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My SB is currently

4 Duress
3 Carpet of Flowers
3 Tomb of Urami
3 Lotus Bloom (sometimes these are EtW)
2 Autumns Veil

-4 Pact
-cantor

I’m still not comfortable about dropping Slithermuse, if only because it is sometimes exactly the Card I need to get out of a situation. But to be clear, most of my meta is on degenerate combo decks...

I removed Dark Petition because it was specifically the WORST way to spend 5 mana in my deck. If I could resolve that, I could also resolve a PiF. The bonus to PiF is that is can also cast from GY,...

I like him well enough, pretty decent guy from my region and he’s not a miserable player like some streamers.

Ran back another 3-1 finish tonight with updated list. For reference:

3 Elvish...

Anyone else see Jeff Hoogland piloting this deck lately? He’s on the PSI list, swapping IGG a for PiF, 1 ESG for 1 SSG, DRS out for Skyshroud, 1 Land Grant out for 1 Git Probe and 1 of something else...

You know why I freaking hate using this forum?

I just typed up the entire tournament Report for tonight (3-1 finish, some fun lines taken) and when I hit submit, it told me I wasn’t logged in.
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How do you like the 8 discard post board? And against blue, is cabal therapy always naming FoW the first time?

I definitely agree that Kobold SI and RoboSI are more consistently going turns 2+ and winning, as you'll often just lose to a Pact on T2/3 if you fizzle (usually will, sometimes we have perpetual...

I disagree, Pact is EITHER a dude OR a mana. 2 Pact/Pact + ESG = 1 B mana, which neither robots nor kobolds create.

I gotcha. I've been considering 7 discard spells +MB over the Pacts, cantor DRS skull winder. Then again I feel like that diluted my g1 against nonU decks, so maybe I'll just board into it.

Ah I see. And when you are goldfishing do you take the all-out approach for a T1 win or do you play it as if it's a real game and wait for T2/3 on some hands missing a resource?

I sat through and...

What's your list look like?

ALSO: the lands player brings in sphere of resistance like a MOFO, really shoots me down. Should I just be trying to race that card?

Would you mind sharing your list?

My meta is 7-8 FoW decks (4 are tempo), 1 lands deck, 1 BR reanimator, and a smattering of randoms. There's only 1 problem I've faced against FoW decks and it's...

I gotcha. I like Land Grant in gold fish but I hated it against FoW decks when I finally played them. Testing Verdants this week, although I am not sure if SSG is what I want in that slot.

I'm...

How frequently does SSG help out your opening hand? And do you ever find a fetch dead in hand when you've already played a land that turn and need to be hellbent for Infernal tutor?

I'm playing the exact list posted 5-0 on mtggoldfish a page or two back. Haven't changed anything yet

Played a 4-round 16-man tonight.

R1 Young Frankenstein 1-2

G1 On the draw, Mull to 4, try to go off T1 -> FoW. Don't rebuild fast enough before he puts Iona into play.
G2 T1 win on the play ...

My point in asking the question, knowing ANT is extremely consistent and a turn 3-4 deck, is why play SI if you're just a less-consistent, less-resilient ANT deck when you tune everything down.

By...

Further question, what are the advantages to playing SI over ANT?

I win a lot of fizzled hands on T2/3 because I fizzled into a hand full of mana and I need business, so I'm just waiting for a business spell.

Question against unknown opponent: better to go for...

I edited to add a second question.

My list is almost identical, 4 land grant for 4 fetch, 2 GCB for 2 SSG, playing bayou etc.

On the play against an unknown opponent, do you just go for it?...

Ah gotcha, so you're playing a slower version to overcome the blue spells.

I feel like I would just pick up and play ANT if I wanted to be a T2-4 combo deck with a good control MU. I picked this...

Do you ever miss the free wins with GCB on t1? Multiple games have went land grant -> dryad arbor into play, land grant -> bayouto hand, lotus petal -> culling the weak -> charbelcher + LED, or some...

Awesome, thanks guys.

Any unintuitive spell chain sequences you guys have handy? I goldfished for 4-5 hours yesterday for my tournament tonight and I've come across some plays I didn't initially...