To my knowledge it's pretty much solely being pioneered by one of the more well-known Lands players from Japan (yekcat on MTGO). He's testing it out because it's particularly strong against midrange decks. It provides cover for the Marit Lage token against Diabolic Edict and a reasonable clock if the token gets Swords to Plowshared.
I would sooner run Wail for Edict protection. No clock, but other useful modes an requires no splash.
The other local Lands was running a Crypt in the board for a while. It's very good with Academy Ruins (and T.West, if you run it). It also has the benefit of firing at instant speed without needing Crop Rotation.
If your meta is heavy on graveyard decks, it might be an okay meta call.
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Yea, I noticed it is coming from Japan. I always like to keep an eye on that meta cause it is always different. But there is no game play footage or commentary I can find on the card choice. Not only that, it is a black/white card and out of colors normally seen for lands.
I get the argument for edict effects. But similar to what someone else said about Swords to Plowshares. It is annoying, but does not break us. We can just recur the Depths and Stage back to our hand, particularly in game 1 before graveyard hate. I do not think he would use 4 whole sideboard slots (3 souls and the tri-land) just because of edict effects. Plus, Diabolic Edict is an instant so it would require us to be proactive making the spirit tokens before Marit Lage is out.
At three mana, which is on the same curve as tracker, I do not see it better than Tireless Tracker against the slow U/W control miracle decks reappearing. If I am missing something, please let me know.
It can't go wider than Grixis Delver, which is a fantastic match up anyway, so he would not use 4 slots for Delver.
Its obviously not there for any combo matchup.
So what is it coming in against? Or is Diabolic Edict really that bad against us? So far, I have not had anyone cast Edict against me, but have been Pathed and Sworded many times and it is not a big deal to dedicate sideboard slots to.
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So last night porphyry nodes spiked, Im assuming cause its a cheaper alternative to drop. Maybe not the greatest alternative but one nonetheless. Has anyone seen/heard of lists running it? I know its been tossed around but is it heading that route for budget reasons?
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I was thinking about a white splash list last night. There are a decent amount of "incidental" white sources, such as Karakas and Horizon Canopy. There is also a fetchable GW cycler in Scattered Groves. And of course, play a Savannah.
For sideboard I also added Containment Priest because we are already in white and it helps with our worst match ups. Experimental SB-
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1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Tireless Tracker
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2 Porphyry Nodes
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The mana can be made to work for a white splash. Seeing as though I didn't even propose a manabase for the deck it would be hard for that to have been his message. What is the minimum number of white sources needed to reliably have it by turn 2 (earliest)? This isn't like the black splash where the deck is trying to lead on thoughtseize vs combo, etc.
I'd say that a single savannah along w/ moxes and canopy is fine for a light white splash. I'm unsure w/ porphryr nodes, but I've tried the white splash on occassion with ~8 white hatebears postboard and it was fine because the decks you board in the white stuff don't typically attack your mana directly. Moon still hits quite hard, but the higher likelihood of getting a beater down early usually mitigated moon's effect more than usual.
The white for porphryr nodes is different because you are actually boarding it in vs decks that are attacking your mana, which probably makes it strictly inferior to drop of honey in most applications (cost aside). Still, I'd be interested to hear what your testing results are.
Yea, not sure why my my idea was met with so much vitriol. I agree that it is no ideal to board nodes in against a deck that may wasteland you- but you only need to tap it for white one time (if it resolves and you get wastelanded afterwards, you probably don't care. If it gets countered and you get wastelanded afterwards, you still probably don't care). This could create some awkward situations (hence nodes being the "budget" solution to Drop), but thats why I wouldn't splash white just for porphyry nodes. The % points you lose by having node be tougher to cast could be outweighed by the % points you get against reanimator / sneak etc. Just throwing it out there.
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