Went ahead and pushed the new website live tonight. I'm proud of it, it's a big improvement compared to the former. That said, the website isn't entirely done. There's some image optimization and image resizing that needs to be done (Old article images are very small compared to new ones). Pushing the website live will motivate me to do them quicker. Enough talking, enjoy the first article on the new website:
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New website looks good. Isn't the decklist there older though? I thought Bayou and Void Snare were recently out of the SB.
Yeah, the deck list is dated over a month ago. The issue is that I'm not sure what my list is at the moment. I've been wrapped up in other things. I tried no Hurkyl's but now I think I want them?Originally Posted by Zooligan
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Great article, highly relevant, and emphasizes one of the reasons I sometimes miss having Xantid in my 'board. Gives enough information I can make good boarding/play decisions without Xantid, and reinforces the thoughts I had about the matchup. Losing my Xantids was a tough decision to make with the popularity of Miracles, but I think Hurkyll's Recall is just more generally versatile. Watching AJ vs James Rynkiewicz a few years ago was actually the reason I was exposed to TES and decided to build it, I'm glad to see such good input from him.
The point is that Xantid loses to Countertop (in two different ways) and Clique. Happend too me too often to let Xantid count as an Anti-Miracles tech
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Congrats on the T8 Bryant, I see you're back to a pair of Xantids, and now featuring Echoing Truth instead of Hurkyl's Recall?
With Thorn of Amethyst decreasing in popularity in Eldrazi, Echoing Truth deals with the 2xChalice of the Void problem and is more useful vs an increasingly popular rise in D&T. Unfortunately for us the hate in the format is becoming less linear, so our answers have to become less linear as well.
I'm curious to know what he lost to in the top8.
Part of me wants it to be belcher because it would be hilariously unfortunate to lose to a belcher in top8.
Truth is my Hurkyl's were in the mail getting signed. No real reason. Both cards are fine.
It was a super easy event, played 6 rounds of magic went 5-1-2 and had no bad match-ups. Happens sometimes.
Another meddling mage for 3cc...
I'm not too worried. It's going to be a turn late to the party pretty often, and it still doesn't look as strong as Thalia, Ethersworn Canonist, et al.
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Not worried either. What does D&T even cut for this card? Obv not stoneforge, Thalia, revoker, or any other 2 drop card. Which leaves Fliskerwisp and Mangara, maybe the occasional Brimaz, is this card really better than any of those? Maybe My Little Thalia? It's good but I'm not sure it's better than stuff D&T already plays. I don't think they've got the room, but I won't be surprised to see this thing tested as a 2x if someone can shoehorn it in there.
I am indeed a bit worried as this card on 2 puts us (except for goblins) usually out of the game and as it also has multiple use against other stuff like show&tell @3 it may see some play in the board of other white decks. (Ok, fair enough, there aren't too many of these around but still...)
The best fight against D&T takes place in the first two turns. If you haven't gone off by then, it's going to be an uphill battle anyway and this card isn't putting the game any farther out of reach than it already is if you haven't been able to combo or buy time by taking a Thalia out of their hand. The advantage TES has against D&T is that once you start going, they can't really interact. The disadvantage is that the deck is full of cards Storm hates, which aren't relevant if they die before they can drop them. But yeah, the deck is so densely packed full of hate that the longer the game goes, the more you have to fight through.
You guys make a mistake if you just look at manacost or D&T in particular
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That card is the nail in the coffin vs Miracles, it probably sees play there over Meddling Mage.
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Don't worry, according to /r/MTGLegacy this card can only be run in Death and Taxes.
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