[podcast] - Legacy Breakfast - Episode 26 - Deck Tech: Death & Taxes

[moose5628]

After a brief hiatus, we are back. Hurrah! And we are here to take a look at one of the classic white weenie strategies still in play today. Is it aggro? Is it prison? How many tricks with an aether vial are there exactly? How can I win the sweet altered art brainstorm? Learn all this AND MORE!

http://legacybreakfast.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/episode-26-deck-tech-death-and-taxes/

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Stuart Pullin
Stuart Taylor

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[from Cairo]

Had fun listening to this, thanks for covering the deck.

[Tylert]

Just for your information, the original thread is on MTG salvation.
Good podcast.

ABout the questions you asked and some additional remarks about your comments:

Cavern is there, because you need some protection from counterspells when you don't have a vial in play.
Thalia is very important for the deck, and you don't want your 2/1 to be countered if possible, just as sometimes mystic into batterskull wins without doing anything else vs control decks, so you don't want it to be countered.
We only play one for the reasons you listed (You want at some point to be able to cast WW spells and there are a lot of different creature types).
Cavern is mostly used on humans, or Kor (or artificer).

Do not play less than 4 thalias, the card is just insane in so many match ups.
Aven mindcensor is not played so much, because it a little bit too slow. Against elves of course it is great (and that is a bad match-up), but in most others it's too slow and it's another 1 touhgness creature that tends to die to the hate (and there 's a lot of hate these days due to TNN). Also, most of the time, on turn 3 or 4, you're probably porting them with a thalia in play and you don't have the mana to cast an aven mindcensor :)

Another interresting point: My opinion is that D&T is most of the time a control deck. It's not about what your doing, but more about what your opponent can't do because of your cards.
That's why Thalia is so important. In some games, turn 1 vial or mom, turn two thalia + a port is just backbreaking.