What Should I Play In My Metagame?

[Tammit67]

Zoo just got added to my metagame, I tried aggro loam but did fairly badly. How should I adapt?

That honestly looks like a TES wet dream

[nayon]

That honestly looks like a TES wet dream

How do I not get ripped apart by Hymn decks? How do I have enough life to ad nauseam reliably? Am I doing something wrong?

[Tammit67]

Duress them, silence them, hold on to your brainstorms...

If you are planning to ad naus, and you find that IT on top with ponder but cant go off this turn, drop your LED's and draw it for next turn, going off then. Hymn cant do shit about top decks. If you are having trouble, just keep testing and testing and testing. The matchup is decently even

[Einherjer]

What should I play in my metagame. The Meta is: Merfolk, Mono-Blue-Control, Counterbalance(Thopterfoundry), GW-Maverick, BW-Deadguy Ale, Affinity(without Tezzeret), Enchantress,Mono-White Death n Taxes. White-Black Death n Taxes, Dredge...
Thanks for advice :)

[Einherjer]

What should I play in my metagame. The Meta is: Merfolk, Mono-Blue-Control, Counterbalance(Thopterfoundry), GW-Maverick, BW-Deadguy Ale, Affinity(without Tezzeret), Enchantress,Mono-White Death n Taxes. White-Black Death n Taxes, Dredge, Spiral Tide, Eva Green...
Thanks for advice :)

[Admiral_Arzar]

What should I play in my metagame. The Meta is: Merfolk, Mono-Blue-Control, Counterbalance(Thopterfoundry), GW-Maverick, BW-Deadguy Ale, Affinity(without Tezzeret), Enchantress,Mono-White Death n Taxes. White-Black Death n Taxes, Dredge, Spiral Tide, Eva Green...
Thanks for advice :)

Since there's only one legitimate fast combo deck (Tide), I would highly recommend a Burning Wish Aggro Loam build with Punishing Fire. You will shit on all the aggro and tribal decks, and your card advantage engine is very difficult for blue decks to deal with. Burning Wish -> Reverent Silence deals with Enchantress, and Burning Wish -> Perish or Virtue's Ruin wrecks Maverick and Death n Taxes. Some Krosan Grips and Graveyard hate in the board shore up every remaining matchup except Tide.

[Einherjer]

Ok, 2 of this decks are my own - Deadguy and Merfolk, which do you think is stronger in general? - considering the rest as the meta (+ the one I dont play as Ill lend it to someone)

[DragoFireheart]

I want a deck that shits all over stupid blue control/ aggro-control decks. It doesn't give a shit about mental misstep and laughs with joy whenever the other player uses Force of Will on it. What deck would that be?

[death]

4eak's Ichorid or 4C Loam deck. But a lot still depends on pilot skills.

[ThoSha]

I want a deck that shits all over stupid blue control/ aggro-control decks. It doesn't give a shit about mental misstep and laughs with joy whenever the other player uses Force of Will on it. What deck would that be?

This.

[DragoFireheart]

Hmm, neat deck.

Alright, now that MMS was banned, I want a deck that runs Tarmogoyf and Jace, the Mind Sculptor. What are my most likely viable options?

[BWM]

I want a deck that wins from Merfolk, Batterskull and Tendrils of Agony, all preboard...

[DragoFireheart]

I want a deck that wins from Merfolk, Batterskull and Tendrils of Agony, all preboard...

- Dredge?

[Admiral_Arzar]

- Dredge?

Dredge does not beat Tendrils unless it gets the nuts. I'm not sure there IS a deck in Legacy that beats all three of those, TBH. You're talking about a deck that beats aggro, control, and fast combo all at once - good luck. The closest I can think would be something like Dreadstill with large amounts of red for the Merfolk matchup.

[DragoFireheart]

Dredge does not beat Tendrils unless it gets the nuts. I'm not sure there IS a deck in Legacy that beats all three of those, TBH. You're talking about a deck that beats aggro, control, and fast combo all at once - good luck. The closest I can think would be something like Dreadstill with large amounts of red for the Merfolk matchup.

- Well, he asked pre-board and dredge is usually a good choice for winning game 1. Yes, storm is also fast, but dredge can get the nuts draws much like storm. I see them being 50/50 pre-board.

[Admiral_Arzar]

- Well, he asked pre-board and dredge is usually a good choice for winning game 1. Yes, storm is also fast, but dredge can get the nuts draws much like storm. I see them being 50/50 pre-board.

I basically never lose to Dredge with Storm unless they get the nuts with multiple fast therapies (or something stupid like Breakthrough into T2 kill). TES and ANT are quite a bit more likely to kill fast than Dredge is, but I digress.

[DragoFireheart]

I basically never lose to Dredge with Storm unless they get the nuts with multiple fast therapies (or something stupid like Breakthrough into T2 kill). TES and ANT are quite a bit more likely to kill fast than Dredge is, but I digress.

- Alright, 45/55 or 40/60 in storms favor, but then again there aren't many decks that are good against merfolk, storm, and random.blue.deck.

[Admiral_Arzar]

- Alright, 45/55 or 40/60 in storms favor, but then again there aren't many decks that are good against merfolk, storm, and random.blue.deck.

Wait a sec. U/R Painter. Not sure how I didn't see that before. Decent in the storm matchup, because it's freaking fast and packs countermagic. Decent against blue due to Red Blasts, Welder, and other counters.

[DragoFireheart]

Wait a sec. U/R Painter. Not sure how I didn't see that before. Decent in the storm matchup, because it's freaking fast and packs countermagic. Decent against blue due to Red Blasts, Welder, and other counters.

I seem to remember U/R Painter being a tier 1 deck pre-MMS...

[Admiral_Arzar]

I seem to remember U/R Painter being a tier 1 deck pre-MMS...

I've had to play against both U/R and Imperial Painter a lot in my meta - they're both excellent decks.