I'm skeptical keeping that hand against Affinity on the draw. Bolt is serviceable on your turn 1, but turn 2 they might already have dump their hand including Plating or Etched Champion if they have an Opal or Drum, rendering your discards dead. Lily is bad against that board and you need to rip two lands in consecutive to cast Command which may already be too late by then.
@Delver: Thanks for the advice on my sideboard. I can easily switch the Surgicals for Spellbomb, but I need to find a slot for Cage. With 3 Ooze main, will the Spellbombs be enough?
@Delver: Thanks for the advice on my sideboard. I can easily switch the Surgicals for Spellbomb, but I need to find a slot for Cage. With 3 Ooze main, will the Spellbombs be enough?
You can go with 3 Ooze main and 2 Spellbombs in the side, but its on the low end and the absolute minimum. Can certainly be fine, I personally run 2 Ooze main and 2 Spellbombs alongside 1 Cage sideboard. On total cards that is the same, but Cage is arguable more impactful than Ooze overall. It simply depends on what you want to target. Got lots of fair and grindy decks in your meta like Control, Jund, Pyromancer and so on? Then the third Ooze is ofc miles better than the Cage, which you don't want to board in against those matchups. Cage shines against Dredge, Hollow One, CoCo decks and Storm. Depends on what matchups you want to tackle.
1. You did not write if we were in preboard or postboard games, wich is in my opinion important for the decisions.
2. Sorry i did not want to be mean, keep up your good work. I like this and i like to participate. I Just wanted to say that most of the decisions are not controversial and that there will be 90% same votes
1) I did indicate that, you can see either G1 = Game 1 or G2 = Game Two which should indicate preboard or postboard. The difference between Game 2 and 3 may be relevant also, but I did exclude that in the hands.
2) No problem, it kinda sounded like a complaint in the first place. Nevermind that, I reacted to it wrongly. But you are definitely right as it seems. Will try to make it tougher for the next ones.
Kinda showed the weakness of anger of the gods in version with so little amount of red mana.
This is a real hidden cost of cutting sources for R; my list feels light on G (for Scooze) to me, and I'm tempted to cut the Mountain for a Treetop, or a Blackcleave for a Blooming Marsh. But I already have only 18 R in my deck which is just a little light for a T3 Anger against fast go-wide decks like Affinity and Elves. Oftentimes against those kinds of decks you really need it early, getting color-screwed for sweepers is no fun. Flaying Tendrils is better against Etched Champion, Burrenton Forge Tender, and Selfless Spirit, but much worse against everything else.
Abzan is basically just BG with Lingering Souls and Stony Silence at this point, it's a reasonable direction to trend in. With nearly every 2-color midrange deck using Field of Ruin, you really can't just arbitrarily play a random assortment of 3-color cards anymore. Having to run a single Mountain puts a very real strain on our mana base, but at the same time it's hard to play 4 BBE, 3-4 Bolt 2 K-Command, and 2 Terminate without it. And that's ignoring sideboard cards like Anger of the Gods.
Baubles, perhaps even add Traverse?
A way of protecting him early, so he can get in for trample damage, like Blossoming Defense?
Defense is too situational and not what Jund wants at all. All three are bad cascade targets, with Traverse being the only reasonable yet still overly situational one.
I would absolutely love to play Flayer alongside BBE, but what could you possibly cut? We’re already lighter on removal than we’d like. Less than five targeted discard spells seems wrong. I certainly wouldn’t want to run less than 4x Goyf, Bob, Lili, or BBE.
Blossoming Defense goes against everything we’re trying to do.
If you really wanted him you could probably cram 2x in there by going down to 2x Scooze, and maybe 5x targeted discard and lose a Lightning Bolt or go with a lower CMC 24 land build and put him in place of the land you shaved. I dunno. If I have extra room for anything I would fill it with removal, not Flayer.
If you ran him I’d imagine you’d want to play a singleton Tarfire or Seal of Fire in place of a Bolt, but only if you’re running 4x Bolts.
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@Delver: Thanks for the advice on my sideboard. I can easily switch the Surgicals for Spellbomb, but I need to find a slot for Cage. With 3 Ooze main, will the Spellbombs be enough?
You can go with 3 Ooze main and 2 Spellbombs in the side, but its on the low end and the absolute minimum. Can certainly be fine, I personally run 2 Ooze main and 2 Spellbombs alongside 1 Cage sideboard. On total cards that is the same, but Cage is arguable more impactful than Ooze overall. It simply depends on what you want to target. Got lots of fair and grindy decks in your meta like Control, Jund, Pyromancer and so on? Then the third Ooze is ofc miles better than the Cage, which you don't want to board in against those matchups. Cage shines against Dredge, Hollow One, CoCo decks and Storm. Depends on what matchups you want to tackle.
1) I did indicate that, you can see either G1 = Game 1 or G2 = Game Two which should indicate preboard or postboard. The difference between Game 2 and 3 may be relevant also, but I did exclude that in the hands.
2) No problem, it kinda sounded like a complaint in the first place. Nevermind that, I reacted to it wrongly. But you are definitely right as it seems. Will try to make it tougher for the next ones.
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Yeah, turned out BBE is so good we don't have to twist so much to fit her in.
I still feel...not good about no terminates, so but I can't argue with results.
He obviously prayed he'd see no Tron or Titanshift (except Titanshift seems like a bad meta call to me).
Seems like having 2x Maelstrom in the 75 is prudent with the lack of terminate.
I think I'd run 1x Hazoret over Tracker, but who knows. I don't even know what lists should look like anymore.
Still, great showing by Jund and props to Pierson for piloting so well.
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Defense is too situational and not what Jund wants at all. All three are bad cascade targets, with Traverse being the only reasonable yet still overly situational one.
Abzan Traverse / Traverse Shadow / UR Kiki
Blossoming Defense goes against everything we’re trying to do.
If you really wanted him you could probably cram 2x in there by going down to 2x Scooze, and maybe 5x targeted discard and lose a Lightning Bolt or go with a lower CMC 24 land build and put him in place of the land you shaved. I dunno. If I have extra room for anything I would fill it with removal, not Flayer.
If you ran him I’d imagine you’d want to play a singleton Tarfire or Seal of Fire in place of a Bolt, but only if you’re running 4x Bolts.
BRGJUNDGRB---BRHOLLOW ONERB---BGELVESGB---BRGLIVING ENDGRB---GWBOGLESWG
EDH:
BRGKARRTHUS, TYRANT OF JUNDGRB