I'd recommend varying your bounce spells again. I've been running 3 Chain of Vapor to deal with hate bears and random things like Thorns/Pillar/etc, but once New Phyrexia is legal I'll be running the...
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I'd recommend varying your bounce spells again. I've been running 3 Chain of Vapor to deal with hate bears and random things like Thorns/Pillar/etc, but once New Phyrexia is legal I'll be running the...
Underground Sea -> Dark Ritual -> Duress -> Business
Underground Sea -> Dark Ritual -> Lotus Petal -> Moxes/LED -> EtW
Underground Sea -> Dark Ritual -> Lotus Petal/Moxes x2 -> Ad Nauseam
If...
Are people really this bad? You see them lead with Underground Sea -> Dark Rit, and you DON'T Misstep the Dark Rit? Really? What's more important than that Dark Rit this turn?
Mental Misstep won't do much to this deck.
First off, what does it counter?
Ponder? I have 3 other Ponders and 4 Brainstorms.
Duress? I have 3 other Duress and 4 Chants.
Dark Ritual? I have...
Makes sense with your build. In the situations where you go Wish -> Tutor pass the turn, you would generally go Wish -> Returns with TES. You aren't playing Returns, so if IGG and EtW aren't options,...
Engineered sees very little play. The card you would play around by holding your artifact mana is Pernicious Deed. Something to note, since Deed costs 3 to play and blow, EE costs 2. Generally...
Besides adding Emrakul for Shelldock, I'd cut the Eye of Nowhere. The only time you would wish for it over Deathmark or Shattering Spree, is vs. an Iona on black (Reanimator is barely played), and...
Stax and Trinisphere variants are always going to be an awful match-up. If you know you're playing vs. a Stax deck, mulligan aggressively into a quick win or a hand with disruption. Keeping hands...
I would make room for 1 Empty the Warrens in the board. Having access to the card will give you a lot of free wins. Also, replace the Rebuild with Shattering Spree (or Pulverize) so you can wish for...
Depends on the board state and why the TES player feels he needs to go off that turn. If he's attempting to go off because you have lethal on the board, it's slightly complicated. Forcing the Chant...
Is Xantid Swarm a better option than Carpet of Flowers? I haven't tested Carpet at all, but I've lost games with a resolved Xantid Swarm because they're able to strip the business from my hand while...
I've recently started testing this deck out in place of TES because it offers a more stable manabase in the Stifle/Wasteland meta. I've been running Ari's old list with Dark Confidants in the board,...
I'd also mull it on the draw.
For the second question, it depends on the rest of the hand. If I was on the play vs BWG Junk, with hand 4 (-1 Duress, +1 Brainstorm or Ponder), I would keep it. My...
I'd mull hands 3 and 4.
The only card that will make hand 3 live is Burning Wish (or the 1 of EtW). Infernal Tutor is semi-dead because you probably can't get hellbent before blowing your...
I'd play it the same way. Ponder can see 4 cards to find another land, Brainstorm can only see 3. Duressing first is the worst option here because if they do have the Wasteland, and you dont rip a...
The Fish player has access to the same counterspells in both situations. Daze and Force are both free to play. The line of play I suggested leaves Gemstone Mine with 1 counter on it for turn 3. If...
Gemstone Mine -> Ponder
Unless you draw an Infernal Tutor or a Burning Wish, you can't win turn 2, so Duressing on turn 1 is pretty pointless. If they are playing blue, they should not only have...
I'd bring in all the Pyroblasts, Krosan Grip, and Wipe Away vs Counterbalance. Wipe Away is Krosan Grip number 2 in that match-up. It's there over the 3rd Echoing Truth / Chain of Vapor to be a...
This is pretty wrong. I wouldn't board out Chrome Mox vs decks with Wasteland. Why are you boarding in Echoing Truth vs Fish? They have nothing you want to bounce. I guess you can bounce a Lord or...
Spree is generally better than Meltdown. Even vs. Affinity. Wiping their board is nice, but you usually only care about the Canonist. Spree is also better vs. Stax variants, as it takes 3 mana to...
You should always win game 1 vs Lands, which means you get to be on the play game 3 if there is one. Chalice in combination with Wastelands can be a beating, but when you're on the play you can...
I'm still running Chant. I play Bryant's 5C list with a modified manabase to accommodate for 4 Xantid Swarms in the board. Im running:
4 Gemstone Mine
4 City of Brass
2 Scalding Tarn
2...
If your main concern is beating Fish + UG Survival, play 4 Xantid Swarm somewhere in the 75. The only real answer those decks have to that card is Force of Will. Daze is easy to play around, and...
I wouldn't waste SB slots on Bob nowadays. It's at it's best vs the mirror, landstill, and CB decks, all of which are on the decline lately.
Hunting Pack? Seriously?
What the fuck happened to this thread.