I play this deck every week at FNM and almost every night against some friends. The biggest problems I have are against vamp and RDW decks. Does anybody have any suggestions for changes?
Sad Sac and Surgical Extraction really don't work well together. I would also suggest Preordain over Ponder.
I did get a good use for Surgical Extraction after I Mana Leaked a Primeval Titan... Didn't have to worry about summoning trapping into another.
It looks like you are preparing for a good bit of combo in your meta.
Personally I prefer a mix of GffT and Doom Blade MB. If you run into a Tempered Steel, you would have a hard time game 1. I think only 4 creatures (all finishers at that) makes you pretty vulnerable to creatures early. You cannot counter fast enough to keep their creatures from beating on you like a drum early rounds. Turn 3 they can play 3 creatures and you will only have mana for 1 counter.
I play this deck every week at FNM and almost every night against some friends. The biggest problems I have are against vamp and RDW decks. Does anybody have any suggestions for changes?
-2 sadistic sacrament
-2 jace beleren (pretty bad against vamps/rdw)
-2 ponder
-1 go for the throat
+4 preordain (best draw fixing)
+1 doomblade (you at least need a 3/1 split mainboard)
+1 black sun's zenith (just 1 won't force you to tapout too much, and it removes resolved threats like thrun)
+1 despise (works w/ extraction)
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4x Creeping Tar Pit
4x Darkslick Shores
4x Drowned Catacomb
4x Tectonic Edge
4x Island
4x Swamp
Creatures – 4
2x Grave Titan
2x Wurmcoil Engine
Planeswalkers – 2
2x Jace Beleren
4x Mana Leak
3x Negate
2x Cancel
2x Stoic Rebuttal
3x Into the Roil
4x Go for the Throat
4x Inquisition of Kozilek
4x Ponder
2x Sadistic Sacrament
2x Surgical Extraction
3x Flashfreeze
2x Duress
2x Smother
2x Disfigure
2x Consume the Meek
2x Mindbreak Trap
2x Doom Blade
I did get a good use for Surgical Extraction after I Mana Leaked a Primeval Titan... Didn't have to worry about summoning trapping into another.
It looks like you are preparing for a good bit of combo in your meta.
Personally I prefer a mix of GffT and Doom Blade MB. If you run into a Tempered Steel, you would have a hard time game 1. I think only 4 creatures (all finishers at that) makes you pretty vulnerable to creatures early. You cannot counter fast enough to keep their creatures from beating on you like a drum early rounds. Turn 3 they can play 3 creatures and you will only have mana for 1 counter.
-2 sadistic sacrament
-2 jace beleren (pretty bad against vamps/rdw)
-2 ponder
-1 go for the throat
+4 preordain (best draw fixing)
+1 doomblade (you at least need a 3/1 split mainboard)
+1 black sun's zenith (just 1 won't force you to tapout too much, and it removes resolved threats like thrun)
+1 despise (works w/ extraction)