Quote Originally Posted by umbowta View Post
I can, however, justify Cursed Scroll to help answer Landstill. It can be dropped on turn 1 and gets under Standstill all day long. It can't be STP'ed, it can't be WOG'ed, and yet it must be dealt with. Maybe they'll get lucky and hit that singleton E.E. Maybe they even have deed. It's still good and the average still = 4.05...before I got bored anyway. Pretty frickin fast for an aggro deck with a back up plan.
Cursed Scroll is NOT a great card against Landstill. Here are the reasons why:

1. Nantuko Monastary is a 4/4 and they also have Mishra's Factory that can be pumped. If you're an aggro deck playing against standstill, generally you just play through standstill and break it with business spells and not try to "get under Standstill all day long" cause if you try to out-play them under a standstill, you WILL loose. the deck is called LANDstill for a good reason.
2. The most popular Landstill build (4 color) runs 4 deed and generally 0-2 Disenchant/Engineered Explosives. The deck also happens to run a ton of draw so dealing with your little cursed scroll won't be too difficult. And while thats going on they'll be taking care of any other 1-2 drops you have down as well.

Against Landstill you just have to lay down the beats early and put as much pressure as possible and not overextend TOO much and then just burn their face. PoP helps a lot here and you should probably side in Krosan Grips too.