Quote Originally Posted by Dark_Cynic87 View Post
As a person who plays both ichorid and lists that play Extirpate and have other Ichorid players in my meta, it's my opinion that whoever extirpated your GGT is a complete and total moron. Not to mention that if you are playing against a deck that runs Extirpate (Wish-Still varients and some storm combo are the only things I'm really aware of that play them), you should have sided in Chalice of the Void anyway.

I think in a non-LED Ichorid list, Tireless Tribe will always be a necessary element as there's that little thing called Pithing Needle.

I don't understand the use of Petal. It sounds horrible, and we tested it in LED versions and found it to be absolutely terrible there. I can't see a difference that would make it better here. In fact, it seems that with 15 lands it would be even more useless.

Pce,

--DC

Sided in chalice of the void against extirpate ? to set it @1 and ruin myself ? :D I usually side pithing needle against decks usually packing crypt in side, but i've got nothing against extirpate. And that card is really played by many decks in my meta, sometimes even MD: the rock, pikula, thresh ugb.. And the one who extirpates a dredger will be a moron, yes, but it slows my combo, and buys the time sufficient to get his hand full of counters.

Tireless tribe is great, but i really can't find room for it. Cutting an ichorid and a narcomoeba would mean losing a bit of the consistency of the combo ( it would be more difficult to find out moebas dredging and reanimating an ichorid), and it's frustrating to lose because i don't find a moeba.
Any suggestions for a list packing tribe and still keeping the combo fully running ?

Lotus petal is here to give the deck that bit of explsiveness it has not without LED. It acts as a boost so it's possible to activate a coliseum and breakthroughing in the same turn, or other similar tricks. However, this is a personal taste of mine.
It's obvious that in LED lists it's useless, the mana there is still enough. In this list, it must "supply" the lack of LED.
Running 12 lands and 3 petals seems fine to me, of course you can't agree.