Geths verdict... in a smallpox deck designed specifically for it then pox. There will be times you cant afford to lose that land and they can... not great if you arent building around it
I don't like smallpox in general its potential is to random from game to game. The opponent might keep a 3 or 2 land hand and you doing a t2 smallpox might totally screw them over and win. But it could easily go the other way in which they draw the land anyway and the creatures etc and you do not.
As DarkBrew said, if you are going to build a deck specifically take advantage of Smallpox as often as possible then Smallpox. But in general Geth's Verdict is much better.
I actually had to argue this at FNM last night. Smallpox is a very powerful card with the potential for a lot of abuse, but not in most of the zombie lists I've seen. Yes, gravecrawler/geralf's messenger can help break the synergy of the effect, but smallpox here is a trap. It's going to be hard to be in a situation where you actively want to pox without further warping your deck around that one card. No matter which color variant you're playing, at the end of the day we're an aggro deck in a field full of ramp and tempo decks. We can't afford to set ourselves back tempo with our removal spells versus delver, and ramp will just shrug it off (especially the huntmaster version).
Geth's verdict on the other hand is much better in the current format. It can actually kill a huntmaster of the fells or a grave titan with the token making trigger on the stack. It also lets you block a wurmcoil engine without giving the opponent 6 life or a pair of blockers.
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Smallpox works very well with gravecrawler and geralfs messenger. But geth's verdict has the advantage of being an instant and not hurting us.
What are your thoughts?
As DarkBrew said, if you are going to build a deck specifically take advantage of Smallpox as often as possible then Smallpox. But in general Geth's Verdict is much better.
Geth's verdict on the other hand is much better in the current format. It can actually kill a huntmaster of the fells or a grave titan with the token making trigger on the stack. It also lets you block a wurmcoil engine without giving the opponent 6 life or a pair of blockers.