In case your wondering, I have lots of slow grind cards in the board because of match ups like Junk and Jund becoming popular. The metagame is shifting to midrange grind battles and I want to be prepared for it. Let me know which (2) of these (3) cards I should run in my sideboard. Jace, Architect of Thought, Sphinx's Revelation, or Keranos, God of Storms. Or, if you have a better midrange grind card in mind, also let me know. I might make room for 3 of these types of cards but I'm not sure yet.
Given those options I'd run Jace and Sphinx's Revelation. I'm not a fan of Keranos against BGx since he can rarely kill any creatures and is often just Bolting the opponent which is pretty slow. However, I would play Gideon Jura and/or Elspeth Knight-Errant over those. Those cards are insane against BGx, especially Jund. Gideon can just sit there removing creatures and Elspeth can't be profitably dealt with by BGx except by Maelstrom Pulse, Lingering Souls tokens, or Olivia Voldaren. With your deck I would probably lean towards Elspeth since it is sweet with Geist of Saint Traft and Gideon gets a lot better with hard counterspells or discard backing him up so he doesn't die to Path or Terminate when you attack with him.
Thanks for the input. I actually forgot about Gideon, but I do agree he is in a great spot right now. I wouldn't hate 1 Elspeth main board actually. She's only "bad" against infect and affinity really, but as a one-of I don't think it matters as bad. What card do you suggest removing from my sideboard for Gideon?
In case your wondering, I have lots of slow grind cards in the board because of match ups like Junk and Jund becoming popular. The metagame is shifting to midrange grind battles and I want to be prepared for it. Let me know which (2) of these (3) cards I should run in my sideboard. Jace, Architect of Thought, Sphinx's Revelation, or Keranos, God of Storms. Or, if you have a better midrange grind card in mind, also let me know. I might make room for 3 of these types of cards but I'm not sure yet.
Given those options I'd run Jace and Sphinx's Revelation. I'm not a fan of Keranos against BGx since he can rarely kill any creatures and is often just Bolting the opponent which is pretty slow. However, I would play Gideon Jura and/or Elspeth Knight-Errant over those. Those cards are insane against BGx, especially Jund. Gideon can just sit there removing creatures and Elspeth can't be profitably dealt with by BGx except by Maelstrom Pulse, Lingering Souls tokens, or Olivia Voldaren. With your deck I would probably lean towards Elspeth since it is sweet with Geist of Saint Traft and Gideon gets a lot better with hard counterspells or discard backing him up so he doesn't die to Path or Terminate when you attack with him.
I've been playing Elves and Grixis Delver mostly but slowly have been putting this deck together. This is my current list at the moment. So far I've beaten Grixis Delver and R/B Through the Breach deck. I might take a Sulfur Falls out and replace with Minamo, School at Water's Edge because its works quite nicely with Dragonlord Ojutai.
Any input or recommendations are welcomed!
How does Minamo, School at Water's Edge and dragonlord ojutai works? I mean when you attack with ojutai and tap it, if opponent played something to destroy it and you activate minamo, does the attack still goes through?
Of course. Untapping a creature doesn't remove it from combat.
what do we all think of Swans of bryn argoll its a 4/3 flyer that turns our bolts into ancestral recalland out helixes to sphynxes rev for 3
It seems worse than Restoration Angel and Lightning Angel since it also makes all of your opponent's red damage spells and flying blockers card-draw spells.
Well,it kills any thing equipped with cranial plating,or something (not darksteel citadel) enchanted with ensoul artifact. However, in that matchup, electrolyze shines over VS
Worth playing Valorous stance maindeck with all the troublesome BG/X stuff around?
I think that valorous stance is never a dead card,it saves geist, kills creatures with cranial plating, glistener elf bumped, spellskite, exarch..
Valorous Stance is definitely a good card and strong in many matchups, but it is dead against Affinity and Burn and only kills Deceiver Exarch against Twin, which can be problematic.
Stony Silence only delayed the inevitable overwhelming advantage Tron will have against us. This is one of the matchup i'm really concerned against because of how little our chances are with beating it. Any SB suggestions and importnat plays to consider and to discuss? I would like to hear the thoughts of the #teamgeist community. Thank uou in advance!
Kor Firewalker seems like the better choice for be because its incremental advantage, which is crucial in the matchup considering they have skullcrack / atarka's command postboard. Having them casting either in response to a timely is just super awkward for me. I prefer timely in the control version of UWR.
Thundermaw is fine as it is, at least he is able to wipe the board out of lingering souls in a whim. I'm testing Keranos and found it very powerful in the Junk matchup.
Is it really worth it to sideboard for the Tron matchup? I'd personally just hope to not get paired against it.
I actually played spellheart chimera in a UR delver list and it was crazy strong.
I honestly would suggest going back to WUR Delver until you get the Colonnades. With just 1 Colonnade and only 4 cards that cost more than 3 mana, it seems a lot worse than a WUR Delver deck would be.
Ral Zarek seems a lot worse than Ajani Vengeant, you don't seem to be running enough threats, and Forked Bolt doesn't seem great.
Ral did just fine but he might be wirse than ajani you are correct. There is a lot of infect in my meta so forked bolt is pretty necessary.
I wouldn't be that concerned about needing to kill 2 creatures at the same time against Infect. Also, why are you only running 7 threats? (Snapcaster Mage doesn't really count). You need more, especially without Colonnades.
I've found Cryptic Command to be strong in topdeck wars, tapping for getting Geist damage through, and plain strong permission/card advantage in general. Also cycling is nice. But it's hard on the manabase, I'd run at least 3 basic islands in the list. I'd run 2 Cryptics max, any more is clunky and too control-y. I'm not even convinced 2 is the right number in my list, might go down to 1 or 0. But so far it's been okay.
For 5 drops, Thundermaw Hellkite is strong in an Abzan heavy meta as is Batterskull. I've never tested Baneslayer Angel, but I'd imagine it's too vulnerable. No impact when it hits the board like Thundermaw and no persistency like Batterskull. But it could be really strong in the right meta. Just too vulnerable and slow for my tastes. Keranos, God of Storms can be good in the right situation, especially if you're maintaining tempo. Unfortunately, when you're behind, you generally stay behind which is why I don't like it at 5cmc.
Batterskull > Thundermaw > Baneslayer >= Keranos in my opinion, but it'll vary per list. Keranos is probably better in a more control-oriented list. So in the end it just sort of depends on what you're trying to do.
Why Thundermaw over Stormbreath Dragon? Stormbreath is stronger in grindy late-games due to Monstrous, can block Siege Rhino forever if necessary, and is immune to Path to Exile.
Not sure. Maybe the Jace or Revelation (or both)?
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Given those options I'd run Jace and Sphinx's Revelation. I'm not a fan of Keranos against BGx since he can rarely kill any creatures and is often just Bolting the opponent which is pretty slow. However, I would play Gideon Jura and/or Elspeth Knight-Errant over those. Those cards are insane against BGx, especially Jund. Gideon can just sit there removing creatures and Elspeth can't be profitably dealt with by BGx except by Maelstrom Pulse, Lingering Souls tokens, or Olivia Voldaren. With your deck I would probably lean towards Elspeth since it is sweet with Geist of Saint Traft and Gideon gets a lot better with hard counterspells or discard backing him up so he doesn't die to Path or Terminate when you attack with him.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Of course. Untapping a creature doesn't remove it from combat.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
In your deck it seems like Monastery Mentor dies very easily. Have you considered adding some more counterspells to help protect it?
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
It seems worse than Restoration Angel and Lightning Angel since it also makes all of your opponent's red damage spells and flying blockers card-draw spells.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
You should probably read Valorous Stance and Cranial Plating again.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Valorous Stance is definitely a good card and strong in many matchups, but it is dead against Affinity and Burn and only kills Deceiver Exarch against Twin, which can be problematic.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Is it really worth it to sideboard for the Tron matchup? I'd personally just hope to not get paired against it.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
That is definitely a possible option, especially if you are running 3-4 Restoration Angels.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
I honestly would suggest going back to WUR Delver until you get the Colonnades. With just 1 Colonnade and only 4 cards that cost more than 3 mana, it seems a lot worse than a WUR Delver deck would be.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
I'd try out Lightning Angel and Mantis Rider (depending on how many Lightning Bolt decks are in your meta). They are both a lot better than they look.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
I wouldn't be that concerned about needing to kill 2 creatures at the same time against Infect. Also, why are you only running 7 threats? (Snapcaster Mage doesn't really count). You need more, especially without Colonnades.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Ral Zarek seems a lot worse than Ajani Vengeant, you don't seem to be running enough threats, and Forked Bolt doesn't seem great.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Why Thundermaw over Stormbreath Dragon? Stormbreath is stronger in grindy late-games due to Monstrous, can block Siege Rhino forever if necessary, and is immune to Path to Exile.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Why would you sideboard Treasure Cruises?
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.