Slivers have brought me a lot of success in the past, and this particular deck has served me well. But I'm at an impass with how I should use the final four cards of my deck. Here it is:
One card in a deck of 60 has the likelyhood of almost never being drawn. So, do I take Jace and Scroll rack out and replace them with two Boomerangs? Or do I take all four out and put four Counterspells in?
This deck relies heavily on control in the first four turns, so I'm thinking that adding four more counters would be my best bet. I just hate to have a Jace and not use him.
Counterspell might be tough to cast with no filter lands, have you considered Hindering Light? It'll be useless once you drop Crystalline Sliver though.
Hmmm...Well, Hindering Light might still be useful to protect my enchantments on the board. (And myself from direct damage attacks.) Plus, it's card draw, so that's always good. I'll have to add it to my wishlist.
Now that I think about it, maybe plopping four Brainstorms will work just as well. It would give me the ability to arrange my draws and is a one for one card draw. I just don't know about running four of them.
Maybe two Brainstorm and keep Jace and Scroll Rack?
Hmmm...Well, Hindering Light might still be useful to protect my enchantments on the board. (And myself from direct damage attacks.) Plus, it's card draw, so that's always good. I'll have to add it to my wishlist.
Now that I think about it, maybe plopping four Brainstorms will work just as well. It would give me the ability to arrange my draws and is a one for one card draw. I just don't know about running four of them.
Maybe two Brainstorm and keep Jace and Scroll Rack?
That might work but you don't have many shuffle effects - Brainstorm really shines when you can shuffle away those unwanted cards. Preordain or Ponder are generally better than Brainstorm when you don't have Fetchlands or Squadron Hawks haha.
-3 synchronous sliver
-1 shifting sliver
+2 phantasmal image (cheap copy for +1/+1 slivers, backup for extra crystall sliver on field)
+2 phyrexian metamorph (like above, helps versus equip/artifact decks)
both help versus legendary creatures
-1 jace
-1 scroll rack
+2 vapor snag or better removal like path to exile or StP
drop coastal tower and adarkar wastes for glacial fortress
2 Adarkar Wastes
2 Coastal Tower
6 Island
6 Plains
4 Terramorphic Expanse
// Creatures
4 Crystalline Sliver
4 Screeching Sliver
3 Shifting Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
3 Synchronous Sliver
2 Boomerang
1 Jace, Memory Adept
4 Mana Leak
4 Memory Lapse
4 Mindcrank
1 Scroll Rack
3 Spirit Mirror
3 Unnatural Selection
The spells in question are the two Boomrang, one Jace, Memory Adept and one Scroll Rack.
One card in a deck of 60 has the likelyhood of almost never being drawn. So, do I take Jace and Scroll rack out and replace them with two Boomerangs? Or do I take all four out and put four Counterspells in?
This deck relies heavily on control in the first four turns, so I'm thinking that adding four more counters would be my best bet. I just hate to have a Jace and not use him.
Le sigh.
What say you all?
Multiplayer:
MonoBlack
Mono-Red
Cycling
Crush of Wurms
Zoo
Immortal Coil
Control
Reanimator
Mono-G
Cruel Ascension
Landfall
Esper Spirits/Tokens
Phantom Vigor
Not Explicitly Multiplayer:
Allies
Bant
Artifacts
Now that I think about it, maybe plopping four Brainstorms will work just as well. It would give me the ability to arrange my draws and is a one for one card draw. I just don't know about running four of them.
Maybe two Brainstorm and keep Jace and Scroll Rack?
That might work but you don't have many shuffle effects - Brainstorm really shines when you can shuffle away those unwanted cards. Preordain or Ponder are generally better than Brainstorm when you don't have Fetchlands or Squadron Hawks haha.
Multiplayer:
MonoBlack
Mono-Red
Cycling
Crush of Wurms
Zoo
Immortal Coil
Control
Reanimator
Mono-G
Cruel Ascension
Landfall
Esper Spirits/Tokens
Phantom Vigor
Not Explicitly Multiplayer:
Allies
Bant
Artifacts
-1 shifting sliver
+2 phantasmal image (cheap copy for +1/+1 slivers, backup for extra crystall sliver on field)
+2 phyrexian metamorph (like above, helps versus equip/artifact decks)
both help versus legendary creatures
-1 jace
-1 scroll rack
+2 vapor snag or better removal like path to exile or StP
drop coastal tower and adarkar wastes for glacial fortress
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