Of course, with Scion of Oona out, you need to Damnation (or kill everything one by one, which normally isn't feasible) which is unfortunate (killing your own wincon... hopefully it was Demigod they stole). Of course, with Demigod's haste, it is attacking you NOW, not waiting around like Korlash... but at least it SHOULD be tapped.
How I wish we had some way of giving our guys shroud at a reasonable price. Or protection from blue.
But, I have found that Bitterblossom is a good card versus Sower of Temptation. Block the sower, block the tempted, buy you time to find your answer.
On another note, I really really really think everyone should be playing Epochrasite in this deck. It is one of our only early early plays, it blocks, it attacks with warhammer, it comes back from death (and bigger, not smaller, stupid persist!) - it slices, it dices!
It has proven itself to me time and again, and I really think you guys should give it a fair shake.
RE: Epochrasite, we did try it, and it was good. But it got replaced by more answers (removals, BtQs etc.) instead. Theres little room for other cards, and we got to choose from.
Instead of blocking early, you can play eot removal on that creature. and by the time epoc is back in track, you should have enough mana to power out your beasts (after a Damnation on the previous turn) also.
1) Screw Corrupt, it's a game winner but it is so dang expensive and with the metagame being at the fastest I've seen since Affinity, then it should just be Tendrils of Corruption.
2) Corrosive Mentor, I've given some thought to the card mainly because BB tokens become alot better as chump blockers... but I can't find room for it. So maybe after TSP block rotates I might make him the slots that Korlash will leave in the deck.
3) I believe from testing that Epochrasite is better than Heart/Mindstone acceleration.
4) If your going to play MBC competitively right now you need to make room for Sudden Spoiling. The card rocks in almost every matchup. This last weekend I even used it to shrink a Deus of Calamity so some tokens could kill it.
5) Terror > Nameless Inversion > Shriekmaw
6) Thoughtseize + Extirpate against control is really a must have in the SB.
7) I like Midnight Banshee, but I don't like it's mana cost. It doesn't seem like a competitive geared card because by the time it starts to hand out -1/-1 counters it's already turn 6-7 and against the decks it would hurt your already going to lose.
I too have felt the wrath of multiple Sower of Temptation - I've even played another Korlash just to kill the one the other guy stole.
I hope he had some swamps in play, as the Korlash would have died (or you had Urborg). That has happened to me quite a few times - I never even get a chance to take it back by removing the Sower
Anyway, I really enjoy playing this deck. Went 3-1 in a local tourney, beating RG Manaramp, BGW Doran and Reveillark. Lost to a really strange kithkin deck that ran multiple Door of Destinies, though:-/
I usually just answer Sower with a Terror or Sudden Death at the end of the turn that they played it. I really think that Puppeteer Clique could do a number on a deck running Sower.
Let's see.
Turn 4 they play Sower, you kill it.
Turn 5 You play Clique it takes a Sower and snags something else and you swing with them having one less chump to block with.
A very situational play and I won't make room for it, but I can have daydreams where I laugh in the face of a Faerie player right?
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1) Screw Corrupt, it's a game winner but it is so dang expensive and with the metagame being at the fastest I've seen since Affinity, then it should just be Tendrils of Corruption.
Just wanted to second this so people can understand how slow and useless Corrupt is compared to running just about anything else.
6) Thoughtseize + Extirpate against control is really a must have in the SB.
Or distress for us poorer folk.
8) Run BtQ or I will eat your babies!!
I want to have babies WITH BtQ, mmmm.
A very situational play and I won't make room for it, but I can have daydreams where I laugh in the face of a Faerie player right? I mean I've already convinced everyone in my meta that playing faeries is homosexual behavior and that if they run them that they need to check to make sure their manhood is still there.
Me to! At the moment only one guy plays faeries in my meta, unfortunately he is used to taking abuse of that kind so I dont think he will be changing any time soon.
1) Screw Corrupt, it's a game winner but it is so dang expensive and with the metagame being at the fastest I've seen since Affinity, then it should just be Tendrils of Corruption.
2) Corrosive Mentor, I've given some thought to the card mainly because BB tokens become alot better as chump blockers... but I can't find room for it. So maybe after TSP block rotates I might make him the slots that Korlash will leave in the deck.
3) I believe from testing that Epochrasite is better than Heart/Mindstone acceleration.
4) If your going to play MBC competitively right now you need to make room for Sudden Spoiling. The card rocks in almost every matchup. This last weekend I even used it to shrink a Deus of Calamity so some tokens could kill it.
5) Terror > Nameless Inversion > Shriekmaw
6) Thoughtseize + Extirpate against control is really a must have in the SB.
7) I like Midnight Banshee, but I don't like it's mana cost. It doesn't seem like a competitive geared card because by the time it starts to hand out -1/-1 counters it's already turn 6-7 and against the decks it would hurt your already going to lose.
8) Run BtQ or I will eat your babies!!
I agree on every point, with possible exception to Extirpate (might just be my meta, but I've never found it to be useful), and I haven't tested BtQ yet, but I will once I pick up a pair of them. I haven't tested out Sudden Spoiling yet either, but I've been in many situations where I wish I had it, so it's going in the board for sure for me.
EDIT: Oh, I don't see any reason to use Corrosive Mentor, either, the BB tokens do a fine job of stalling without wither, and running the mentor means you need to stall for longer to actually draw your useful spells (drawing the mentor means you didn't draw the card you were stalling for in the first place).
I like corrupt because its a very good finisher, but i just want to see 1 in each game, nameless inversion > terror, now with all those b/u b/r etc, terror would be a dead card in your hand, in many games, i dont like heart/mind stone, because it is just not nesecary.
Epochrasite? i have tested it a lot of times, and it is just to slow for me, i preffer a removal instead. Loxodon warhammer its no longer good, BTQ and bitterblossom are a must in MBC and to win you dont need nothing else than demigod, korlash, corrupt and profane.
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All comes down to who's playing what against you. If you have a lot of Doran in your meta being piloted by better players, Deathmark. Lots of lark, stupor/extirpate/'seize.
Lots of faeries... Plague Wind??? I hate fae...
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Your call. MBC as far as I know is VERY mana-hungry.
With a good shuffle of your deck, drawing, and with korlash, those mana slot could give you more space in the MD to other cards,specially in a deck that need to have more removal than mana, for the metagame in standard.
Epochrasite? i have tested it a lot of times, and it is just to slow for me, i preffer a removal instead. Loxodon warhammer its no longer good, BTQ and bitterblossom are a must in MBC and to win you dont need nothing else than demigod, korlash, corrupt and profane.
I don't agree. Loxodon Warhammer wins games. You would be foolish to not run at least 1 if your running BtQ. Hammer + BB is the way I win almost 65% of my games, the other games Demigod usually brings home.
Corrupt also isn't as good as we all want it to be.... but without Cabal Coffers, Dark Ritual and Cabal Ritual it's just to little to late most of the time. Against aggro it's a dead card until turn 4 minimum and on turn 6 you should be winning with either a Demigod + Warhammer or Korlash or a nice big Profane Command. I usually stare at Corrupt in my hand and wish it was just a Tendrils.
I also don't agree that Nameless Inversion > Terror. Sorry. Terror kills stuff dead... Nameless doesn't kill Goyf most of the time and it just feeds it instead. Terror on the other hand says DIE! Which in my opinion is better. Also with terror you can be sure that your not going to be scammed by Giant Growth as a response.
I agree on every point, with possible exception to Extirpate (might just be my meta, but I've never found it to be useful), and I haven't tested BtQ yet, but I will once I pick up a pair of them. I haven't tested out Sudden Spoiling yet either, but I've been in many situations where I wish I had it, so it's going in the board for sure for me.
EDIT: Oh, I don't see any reason to use Corrosive Mentor, either, the BB tokens do a fine job of stalling without wither, and running the mentor means you need to stall for longer to actually draw your useful spells (drawing the mentor means you didn't draw the card you were stalling for in the first place).
The mentor just makes them able to actually kill big things. Thats not useful at all.
Seriously though a lot of games the only early game stall you have is BB (Dusk Urchins is only good for two blocks, MAX), I'd much rather have tokens that whittle down the creatures you are chumping. He also helps against persist, which can be annoying.
I don't agree. Loxodon Warhammer wins games. You would be foolish to not run at least 1 if your running BtQ. Hammer + BB is the way I win almost 65% of my games, the other games Demigod usually brings home.
Corrupt also isn't as good as we all want it to be.... but without Cabal Coffers, Dark Ritual and Cabal Ritual it's just to little to late most of the time. Against aggro it's a dead card until turn 4 minimum and on turn 6 you should be winning with either a Demigod + Warhammer or Korlash or a nice big Profane Command. I usually stare at Corrupt in my hand and wish it was just a Tendrils.
I also don't agree that Nameless Inversion > Terror. Sorry. Terror kills stuff dead... Nameless doesn't kill Goyf most of the time and it just feeds it instead. Terror on the other hand says DIE! Which in my opinion is better. Also with terror you can be sure that your not going to be scammed by Giant Growth as a response.
About loxodon, first you need 1 turn to play it, second you need almost another whole turn to equip the hammer, and what if your creature gets bounced, or killed, or removed from the game? I preffer to play another profane command to give korlash or demigod fear.
And an other bad thing it's that if the oponnet sideboared everlasting torment, or artifact destroy(very common now) we are also playing a very weak card.
It is true that corrupt is not as good as before, but you can hit the oponnent with it, and sometimes in the game that more usefull than to target a creature, anyway corrupt gives you the option to choose what to do.
Nameless inversion is not a great card, but terror is as good or as bad than N.I. The difference is that with terror you cant kill black, or indestructible things and in treefolks are a lot of those and now that black is comming back i see alot of problems with terror.
In the other hand you are right about the bad things with N.I but IMO nameless is more fuctional.
About loxodon, first you need 1 turn to play it, second you need almost another whole turn to equip the hammer, and what if your creature gets bounced, or killed, or removed from the game? I preffer to play another profane command to give korlash or demigod fear.
And an other bad thing it's that if the oponnet sideboared everlasting torment, or artifact destroy(very common now) we are also playing a very weak card.
It is true that corrupt is not as good as before, but you can hit the oponnent with it, and sometimes in the game that more usefull than to target a creature, anyway corrupt gives you the option to choose what to do.
Nameless inversion is not a great card, but terror is as good or as bad than N.I. The difference is that with terror you cant kill black, or indestructible things and in treefolks are a lot of those and now that black is comming back i see alot of problems with terror.
In the other hand you are right about the bad things with N.I but IMO nameless is more fuctional.
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Inversion vs. Terror is very much a meta call at this point, I think. Personally, I'm going to be running Terror. Warhammer is still an amazing card for this deck. You just have to know when to play it instead of removal or a creature.
About loxodon, first you need 1 turn to play it, second you need almost another whole turn to equip the hammer, and what if your creature gets bounced, or killed, or removed from the game? I preffer to play another profane command to give korlash or demigod fear.
And an other bad thing it's that if the oponnet sideboared everlasting torment, or artifact destroy(very common now) we are also playing a very weak card.
It is true that corrupt is not as good as before, but you can hit the oponnent with it, and sometimes in the game that more usefull than to target a creature, anyway corrupt gives you the option to choose what to do.
Nameless inversion is not a great card, but terror is as good or as bad than N.I. The difference is that with terror you cant kill black, or indestructible things and in treefolks are a lot of those and now that black is comming back i see alot of problems with terror.
In the other hand you are right about the bad things with N.I but IMO nameless is more fuctional.
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lol, warhammer has undeniable game winning effects, its most useful partner is actually Bitterblossom, it is one way to make those tokens deadly to a lot more creatures. Thus saving you the need to use removal. Plus with BB its not as if you're going to be without a creature.
About loxodon, first you need 1 turn to play it, second you need almost another whole turn to equip the hammer, and what if your creature gets bounced, or killed, or removed from the game? I preffer to play another profane command to give korlash or demigod fear.
And an other bad thing it's that if the oponnet sideboared everlasting torment, or artifact destroy(very common now) we are also playing a very weak card.
It is true that corrupt is not as good as before, but you can hit the oponnent with it, and sometimes in the game that more usefull than to target a creature, anyway corrupt gives you the option to choose what to do.
Nameless inversion is not a great card, but terror is as good or as bad than N.I. The difference is that with terror you cant kill black, or indestructible things and in treefolks are a lot of those and now that black is comming back i see alot of problems with terror.
In the other hand you are right about the bad things with N.I but IMO nameless is more fuctional.
PD: sorry if my english sucks lol
I guess I like Terror because the most popular decks right now are RDW/MRB/Gruul and G/w Aggro and those are the decks that Terror is most effective and this deck has problems with those decks. Nameless isn't going to kill 1 thing in the G/w aggro lists.
And as for Loxodon Warhammer it is meant to be played on turn 5 or 6 when you can cast+equip on whatever. Of course during the second game they are going to bring in torment or artifact kill, so you SB it out and they have 4+ useless cards in their deck while you only took out 1 good card for another good card. It's called strategy and Hammer is always a good win condition in this deck. Ask anyone who has played this deck for longer than a month. Nobody here would drop them altogether but everyone seems to agree that 1 MD if your running BtQ is great.
Also I just think I came up with some cool tech. Let's say on turn3 you NEED to kill something and you only have 3 land and BtQ is in hand.... search for Slaughter Pact. It kills something and you should have the mana to pay for it on your next turn. Hopefully you already have BitterAwesome out though so your still doing something on your turn4.
An other question guys, why dont you like scarscale ritual? i have not seen any deck here with another card to draw than urchins, and S. ritual can be used it a faerie or in urchins, or even in a huge korlash.
An other question guys, why dont you like scarscale ritual? i have not seen any deck here with another card to draw than urchins, and S. ritual can be used it a faerie or in urchins, or even in a huge korlash.
It's not played because of the 10% of the time that the spell is a dead card in your hand and can't be played. In a competitive deck dead cards are bad things to hold in your hand. That's why most of us don't run it. I did test it and I liked it when it worked... but when it didn't work I got over the card and tested BtQ which is almost never really a dead card.
If your having luck with Scarscale Ritual then by all means run it. I like it and it has great synergy with Urchins. Personally though I like the way my deck is running right now, I went undefeated against 3 U/b Faerie decks, 1 G/w aggro, and I went 2-1 in the finals against a G/b/r LD aggro deck that was surprisingly good and original (it ran Bitterblossom and Shared Animosity as a win condition). So I got first place Friday.
An other question guys, why dont you like scarscale ritual? i have not seen any deck here with another card to draw than urchins, and S. ritual can be used it a faerie or in urchins, or even in a huge korlash.
We don't use it mainly because there is not room, there is so much we want to include.
Second, sometimes it is just not dependable. BtQ can always get you what you need, provided that you have enough lands.
Hmmm you are right, but i still like it and i have never lose a game by having a s.ritual in my hand.
Sudden spoiling its also a very good card, and i think it is a must in MD but use that instead of ritual? both can be dead cards and both can be the answer to different problems.
Terror is pretty good against it, but against Sower of Temptation, nothing beats Sudden Death (because you want to MAKE SURE that bastard is DEAD).
Of course, with Scion of Oona out, you need to Damnation (or kill everything one by one, which normally isn't feasible) which is unfortunate (killing your own wincon... hopefully it was Demigod they stole). Of course, with Demigod's haste, it is attacking you NOW, not waiting around like Korlash... but at least it SHOULD be tapped.
How I wish we had some way of giving our guys shroud at a reasonable price. Or protection from blue.
But, I have found that Bitterblossom is a good card versus Sower of Temptation. Block the sower, block the tempted, buy you time to find your answer.
On another note, I really really really think everyone should be playing Epochrasite in this deck. It is one of our only early early plays, it blocks, it attacks with warhammer, it comes back from death (and bigger, not smaller, stupid persist!) - it slices, it dices!
It has proven itself to me time and again, and I really think you guys should give it a fair shake.
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Instead of blocking early, you can play eot removal on that creature. and by the time epoc is back in track, you should have enough mana to power out your beasts (after a Damnation on the previous turn) also.
1) Screw Corrupt, it's a game winner but it is so dang expensive and with the metagame being at the fastest I've seen since Affinity, then it should just be Tendrils of Corruption.
2) Corrosive Mentor, I've given some thought to the card mainly because BB tokens become alot better as chump blockers... but I can't find room for it. So maybe after TSP block rotates I might make him the slots that Korlash will leave in the deck.
3) I believe from testing that Epochrasite is better than Heart/Mindstone acceleration.
4) If your going to play MBC competitively right now you need to make room for Sudden Spoiling. The card rocks in almost every matchup. This last weekend I even used it to shrink a Deus of Calamity so some tokens could kill it.
5) Terror > Nameless Inversion > Shriekmaw
6) Thoughtseize + Extirpate against control is really a must have in the SB.
7) I like Midnight Banshee, but I don't like it's mana cost. It doesn't seem like a competitive geared card because by the time it starts to hand out -1/-1 counters it's already turn 6-7 and against the decks it would hurt your already going to lose.
8) Run BtQ or I will eat your babies!!
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I hope he had some swamps in play, as the Korlash would have died (or you had Urborg). That has happened to me quite a few times - I never even get a chance to take it back by removing the Sower
Anyway, I really enjoy playing this deck. Went 3-1 in a local tourney, beating RG Manaramp, BGW Doran and Reveillark. Lost to a really strange kithkin deck that ran multiple Door of Destinies, though:-/
Thanks to Blurrycloud for the sig!
Let's see.
Turn 4 they play Sower, you kill it.
Turn 5 You play Clique it takes a Sower and snags something else and you swing with them having one less chump to block with.
A very situational play and I won't make room for it, but I can have daydreams where I laugh in the face of a Faerie player right?
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Just wanted to second this so people can understand how slow and useless Corrupt is compared to running just about anything else.
Or distress for us poorer folk.
I want to have babies WITH BtQ, mmmm.
Me to! At the moment only one guy plays faeries in my meta, unfortunately he is used to taking abuse of that kind so I dont think he will be changing any time soon.
I agree on every point, with possible exception to Extirpate (might just be my meta, but I've never found it to be useful), and I haven't tested BtQ yet, but I will once I pick up a pair of them. I haven't tested out Sudden Spoiling yet either, but I've been in many situations where I wish I had it, so it's going in the board for sure for me.
EDIT: Oh, I don't see any reason to use Corrosive Mentor, either, the BB tokens do a fine job of stalling without wither, and running the mentor means you need to stall for longer to actually draw your useful spells (drawing the mentor means you didn't draw the card you were stalling for in the first place).
2 Leechridden Swap
3 Demigod of revenge
4 Korlash
4 Dusk Urchins
3 Scarscale Ritual
4 Tendrils of Corruption
4 Nameless Inversion
3 Damnation
4 Bitterblossom
2 Corrupt
3 Beseech the queen
3 Profane Command
3 Extirpate
2 Loxodon Warhammer
4 Deathmark
3 Pitting Needdle
I like corrupt because its a very good finisher, but i just want to see 1 in each game, nameless inversion > terror, now with all those b/u b/r etc, terror would be a dead card in your hand, in many games, i dont like heart/mind stone, because it is just not nesecary.
Epochrasite? i have tested it a lot of times, and it is just to slow for me, i preffer a removal instead. Loxodon warhammer its no longer good, BTQ and bitterblossom are a must in MBC and to win you dont need nothing else than demigod, korlash, corrupt and profane.
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Lots of faeries... Plague Wind??? I hate fae...
My sideboard right now looks like
2 Rite of Consumption
4 Extirpate
2 Tombstalker
3 Random Cards.
Currently trying to discover the quickest way to get the opponent from 20 to 0.
With 23 and the draw that i have its more than enought IMO
Yah, I'm going to 25 lands for sure.
With a good shuffle of your deck, drawing, and with korlash, those mana slot could give you more space in the MD to other cards,specially in a deck that need to have more removal than mana, for the metagame in standard.
I don't agree. Loxodon Warhammer wins games. You would be foolish to not run at least 1 if your running BtQ. Hammer + BB is the way I win almost 65% of my games, the other games Demigod usually brings home.
Corrupt also isn't as good as we all want it to be.... but without Cabal Coffers, Dark Ritual and Cabal Ritual it's just to little to late most of the time. Against aggro it's a dead card until turn 4 minimum and on turn 6 you should be winning with either a Demigod + Warhammer or Korlash or a nice big Profane Command. I usually stare at Corrupt in my hand and wish it was just a Tendrils.
I also don't agree that Nameless Inversion > Terror. Sorry. Terror kills stuff dead... Nameless doesn't kill Goyf most of the time and it just feeds it instead. Terror on the other hand says DIE! Which in my opinion is better. Also with terror you can be sure that your not going to be scammed by Giant Growth as a response.
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The mentor just makes them able to actually kill big things. Thats not useful at all.
Seriously though a lot of games the only early game stall you have is BB (Dusk Urchins is only good for two blocks, MAX), I'd much rather have tokens that whittle down the creatures you are chumping. He also helps against persist, which can be annoying.
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About loxodon, first you need 1 turn to play it, second you need almost another whole turn to equip the hammer, and what if your creature gets bounced, or killed, or removed from the game? I preffer to play another profane command to give korlash or demigod fear.
And an other bad thing it's that if the oponnet sideboared everlasting torment, or artifact destroy(very common now) we are also playing a very weak card.
It is true that corrupt is not as good as before, but you can hit the oponnent with it, and sometimes in the game that more usefull than to target a creature, anyway corrupt gives you the option to choose what to do.
Nameless inversion is not a great card, but terror is as good or as bad than N.I. The difference is that with terror you cant kill black, or indestructible things and in treefolks are a lot of those and now that black is comming back i see alot of problems with terror.
In the other hand you are right about the bad things with N.I but IMO nameless is more fuctional.
PD: sorry if my english sucks lol
Inversion vs. Terror is very much a meta call at this point, I think. Personally, I'm going to be running Terror. Warhammer is still an amazing card for this deck. You just have to know when to play it instead of removal or a creature.
lol, warhammer has undeniable game winning effects, its most useful partner is actually Bitterblossom, it is one way to make those tokens deadly to a lot more creatures. Thus saving you the need to use removal. Plus with BB its not as if you're going to be without a creature.
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I guess I like Terror because the most popular decks right now are RDW/MRB/Gruul and G/w Aggro and those are the decks that Terror is most effective and this deck has problems with those decks. Nameless isn't going to kill 1 thing in the G/w aggro lists.
And as for Loxodon Warhammer it is meant to be played on turn 5 or 6 when you can cast+equip on whatever. Of course during the second game they are going to bring in torment or artifact kill, so you SB it out and they have 4+ useless cards in their deck while you only took out 1 good card for another good card. It's called strategy and Hammer is always a good win condition in this deck. Ask anyone who has played this deck for longer than a month. Nobody here would drop them altogether but everyone seems to agree that 1 MD if your running BtQ is great.
Also I just think I came up with some cool tech. Let's say on turn3 you NEED to kill something and you only have 3 land and BtQ is in hand.... search for Slaughter Pact. It kills something and you should have the mana to pay for it on your next turn. Hopefully you already have BitterAwesome out though so your still doing something on your turn4.
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An other question guys, why dont you like scarscale ritual? i have not seen any deck here with another card to draw than urchins, and S. ritual can be used it a faerie or in urchins, or even in a huge korlash.
It's not played because of the 10% of the time that the spell is a dead card in your hand and can't be played. In a competitive deck dead cards are bad things to hold in your hand. That's why most of us don't run it. I did test it and I liked it when it worked... but when it didn't work I got over the card and tested BtQ which is almost never really a dead card.
If your having luck with Scarscale Ritual then by all means run it. I like it and it has great synergy with Urchins. Personally though I like the way my deck is running right now, I went undefeated against 3 U/b Faerie decks, 1 G/w aggro, and I went 2-1 in the finals against a G/b/r LD aggro deck that was surprisingly good and original (it ran Bitterblossom and Shared Animosity as a win condition). So I got first place Friday.
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We don't use it mainly because there is not room, there is so much we want to include.
Second, sometimes it is just not dependable. BtQ can always get you what you need, provided that you have enough lands.
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Sudden spoiling its also a very good card, and i think it is a must in MD but use that instead of ritual? both can be dead cards and both can be the answer to different problems.
PD: Here is a link to an other cool page about MBC, i hope this can help in the development of this type of deck, and i wish to see MBC been a tier 1 deck very soon! http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1017736&page=8