Just started trying GU 10 post about a month ago since my usual deck Reanimator is not well positioned right now between all the Delver decks and Deathrite shaman and I like bashing with big creatures.
Having problems with the following match ups.
Burn seems hard to win even with boarding in Forces and Blue blasts. Price of Progress just owns you. If you don't have counter or Crop Rotation for Chasm in response you will likely lose the game from a resolved Price of Progress. Only running 2 Basics. Eidelon also is a huge beating since you take damage from Map, Top, Crop that you need to develop your mana.
Infect is also a huge beating and is likely to see an uptick since it top 8ed a SCG lately. Maybe 4th Repeal would help but it doesn't even work on Inkmoth Nexus and they may have the Vines. More Moment's Peace board?
BUG Delver is a huge pain with Discard, Counters and Wasteland. You want to wait to play around Daze but you then get hit by discard. Liliana is pretty annoying making you discard and turns off show and tell unless you Show and Tell a Titan and get Garden. Garden helps with the plant to sack to Liliana if you do resolve a show and tell into Titan but slows your get an Eldrazi plan.
Against Delver decks do you play around Daze with your Top/Map/Needle or do you just jam it? BUG delver hits you with discard so you are put in a use it or lose it but running your stuff out into Daze just seems bad.
Also have a few questions for those playing the deck awhile please.
So Kozilek vs Ulamog or both?
Kozilek draws you 4 which is really good if your getting hit by discard. Kozilek also costs 1 less mana which has come up a few times. Ulamog destroys a permanent which gets rid of Ensnaring Bridge and other annoying things that stop you from winning. If your boarding Ensnaring Bridge Ulamog seems like the better choice.
Hard to find room to fit both though.
So what anti aggro cards should I be running sideboard?
All is Dust costs 7 which is not always possible to cast in time before you lose. Tried 2 board and wasn't to impressed that week.
Elephant Grass ties up my own mana so interferes with casting my own spells to develop my board. Tried 2 board and didn't like them.
Engineered Explosives has been good answer to Empty the Warrens or multiple Delvers and is good on 1 or two if I have the colored mana to use it but can be not very good against varied costs or things that cost more then 2. Not sure if I want a second one board. I run 1 main deck with Trinket to fetch it.
Moment's Peace stalls for 2 turns if it doesn't get countered, hit by discard or deathrite shamaned. I play against too much BUG Delver since my brother plays it. It does not stop burn and requires mana on 2 seperate turns but does not cast as much as Elephant Grass ultimately does but requiring colored mana can still hinder development. Been running 2 between main and board.
Ensnaring Bridge often got destroyed by Abrupt Decay/other removal or you can't empty your hand fast enoughif your holding Eldrazi or Primeval Titan or get wastelanded off colored sources. Deathrite Shaman also gets around Bridge which is a problem since you can be at pretty low life by the time you get your bridge down and your hand size down. Tried 2 in the board.
Propganda doesn't stop the one big fatty from beating you. Didn't actually try this.
Blue blast vs Flusterstorm or a mix of both?
Blue Blast is better against burn but Flusterstorm is better vs Dredge, Combo, and Storm.
@Sauce
Congrats on your finish.
@maChooga
Needle on Top is the best way to fight Miracles hurting their card selection and turning off the ability to float miracles on top. Fetch for Forest early so can cast prime time off forest + vesuva on Forest if they have a blood moon.
Krosan Grip is pretty good since it gets rid of Bloodmoon, Counterbalance, Eidelon, Null Rod, Vortex, among other things.
Karn I think depends if there is alot of Miracles. It didn't seem that good to me in other match ups
Lands really depends if you can get Pithing Needle on Wasteland before they start recuring Wasteland with Loam. Crop Rotating or Maping for Bog to remove their Life from the Loam and using Vesuva to copy it vs further Loams is great but be aware of cycle lands they may have to get their loam back in response. You have Repeal and Karakas to deal with their Marit Lage token if they Thespian Stage/Dark Depths Combo. Chalice in the board to set on 2 to lock out Life from the Loam and Punishing Fire is pretty nice too.
@Davek
@J-Funk
I remember running Teferi's Response years ago in the sideboard of Keeper for Vintage as an anti wasteland measure. Back then there wasn't any Spell Pierce or Daze so Teferi's Response was great.
