I've actually come to think taxes is one of my more favorable matchups. I cut some pacts, relics and explores and bring in sweepers, dismembers, and all lower-drop creatures i have. Kill leonin arbiter on-sight and try to get as many lands on the board as quickly as possible. Amulet is also very important in this matchup, as sometimes they do have land disruption-heavy starts and Azusa + amulet is your best way out of that. EE and ballista are also great against them. I've had taxes players get so traumatized by them that they brought in stony silence.
Against the eldrazi version, dismembers are great. I also play an ancient grudge, which is awesome if they have vial and tidehollow sculler and occasionally golem tokens from blade splicer. Thragtusk is always great against eldrazi decks as well.
Hey fellow Amulet players! I've been lurking for a while and finally decided to contribute. I just 5-0'd an MTGO competitive league with Amulet. I heard some of you talking about running relic of progenitus, so I tried out 2 in the main deck, cutting 1 serum visions and my spell pierce. They were pretty great. They were relevant against, grixis, vizier combo, and the snapcaster decks I played against. I think I will keep them in for now, but I definitely need more time to test them out.
Hey all, I'm new to this sub, but not to Amulet. I have it built both online and in paper and enjoy it quite a bit, although I'm not sure if I'm confident enough to take it to a competitive event over all the other options I have in paper. The current list I'm in a league with is this: http://imgur.com/a/KhVme I had to make some concessions due to limited mtgo funds, like no second EE and no Ballista. I've never really been that happy with tracker, but I've also not been able to find a suitable replacement. I'm definitely feeling the loss of diversity of threats as I got hit with a Lost Legacy in the first round of my league (although his vault of the archangel + souls tokens was making any number of threats without trample pretty ineffectual). I still took the match, but it was clear that a value threat is definitely needed and tracker is probably that card so I will have to put them back in next league. Of course, as soon as I move to the Grove/Relic build I stop facing GY based strategies....I really love how many lines we have (especially with ballista in the list =/ ) and how often our opponents don't know how to make the correct plays against the deck.. Anyways, I just wanted to introduce myself (online tag dmk510) and say I play on putting in more reps with this deck and hopefully can add some valuable content to this page. See ya'll online!
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I've actually come to think taxes is one of my more favorable matchups. I cut some pacts, relics and explores and bring in sweepers, dismembers, and all lower-drop creatures i have. Kill leonin arbiter on-sight and try to get as many lands on the board as quickly as possible. Amulet is also very important in this matchup, as sometimes they do have land disruption-heavy starts and Azusa + amulet is your best way out of that. EE and ballista are also great against them. I've had taxes players get so traumatized by them that they brought in stony silence.
Against the eldrazi version, dismembers are great. I also play an ancient grudge, which is awesome if they have vial and tidehollow sculler and occasionally golem tokens from blade splicer. Thragtusk is always great against eldrazi decks as well.
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