Quote Originally Posted by SHABOOGS View Post
Congrats on another win, Que! Can you share your sideboard plan against Lands? Is it just Ashen Rider? Sad to say that I haven't won an official match against it.
Thanks brotha.

And against Lands I'm trying to straight up combo them and land an Iona on Green to cut them off of Loam. Its not game over necessarily, but its very strong and you're usually putting a bunch of zombies into play alongside a 7/7 so they shouldn't have any time to actually answer that. Other times you're dread returning Ashen Rider to ensure your zombies are able to come across stopping dumb lands like Tabernacle, Maze of ith, and Glacial Chasm. Side note even stops Bojuka bog if they were foolish enough to drop it early to eat your graveyard while you were sandbagging additional gas. Its important that you can exile it because once they start recurring Bog its clearly over. The plan:

+ 2 Lotus Petal
+ 1 Dread Return
+ 1 Iona,
+ 1 Ashen Rider
+ 1 Breakthrough

- 1 City of Brass
- 2 Amalgam
- 1 Street Wraith
- 1 Careful Study
- 1 Cabal Therapy (you're only going to be naming 1 card primarily with it and your opponent will use it the first chance they get anyway so this is fine, all others will be used to generate zombies to ensure you're still able to apply pressure if you don't happen to land a Dread Return)

In Game:
If you happen to be fortunate enough to have a Narco and a Cabal Therapy early against them then Cabal Therapy would name in this order Crop Rotation, Exploration, Gamble. You can't play around Crop Rotation and it almost always grabs Bog which can be a huge blowout if they time it right. Exploration allows them to pull to fair ahead with the loam engine. Gamble can find them Glacial Chasm, Tabernacle, Bog, and loam obviously. Remember also you can stack the Tabernacle trigger so that you can have Ichorid enter the battlefield without paying the 1. This will allow you to push through damage and even close out games if you have multiple unanswered Ichorids. You're just trying to overwhelm them ultimately.