Yeah, its a good idea, but its gonna fail.
I've lurked for a long time, and I read your blog a lot man. In fact, its really the only reason I go on the blogs. Keep up the good ****ing work.
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Ha, true. I'd still like to hear options though, especially since most of my games will be local.
For other posters: Eldrazi are also mostly nonexistent locally.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a different deck, preferably with a decent matchup against Tron and Scapeshift? I'd prefer it to not be straight up aggro, heck I would greatly enjoy control but it doesn't seem very viable. Well, Jund seems good, but I don't want to spend over 1k on a deck.
One thing that I don't understand, though, is the choice between 2-4 Noble Hierarchs. Is there a major drawback to running 4? Is 2 not enough? I'm curious to hear the reasoning behind the choice.
The same goes for Viscera Seer and running 3 versus 4. I had always assumed that maxing on combo pieces was the correct choice; why is that different here?
Also, has the Archangel + spike feeder combo fallen out of favor as a backup?
Which decks should I be looking at? I plan to use this deck as mostly a stepping stone to slowly building a more expensive deck, but I also want something playable as is. Merfolk was my first guess, but I worry about matchups; my local meta has elves as a prominent deck, although the other two main decks (show and tell + miracles) seem to be a solid matchup for merfolk.
I typically enjoy playing control and tempo, but aggro with control elements is fine too. Dredge doesn't seem to be my cup of tea, too.
What's funny to me is that I already started this process right before eternal masters got announced, heh. So that's obviously a factor; wastelands will be cheaper for sure when the set drops.
You're at the point now where the cheap mass card draw only gets less optimal than what you already have.
I agree that Doomsday is the type of deck the RC should not care about (that's a different topic), but I used it as an example of a deck that "abused" the PP while being mostly unchanged when the mulligan swapped over.
Isn't part of the fun of edh big, flashy spells? Every casual player I've met loves to jam tons of fun, high-costed spells into their decks. PP helps enable that behavior, and it also helps ensure people have early game plays despite having big spells.
Overall, in my meta the vancouver has only made the opening hands more swingy, especially regarding colors. Sure you can run more cipt lands if you're in 3 colors, but you shouldn't be forced into choosing between slow lands or a thousand dollar investment for a good manabase.
Anyway, yeah I enjoyed Toxic Deluge when I ran it; it's a less mana and color-intensive Damnation that costs life. However, I had the same issue with Deluge that I had with Delver: life being limited in the long run. It was even worse for me since I run Necropotence.
Obviously for clearing out small creatures, life's not a problem.
As for Bring to Light, I don't personally think we have enough 5-color sources to make it consistently hit 5.
What did I tell ya?
@kvothe: Not too many good decks, from what I could tell. Saw a neat Ally deck that had an infinite mana engine, that was impressive. Other than that, no real challenge.
By the way, I'll likely be taking Tasigur to the gp this weekend. Should be fun. Afterwards I'll be taking a break from the deck and building Zur, but I'll be back testing Tasigur eventually. Plus I'll keep posting here.