Sorry missed your replies before. I think personally I will bring in grafdigger's cage and relic of progenitus to stop them from getting more value out of graveyard. thoughtseize will be a good addition to limit their answer. I play 2 spellskite mainboard which helps in redirecting their removal from my key cards. some time I choose not to extend or even sacrifice my ravager as they can respond to arcbound modular on the stack. the situationwill be different of there is an etched chapion with metacraft though. always check their graveyard, hand and open mana and make a calculated guess on what they might play. that is what I will considered control your tempo of not all in but rather keep presenting threats again and again.
Yo guys, I am new to this deck. I bought the cheapest stuff to try out and proxie the rest. It feels so awsome. I played Jund before, Twin, Gr Tron, Merlira Company, Pod. But all feld non agressive. Affinity just fits my need of counting in combat and making the puzzle work. I saw the video on CFB of Frank Karsten, he is awsome, i am dutch to btw. But I need some help with the maindeck choices and the sideboarding choices. What is a good stocklist. Why play day's Undoing?
What's the general consensus on what decks Day's Undoing are good against? I'm thinking that it is Junk, Jund, and most control decks. KrYo42 seems to believe that it's good against Twin but in all of the games I playtested against it, it was very underwhelming or sometimes completely terrible.
Fun Fact: Tarmogoyf will be a 0/1 after that. Did you attacked with your Memnite to him and he blocked? Yes? Bye bye little Lhurgoyf.
Day's Undoing ends the turn. Damage is removed and the Goyf lives.
Undoing seems like a gamblers card. Got hit by a pyroclasm? Reset and try again. My problem with the card is that it lacks consistency and aides the opponent.
Could anyone suggest the best plan to play against infect? Blightend Agent kills me every time. Their clock is just faster for at least me anyways. Should I pretty much mull any hand that doesn't contain a spellskite or thoughtseize? Galvanic blast on my turn eats a pump or protection spell so that has not been going so well, same thing for whipflare. I am new to the deck, and to modern, I have played in 4 fnm's so far with it. Thanks for any help.
I think it is a do-more card and seems likely that it will help the opponent deal with our board instead of destroying their current hand. I played with it last night as a 2-of and it seemed terrible against any deck with mainboard answers(pridemage specifically). I always boarded them out and wish they had just been galv blast.
My major problem with Undoing is that it somewhat seems to be overkill : the only real bad and frequent match-up I have is Twin, which won't get significantly better with Undoing. For other matches-up, I don't feel Undoing is necessary, and it reduces the synergies of the deck. Still, it is so asymetrical and combines well with ravager...
Actually, Undoing is insane against that deck. It draws you into Galvanic Blast and forces them to shuffle away all the cards they've scryed with Serum Visions and accumulated with Electrolyze, Snapcaster Mage, and Cryptic Command.
Undoing is at its very best against midrange decks. AKA the decks Affinity loses to.
the card itself really isn't worth the card board its printed on...does it serve a purpose? Sure its a blue 1 drop that might not be a 1/1. I would not put it in a list and expect to win a PTQ or GP though.
My major problem with Undoing is that it somewhat seems to be overkill : the only real bad and frequent match-up I have is Twin, which won't get significantly better with Undoing. For other matches-up, I don't feel Undoing is necessary, and it reduces the synergies of the deck. Still, it is so asymetrical and combines well with ravager...
Actually, Undoing is insane against that deck. It draws you into Galvanic Blast and forces them to shuffle away all the cards they've scryed with Serum Visions and accumulated with Electrolyze, Snapcaster Mage, and Cryptic Command.
Undoing is at its very best against midrange decks. AKA the decks Affinity loses to.
My concern is does it make you lose percentage against decks like Burn, Scapeshift, the mirror, infect and Tron? If so, I dont think its worth it...main board. If its honestly good vs Midrange decks, I could see it boarded.
chalice for 1 don't cause infect to lose. they still have become immense, inkmoth nexus and wild defiance which even if their spells are countered, they still get the pump.
Chalice on 1 doesn't automatically win, but it completely shuts off almost half of their deck, which is enough to win the game with any reasonable clock.
If you want to auto win run melira. It's tough to use it though because you won't play her against anything else. I suppose you could go with more removal or disruption instead.
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So I've been testing Day's Undoing in my Affinity build. And it's been pretty nice. It helps with our grindy match-ups verses Jund and decks with lots of removal. I like how it messes up our opponents opening hand by turn 2 or 3. I will keep on testing but will continue to run 3 of them main.
List looks good though I haven't tested Hangarback Walker. I would try Day's Undoing in the Walker slot and see how it goes. Walker just seems so mana intensive and slow to build up. As for Welding Jar, I've dropped it from my list because its been underwhelming every time I had it. It might be different for you so give it a try.
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Day's Undoing ends the turn. Damage is removed and the Goyf lives.
Undoing seems like a gamblers card. Got hit by a pyroclasm? Reset and try again. My problem with the card is that it lacks consistency and aides the opponent.
Undoing is at its very best against midrange decks. AKA the decks Affinity loses to.
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My concern is does it make you lose percentage against decks like Burn, Scapeshift, the mirror, infect and Tron? If so, I dont think its worth it...main board. If its honestly good vs Midrange decks, I could see it boarded.
However, I want to potentially try this:
4 Ornithopter
1 Hangarback Walker
3 Disciple of the Vault
4 Signal Pest
4 Vault Skirge
4 Arcbound Ravager
3 Etched Champion
4 Mox Opal
1 Welding Jar
2 Chromatic Star
2 Springleaf Drum
4 Cranial Plating
4 Galvanic Blast
2 Shrapnel Blast
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Glimmervoid
2 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Mountain
1 Sulfurous Springs
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Illness in the Ranks
2 Thoughtseize
3 Ancient Grudge
2 Spellskite
2 Whipflare
1 Blood Moon
1 Dismember
1 Etched Champion
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I know some on here do not like it but a Chalice set on 1 is pretty much scoop for Infect
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4 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
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3 Memnite
3 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
4 Vault Skirge
2 Spellskite
4 Arcbound Ravager
3 Steel Overseer
3 Etched Champion
4 Cranial Plating
4 Mox Opal
4 Springleaf Drum
3 Galvanic Blast
3 Day's Undoing
2 Thoughtseize
2 Whipflare
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Blood Moon
2 Spell Pierce
2 Torpor Orb
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Etched Champion
Edit: A lot of Star City IQ's top 8's have Affinity decklist that have been running 2-4 Day's Undoing.
Im still trying to find a good balance. I really like Hangerback and his synergy with Ravager and Overseer. Any suggestions?
4x Arcbound Ravager
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2x Master of Etherium
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4x Signal Pest
3x Steel Overseer
4x Vault Skirge
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4x Galvanic Blast
4x Blinkmoth Nexus
4x Darksteel Citadel
3x Glimmervoid
4x Inkmoth Nexus
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4x Cranial Plating
4x Mox Opal
4x Springleaf Drum
1x Welding Jar
2x Ancient Grudge
2x Blood Moon
2x Choke
2x Ethersworn Canonist
1x Grafdigger's Cage
2x Spellskite
1x Thoughtseize
1x Wear / Tear
2x Whipflare
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