Planeswalker Rock

[Maveric78f]

Planeswalker Rock

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The List
3. Deck's Philosophy
4. Card Choices
5. Side-board
6. Matchup Analysis

Introduction
As for my many other decks, I don't have time to play tourneys, so that I'm just a builder/tester. But don't fool yourself this deck has been extensively tested and it showed exceptional results. If I could have been to Madrid, it's the deck I would have played.

The basic game plan is to optimise the use of Pernicious Deed. The best way I found was to forget about Tarmogoyf and to take advantage of its synergy with planeswalkers. Indeed, deed does not blow planeswalkers, so that you can use them to force the opponent to overextend and then raze the board, except for them.

The main issue with this game plan was to handle early game and to enter late game. Discard and STP are here to survive early game and prepare late game. Veteran Explorer is here to go to late game faster. Top is here to ensure land drops and to have a stronger late game than any other deck.

As for an introduction of the MUs, I'll be short and simple: it absolutely destroys anything that is not combo (Ichorid included) or Merfolk. Merfolk is an aggro deck that can use countermagic to gain some tempo and win before we can control the game. It also has standstill which annihilate the card advantage provided by Deed. About combo, well the deck is definitely not built to beat it and it's not 7 discard spells with no clock that can help. But as we will see later the SB plan against combo is quite efficient.

The List

Creatures: 12
4 Veteran Explorer
4 Eternal Witness
4 Kitchen Finks

Walkers: 7
3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
3/4 Ajani Vengeant

Sweepers: 8
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Pernicious Deed

Discard: 7
4 Thoughtseize
3 Cabal Therapy

Remaining slots: 5
3 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Recurring Nightmare
1/2 => debatable slot

Mana-base:
2 Forest
2 Plains
1 Swamp
1 Mountain
4 Verdant Catacomb
4 Windswept
1 Wooded Foothills
2 Bayou
2 Savannah
1 Scrubland
1 Taiga

Side-board:
2 Innocent Blood
4 Hide / Seek
2 Jund Charm
2 Crime / Punishment
4 Extirpate
1 Tormod's crypt

Deck's Philosophy
The main idea of the deck is to chumpblock, sword, discard, choose your draw with top during the first turns. The opponent will be enclined or urged to play several threats. Once he does, we sweep the board with deed. If the opponent still does not want to (or can't) overextend, we start to play Planeswalkers. From here, he'll die if he does not find any solution. Don't forget that you don't care at all to lose your creatures. So chumpblock to gain time. Don't hasistate to play witness in order to find your 4th land drop too. The deck has enough redundancy to deal with almost everything. Just focus in expadning your mana base during the first turns.

What happens if Deed gets discarded or coutnered? Here Witness comes into play.
What happens if you can't find Deed? It usually means you've found a lot of other stuff. The Recurring Nightmare plan is also very effective and the Planeswalker are always difficult to get through. The deck is not that much Deed dependant actually.

Did you notice that this deck is completely Spell Snare proof? you can argue that it's a bad curve but you'd be wrong. The deck plays enough 1CC spells and top to know what to do with its mana for the 2 first turns. If you don't get 2 manas by turn 3, you're anyway in deep shit. But don't worry, this does not happen often.

Cards Choices
Mana Base
You can't imagine how much I worked on it. The deck plays 4 colours (imposed by deed and Ajani). It requires 4 lands to be able to do most of the plays. It requires 6 coloured mana to play anything: %W%W%G%G%R%B. It has fetches and Veteran Explorer to find the lands you need.

Quite obviously the 6 basic lands are the 6 coloured mana required to play anything.
2 Forest
2 Plains
1 Swamp
1 Mountain

About the duals, it is built in order to fit the most G possible, becasue green is the main colour of the deck. However I wanted to have all 4 colours with only 2 lands, so that Taiga and Scrublands are complementary. As black and white are the secondary colours, they are more represented than Red, which is only a splash for Ajani and sideboard. It was still important to be able to fetch Red either with fetchlands or Veteran Explorer, even if I always prefer to have a Taiga in play (that I fetch only when I play Ajani), than a Moutain, because MD, the red mana is usually utilised only once.
2 Bayou
2 Savannah
1 Scrubland
1 Taiga

The fetches. They are numerous (9) for 2 reasons : colour fixing and shuffling effect with top. They are all G-centric. The Mountain can be fetched only with Wooded Foothills. As I said, it's not a problem because fetches will rarely search for Mountain : rather Taiga in order to play Ajani and then you don't need red anymore, so that it can be wasted, you don't care much.
4 Verdant Catacomb
4 Windswept
1 Wooded Foothills

Creature Base
Those are squared. They all are wrecked by Leyline of the Void but not that much sensible against other graveyard hate.
4 Veteran Explorer : Card absolutely essential in this deck. It brings the game to late game where the deck shines. You won't like seeing it sworded in aggro MUs. Luckily, aggro decks prefer damages (zoo/burn/sligh/gob), sacrifice effect (gob) or Path to Exile (zoo). Having it pathed is definitely not a problem. This little guy is a nightmare for gob and merfolk (although they have a lot of basics) and for tempo thresh. Obviously it's the perfect food for Cabal Therapy.
4 Eternal Witness : Obvious card in a control Rock deck. Regrowths control cards. Food for Cabal Therapy. Comboes with Recurring Nightmare and Primal Command. Do not hesitate to play it just to get back a fetch or for a Sword to Plowshare. It's also often used to fight discard and counterspells.
4 Kitchen Finks : Really a great card in this shell. Blocks twice. Gains 4 life. Comboes with Recurring Nightmare. It's the creature you want to see against gob, merfolk, zoo. The best anti aggro card. It's also a quite good finisher (well it's the best of the deck at least).

Board Control
Only 8 cards finally. But the best ones. Very complementary since sword is here for early single and targetted removal while the other is universal multiple untargetted removal.
4 Swords to Plowshares : Obvious choice. Could almost be Path to Exile since we already play Veteran Explorer that fetches basics for the opponents. But life is definitely a less essential ressource than mana for the oppoenent. With witness, I often raised my opponent's life over 40. So what? Let's take control of the game then, he will be forced to concede.
4 Pernicious Deed : Basis of the deck. Discussed all over this opening post.

Hand Disruption
Discard has been included to the deck in order to resolve our best cards through countermagics. Obviously, they are synergistic since Thoughtseize reveals the opponent's hand and Cabal Therapy can use this information for a perfect naming. To this effect, Brainstorm is problematic. Remove it as soon as you can. Often name it with Cabal Therapy. The best 2-turns starting hand : Thoughtseize turn 1. Turn 2, Cabal Therapy, Veteran Explorer. Flashback Cabal Therapy.
4 Thoughtseize : The life loss is not a big matter when we play 12 life gaining cards MD (+4 in SB). The best turn 1 play of the deck.
3 Cabal Therapy : Great card against control. It's a combo with Veteran Explorer. It is also sometimes used to remove Ichorid's Bridge From Below or to put a creature into the graveyard in order to start doing nice stuff with Recurring Nightmare.

Planeswalkers
The casting was fast among planeswalkers. These are the only 2 eligible planeswalkers for this slot. Two main reasons for that: they are the only ones that have a "+" ability that stalls an opposing attacker (token created by Elspeth and Stasis effect by Ajani). They also are the only planeswalkers that have a good ultimate ability (one-sided armageddon and indestructibility are pretty awesome, specially in this deck that plays deeds and that makes the opponent fetch his basics).
3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant : the best planeswalker. The problem I have with it (reason why it's not *4 and Ajani *3) : it's too much aggro oriented. The +3/+3 and flying ability is rarely relevant. But it blocks Tarmogoyf all night. It often puches the opponent to use a removal spell on a token in order to force Tarmogoyf through the defense, but you eventually sword the Tarmogoyf and they lost a removal for nothing. Its weakness at stalling compared to Ajani is its inability to deal with creatures with evasion and the fact the token can be dealt with although the not untapping affect of Ajani cannot be surprisingly avoided. Its strength is the fact it can create several blockers if the opponent has no creatures. It can stall untapped creatures. It can also block creatures equipped with Sword of Fire and Ice. Aside from stalling, creating tokens is useful against Smokestack effects. Another good thing about Elspeth: it kills opponent's Elspeth. It's in most case the most efficient way to deal with it.
4 Ajani Vengeant : A great card that did not find its place in legacy yet because of its colours (well it's a bit played in Ultimate Walker). The first ability is a creature staller. This functionnality is the main motivation for the card but it serves to a lot of other things: it deals with Academy Ruins or Volrath's Stronghold recursion. Remember that the permanent does not have to be tapped for you to use this ability. It can sometimes colour screw the opponent. The second ability is life gain: great against burn and zoo. It's also targetted removal that can be used when the board can still not be controlled (not that much of a problem if you lose it after dealing with 1 creature, gaining 3 life and occupied a creature at attacking it). And finally its ultimate is a nightmare for control decks. I plan to reduce it to 3 copies because sometimes we're off-red, and because of the legendary-like planeswalker's rule.

About other planeswalkers, some have nice features:
Sarkhan Vol which can steal creatures and you sacrifice them to Cabal Therapy or Recurring Nightmare. A lot of fun but overkill. And the other abilities are too weak.
Ajani Goldmane which can make persist Kitchen Finks almost forever. Another sexy synergy that do not reach Vengeant and Elspeth power. Once more, the other abilities are weak. Moreover, it can't be played together with Vengeant.
Garruk Wildspeaker provides mana and god knows how much mana this deck requires. It also provides quite decent blockers. First problem: when you are able to pay 4 to play Garruk, you don't need mana boost that much. Second problem: it can't stall with "+" abilities. Problem 3: anyway, the ultimate ability is crap. Problem 4: a too low loyalty.

The other planeswalkers are not discussed because they are too expensive and/or useless and they require coloured mana out from the %W%W%G%G%R%B which the deck relies on.

Three things to remember about Planeswalkers:
- They are cards that must be dealt with very fast because they have great ultimate abilities. The ultimate abilities are very often played, simply because sometimes, we need them.
- They are cards that urge the opponent to play several threats and then they lose to pernicious deed.
- They must be good into play. Elspeth generally nets you at worst 10-15 life points because the opponent needs to take care of the tokens and to kill it. It's quite the same about Ajani Vengeant which deals with a creature, gains 3 life and still requires the opponent to attack him. You must not be afraid to lose a planeswalker. You have redundancy of them and you play witness to play them again.


Other Stuff
These are fillers, but nevertheless important slots.
3 Sensei's Divining Top : best control card ever. Wins long game. One trick in order not to lose it stupidly when you sacrifice deed with Veteran Explorer in play. Activate it at your Upkeep Step so that you put it on top and draw it at Draw Step. Then sacrifice deed search for your basics and play again top with the basics you've just fetched. In the same way you force the opponent to lose his top or not to fetch for his basics. Nice against Quinn for instance.
1 Recurring Nightmare : This card can be absolute nuts. It's insensible to anti-enchantment if you don't make the mistake to pass priority with it in play. Just play it, activate it. Sometimes also, you don't put your creatures in the graveyard and I don't like to have this deck too much graveyard dependant.
1/2 => debatable slot. See below.

These 1/2 slots used to be 1 Umezawa's Jitte and 1 Ajani Vengeant. Jitte was not bad, but a bit win more and I eventually was pissed to destroy it regularly (and it was the single target for Spell Snare and I disliked the fact it suddenly made them useful). It's only recently that I completely decided to remove it for something else. I'm still nto sure what. Until then, I slightly tried some other possibilities: Primal Command and Shriekmaw. I would like to try other cards too.
Primal Command : it's a bit of an army knife. It's a MD anti-graveyard stuff, which is the only game plan that CAN (I precise "can", because it does not happen often anyway), it's also a removal for every non creature permanent (put the card on top and shuffle library => lost your card), it gains life and it can chain its effects by tutoring Witness into a little combo. My main worry about this card is that it's another very expensive spell and I did not want Jitte to be replaced with another long term card. But if it comes in to replace Ajani, then it might be fine. I tested it a little in place of Jitte and I have to say that I was impressed by its power.
Shriekmaw : another early creature removal, a (very good) target for Recurring Nightmare and a MD solution to reanimated Iona, Shield of Emeria on white. That's what I tested lately instead of Jitte. It fitted more the role I wanted to replace Jitte. I never tested Shriekmaw + Primal Command in place of Jitte and 1*Ajani. It looks good since Command can fetch Shriekmaw. That's what I'd recommend right now even if it's still untested.

Other possibilities for these 2 slots:
Yavimaya Elder : mana + tempo + nice with Recurring Nightmare
Sakura-Tribe Elder : mana + tempo + a target for Recurring Nightmare
Heartmender : combo with Finks
Murderous Redcap : awesome against tribal but useless against the rest.
Sensei's Divining Top#4 : obviously not a bad choice
Duress : to strengthen the early control
Recurring Nightmare#2 : I'm not found of this because I don't want the deck to be too much graveyard dependant.
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood : mana + combo with Finks
Grim Discovery : mana + combo with Witness (but it's a target for Spell Snare)

Side-board Choices
As I said earlier, the only way to be beaten in the long term is the graveyard recursion. That is the reason why I play 7 grave hate in SB. They are complementary and can serve several purposes. I also add untergetted removal and an Extract game plan against combo that can be efficient, depending on the list you're playing against.
2 Innocent Blood : against reanimator, Progenitus and any deck that plays a lot of creatures like goblins or zoo.
2 Crime / Punishment : Deed#5 and #6. It finds a niche use against reanimator and Enchantress too (against enchantress it's good too). Great against Counterbalance too.
4 Hide / Seek : gold card. Enter it (not necessarily *4) against almost everything. For Hide when you expect your opponent to enter Pithing Needle or Leyline of the Void. For Seek, against burn and sligh zoo in order to have more life gain, and against Natural Order and tendrils combo for both. Against Survival either for Hide and Seek. Both sides are good.
2 Jund Charm : against tribal, against loam decks, and against a bit everything using the graveyard actually.
4 Extirpate : main grave hate. Preferred to Tormod for several reasons. The main one is the fact it owns combo set-ups with Mystical Tutor, Ill-Gotten Gains, Lim-Dul's Vault. It can also remove the discarded kills which is appreciable.
1 Tormod's crypt : I keep 1 because it's the best anti graveyard with witness.

Matchup Analysis
Goblins
I was really concerned about it because I thought the deck would face difficulties to win the long term. I was wrong. Goblins does not want at all to reach the longterm. My testings are 5/10 preboard win when Goblin plays and 10/10 preboard win when Rock Planeswalker plays. The deck has 12 great answers to a turn 1 lackey : 4 seize (either for lackey or better for the CA creature), 4 swords, 4 Veteran Explorers. It also has 3 Cabal Therapy that rarely hit wrong since Goblin Matron and Goblin Ringleader reveal their CA. Witness is a great card dealing with 2 creatures (blocking 1 and swording 1). The same for Finks. In this MU the Planeswalkers are not that great, in particular Ajani.
SB: +2 Innocent Blood +2 Jund Charm -3 Ajani -1 Primal Command
Post SB, they will probably enter Perish. This is not that frightening. Our change are not that great neither (Jund charm is cool, but not that much better than deed). The MU is even a bit more in our favor.

Overall, it's a very easy MU.

Merfolks
Merfolk is an aggro deck that can use countermagic to gain some tempo and win before we can control the game. It also has standstill which annihilate the card advantage provided by Deed. You should still have the edge with the surprise factor. Compared to the goblin MU, the big difference is countermagics and the fact it can tap (or go through) your blockers. Standstill is a threat as being "more countermagic". Try to play around Daze, even if you don't always have time for that. Shoot the lords with swords and Ajani. Because they never have haste, Ajani is better than Elspeth in this MU. Because they have no Lackey, Innocent Blood is not necessary. However, Merfolk will probably never recover from a well placed deed. It's slighty favorable preboard.
SB: +2 Crime/Punishment +2 Jund Charm -3 Elspeth -1 Primal Command
Post SB, they will probably enter Submerge and Mind Harness. This is not that frightening netiher. The MU should remain the same.

Overall, it's a slightly positive MU.

Ichorid
Almost impossible preboard, you still have sorcery speed solution to Bridge from Below with Cabal Therapy and Shriekmaw (which can remove bridges before destroying the targetted creature). And a recurrent (but very slow) anti-graveyard game plan. As for almost every deck, it's very difficult preboard.
SB: +2 Crime/Punishment +4 Extirpate +1 Tormod's Crypt +2 Jund Charm -3 Elspeth -3 Ajani Vengeant -1 Shriekmaw -1 Sensei's Divining Top -1 Cabal Therapy
Post board, we have a lot of solutions. I did not playtest enough to tell something definitive but I see it becoming very positive balancing the overall MU.

Overall, it's an even MU.

Reanimator
They have to make good choices preboard. It's not that difficult. The best they can do is reanimating a high CC creature with shroud like Inkwell Leviathan. Reanimating Iona is not bad neither, but usually in first turns, you hide white (Bayou is generally the first land you fetch). Preboard, it's defavorable but it's not that "easy" for Reanimator. Once you have reached 9 manas, you can deed their threats with no problem.
SB: +2 Crime/Punishment +2 Innocent Blood +4 Extirpate +1 Tormod's Crypt -3 Elspeth -1 Sensei's Divining Top -2 Pernicious Deed -2 Kitchen Finks -1 Veteran Explorer
Post-SB, Iona is inefficient. They are forced to Show and Tell or to play around a lot of graveyard disruption. It becomes very positive for Rock Planeswalkers.

Overall it's a positive MU.

Ad-Naudeam Tendrils
Pre-board, it's absolutely impossible to win except with the golden start, Thoughtseize + Cabal Therapy + Veteran Explorer. But even then, it's still hard to win because you give them 2 basics. You can also win by your opponent having extreme bad luck. And that's all. Maybe 10% chance of winning game 1.
SB: +4 Hide/Seek +4 Extirpate -3 Elspeth -1 Pernicious Deed -4 Swords to Plowshare
Post-board, the game plan is to extract their kills and annoy them with your shuffling effects., making their brainstorms inefficient in hiding their key cards. Against most ANT builds, Seek is a turn 2 kill, so that the MU becomes favorable games 2 and 3.

Overall, it's an slightly unfavorable MU.

The Epic Storm
Pre-board, it's exactly the same as against ANT.
SB: +4 Hide/Seek +4 Extirpate -3 Elspeth -1 Pernicious Deed -4 Swords to Plowshare
Post-board, the game plan is still the same. But, the big different is that Seek is not anymore a turn 2 kill, so that the MU remains unfavorable (but better thanks to extirpate) games 2 and 3.

Overall, it's an very unfavorable MU (maybe unwinnable).

Dream Halls
Quite the same as TES, even if this deck is less consistent. It's very difficult preboard.
SB: +4 Hide/Seek +4 Extirpate +2 Innocent Blood +1 Jund Charm (at least it's red and it can be used to ramp Hide/Seek) -3 Elspeth -3 Ajani -4 Swords to Plowshare -1 Shriekmaw
Post-board, the game plan is still the same. But, the big different is that Seek does almost nothing. The card is sided in mostly for its ability to deal with Dream Halls as an instant. So that the MU remains very unfavorable games 2 and 3.

Overall, it's an unwinnable MU.

Burn
Preboard. Let's recap: 4 Swords, 4 Finks, 4 Ajani, 1 Primal Command. They are 13 cards that gain life. You can add Witness to this list because it recurs life gain cards. Elspeth +3/+3 ability can be used to gain more life with swords. Even if, the clock is slow, the deck can gain life faster than Burn hurts us. You can also avoid fetching nonbasics in order to make their Price of Progress useless. It's favorable.
SB: +4 Hide/Seek +1 Extirpate -1 Shriekmaw -4 Pernicious Deed
Hide takes care of enchantments that could come in in order to prevent us from gaining life (Sulfuric Vortex and/or Everlasting Torment). Seek can also gain 6 life searching for Fireblast. It's still favorable.

Overall it's a good MU.

Zoo
Preboard. Zoo can't deal efficiently with Veteran Explorer. Zoo is chumpblocked all day then its board gets sweeped. Except if you get stuck at 2 lands during 2 turns, you should win it preboard. You can also avoid fetching nonbasics in order to make their Price of Progress useless. It's very favorable.
SB: +2 Crime/Punishment +2 Hide/Seek +2 Innocent Blood -3 Elspeth -3 Cabal Therapy
Hide/Seek is entered either to gain some life (still Fireblast) against a sligh build or to prevent them from becoming crazy with Sylvan Library. It is also a response to Pithing Needle on deed. It's even more favorable.

Overall, it's a very easy MU (if not "unlosable").

UW Tempo aka NoGoyf
I'll just make a quote.

For the skeptics, I should note that recently I have found a terrible matchup. If a deck, such as the one I ran into Nihil playing in a source tourney, runs like:

8 mass removal (Maverick was piloting this, he had deeds and crime/punishment)
some spot removal (he had swords)
but the planeswalkers like ajani vengeant and say elspeth so that you can't afford to just play 1 creature.
Must counters/discard like recurring nightmare loop/thoughtseize/cabal therapy

We didn't test this because we thought we had all bases covered playing against regular rock. The kind with the beatdown plan at least in the background, where if we survive to lategame then our lategame is better. Surviving was easy.

The only way I see it as possible to win against this deck is either:

I open wayfarer, and then either he has no swords or I have mom.

Or

He gets mana screwed/flooded.

After sideboard this MU is also pretty dismal. Currently trying to fix this because all it takes is for a rock player to deviate to deviate to the control side. There's like aggro rock and control rock. Anything with lategame staying power will ruin control rock since it can't counter stuff/fight topdecks, but I can't think of anything. Crucible is the only thing, maybe I'll try it in the sideboard and my excuse for running such a card would be that it breaks the CB lock with wastelands. Really not sure about this though...

Yeah. You're not dreaming. pi4meterftw recognised to have a bad MU with UW-tempo. After our little testing, it looks like he did not realise that wasteland recursion was probably not enough since I play 6 basics and I have a lot of ways to tutor them. To complete the MU analysis, I'll just give the SB plans:
SB: +2 Crime/Punishment -1 Primal Command -1 Elspeth
UW Tempo has not enough pressure to make their counterspells relevant. So that we can take time to develop and ensure key spells (deed mostly) with discard backup.

Overall, it's a very easy MU.

Dragon Stompy
As always, it depends a lot on who plays first but we play 6 basics. There is the risk of turn 1 Trinisphere/moon effect/Chalice of the Void on the draw that screw us, but most of all we have great chance to recover from either ones. If it's trinisphere, I never keep a 1-lander hand on the draw with this deck, so that we should hopefully find the 3rd required land quite easily if we don't have it already in hand. If it's a moon effect, I play 6 basics + 3 tops to find plains+STP or forest+Veteran Explorer or anything else. I don't deny that we can be owned, but even in case of a turn 1 moon effect it remains quite of a gamble. Chalice@1 is generally sufficient information to become suspicious so that we are going to play a turn 1 fetch and hopefully succed to play deed and win from there. On the play, it's amost unlosable. We will open with thoughtseize, veteran explorer, top. All of which are usually enough to beat Dragon Stompy. It's slightly favorable to favorable MD. Only favorable because there is always a high chance factor against this kind of decks.
SB: +2 Crime/Punishment +4 Hide/Seek +2 Innocent Blood -1 Primal Command -3 Elspeth -3 Cabal Therapy -1 Eternal Witness
Post SB, once you know what you play against, it's absolutely unlosable on the play. On the draw, it's also better than preboard, but theere is still the chance factor to take into account.

Overall, it's a favorable to very favorable MU.

Demon Stompy
If Demon Stompy does not play Braids, Cabal Minion, it's just like Dragon Stompy but easier because there is no moon effect. Their fliers can be annoying, but generally, you can sword them quite efficiently. Be careful of Sword of Light and Shadow that can prevent you from using STP. The key spell is deed as usual against chalice. Generally, you can't lose a game wher eyou find deed and you'll face some difficulties to win games where you can't find it. It's favorable MD (very favorable if it does not play Braids and slightly favorable if it plays it).
SB: +2 Crime/Punishment +4 Hide/Seek +2 Innocent Blood -1 Veteran Explorer -3 Elspeth -3 Cabal Therapy -1 Shriekmaw
Post SB, they will probably enter Leyline of the Void and Cranial Extraction both of which are big pain. They will also probably enter Perish which is a bad idea in my opinion. The MU gets slightly favorable post-SB.

Overall, it's a favorable MU.

Faerie Stompy
It's quite similar to Demon Stompy in the way they play a lot of fliers and it can be annoying sometimes. They just replace Trinisphere with Force of Will and Trinket Mage is a card to play 8 chalices. The problem with Trinket Mage is that they usually can't play it and Chalice during the same turn, so that you'll be able to play the turn 1 killer card : discard or top. They have FoW to deal with it, but anyway. So finally, Trinket is that much of a problem. It's favorable MD.
SB: +2 Crime/Punishment +4 Hide/Seek +2 Innocent Blood -2 Veteran Explorer -3 Elspeth -3 Cabal Therapy
Post SB, their answers are not very impressive compared with Demon Stompy's. So that the MU is very favorable post SB.

Overall, it's a very favorable MU.

White Stax
Their only frightening card is Armageddon. Discard it as soon as you can. But the best way to save you from such a topdeck is to keep lands in hand and basics in the library. Destroy every Crucible of Worlds as soon as they Wasteland-lock you. Oblivion Ring can get rid of planeswalkers, so that a resolved planeswalker is not game won neither. But they have a lot of dead cards (Ghostly Prison, Smokestack, Magus of the Tabernacle) although we have none. MD, it's favorable.
SB: +2 Crime/Punishment +4 Hide/Seek -1 Shriekmaw -1 Primal Command -1 Swords to Plowshares -2 Cabal Therapy (depends a lot if you've seen big beaters such as Baneslayer Angel)
Post SB, Armageddon can be played more than in 4 copies. These are the only threats of this deck that has no clock. So, you really must be careful in not to much overextend your mana base. Apart from that, they will never stick their artifacts in play long enough to make any harm to you. Eternal Witness will mostly be used to recur the destroyed lands.

Overall, it's a very favorable MU.

Landstill (planeswalker light)
May play 1/2 [cards]Jace, the Mindsculptor[cards] and 1/2 Elspeth. Not more. They play a lot of creature removal that are pretty uneffective against you. Just, don't let them develop their planeswalkers and protect your key spells with discard. MD, it's very favorable because once more, they have more useless cards (Wrath of God, Spell Snare, and Swords to Plowshares to a lesser extent). Their main threats are planeswalkers and Humility. Humility is not that frightening because you can sweep it. Planeswalkers though must not survive too long. That's why we are still on a clock in this MU. MD, it's favorable.
SB: +1 Crime/Punishment +4 Hide/Seek -1 Shriekmaw -4 Swords to Plowshares
Hide / Seek is preferred to Crime Punishment in this MU because you will rarely have the opportunity to deal with several permanents at once. And Seek can help to deal with something Enlightened Tutored or to deal with top sometimes. Anyway, post-SB it's almost irrelevant since g1 will last 40 minutes at least.

Overall, it's a favorable MU that can easily turn into a draw.

Landstill (planeswalker heavy)
May play 1/2 [cards]Jace, the Mindsculptor[cards], 2/3 Elspeth and 1/2 Ajani Vengeant. Not more. It's quite the same than planeswalker's light except that they play as many planeswalkers as you do. And this changes completely the MU. Now, they can compete the long term game. MD, it's even.
SB: +1 Crime/Punishment +4 Hide/Seek -1 Shriekmaw -4 Swords to Plowshares
Post-SB it's almost irrelevant since g1 will last 40 minutes at least.

Overall, it's an even MU that often turns into a draw.

To be continued…

I also need to address the loam decks (positive too, their only real threat is Devastating Dreams but it's not played much anymore), non-blue heavy control (Train Wreck, Trisomy 21, Quinn, ...), enchantress, mana denial (Tempo Thresh, Team America, Pox, Eva Green) and probably others I can't remember now... so please give me some time.

If any of you thinks that I'm mistaking in a MU analysis, I invite him to test the MU on MWS against me. Just pm me and we'll find an arrangement