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I also watched the video a couple of times now. At the beginning, I believe he clearly sees that two Groves are next to each other, so he decides do unclunk them. Afterwards, he pulls out a Wasteland...

I once got 4 Volcanic Island (2 Revised, 1 FBB French, 1 FBB German) for 4 Birds of Paradise (4th and 5th edition). And I wasn't sure if I should do it, but a friend of mine said: "Birds can be...

I am a fan of Surgical Extraction in Snapcaster Mage decks, where the effect can be re-played as early as turn 2. If you have a GY infested meta, it's obviously a good choice to add more GY hate. I...

I stand corrected, he did have a bolt instead of a 2nd Volcanic Island. It only makes the FoW play even worse than I initially thought.

Go troll somewhere else. His starting hand was:
Volcanic Island x2
Swords to Plowshares x2
Force of Will
Daze
True-Name Nemesis

He then drew an Arid Mesa for the turn.

Not a very hard decision indeed. I would have never forced that Delver. Any land will give him the opportunity to Swords that guy, or he can draw a bolt. Or he can take some damage and do it later....

I think it's actually pretty good to slam the Stoneforge T2 in that situation. Frankly, getting it FoW'ed is a pretty good scenario anyway, since it indicates that the opponent cannot handle a...

I think Grims are still necessary for killing Delvers and SFM to prevent him from getting an Equipment in play in the first place. It also puts an additional clock on the opponent. In the example you...

What about a singleton Vendilion Clique? It's good against combo as well as against control. It's also a clock on it's own.
I have been liking the sword, but maybe you are correct that it is not...

I actually find myself wanting to board more out than in against Aggro and Midrage decks, so that's possibly an indicator of needing another spell for those matchups in the board. How was the Forked...

Maybe you just forgot it when you posted your boardings, but I hope you also went
-1 Jitte, +1 SoFF
against OmniTell and Sneak&Show and
-1 Batterskull, +1 SoFF
against Elves

reasons should be...

The problem I have with Grim maindeck is that he is not a "fast" removal. I cannot kill a DRS on the play T1 with it. I cannot kill a Dark Confident if I ponder for a removal and find a Grim. You...

Nice read indeed, but isn't Krosan Grip actually good in RUG nowadays because of Rest in Peace ?

Thanks for your insight, it sounds very reasonable. I would just like to know why you want Grim in that matchup? It only kills Delver, and we have Bolt as well as REB to kill him.

I think the RUG Delver matchup should be in our favor. As already stated, they are the better tempo deck due to Stifles, but we have more bombs and things they can't handle (Batterskull, TNN). We can...

A plan B is definitely necessary. Wurmcoil is still good against decks that can't handle it (RUG Delver, BUG, Jund). It's also a surprise angle of attack most people just do not see coming. Only one...

I played a pretty similar list at GP Vienna side events:
26 ppl on Saturday, 4-1, 2nd due to good breakers,
65 ppl on Sunday, 5-2, 9th - screwed up in R5 and therefore missed top8

I completely...

Any news on how the Izzet Charm was? UR seems like its difficult to cast sometimes. As protection, it doesn't seem very reliable the turn you go off (I rarely find myself having two mana available...

I am very open to suggestions for an alternate plan B, however the Wurmcoil was great for me so far. BUG and Jund almost cannot beat a resolved WCE. As you said, they can decay a Grim Monolith to...

Congrats on your result Koby. Also good deck-tech.



Well normally, 1 turn is all Elves needs. As you can see in Koby's feature match, in G2 he was on 1 life when he combo'ed. 1 turn can make...

It's an interesting idea, but I can't really get behind it. Unlike other decks, I don't think we want to mulligan for the Leyline. Also, I don't think discard is our main problem. We have enough ways...

Thanks for the report, it was a good read. It's nice that you liked the tops as well! Congrats on your finish.

Some questions:

Isn't the 3rd Seat of the Synod > the 2nd Great Furnace ? I...

Great to see the deck putting up results! This build is almost identical to what I took to GP Strassbourg ealier this year where I barely missed top 64 (not surprising since I started with Hilty's...

Yes, I remember running LED in that slot as well. As a 1-of it seemed like a rather wasted slot to me, because you will rarely have it when you really need the 3 mana boost. It is nice to go...

Top is awesome in many ways. Against TES, I floated a Flusterstorm on top and countered his Tutor. You can use it as a drawing engine with Welder (which I did a lot). You can open with Island->Top...