Quote Originally Posted by Admiral_Arzar View Post
As a Tide player, I'm aware of what Iona does to the deck, bro. I'm pretty sure that's not the only factor, as it wasn't like the whole field was ReAnimator and Dredge.
Yeah, it was also full of decks that were prepared for Combo decks. Stoneblade and Bant can both play Meddling Mage and/or Ethersworn Canonist.

GW plays Gaddok Teeg which they can fetch with Zenith (okay, rather irrelevant against Hightide as it just shuts off Turnabout and BSZ) and Ethersworn Canonist which they can fetch with Enlightened Tutor since every GW deck plays a E-Tutor-Toolbox in their SB.
Aggrocontrols like Candian Thresh are not a favourable matchup for Springtide and all the deck can play Surgical Extraction für additional disruption.

With this aspect AND Hightide being the slowest combodeck atm, I am not worried why Hightide has not performed very well. I also think that Springtide is the mlst inconsistent deck in view of deck design. There are people that play with Candelabra, others play Snapcasters and Snaps, some people play without Meditate, some people think a singleton Timespiral in their deck is enough etc.

And some of these lists have it more or less easier than the others to deal with a certain problem and/or have different fizzle-rates.
There is no stock list and no build that has established itself to be "the best" Springtide.

Ah, and to add fuel to the debate a few pages before: Some people still suck at casting their Brainstorms well-timed. ;-P