[Deck] UWx Stoneblade

[First_Revenge]

Some of your sideboarding seems a little weird to me.

For Miracles i'd cut the swords entirely and also bring in the EE, Sword and Last Hope. Verdict doesn't make much sense normally, I think that a lot of lists have swapped to EtA and you're rarely going to catch that card with a verdict. If you see a bunch of mentors i'd probably bring in the 2nd. Swords and Last Hope are basically just resilient threats. I'm a little iffy about Tasigur but I feel like if you don't want him in these grindy matchups what do you actually want him in your deck for?

So game 1 I did see mentor, so I didn’t feel that cutting swords entirely was the right call. I never got to see EtA, he very well could be running it though. Verdict was largely an effort to contain an out of control mentor. I’ve seen the deck burn through 2-3 cantrips in a turn. STP doesn’t address this, and is counterable vs a deck full of counters. I could very well be wrong, but I like verdict because it’s an unconditional middle finger to mentor and his students.

I agree with your Liliana call. I didn’t put her in because I didn’t see what she could kill. Her just being a board presence that must be dealt with is a reasonable assessment. I’ll have to revisit my sideboard choices here.

IMO Tasigur gets cut because he’s pretty bad against a deck with 4x STP. Tasigur is in there to give me a diversity of threats, in this case miracles just has the perfect answer.

-1 Tasigur
-3 Collective Brutality
-2 Swords to Plowshares
+1 FoW(Jace/Search are must stop cards)
+1 Disenchant
+1 Supreme Verdict
+2 Surgical Extraction
+1 Liliana

In the big eldrazi matchup i'd keep in the pierces, they counter some of the early lock pieces/mana acceleration pieces. I don't think i'd bring in verdict, they're very rarely committing more than 1 threat on the board and most of their threats are game ending upon resolution anyways. Swords takes care off all of their creatures efficiently.

I think you’re pretty much spot on with this assessment. Verdict probably doesn’t address the underlying problems in this matchup. My knee jerk reaction to remove pierce was probably just due to the massive amount of mana this deck produces in the first place. I’ll try this next time

-1 Supreme Verdict
-1 Unearth
-1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
-3 Collective Brutality
+1 Force of Will
+1 Disenchant
+1 Supreme Verdict
+1 Engineered Explosives
+2 Back to Basics

I'm not really sure why you are bringing in removal for the Pox matchup. I don't know if anything has changed but pox has traditionally only played the 2/2 that comes back from the yard everytime and sometimes bloodghasts as creatures. Fatal push isn't really good any of those, and swords is going to be a dead draw.

Hmm I guess we’re seeing two different versions of pox. The pox deck I’m encountering doesn’t run bloodghasts, or at least I haven’t seen them over the 3-4 matchups I’ve played against him. His primary threats are mishra’s factory and I think 2 tombstalkers. Given this threat suite I feel like I’m sideboard appropriately.