MTG Salvation

I've been looking at making a Gifts deck: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=441469.

My friend runs Extirpate however. How can I deal with this? I researched it and found Chalice of the Void and possibly Voidmage Apprentice.

What do you think?

I think you are better off not playing badly.

Why don't you simply search for 4 win conditions and make him give you 2 to your hand?

How are you using gifts? There's ways of playing around extirpate with gifts, you can't just get a fattie and Unburial Rites and get upset when he extirpates one of them.

I'll admit, playing around extirpate is tough, but gifts ungiven actually plays around it really well. You don't want to start playing bad cards to make up for extirpate. You have to use what you got, always expect the worst, but hope for the best.

If you deck have access to green, you can use Ground Seal to protect cards on the grave.

Quote from Victor Sant

If you deck have access to green, you can use Ground Seal to protect cards on the grave.

That stops unburial rites and deathrite shaman...,,,so not very effective

Raven's Crime until he's topdecking? Chalice works but Voidmage does not. Quote the Raven: Nevermore!

Quote from montoyafan33

Raven's Crime until he's topdecking? Chalice works but Voidmage does not. Quote the Raven: Nevermore!

Voidmage works. It's jut not modern legal.

Counterbalance works too.

I would consider Chalice of the Void at 1, Ground Seal, Counterbalance, and other preemptive answers to extirpate to be really bad in a deck like gifts. I'd rather just have them extirpate the card I got than try to stop them by paying 2 mana to have an otherwise useless artifact/enchantment that also stops myself from playing other important spells (well, not the counterbalance, but the counterbalance isn't even guaranteed to stop extirpate).

Quote from Mastodon

I would consider Chalice of the Void at 1, Ground Seal, Counterbalance, and other preemptive answers to extirpate to be really bad in a deck like gifts. I'd rather just have them extirpate the card I got than try to stop them by paying 2 mana to have an otherwise useless artifact/enchantment that also stops myself from playing other important spells (well, not the counterbalance, but the counterbalance isn't even guaranteed to stop extirpate).

Good point. Makes sense.

Cast Duress in advance of Gifts Ungiven.