To cast a GG card reliably on turn 2, you need 20 sources of green, on turn 3 it's 18 sources and on turn 4 it's 16. Playing that card is risky, and you are generally better served by Nihil Spellbomb, Surgical Extraction, or Extirpate.
Yeah, those mana bases seem very greedy indeed! You'll probably be forced to FoR turn 3 to fix your colors (which is the earliest you can), so you can forget about Lily. And you better hope you're not playing a mono-colored deck or a Blood Moon deck that is only fetching basics!
I'm counting 16 black sources for Pockerwizard's deck and 15 for David Daniel's deck, so that's 88% and 84% chances of having Lily mana on turn 3, but it's 95% and 92.5% on turn 4. Chances are David is using turn 3 to FoR the opponent.
I'm not willing to go to 4 FoR for mana consistency issues, but given this weekend's results, I'm thinking of going down to 17 black sources, and running the third Treetop village over the 2nd Hissing Quagmire.
Moved to Established - Midrange. We now have three threads for all BG/x flavours. See here for the Abzan Primer, here for the Jund Primer, and please post in this thread for all straight BG deck things.
Rock on!
Sultai would like a word, preferably in a dark alleyway somewhere.
To cast a GG card reliably on turn 2, you need 20 sources of green, on turn 3 it's 18 sources and on turn 4 it's 16. Playing that card is risky, and you are generally better served by Nihil Spellbomb, Surgical Extraction, or Extirpate.
WBC Eldrazi & Taxes CBW
UR Keep on Cantripin' (UR Phoenix) RU
WU Surprise! It's not UW Control! (UW Midrange) UW
BG The Rock, Straight BG
U Mono-Blue Fish U
RBW Mardu Pyromancer BWR
RG Rabble! Rabble! (GR Blood Moon Aggro) GR
Legacy
W Death & Taxes W
I'm counting 16 black sources for Pockerwizard's deck and 15 for David Daniel's deck, so that's 88% and 84% chances of having Lily mana on turn 3, but it's 95% and 92.5% on turn 4. Chances are David is using turn 3 to FoR the opponent.
I'm not willing to go to 4 FoR for mana consistency issues, but given this weekend's results, I'm thinking of going down to 17 black sources, and running the third Treetop village over the 2nd Hissing Quagmire.
WBC Eldrazi & Taxes CBW
UR Keep on Cantripin' (UR Phoenix) RU
WU Surprise! It's not UW Control! (UW Midrange) UW
BG The Rock, Straight BG
U Mono-Blue Fish U
RBW Mardu Pyromancer BWR
RG Rabble! Rabble! (GR Blood Moon Aggro) GR
Legacy
W Death & Taxes W
Sultai would like a word, preferably in a dark alleyway somewhere.
Joking aside, nice primer.
WBC Eldrazi & Taxes CBW
UR Keep on Cantripin' (UR Phoenix) RU
WU Surprise! It's not UW Control! (UW Midrange) UW
BG The Rock, Straight BG
U Mono-Blue Fish U
RBW Mardu Pyromancer BWR
RG Rabble! Rabble! (GR Blood Moon Aggro) GR
Legacy
W Death & Taxes W