Looking to dabble with this deck for fun, although it really isn't my style. Who knows, maybe it will grow on me.
Just a quick question--what's the strategy against Rest in Peace? It seems that there are good ways to play around other graveyard hate--saving a cycler for Tormod's Crypt/Relic of Progenitus, Chalice on 1 for Extirpate effects and Deathrite Shaman, Cursed Totem or Engineered Explosives for Deathrite and Scavenging Ooze, etc. I'm also aware that you often bring in creatures like Dark Confidant in game two and sideboard out cards like Manabond in order to hedge.
Rest in Peace seems especially awkward since it's both a graveyard sweeper as well as a replacement effect, and it doesn't get touched by any of our other measures besides a preemptive Chalice on two (which is both slow as well as self-defeating). Do we just take the aggro role in matchups where we suspect Rest in Peace then, pushing aggressively with Dark Confidant, Thalia, and manland beats while disrupting their mana? Do we more aggressively try to assemble Dark Depths combo? Or do we play the game as normal and just hope they don't "have it"?
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