Quote Originally Posted by owerbart View Post
So after 4 years, I took a week off, and after goldfishing some hands I moved to a build without petals.
It feels nice to get much better cantrips since you can get more action cards. I brought my last list posted here with -4 petals, +1 fetch, +1 pithing needle, +1 hapless researcher, +1 animate dead.

R1 2-1 uw stoneblade
R2 2-0 grixis control
R3 2-1 Death and Taxes
R4 2-0 Painter
R5 1-2 UW stoneblade (i punted game 2 and then lost to a topdeck)

Overall the list felt extremely solid, with this new slow meta it has been nice to get a better endgame and moving up to 5 discards post board helps a lot against these blue-value control shells.

It took me 4 years but finally i joined @stryfo and @pirate king non-petal side, haha. Any other players on this idea? I know more of you guys are actually trying to move to the fastest side with Unmask, chancellor and even chrome mox. I just wanted to give my two cents that being on the slow side has been working very well for me lately.
EDIT: Current list. Petals weren't missed, And I do believe I had a better consistency on T2 reanimations than with Petal builds. I would need to check my notes though.

Land:
3 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Island
2 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
1 Bloodstained Mire

Artifact:
1 Pithing Needle

Creatures:
3 Griselbrand
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Tidespout Tyrant
1 Grave Titan
1 Hapless Researcher

Enchantments:
2 Animate Dead

Sorceries:
4 Reanimate
4 Exhume
4 Careful Study
3 Ponder
2 Thoughtseize
2 Show and Tell

Instant:
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Entomb
3 Daze

Sideboard (Maybe subjected to future change):
2 Thoughtseize
1 Duress
2 Show and Tell
1 Pithing Needle
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Echoing Truth
1 Massacre
1 Keranos, God of Storms
1 Teferi's Realm
1 Spell Pierce