GAT doesn't need to bother answering Leyline, the only thing it affects is will. Ichorid uses Chain of Vapor, Emerald Charm or Reverent Silence, as mentioned above.
Chain of Vapor is a monster against Leyline. Also, Echoing Truth is popular. Essentially, any blue bounce spell is pretty hot. I suggest checking out different GAT builds and looking at individual cards within these builds that focus on returning or destroying permanents.
GAT doesn't need to bother answering Leyline, the only thing it affects is will. Ichorid uses Chain of Vapor, Emerald Charm or Reverent Silence, as mentioned above.
And the 'Tog. I haven't yet killed with the 'Tog where I didn't need the cards in my 'yard to get him big enough.
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Tarm is very popular because of Stax and other aggro builds. They don't need nurturing, unlike Dryad.
Also, the above is correct... to stop LLoTV you have a solid compliment of bounce (echoing truth, chain of vapor, emerald charm, etc...), atleast in your SB (why some decks run 1-2 cunning wish.. which allows u to nab berserk also).
Leyline is a terribly bad card against Gat, comparatively. Granted, it stops leyline and slows down tog, but seriously, if you are in a position to win, you usually have access to bounce if REALLY need it, and more importantly the card is doing extremely little against you until that point, essentially giving you instant card advantage if they have it in the opener, and a fairly substantial card quality advantage considering they will have 3-4 dead cards floating around in their hand/deck while you are actually winning.
Against Ichorid this is much different. Silence is probably your best weapon in a manaless build.
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~Chain of Vapor
~Echoing Truth
~Emerald Charm
~Reverent Silence
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Modern:
In testing
And the 'Tog. I haven't yet killed with the 'Tog where I didn't need the cards in my 'yard to get him big enough.
I thought GAT cut tog for Goyf.
Tog + 2 Gushes usually ends up being game over.
Tarm is very popular because of Stax and other aggro builds. They don't need nurturing, unlike Dryad.
Also, the above is correct... to stop LLoTV you have a solid compliment of bounce (echoing truth, chain of vapor, emerald charm, etc...), atleast in your SB (why some decks run 1-2 cunning wish.. which allows u to nab berserk also).
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Against Ichorid this is much different. Silence is probably your best weapon in a manaless build.
Except that it requires you to control a forest in order for its alternate cost to be used... which, considering the manaless build....
That's what Dryad Arbor is for.