For the younger readers here, The Red Baron is Snoopy the WWI Flying Ace's enemy in the original comic strip. Poor Snoopy never could beat him in a dogfight...
It refers to any deck that a competent Miracles pilot should normally crush (a modern Zoo deck, for instance), but which inexplicably beats the pants off the Miracles player in the match.
The (somewhat salty) Miracles pilot is then left wondering what happened, and in true Snoopy form says "Curse You Red Baron!"
This has been somewhat popular around my LGS (and others in the area) ever since Snoopy became the mascot of Miracles...
The matchup isn't that bad from the Shardless side. I was something like 5-1 against Ur Delver over 2016, though I did catch a few lucky breaks, so my guess is that the matchup is close to even.
From the Shardless side, that matchup has felt about as close to unloseabe as it gets. I've beaten ANT with Esper Stoneblade. I've never beaten Shardless, and I've never lost a sanctioned match to a Blue Stoneforge deck with Shardless.Shardless BUG:
Worst- Burn?
Best- Other blue midrange decks
Stoneblade:
Worst- Shardless BUG
Best- ?
Worst - probably Sneak and ShowAggro Loam:
Worst- ?
Best- ?
Best - probably ANT, maybe Grixis Delver.
For Elves, Sneak Show with OmniTell feels like far and away our worst matchup.
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There are times this feels utterly unwinnable on the draw for any deck without pitch magic. When they say, Ponder off an Island ... and don't shuffle. Pass and your hand is like Creatures, Removal and Lands. Then sol land, derp and tell, omnichimp, derp. The hate cards that beat dropping Omni and having the Ape Demon or Emrakul in hand are pretty slim.
The gentleman's agreement keeps the format from being a complete shit show.
Meet Omni Science. Emrakul and Griselbrand unfortunately are creatures.
There are sane solutions to just Show and Tell -> Dude. But when they have Omniape and 900 cantrips a good number of well designed hate cards just become textless (see: Containment Priest). Even if they just have Omniape and some cantrips, you are normally hosed. There's almost nothing that plays around Omniape because you won't get priority before they can put Emrakul on the stack. Banishing Light style effects do something, but not against Griselbrand. Omnirhesusmonkey makes it almost impossible to have a 'best' hate card, for a strategy that literally a fucking piece of field moss can assemble.
Agree with you on the worst, anything with show and tell + most decks that can power out a quick blood moon e.g. stompy/painter on most draws. As for best I don't know about ANT, I think loam does have some draws that completely shut down the deck but the deck is just too inconsistent to get those draws often.
Enchantress is probably Lands worse matchup, ton of basics, can't interact with creatures. Elephant Grass and Rest in Peace hose the deck hard.
enchantress shits on every fair deck...
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While this is true, the simplicity of the combo also seems to result in a bunch of people playing the deck that really don't know what they're doing with it, and completely over relying on Omniscience as a guaranteed win. I won two games against different opponents a couple weeks ago just by bouncing it in response to Intuition/Cunning Wish, and I basically suck at this game. Also, turns out having your own Grizzlebees is pretty good against SnT decks.
Also I just realized I replied to a comment that's 9 months old by a banned user, so apparently I suck at reading too.
10/10 good necro.
I think the biggest thing is the deep seeded emotional understanding that the right play is the right play regardless of outcomes. The ability to make a decision 5 straight times, lose 5 times because of it, and still make it the 6th time if it's the right play. - Jon Finkel
"Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings."
For the new Miracles players out there, what do you think are the best and worst matchups for the deck post top ban?
I think the biggest thing is the deep seeded emotional understanding that the right play is the right play regardless of outcomes. The ability to make a decision 5 straight times, lose 5 times because of it, and still make it the 6th time if it's the right play. - Jon Finkel
"Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings."
Just wanted to know what are the worst match ups for Grixis Delver at the moment. Thx for the info.
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