[Deck] Countersliver (MeatHooks)

[Curby]

I really like your list, but I'd cut the Wastelands - not that they're bad, but I think running 6 "brown" lands in a 3-color deck without a very high land count would indeed cause colored mana problems.

I was wondering about that myself.

Your proposed manabase will lead to a lot of dangerous or unkeepable opening hands. Two colorless lands is an auto-mulligan. Savannah + colorless land is terrible. Tropical Island + colorless land is slightly less terrible, but still terrible. You'll end up keeping a lot of hands with Tundra + colorless land, and praying that your opponent doesn't rout you with a single Wasteland. It is absolutely vital to our strategy to play Crystalline Sliver on turn 2 as often as possible. Merfolk can generally afford to be a little more patient with getting Lord of Atlantis into play, as it is often played as an enabler for a finishing strike (similar to Winged Sliver in Meathooks).

Just to put things in perspective, Merfolk runs 12-13 colored land with 7-8 colorless land, and it's just ONE color. I applaud your high finish, but I wonder if you wouldn't have done even better with a more forgiving manabase.