Quote Originally Posted by TimHarding View Post
Nice to see you jamming post- there's a mono colorless post player in my area and he does pretty well with it.

As for what you've said above - the only thing that really separates your list from the identity of this UG post thread is Show and Tell. The card affords this deck the ability to threaten extreme early explosion, while maintaining the inevitability. The acceleration can straight beat a healthy portio of legacy by itself, and keeps many other decks off balance. To me it's analogous to football where if your threats are 1D the defense will bias towards that. Without show and tell, their permission hits a lot harder. For me show as tell is largely there to keep forcing them to react, and only against aggro it then becomes the plan.

As for the other big tickets, tabernacle is barely in my 75 and often out, and candle - while usually optimal - doesn't change the identity of the archetype like SnT does. In fact I had neither in my 75 for the better part of the summer.

Good luck
I have 4 Show and Tell. Sorry that wasn't clear. I was saying that it was an easy jump-in for me, budget-wise, because I spent money on the SnTs but I had already had everything else because I had picked up stuff like Eldrazi and even the Breeding Pools at under $10 a pop, as the rest of the deck (again, except Trop/Candel/Tabernacle) was all pretty inexpensive at one point. Speaking of Show and Tell, my first opponent, who normally plays Shardless BUG, had decided on OmniShow instead that day, which I obviously didn't know before hand. I kept a hand of Post/Post/Pool/SnT/SnT/Titan/Top figuring that I'd be able to force one of them in. Top revealed another Titan. Then he cast Intuition for 3 Show and Tell...and it turns out Omni to Emrakul is a much better play. Second game I had to mulligan to 4 on the play. I guess I could have kept going, but I figured Post/Post/Crop/Crop was about as good a four card hand as I was going to get...actually still managed to not miss a land drop and curve to a Turn 4 Titan, but then I died before I could untap.

That sucked.