Quote Originally Posted by Kobra_D View Post
Yeah, but it will be the last wednesday before halloween, and the gitrog monster is a monster, who is scared of chameleons. When Gitrog was first introduced a gsz'th magus of the crucible didn't exist. This might be able to push it, or might not. Why speculate when we have the tools to test?



I'm always down for destructive flow, but I would suggest something like that with a grain of salt. As it says on the front page, there is no correct way to play nic fit.

And you can make very powerful land destruction decks like maverick work in a nic fit-y shell. But inherently, we are giving our opponents mana to play their spells. We mitigate this, 1 by playing more basics than most decks, and 2 by having better cards in a vacuum along side cheaper interaction.

So it's not that anything like that can't work, but even giving an opponent 1-2 basics (the most I've seen in decks like BUG/Czech Pile), that just represents 1 more mana that you have to constrain.
Giving the opponent mana from Explorer is somewhat conflicting, but most decks only run 1-2 basics, which then turns the Ghost Quarter's into Strip Mine's. The deck doesn't necessarily need to completely mana denial the opponent though... the card advantage that Destructive Flow generates tends to put the deck pretty far ahead in most fair matchups.

At any rate, I'm about to drive out to EW, so I don’t have time to post my list right now, but I promise I will when I have time.