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Can this deck be competitive in a field with 12+ Punishing Fires in the Top 8? I saw it's 7th place finish in Atlanta, but really, Fires Jund is only going to rise in the immediate future.

It's a tempo deck, such is the nature of it. Look at RUG, what do they have after turn 4? A random Sylvan Library or Fire // Ice maybe. Granted, they play Brainstorm but it filters them into a...

My feeling is that this is ineffective in a format full of one-drops. For example: Play Trop, Delver, go. Or, Play Savannah, Heirach, go. Try it out, but you might find the trade off in consistancy...

What's wrong with Hibernation and Mind Harness? I remember them working pretty well against Zoo. Of course, Mother of Runes beats Harness, but she loses to Hibernation everytime. Seems simple, get...

Then let's just say it nullifies a late game Mom. Hopefully you keep the first one from hitting the board.

And Jitte kills Mother of Runes.

What's your list then? Are you running the classic FOW, Daze, Standstill, Stifle?

Obviously we need removal and sideboard options to shore up our bad match ups (which at this point is SFM.dec really). I've been playing around with a variety of splashes (as opposed to Mono U with...

Personally, I like Cosi's Trickster. Works well with Path to Exile and may even have synergy with Sejiri Merfolk but seems janky.



Or a KotR activation.

Agreed, but I maindeck Stifle in that slot and sometimes Spell Pierce depending on the metagame. Of course, in the white splash version I played, it was Swords to Plowshares. All very flexible...

Mind Harness and Stifle swung the Zoo match up in my favor at a local weekly tournament yesterday. Specifically game 3, which had me on the edge facing a Goyf at 5 life. My only outs were Hibernation...

I generally agree with you, but as others pointed out it's not really an issue. Saito ran these mainly to grab Underground Sea but as I suggested, you could simply run 13 islands. I played Brainstorm...

I've been considering at running a mono U list based on Saito's build. And yes, his was partly successfully due to the sideboard options that running Black gives us. However, if it were one color, it...

Link to the tournament report?

I generally agree. In order to run with Zoo we need a lower curve, removal and combat tricks. I simply want to test Trickster because of the synergy with PtE. I've noticed that a few successfully...

I calculated this likelyhood as 0.24... with the following: [(4/60)+(4/59)+(4/58)+(4/57)+(4/56)+(4/55)+(4/54)]^2. Is this correct? It seems like a far too often occurance. You'd need a plan here for...

I've been splashing White for a while now and have a few questions. Firstly, is Perish the Zoo hoser we need it to be? I've been running SB Ghostly Prison / Propaganda. Secondly, would adding Path to...

Just some possibilities of Anti-Zoo tech:

Propaganda
Consign to Dream
Stifle
Wasteland
Permafrost Trap
Hibernation
Back to Basics
Controlled Instincts

- 1 Merfolk Sovereign (or Commander) and -1 Rushing River
+2 Wake Thrashers for more aggro
-or-
+2 Jitte for aggro/control
-or-
+2 Echoing Truth (or Wipe Away, B2B, Propaganda) for control

I'm glad you are having success against Zoo with a mono U version but it seems to me that the deck definitely needs some removal. With that in mind, I've been working on a UW version that I hope will...

Play the UW version and run some of the following wherever possible:

Swords to Plowshares
Path to Exile
Stand // Deliver
Consign to Dream
Propaganda
Back to Basics
Sejiri Merfolk
Standstill

Congrats. What list did you top 8 with?