More and more lists online seem to be featuring 3x Arcane Artisan in the SB. At least one person above sang its praises... Anyone else have some experience with the card, good or bad? Considering picking up a few in paper.
Last edited by Zifbox; 08-03-2018 at 10:09 AM.
Scrubbed out with Bob Huang's 74, replacing the second Pyroclasm with a Kozilek's Return. Here's a quick recap, and maybe you guys could tell me what I did wrong re: boarding.
Round 1: Vs Elves
Combo out once I had 3 mana, then off to game 2.
Boarding: -2 Omniscience, -3 Preordain, +3 Grafdigger's Cage, +1 Pyroclasm, +1 Kozilek's Return.
Combo out on turn 3. He had no answers.
Round 2: Vs UB Deathshadow Delver
I combo out very quickly as he ran out of counters early on.
Boarding: -2 Omniscience, -2 Preordain, -2 Force of Will, +1 Pyro, +1 Kozilek's, +1 Defense Grid, +1 Boseiju, +2 Arcane Artisan
I get beaten down by Delver and Gurmag. The following game, I get beaten down by Deathshadows.
Round 3: Vs UB Delver
I fail to find anything and die to Delver beats.
Boarding: Same as above.
I fail to find anything, and he has Edict ready for my Show and Tell.
Round 4: Vs D&T
I combo out turn 2.
Boarding: -2 Preordain, -1 Flusterstorm, -2 Spell Pierce, +2 Sweepers, +2 Abrade, +1 Arcane Artisan
I die to Karakas at the ready. Twice.
I really think the Blood Moon should be there, but my problem with Bob's SB is that it has zero bounce. Would it be wise to replace 1 Graf's with a Wipe Away?
I am not a specialist of the deck by far, but testing on MTGO with Artisan, I found it a great card, although people are already cognizant of its power. It is usually best used when your opponent sideboards out all their removal, and I have had a few surprises facing removal that would have been useless against my main threats, so either they were aiming at some secondary wincon (Lavamancer…), or they knew Artisan was coming down.
And of course, it is worst game 3 is your opponent knows it's coming. Still, I found it very useful in a number of matchups, and it does make a number of staples (Spell-Pierce, Cabal Therapy...).
I can't afford scalding tarns. Can i play with 4 volcanic islands instead with other blue fetches and forget that single mountain?
Used to run this when blue was rampant so swapped the mountain for boseiju therefore could use KTK blue fetches.
The top end meta appear to be blue heavy except for DnT (boseiju is a dead/bad card against non counter decks) so that might be one sacrifice decision. i.e. slight edge against blue decks bad MU against otherwise.
What's the SB plan against death's shadow? I played against it last night and lost to double thoughtseize + wasteland in both games. Just Curious what is the typical SB plan against them.
Went 3-0 in matches, 6-0 in games tonight @ mnm. Elves, UW Miracles, burn. Played 3 Omni, 3 sneak, 2 Intuition, an otherwise stock build, maybe 1 or 2 counters different less.
Death's Shadowis essentially a Delver variant so board the same way as you would against Grixis delver. The one thing to keep in mind is that Pyroclasm is a lot worse out of the board against Shadow than it is for Grixis Delver, but Grim Lavamancer is a little better since it can serve as a chump blocker and also threaten their life a little. Engineered Explosives is also pretty big game against them.
In a world of Dimir and Grixis, LoSanctity is a good idea.
Anyway I have played the deck and I find it to be a joke. You can turn 1 draw 14 or turn 2 kill or Leyline yourself into digging a Boseiju that gives you uncounterable Cunning Wish into uncounterable Through the Breach for Emrakul..
should they ban Show and Tell, the deck would go red with Blood Moon Sneak Attack and Through the Breach as well as Gearhulks and Inferno Titan. That would be strong alreqdy with Chandra Chalice and Trinisphere
Show and Tell just makes it impossible. Remembers of the old Flash-Hulk combo. It’s one more mana and 1 more card to hold in hand..
Last edited by Poron; 08-31-2018 at 05:15 AM.
Hello all. I'm looking at building cunning wish Omnisneak and am going to borrow a Sneak and Show deck.
Being new to SnS (not legacy got other decks), is the best way to grasp the various intricasies to start with the regular version (which has been suggested to me) or dive right in with cunning wish (which is what I was thinking of doing)?
Thanks
The day that you will realize that 3-4 Boseiju automatically win against non-wasteland deck, things will shift.
1 MB
2 SB
Grixis control and Miracle are now byes. You just fear Thalia, Chalice and Balls and again 3 Abrade in SB can settle it
I have been playing this deck for a while now, but i have problems with death’s shadow, any ideas for this matchup and sideboard plans?
Blood Moon and Leyline
Thanks then i am doing it right
And we have access to both Hydro and Pyroblast.
No I am going to jam 4xLeyline and 2x Boseiju
I am going to cast some Sneak Attack as bait and then win as soon as I dig SnT+Boseiju.
Boseiju also allows masterpieces like EoT Cunnin Wish (TtB) into Uncounterable, untargettable, hasty Emrakul
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