Thank you for perfectly capturing everything I love about this deck in one clip.
To answer your question from earlier about
Forcefield, the verdict is still out. The fact that they die to
Abrupt Decay honestly doesn't worry me that much because it falls into the category of "well, so does every other artifact we run". Most of the stuff people bring in against us is artifact hate anyway, so it just is one more on the list. In the mean time, though, it shores up or otherwise reinforces us against basically every deck that relies on a combat step in order to win, with the exceptions of decks that win with Emrakul. So far I've played mostly combo decks in testing. The only fair decks I've played lately were RUG Delver and Deathblade, both of which I crushed. Landing a Forcefield did cause my Lands opponent to concede, however.
In general, the core is pretty much set. I am back on
Sensei's Divining Top and I'm happy. You're a good enough player to where I won't say you're wrong for not running it, but for me I can't imagine being without it. Right now there are just a handful of cards that are in question for me: the aforementioned Forcefield,
Oblivion Stone,
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, and
Ratchet Bomb in the sideboard. Perhaps I'm going too far and spreading myself too thin, but my goal is to address as many decks that win on the combat step as I can while also being able to deal with hate cards - particularly artifacts - that Ugin just can't handle. Forcefield addresses Infect,
Monastery Mentor idiot swarms, and
Inkwell Leviathan: taking one-point bug bites is infinitely preferable to taking chunks of 5 or more damage at one time. It's another answer to Elves if you don't have a
Crop Rotation for whatever reason. O-Stone handles basically everything else, and Ratchet Bomb was a nod to the idiot swarms and
Chalice of the Void on one.
Silent Arbiter interests me though, as it's potentially another way to help make sure
Karn Liberated stays alive. Karn keeps coming in and out of my lists because he handles permanents Ugin can't and can also win a game by himself. The problem is protecting him, because Ugin's impact is much more immediate.
Still, I have more testing to do. I adamantly refuse to buy cards on MTGO that I own in paper, so instead I play on Cockatrice. I will likely be streaming again tonight if anyone is interested. Sometimes people just brew the weirdest decks, though.
