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I have a two-day tournament where I have to play 2 different decks. For the last day, the main event, I will play Omnitell and I dont know what to play the other day. Firstly, I want to play a so different deck so no combo or decks similar to Omnitell, and secondly the meta is combo, all types of combo, so give me some advice. Thank you a lot! :)
If your meta is infested with combo and you are a very good player, go for Canadian Threshold. Otherwise, you might want to pick a different aggro-control deck. Archetype-wise, these decks usually give combo the most trouble.
You want to be fancy? Pick some sort of Stax.
if there is really that much combo, play D&T and run extra combo hate main. such as 4 thalia instead of 3, ethersworn canonist, and possibly glow rider depending on how all in your want to go. and 4 moms. They cant beat it....unless they land a dread of nightQuote:
Originally Posted by Ivan
Doesn't Reanimator prey pretty well on combo decks?
So, my metagame is pretty infested with combo and tempo decks, with control decks mostly gone, also Death and Taxes is pretty popular. I'm able to build pretty much everything, so feel free to suggest any decks which are both good vs combo and tempo.
Your meta sounds interesting. Miracles is a deck which can be tuned very well to beat both. Counterbalance, RIP (helm), Clique and Fluster main. All cards which are great against RUG and combo.
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My meta is fairly small but the decks I need to beat are all varieties of Miracles/Countertop, Death and Taxes, and 4 color Hoogland Loam. Multiple deck suggestions would be great as I don't have access to everything but possible access to a lot. Thanks!
The Tier 1 deck to consider is Sneak Show, it has an even matchup with Death & Taxes, a good one with Miracles, and a great one with Loam. Other decks to consider are Goblins (bad against Loam, though), Lands, Merfolk (also bad against Loam), and 12-Post (which has a great matchup against both DnT and Miracles).
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What's the best deck for a blind-meta? (AKA, I have no idea what everyone is playing)
UGx Tempo, UWx Control or Ux Combo.
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Originally Posted by Einherjer
Ux Combo: does this include ANT, TES, Sneak and Show, OmniShow, Hypergenesis, and Reanimator? Or strictly two color combo decks (ANT and Sneak and Show)?
It probably boils down to Show and Tell and ANT, with TES being third.
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The obvious answer is to run blue yourself.
If you want a nonblue answer to this metagame, I would say maverick with tons of good storm hatebears, and chokes in the board. You don't want to play a black splash.
Which could be in your opinion a blue deck that has good chances in a metagame where the rampant forces are Show and Tell, Canadian, Miracles (Snapcaster versions) and Jund? I'm breaking my head trying to come up with some UWx concoction, but I can't seem to find any.
Wouldn't Shardless BuG have all the tools you want for those decks? Force/Discard for SnT, Lilly for Miracles, Decay and DRS for Canadian, and a faster cascade against Jund.Quote:
Originally Posted by Piceli89
Show and Tell and Jund are, respectively, bad and slightly bad matchups for Shardless BUG (the latter because of Punishing Fire which, in the long grind, demolishes all of BUG's threats but Goyf).Quote:
Originally Posted by DragoFireheart
I can confirm: Punishing Fire beats the crap out of Shardless. Played it a lot before/during/after GP Straßburg and the only games I ever won were the ones where I was able to successfully use Surgical Extraction on Punishing Fire. Once you've done that it get's much easier because you've got so much more card advantage and more planeswalker. But generally speaking, the matchup is not very good.
S&T combo is so-so. The main problem is the slow clock of Shardless. I'd much rather play a completly different deck..
Some sort of Esperblade with Vendilion Cliques and enough discard might be ok but I doubt you'd get above 55% against any of these decks.
My weekly/bi-weekly meta consists of a lot of Goblins, DnT, Miracles, Jund, Elves, and Lands, with very little combo, shardless, or delver. I've been having issues with trying out DnT because of how many creature based decks there are, and how they easily skirt around a lot of what DnT has. My main options are Delver in any color combination or Shardless, though I'm not a fan of the elves and DnT matchup that Shardless has, as well as Jund from a few posts up. Should I be assembling a combo deck, and just accept my bad DnT matchup? Or something else?
To be fair, Elves vs Shardless is also pretty much favors the green dudes; and Lands is an abyssmal matchup if they have tech to handle DRS (as Lands deck these days should). So I don't really know about D&T but Canadian Threshold should be pretty much 50/50 against most of these decks. Just remember to prepare your sideboard accordingly: less additional countermagic, more crowd control.
It's funny because allot of the posted metas get raped by belcher/TES /SI. Overall though right now in general I think storm is very well positioned