Quote Originally Posted by sroncor1 View Post
The way to fight treasure cruise is to counter it after they delve. Using suboptimal grave hate to slow it down is just a bad strategy. Even with three cards in the yard they can fire it off refill their hand and dominate. Much like vintage you stop the recall at all costs. Add additional blast effects of you are that concerned with the blue spell. That way the card still has great value against the field.

Seth
Yeah, I get that I should counter the treasure cruise, but for a variety of reasons (much of which is being able to combo against Eldrazi game one and to open up a slot in my S.b.), I still would like to give this a try. The treasure cruise dilemma just pushed the issue over the edge. I've always been a toolbox sort of guy and never wanted to be totally cold to certain strategies. That is probably why I like this deck so much. As for just blasting the t.c. That would be great if I always had an extra 1 or 2 blasts in my hand at all times, but I still have to protect my own combo and sometimes the pieces just aren't there.
So assuming that just not playing the graveyard hate isn't an option, my same questions apply. Thanks.


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