I think Dromar's excellent post from February last year still stands.
I'm an avid Stompy player, but I've been fairly unhappy with the deck's performance - especially against a field of Hexproof, UR Fiend, Elves & Affinity. The decline of Delver has been a big problem, as it was such a good match up for us.
It feels like Stompy doesn't quite have the tools it needs out of the sideboard: an instant speed fight effect @ 1 mana would be wonderful.
WR Rally can be dicey unless they get clunky draws, and Prismatic Strands out of the sideboard (or, Moment's Peace from Tron) is very, very difficult to get through before they stabalise.
From the UB side of things, I still feel favoured - unless they get off a Crypt Incursion, and then things are dicier: Mongrel is worth it's weight in gold in terms of dodging Evincar's Justice however.
Affinity *can* stumble, but I never feel like it does versus me - Convoked Sabotage never seems as backbreaking as it should be, and we suffer from not having access to Mox Monkey.
Whilst I'm not huge on Vault Skirge, I think it's a necessity to hedge some of our poorer match ups.
I'm still impressed with Wild Mongrel, but it does lose some of it's edge in a Bolt/Blast heavy meta.
I run a pretty similar list, but go for Nest Invader over Elite for it's synergies with Bonesplitter/Skirge/Howlpack, and play a maindeck Shinen as an out to a stalled boardstate.
I'm an avid Stompy player, but I've been fairly unhappy with the deck's performance - especially against a field of Hexproof, UR Fiend, Elves & Affinity. The decline of Delver has been a big problem, as it was such a good match up for us.
It feels like Stompy doesn't quite have the tools it needs out of the sideboard: an instant speed fight effect @ 1 mana would be wonderful.
WR Rally can be dicey unless they get clunky draws, and Prismatic Strands out of the sideboard (or, Moment's Peace from Tron) is very, very difficult to get through before they stabalise.
From the UB side of things, I still feel favoured - unless they get off a Crypt Incursion, and then things are dicier: Mongrel is worth it's weight in gold in terms of dodging Evincar's Justice however.
Affinity *can* stumble, but I never feel like it does versus me - Convoked Sabotage never seems as backbreaking as it should be, and we suffer from not having access to Mox Monkey.
Whilst I'm not huge on Vault Skirge, I think it's a necessity to hedge some of our poorer match ups.
I'm still impressed with Wild Mongrel, but it does lose some of it's edge in a Bolt/Blast heavy meta.
I run a pretty similar list, but go for Nest Invader over Elite for it's synergies with Bonesplitter/Skirge/Howlpack, and play a maindeck Shinen as an out to a stalled boardstate.