn't matter for the PT, but per se the card is sweet: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/1254491#paper

It shuts...

I honestly don't understand Sword of War and Peace. I would definitely play Walking Ballista as it doubles as an early removal against Elves, is a threat that lives under Dread of Night and can also...

I just bit the bullet and bought 2 Brightling on MODO for fcking 70 tix, so now I will be able to actually test him and perhaps give you my verdict. The alternative will be side events at GP Turin in...

Dark Dephts/Marit Lage.

Making Thalia and maybe Brimaz super resilient against Miracles.

Hoses Thalia and Brimaz in the mirrormatch.

Bouncing Thalia and replaying it to have it as a blocker...

So to address the RW Taxes debate:

I do think that the red splash loses a little bit of value because Magus of the Moon loses some value in the new metagame that is now dictated by either fast...

That guy destroyed Death & Taxes 4 times (this gottelicious in the swiss and the playoffs, Christian in the swiss and me in the finals). I don't really think Cataclysm helps a lot, but it might be...

Is it possible that StarCityGames events are quite soft in general? I always have the feeling that you have to take these things with a grain of salt. If you pay closer attention to the report, the...

Goblins is not an issue, I found the matchup to be very good. I played against it at a local FNM last week and felt pretty good about the matchup, once you get the swiss army knife going it's usually...

I played 5-2 in the MTGO Legacy Challenge, I lost to Storm and RUG Delver. Brightling was 45 Tix before the Challenge, so I did not buy it and went with my stock list.

So far I have yet to be...

Brightling seems like an option if you don't want to play Mirran Crusader or Brimaz. I think Brightling is comparable to Brimaz in that it is very capable of racing True Name Nemesis and bounces back...

The question is, what makes him better than Gideon? Gideon also doubles as a protection spell against Sulfur Elemental and Dread of Night, cards that should soon be seen in sideboards.

On a...

This is definitely not viable in D&T, but it might see play in Nic Fit. I can imagine fetching up Vraska or Garruk Apex Predator is pretty dope, or other dumb stuff like Karn, Ugin or NicoB.

No, both splash builds are equally prone to the variance a fast Blood Moon brings. When that happens, I'll prefer to be the monoW variant with 10 Plains rather than running the splash with 3 Plains....

If you want to win a GP, you need to be lucky. Just like togores didn't run into any Eldrazi in Prague, it's okay for DnT to win if it doesn't bump into terrible matchups like Elves or Belcher.
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Stoneblade is a tricky matchup I believe. That is also one of the reasons why I was hesitant to play Death and Taxes right after the ban. I played against Esper Stoneblade before the ban and got...

Council's Judgment _definitely_ comes in. Dread of Night, Null Rod and True-Lame Nemesis have to be answered. It also doesn't hurt to have more removal and a catch-all answer as some Grixis Delvers...

Nothing's set in stone here, but you can take this as a pointer: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=13774&writer=Craig+Wescoe&articledate=2-3-2017

All decks where the Platinum Angel Emblem is relevant against can easily handle him or are simply faster.

Elves just deals an insane amount of damage to everything including Gideon,
Belcher will...

Obviously, nothing's set in stone here, but it gives you an idea of what you can or should do - conceptually - against a certain MU. I'll never cut SoFaI against Grixis Delver, and I also would not...

Craig Wescoe's guide here http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=13774&writer=Craig+Wescoe&articledate=2-3-2017 is extremely nice. I am certain these SB plans were worked out with Thomas...

I played 3 sideevents at GP Utrecht with basically the GP List (only difference is I'm playing 2 Avenger, 0 Spirit in the main and 2 RiP, 0 Relic in the board). They were all capped to 4 rounds, with...

As pointed out earlier, a good sideboarding approach can be axing 4 Thalias and a Jitte for 2 Council's Judgment, 2 Gideon and Pithing Needle. Jitte is inefficient against them and you want to set...

This is EXACTLY my point. As soon as there is a Batterskull-TNN standoff, you will be ahead due to the sheer threat density of your deck. A naturally drawn SoFaI, any SFM, any Recruiter or flyer will...

Well, if you searched my post history you might have noticed I've been following and playing this format for 10 years already, and I played Death and Taxes in at various Ovino torunaments in Milano,...

Batterskull is one of the best cards to race TNN with. Cutting it is just wrong, especially when it's pretty much impossible for TNN BUG to ever handle Batterskull. Sword of Body and Mind is good,...