I literally saw this general (Nin, the Pain Artist) once in the past 6 months I've been playing online, and now all of a sudden it seems to be popping up everywhere. I've seen 3 different people playing a highly competitive version of the deck today alone. It's annoyingly good, too!
Nin has always been a good deck. It's undervalued.
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Ya Nin is definitely overlooked in the meta. I have been testing Nin out recently because one of the best players in my area has a solid Nin deck. I've been enjoying playing it (although I'm really bad at it). It's a very slow deck, but its one of the few decks I've seen that can reliably post winning records against Zur and Geist. It is extremely powerful in the control vs. control matchup and gets a lot of nifty tricks against 3 color decks with red LD spells.
The list I've been playing is actually very close to Asimov's with some small variations. The only thing that stands out to me is the lack of Kher Keep. This is one of my favorite cards in the whole deck, as it provides an endless target for Nin and can even act as a weaker Maze in situations where your opponent doesnt have evasion.
One card I'm probably gonna add is True-Name Nemesis. It seems well suited in this deck; cast it and counter everything until you win.
I tested true name nemesis in Nin, too slow and not enough good in a control-combo metagame.
It's also possible to play the exarch-kiki jiki combo, it improves some match up but sometimes it does not do anything :/
Ya true, and 1 toughness does kinda hurt its viability.
I also played with Kiki-jiki combo; I found with no real way to tutor for Kiki-Jiki or exarch the combo was basically just dumb luck and mostly unusable.
I do like the new red mass X dmg spell from Commander 2013, but it hasn't been put in my deck yet cuz my cards.xml is bugged >.<
How have you fared against Derevi? It really seems like an auto-loss for me unless I can resolve a fast blood moon or Boom //Bust them off of a color.
Ya true, and 1 toughness does kinda hurt its viability.
Not really... The only card I can think of that cares about his toughness is Infest or Toxic Deluge. Toxic Deluge will kill pretty much anything, and Infest isn't even good.
Any sweeper deals with the Nemesis, not just those two, which is important if the meta shifts towards more Wraths like the Edric era in order to combat Derevi. Supreme Verdict is probably going to be the number one foil against any blue deck running the Nemesis.
Stop messing with my meta!!!
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The list I've been playing is actually very close to Asimov's with some small variations. The only thing that stands out to me is the lack of Kher Keep. This is one of my favorite cards in the whole deck, as it provides an endless target for Nin and can even act as a weaker Maze in situations where your opponent doesnt have evasion.
One card I'm probably gonna add is True-Name Nemesis. It seems well suited in this deck; cast it and counter everything until you win.
Ya true, and 1 toughness does kinda hurt its viability.
I also played with Kiki-jiki combo; I found with no real way to tutor for Kiki-Jiki or exarch the combo was basically just dumb luck and mostly unusable.
I do like the new red mass X dmg spell from Commander 2013, but it hasn't been put in my deck yet cuz my cards.xml is bugged >.<
How have you fared against Derevi? It really seems like an auto-loss for me unless I can resolve a fast blood moon or Boom //Bust them off of a color.
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Not really... The only card I can think of that cares about his toughness is Infest or Toxic Deluge. Toxic Deluge will kill pretty much anything, and Infest isn't even good.
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