Originally Posted by
DukeDemonKn1ght
@Easy Rider: These are mostly just my opinions, but here goes:
Phoenix Ignition has said that Back to Basics is good against Stax, and I would trust his opinion on it, he seems to have played the deck a lot. I don't think Energy Flux would hit Stax that hard, because their land base isn't also artifacts, so they should be able to save their key lock pieces. Hurkyl's Recall would be pretty good against them, it seems to me, and it would hit Affinity. But I think B2B is probably the more flexible card all around, since it hits a lot of archetypes, as well as anyone that's just bad at building working mana bases.:cool:
As far as against burn, I think Jitte would be good against them, as long as you can get some counters on it. The trouble is, without some way to disrupt the burn player from killing whoever is wearing the Jitte when you announce attackers, it's going to be hard to activate Jitte. For this reason, I would probably add Divert and/or Kira GGB in along as backup with Jitte, in any sideboard plan that used Jitte...
BEB has been discussed as a good card for the sideboard, but I wouldn't take out Divert for it. Divert is a good way to use the opponent's burn, discard, non-Wasteland land destruction, and many more random things against them, and it's really cheap. The worst that can happen is your opponent will fear the card and try to keep two mana open to pay for it... but if they do that, they're basically playing into your game-plan, since you would normally gain tempo by them playing more slowly.
I hope this helps.
@Everyone, for advice: *As far as one question of my own, I was wondering if playing Jitte over Propaganda in the sideboard might make sense? I'm gonna use 20, maybe 21 creatures, plus 3 Mutavaults, so I figure Jitte is pretty useable. And I don't think Goblins will be super heavily played, so I think Jitte might be more flexible... What do y'all think?
EDIT: Do y'all think it's wrong to assume that Vial Goblins is suffering a bit of a lack in popularity these days? I don't want to get caught with my pants down, but Jitte seems pretty strong to me... even against Goblins if I can get it online quickly enough.