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Beautiful deck!

Although not often played in maverick, i would be sure to address fatal push and collective brutality. Also an area where our equipment can act as removal.

I think it's pretty standard to run 3 black producing lands in lists that run abrupt decay (me), and 2 if you don't. This discussion is in reference to running main deck thoughtseize. Although I...

Very true, shock lands are fine replacements for duals if budget is an issue.

We aren't playing death's shadow are we? :really::really::really:

But in all seriousness if you're playing the normal 3 black sources + deathrite I think you want to cut your 2nd basic forest for...

I think the major thing that keeps me hesitant on sylvan safekeeper is saccing lands does bear a fairly big cost. If i'm a control deck and I'm sitting across from a sylvan safekeeper i'm likely...

If you're already using scryb you then have double mom protection which will generally enable to use her both offensively and defensively. Furthermore double mom allows mom to be used on offense as...

It's also worth noting that Reanimator, Delver and Death and Taxes are all favorable match-ups as is and don't need additional help.

Just out of curiosity, do you have experience playing maverick?

I like your analysis, I agree with just about all of it, which is also why I'm not running either depths or a 5 drop currently. Meta just seems hostile to it. If the meta shifts I may try running a...

Additionally I run cradle without a big 5 drop. I find that I rarely ever have 5 mana without a cradle, and the presence of a 5 drop seems really inconsistent. I rather just have the equipment which...

This is certainly a little bit biased. But i do agree that depths can win you games you should have no business winning. It does however come at a cost, you need to mulligan several hands that...

I think when discussing the 3rd equipment flex slot everyone needs to keep in mind the context of the discussion. I believe Koby mentioned maverick is not a stoneforge deck, but a deck that uses...

How do you like the full play set of stoneforge mystics? I've at times thought about going up to 3 given the awesome card advantage they provide.

I have to concur with TMagpie on this one. 2 four drops alongside 5 three drops with only 4 dorks is going to be too slow. Additionally only 1 wasteland? How do you beat a karakas when running 8...

That's mainly what I meant. Two very different angles of attack.

Chiming in on the Recruiter topic, I think you want to run him if you are playing aether vials, but I think he is too slow in GSZ maverick. If his main advantage over GSZ is the ability to grab...

It varies based on the stoneblade variant. Keep in mind that the different varieties of stoneblade are very different from one another. In this particular match-up against UWr stoneblade I think the...

Won my LGS' win a dual event this week. Played a pretty typical list, I had been trying to test sanctum prelate, but never actually cast it so I dropped it tonight for the 2nd qasali pridemage.
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After almost a year of playing the dark depths combo in maverick I have hopped on the bandwagon and joined the cradle crowd, at least for now :wink:. With the loss of miracles and the rise of the new...

This is the current list I'm playing:

1 Dark Depths
1 Thespian's Stage
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Karakas
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Forest
1 Plains
1 Scrubland

Which match-ups specifically are you trying to focus on? I feel that in most unfair match-ups scryb ranger often acts as a way to double wasteland opponents with knight to lock them out of the game....

Yes, I am not playing cradle. It essentially translates to playing one less land that taps for mana. Greedy I know, but it has worked out for me pretty well.

In the past when people have talked...

I believe this is a very important point and one that I would also like to add on to. Maverick does suffer from being under-represented I think good pilots do have good finishes with the deck, but it...

I'm currently on garruk which i have not yet been able to draw against miracles, but I tested kaya for a while and the games where she came in to play were a cakewalk afterwards. I switched back...