Dies to Removal

After weeks of tweaking and adjusting and guessing what would show up in my meta, I just said "to hell with it" tonight and played zem's 75. First place, dropped one game all night (vs. white aggro). That'll teach me to think.

Young Pryomancer is so weak to Jace.

It really isn't. A Jace that's +1ing every turn, and then losing that 1 to the Pyromancer itself hitting him, is a Jace that's not drawing cards. A Jace that's not drawing cards is a joke.

G3 (Epic Rage Quit) Rw Burn (MASSTAR) vs Angry Phoenix, Dancing Satyr (MDU) SE 6981650

This is a pro-click for both the opponent's unimaginative flaming and MDU's total no-sweat brushoff.

Yeah, there's no reason to run the Crypts without T//T.

If you aren't running Toil // Trouble, do the extra scry lands still make sense? Absolutely, IMO. Scrying is just so, so good, especially with this deck; you can often find yourself, for example, drawing your fifth and sixth lands of the game instead of action, and suddenly you've used your last pi...

I kinda got why people were annoyed at PV for saying it, because he's played like ten games with the deck Even then, PV was largely providing a summary of the assessments of the other pros he asked, so it didn't make too much sense to me to be annoyed with him either. I feel like we've gone past th...

[deck=Zemanjaski's Boros Burn, GLOS $1k Monthly, 1st] Creatures 1 Temple of Malice 1 Temple of Silence Sideboard 3 Viashino Firstblade [/deck] I'm glad I'm not the only one willing to run the extra scrylands even without Toil//Trouble. I don't think I have it in me to go back to Firstblade over Fir...

Embarrassing question: what's our game plan against that stupid dredge deck that's poking around? It seems like such a good matchup, but the couple times I've faced it I've lost. I've personally only faced it 3x in the last 100 matches and have gone 2-1. (The first time I didn't have a strategy.) M...

Embarrassing question: what's our game plan against that stupid dredge deck that's poking around? It seems like such a good matchup, but the couple times I've faced it I've lost.

Zem's new maindeck looks really well-suited for my meta. The more intricate sideboard has me a bit hesitant, though. Does it go something like this? UWx control: +1 Chandra, +1 Glare, +1 Mutavault, +4 Cackler, +1 Pyro // -2 Chained, -2 Magma Jet, -4 Shock MBC: +1 Assemble, +1 Chained, +4 Cackler, +1...

I was being facetious about the sideboarding article, no one would read it even if I wrote it.

I would! Because I'm embarrassingly bad at sideboarding.

how are the opinions on 10 vs 11 white sources? I've been screwed multiple times today, wishing i had one more source, even a bad one. I have been thinking the same thing. Discussion on this took place some pages ago - the current mana base has 11 - 4SF, 4ToT and 3GG along with 9 mountain and 3 Vau...

Thanks, everyone. Realistically, I wouldn't even board spark trooper for the mirror. It's just WAY too much work getting it to connect vs. a competent opponent. Additionally, Boarding out Ash seems reasonable to mitigate the effectiveness of searing blood which is clearly a beating. This is probably...

I think I've settled on the build I'm running at FNM tonight, but I wouldn't mind a sanity check on my sideboard plans: [deck] Creatures 4 Ash Zealot 4 Chandra's Phoenix Enchantments 3 Chained to the Rocks Instants 4 Boros Charm 4 Lightning Strike 4 Magma Jet 4 Searing Blood 2 Shock 4 Skullcrack 4 W...

I cut the shocks and have chains main as well as BO. I like BO in almost every matchup. I have 3 chains 2 BO main -- and I don't think you can cut chains g1. The only matchups that it is dead against is u/w control and esper, and we still have a pretty good g1 against them. I was considering this, ...

Probably won't be playing Firedancers tbh. I like my current sb configuration, it has proven to be extremely effective and I like the idea of ONLY running cards that stand on their own. Probably will go to 3 Mortars, 1 Spark Trooper though, lowers the curve and I like the earlier interaction. Will ...

Does little against hexproof It's at least worth noting that while the copy can't target an opponent's hexproof creature, when you change the target of the original spell, you can change it to an opponent's hexproof creature because the opponent still counts as the controller. It doesn't significan...

I am going to have to hunt one down for paper testing tonight. I do love me some IRL trolling.

I got lucky; I checked my crap-rare trade binder and had exactly one. I'll give it a shot, because honestly, it looks like too much fun not to.

Idk, it might be -- but doesnt it do the same thing as wear/tear except its on a body? Is the body on Apparition important enough to make up for the fact that your opponent will often be more able to play around it than to play around Wear/Tear? I feel like, in the matches we'd want enchantment rem...

Have been reading the thread for a few days, finally signed up. Thank you, zem! what about keening apparition if you want to get rid of enchantments? You can leave it on board as a target for removal, and in response sack it to destroy whatever you need. I feel like this might be getting too cute, b...