[Deck] UW(x) Landstill

[Master Shake]

Here is one neat solution to the Merfolk problem:

Vedalken Shackles combined with either High Market or Miren, the Moaning Well. Grab a merfolk with the shackles, then sacrifice!

Yes, a list did play this little combo in a Landstill deck:

http://www.thecouncil.es/tcdecks/dec...5&iddeck=45181

I was just going to respond with the word "Wasteland" but that would be a waste of a post. However, I hope you keep that in mind while I type the rest of this out. These lands produce colorless, Shakcles doesn't come on-line until at least turn 4, but probably not until after you're dead because of what Merfolk does. High Market clearly isn't an island, nor are your factories, Wastelands or Plains. If you're ever going to really try to pull this off you'd need 3 High Markets, bringing the colorless count of most decks to 11, which is just under half the lands and well over half the mana producing lands. Also, this deck plays Karn, Liberated, another great 7 mana answer to Merfolk, all you need to do is have total board control, be able to resolve a card on turn 13 after tapping out and then have them do literally nothing for two turns, then you can restart the game and lose like you were supposed to the first time around. Perhaps we can talk about how this deck placed in an 18 player event. Top 4 at an 18 player event isn't too hard, especially considering that most of the decks were probably cold aforementioned Karn Liberated. Using this logic, I guess the singleton Pulse of the Fields is a pretty good answer to Merfolk as well, you just need to get some white sources.

Redbalde, the deck that won that event and came in 2nd at the most recent SCG event is actually fairly interesting, though.