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    Re: [DTB] Death and Taxes

    That's IT I AM DONE WITH BALEFUL STRIX, DONE

    Sleeving 2 Karma
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    Re: [DTB] Death and Taxes

    I would classify mirror games in two phases:

    * 1) Jitte Race. An early Jitte can instantly end the game, so if someone has an early Jitte, the other player needs to blank it somehow.

    * 2)...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    Brightling's price crashed online so I played the most Brightling build I could come up with: Maindeck 25 lands, 3 Brightlings in the challenge today.

    Round 1 W 2-1 vs UR control with 4x TNN. Is...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    No, that doesn't really make sense; it is a little like adding a Hedron Crab to the deck because Mom can protect it. The rest of our deck wins by attacking life total, so you want other cards in the...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    While we are on the topic of more lands, has anyone else tried out or thought about Field of Ruin in some additional land slots? I am completely in favor of "just play more lands" especially if you...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    I agree.



    Interesting. I will defer to your considerable experience, but I find Liliana, Last Hope to be a lot scarier than Dread of Night, because it invalidates a lot of our plays but also...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    Here is a spectrum of things that could have happened against that deck:

    * In several matches on camera, UB Delver players land Dread of Night, sweeping the board and making D&T look completely...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    Are you sure this isn't an elaborate "dies to doom blade" argument? If a creature gets an StP pointed at it for no value and then *still* remains a must-counter threat, isn't this a good creature?
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    The only quality testing I have is against miracles, and every single game felt trivially easy with 3 Brightling. This makes sense though; if we add a bunch of expensive unkillable stuff we will be...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    We are used to Wasteland + Port being a mini-combo, because Wasteland tells opponents to fetch basics, but Port is very good against basics.

    Field of Ruin is getting more interesting to me. It...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    I don't understand what you mean when you say strixes "just weren't that big of a deal." What are you doing to their Baleful Strixes? Swordsing them? Trading with a Serra Avenger? Tapping Mom to...
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    Re: Spicy Popcorn

    If you cut land-based mana sinks (Wasteland, Port, even Karakas) from a Vial deck, you will get flooded and screwed very often. You need utility lands so that when your vial is playing all your...
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    Re: [DTB] Death and Taxes

    Hi -- I'm the one who did the analysis of mana with vials! You are right that the calculations tell you when you will have the capability to play the card, regardless of whether you draw it or not....
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    Re: [DTB] Death and Taxes

    Having a lot of 1-ofs at CMC 2 and a lot of recruiters means your primary gameplan can be T1 vial, T3 uncounterable Recruiter and bomb 2drop from the vial.

    But yea, having maindeck Containment...
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    Re: [DTB] Death and Taxes

    I picked up MP/HP Plateaus for $45 each at the last SCG event that look fine; they are certainly easier to get than Caverns.
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    Re: [DTB] Death and Taxes

    If all the grindy decks move to removal spells that kill our equipment just as easily as our creatures, it is definitely worth considering.

    If the fast decks are everywhere and cause us to board...
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    Re: [DTB] Death and Taxes

    Flying or First Strike or having an activated ability that helps in combat would make me more interested. For example one of the reasons Dire Fleet has a higher floor is that it wields Jitte really...
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    Re: [DTB] Death and Taxes

    I'm skeptical since our mana sinks are Rishadan Port and Batterskull, and you can't vial a Ballista, and Ballista isn't really a particularly good equipment wielder, and we don't have anything that...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    !! To the specific person who posted this; this is not intended as a personal attack on you !! But it is a vicious attack on the thing you said, which a lot of people say. !!

    Next up here in the...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    Copperhead, this post is not a criticism of your decklist specifically, but your list is a great jumping off point for a specific issue I've seen a lot in high-level magic deckbuilding.

    I get that...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    Just a heads up that I ran into a Miracles player who had a Null Rod in their sideboard in last night's leagues. I was not expecting that, and it was pretty devastating.

    I also like the meme value...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    Myself (and maybe many people) get The Source notices in a weekly or daily digest, so the notices generally appear after they are relevant. You are starting to notify me a little more than I would...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    Just remember Revoker is a solid maindeckable card because it is a creature that is rarely dead except in situations where anything else we played would be equally-dead. Daredevil might end up...
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    Re: [Deck] Death and Taxes

    Hi friends, just looking for some fringe advice here. The last match of my last league, my opponent went:

    Game 1 on the play: Chrome Mox exiling Griselbrand, Ritual, Entomb, Animate Dead...
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    Re: [DTB] Death and Taxes

    This is more of a thought exercise than anything else, but the decks I saw this weekend were almost all red, white, and combo:

    Czech Pile, Elves, Red Stompy, Grixis Delver, Sneak and Show, Storm,...
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