Quote Originally Posted by Tacosnape View Post
The meta will look like High Tide, Dredge, and ANT. Other decks aren't a good choice here.

Snapcaster Mage, I'm pretty sure, is going to vault High Tide to being the #1 deck.
I'm on the fence with the Snapcaster theory here. On paper it seems incredible, but in testing I've found it to be rather poor in the deck. It's particularly awful post-Spiral when you have no graveyard, and the only applications I've really had for it were either flashing back a Tide or Turnabout pre-Spiral, which indicated I would generally have a lot of extra mana anyway and Snapcaster was unnecessary, or I played it late into a post-Spiral and it was basically win-more. I'm just not convinced it will benefit the deck as you already have to cut the spells you'd want to flash back, whether they are draw, counters, or untappers.

Although I will agree with your alleged tier 1. I don't see Counterbalance being that strong through Dredge and midrange decks. It'll at least be viable though.