As much as I love Snapcaster Mage, he's really hard to get away with in this deck, as flashing back a spell at best competes with a more impactful 3-drop like TNN or Kolaghan's Command, and at worst...
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As much as I love Snapcaster Mage, he's really hard to get away with in this deck, as flashing back a spell at best competes with a more impactful 3-drop like TNN or Kolaghan's Command, and at worst...
Truths against Shardless is fighting on an axis that they're way better at; they'll have 4 draw-3 spells compared to your 1-2, and they're more likely to successfully cast them. Rather than trying to...
It's safer from the perspective of "more castable", but it's only barely more castable as you still have to get to three mana, and it's highly likely that one of those will be red anyways by the time...
I went 0-3 last night with the Stifle build, a combination of bad matchups (R1 1-2 against Eldrazi, R2 0-2 against RUG Lands) and probably bad boarding decisions on my part. But my R1 opponent called...
My last point was about playing a Delver when you need a fast clock, not against a fast clock. My example was that it's sometimes correct to Waste your opponent's T1 land on your own T1 if you think...
It's almost always the best play, but as mentioned there are a few where it may not be.
- If you're on the draw and your opponent played a Deathrite Shaman or Mother of Runes, best to Bolt it now....
Great analysis! Once you've made the decision to not run Cabal Therapies in the main deck, the rest of the changes feel intuitive. I think it's a metagame call, the more combo you have in your local...
Sorry, it wasn't a T1 Waste, I think the match went like this (I'm on the draw):
T1 Opp: Windswept Heath, fetch a Tropical Island, Noble Hierarch
T1 Me: Underground Sea, Deathrite Shaman
T2 Opp:...
Small tournament last night with the standard list (1 Clique, 3 YP, 2 Angler, 1 Dismember, 1 Forked Bolt, 2 Therapy) and this sideboard:
2 Baleful Strix
1 Grim Lavamancer
1 Ancient Grudge
2...