@Hollywood- HAHA. I mean the card is sick, and lops are fun. What is your current list. As I go back to the drawing board so to speak, I know I will be missing some things while I test over the next month. Love to see what you have been tinkering with. To be fair I don't think I have picked up my painter cards since you saw me at Eternal Weekend. But this new Karn has really got me thinking that things could be fun again.

REB/Pyro- Splitting is less important than utility. To be current it should be 4 Pyroblast first then add in REB. I like beta and alpha REB more so I make the suboptimal play and use them preferentially. But there are enough corner cases that the ability for pyro to target a non blue spell or permanent is relevant that it is the "correct" play to run four.

My advice for getting better with the list is take a stock list and play it for a month. I would recommend making no changes to the maindeck during that time. I caution against changes the sideboard also, but I do understand local metas are very weird and you may just need a few cards to address expected decks in smaller events and metas. Understand that you will likely lose a lot and that the most important outcome of any match is not if you won or lost, but evaluating the sequencing and why specific plays allowed you to win or lose. Due to magic being played by likely two bad players, sometimes your opponents punts are just worse than yours and they mask the true details of a match up. Ultimately the hardest part is the mulligan decision. And that only comes through practice and reps. It is only when you can sequence multiple lines of play with your opener for the first 3-4 turns will you feel comfortable with it. and that just takes time and practice and we still fuck it up.

My hope is to have a new deck list up in the next two weeks. I will start to test the new Karn lists this weekend. I need to do another review of the DTB with a deep dive or available wish targets first and that may take some time as I have to figure out what is available, if and how it can help us, then give it a try. also complicating things is the new mulligan rule which could be a true gamechanger.

Seth