Quote Originally Posted by whatwas View Post
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Round 3 RUG Delver 0-2
I'm playing the judge for the event and its not the first time we've battled. I roll a 4 for the 3rd time and am on the
play yet again. He has turn 1 delver and I try to bait the counters so I can resolve metalworker. Chalice is countered. He
then top decks another delver and has them both out waiting for flips. I play Monolith and he doesn't counter. So I play
trinisphere and hes like no, FOW. He then plays goyf and I cast a lodestone Golem who gets dazed. Then he flips and swings
bringing me to 13. I resolver Metalworker works but he bolts him EOT. (hoping to get WurmCoil out but no)
-Thran Dynamo -Everflowing Chalice -Phyrexian Metamorph
+crucible of worlds, + Trinisphere, +Ratchet Bomb
The next game goes pretty much the same but he kills me with two Goyfs instead. Baiting the counters doesn't work very well
when they run like 12 of them. Hes a good player regardless, though and no match is easy with him.
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I think that relying on metalworker (and thus bait his counters on something else) is not good against a deck that plays 6 ways to remove it and many cantrips.

Your best plays against canadian are chalice of the void@1 and any taxing effect as soon as possible in order to prevent their cantrip and to stop their Tempo plan. Obviously if you lay a Wurmcoil engine they have no way to remove it unless the use multiple cards, and if they don't they just loose.

In your situation I would have bait the opponent with metalworker in order to lay trinisphere or golem (possibly playing around daze), and I would have keep the monolith for the wurmcoil.