Quote Originally Posted by KntrellCL View Post
You guys shouldnt be result-oriented. The death n taxes guy just had one of the worst mana screws ive ever seen. I just cant believe how weak that list is against RIP... it was too much. In the finals he had the game won and took him like forever to change from "not losing" to be winning and he LOST 15 minutes later... is just too much. And he is almost 90% lost against combo pre and post board.
I have to admit that I am also a poxplayer, and charmed by this hybrid version, which makes me a bit biased. I always found there was a common ground between both decks, seems like Haas found that spot by packing smallpox and Liliana. Loam+waste+smallpox+ Liliana is BGPOX's disruptive core, alongside recurring Pfires you have an incredible disruptive package in manadenial (that D&Tplayer got smallpoxed a couple times) or a Liliana softlock. Seems very strong against greedy manabases with DRS, Stoneforge packages, TrueNameNemesis. I did miss the explosiveness of exploration though. This deck might have serious flaws, nevertheless this is the best result for both pox and lands in a long time and is doubtfully just a lucky streak. He certainly deserves credit for experimenting like this.

Being weak to RIP, as being soft to combo, is definitely the flaw of this build. But I assume he anticipated a low amount of gravehate, which was the case and payed off. Dropping entomb and faithless looting (Im not too fond of squee and spirit either) for crop rotation, gamble, Pfire or exploration could help, and take it closer to the RG comboversion, which is what I would experiment with.