Quote Originally Posted by Postman View Post
You can play the UG build with acceleration as well. S&T into Titan is one of the best boosts in legacy ;-) But there are other ways as well, I played Oracle of Mul Daya in UG (but didn't like it enough to keep it) and maybe I'll try Explore again. But those cards are great in the first few turns, mid- and especially late game they are dead cards you don't want to see. I try to play as many cards as possible which are always good, such as Repeal etc. Explore is better compared to Oracle, at least imo, because of the card draw.
Showing Titan is very appealing, but I feel like it's not the best place to be in the current meta. You don't want to be casting Show and Tell to put Primeval Titan into play, only to see your opponent put Omniscience in. Of course, you can probably read the Omni player's deck in the first 2 turns and just hold your Show and Tell instead, but then your acceleration is a dead card. I know people normally consider accelerating cards to be dead draws late game, but with Explore it cantrips, and in the late game being able to play 2 lands can mean gaining enough life with Glimmerpost to survive and win. I agree that it's much much stronger in the early game, but one of the reasons I like the card so much is that it doesn't feel like a dead draw late.

Either way I have to build UG and see how it plays. At the moment I'm very impressed with how GW performs though.