"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
http://www.channelfireball.com/video...sultai-legacy/
Looking forward to watching this tonight.
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My only hang-up on Reid's list is why the island over the Swamp? I've always run the two basics that allow you to Decay a Blood Moon. I don't understand why you would play the island. Anyone have an opinion as to why?
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Sure, there are 6 cards you want to cast in the deck that have double blue mana with 8 dorks, all of which produce blue and green, but 4 of which do not produce black.
The question, I suppose, is do you think the Swamp should be there also?
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I don't think you are understanding my point. Bug lists traditionally get hosed by blood moon. The best way for a bug list to hedge it's bets is to fetch up the two basics that allow you to Decay the Moon, otherwise you just lose. If you don't, your only way to do this is hope you have Decay AND forest AND draw DRS, AND have the land to remove for it left in a graveyard so you may get black that way.
I'm not talking about the basic functionality of the deck, but rather addressing a major weakness.
I put this together last night and promptly crushed Miracles 2-0 in a test game.
As to the TA thread, I would be fine discussing this deck there, though the TA players may be a bit disgruntled.
Moon is in 2.2% of maindecks and 8.5% of sideboards. Unless your meta is just swarming with dragon stompy, you're probably OK to dodge it most times. And you have force, daze, etc. Otherwise, pop a couple Krosan Grips in your board and fetch your basic forest early.
Sneak and Show plays it as do some Miracles lists as well as iPainter and Imperial Taxes (magus). I guess I'm the only one who's really worried about it though, so I'll leave it be for now and make my own changes.
My meta has all of those decks in it, so I seem to have more issues than you folks.
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If your really going to worry about it, go to 4 Decay as well. But you have 8 Mana dorks, all who you can cast off a basic. I think most of the time your going to be ok.
I did drop the Cut for a Maelstrom Pulse. You can't completely ignore Eldrazi.
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I have been. I'm still watching, but if he hadn't hit tnn #2 like he did and hide it, that smasher would've been the end of that game. I also try to maintain the idea that perhaps Reid is a bit better than me 😉 and that plays to making a few different choices.
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This is the key to beating traditional beatdown decks with TNN decks. TNN is almost unbeatable since the color combinations can't remove TNN easily, so it either stalls or it's a race. Against a deck like Maverick, they are forced to bring in Zealous Persecution, which can hurt them as well.
I have no clue as to how a ZP cast by a maverick player could possibly hurt said maverick player.
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