Quote Originally Posted by Silverflame View Post
I think jade statue and ugin's construct are cute, but are suboptimal. you can block a tarmogoyf until they discard your ugin/karn and just run you over. If you're going to be that slow, you might as well go for Myr Incubator.
I am convinced a lot of you simply don't play this deck and don't understand how it works .

Lodestone getting chumped blocked and losing it is extremely relevant because of Wasteland in a format with Ponder and Brainstorm. You'll trade 1-1 for a lot of the time, but they'll stick 3 more guys while you top deck into the ethers.

I'd rather be scatterbrained discarding cards every which way in all directions with Mindless Automaton if it means having a relevant card on the battlefield that gets plowed and nets me free draws.