Quote Originally Posted by Happy Gilmore View Post
At hungryLIKEALION : Lightning Helix is great in the mirror, but in general, its fairly weak, You would would rather have a 1cc removal spell against most matchups. And dont run swords in the main, it runs quite contrary to your overall strategy.

Understand that teeg and 1 cannonist are much much less than what would be needed to effectively combo counter . You are much better off solidifying your CB matchup then devote slots to something that will beat you anway. I would also concur that Clasm is not necessary, even to beat goblins. You simply have too much removal for them, and every creature you play is bigger. The one matchup that can effectively be shored up without loosing too much would be GY based decks. Somethink like this might be worth a try:

3 Grip
2 REB
2 STP (4 path main)
2 Shusher
1 PoP (assuming 2 main)
1 Jitte (one main)
4 Crypt


Even when that new trap comes out I still wouldn't play it. Reanimator doesnt really put more than one or 2 cards in the gy at once, so for the most part the trap is limited to ichorid.
Please don't talk to me like I'm a scrub. I've been playing this deck for a long time, and my card choices are all made for a reason.

Lightning Helix is extremely powerful. When they print another 1cc 3dmg instant, I'll consider cutting helix, until then, I'll keep my 12 instant speed removal spells. To me, being an instant is that important. In addition, helix has trememdous synergy with Sylvan Library, which I like to draw with very aggressively. The only spell that would replace Helix is obviously chain lightning, but if I was going to run Chain Lightning I'd run it in addition to Helix and play 12 burns/16 removals.

As for swords vs path, we've had this argument in this thread 8 million times and it really doesn't need to be had again. In my previous tournament, as detailed here I made the judgment call to run Swords over Path, which is what I normally run, based on the metagame I saw before the tournament, which consisted largely of goblins and elves. I did not want to give people a land for their goblin lackeys or priests of titania, so I played swords instead. And it was very good, even against goyf decks. This weekend I spent saturday night at my girlfriend's house and didn't go home before the tournament, so I just brought the deck as it was configured for the previous tournament, meaning swords still over path. Once again, it was fine all day. Not as good as it was last month, and I probably would have switched back to path this tournament if I had the chance, but it was not a substantial difference either way. I've played plenty of games with this deck with both W removal spells, and they each have their place, depending on the given metagame.

Gaddock Teeg is not there to battle combo, he is there to battle Engineered Explosives and other bomby control cards that people play in my meta. The canonist is there because I can also bring in teeg for combo but I don't want to bring in four teegs since he's legendary. You're right in that 4 cards will not magically make the combo matchup good, but you're wrong about Teeg not having his uses.

Once again, please don't talk to me like I'm a scrub who doesn't know what he's doing. I know why I put the cards I did in my deck, and they're all there for very good reasons.

Edit//And as for solidifying the CB matchup, I'm 11-2 against CB this year in tournaments. I solidify that matchup by playing well, not by bringing in 10 cards. If you don't play like a retard, CB is a very easy matchup.