I'm running a casual Savra recursion deck in a fairly casual playgroup. Nobody's loading up on graveyard hate or anything, but a few people have a card or two, and I'm looking for a way to deal with it. I'm not doing anything too abusive with my recursion - no reanimating giant monsters or anything like that.
I'm pretty unfamiliar with cards older than Time Spiral (and may have missed cards since then, too) - I do have Mirrodin/Ravnica cards and some older Ice Age-era cards. I'm looking for a clever solution or something, e.g. letting me use those exiled cards as a resource, but have come up empty. I'm worried that I'm going to need to brute force this by just bringing up the card quality in my deck, but I'd rather avoid having to go add Necropotence or start using Strands of Night to reanimate Ulamog. I'd also prefer not having to ask my playgroup not to run GY hate against me, or doing something really unfun like Bitter Ordeal for the GY hate of every deck at the table.
Ground Seal is one that could be useful, although it prevents you from targeting anything as well.
Null Rod and Damping Matrix are cards that effectively shut down things like Tormod's Crypt, Relic of Progenitus, Phyrexian Furnace and are just about the best anti-graveyard hate cards out there in my opinion. Here's to hoping that Wizards makes more because we are sorely lacking in that department.
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Outside of situational cards like Riftsweeper and the artifact graveyard hate hosers like Null Rod and Dampening Matrix, there aren't a whole lot of cards that can outright prevent or reverse graveyard hate. The main thing to keep in mind is not to overextend your graveyard so a huge chunk of it gets exiled to a Relic or Crypt. Much like how aggro decks wouldn't want to overextend into a sweeper, it's important not to overextend with your graveyard and dump all your resources there in one sitting.
It's unfortunate and I have been having the same problem. But, depending on the deck it might be worth running a Feldon's Cane. When they nuke your yard you can just start over with all the cards in your deck...maybe?
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Best of which i think is the elixer. I've been meaning to fit it in. It's gain 5 which helps when you have to use savra, and it shuffles all my tutors back in. Not bad
Much like how aggro decks wouldn't want to overextend into a sweeper, it's important not to overextend with your graveyard and dump all your resources there in one sitting.
This is the best advice you'll find concerning your question. I played a lot of situationally good cards like Stifle, Trickbind, and Voidmage Husher in my Hanna deck for a while before just deciding that playing smart with my grave was the best way to go.
Don't get me wrong, the cards I listed are all great (and will almost always have good targets) - and Bind is way cool (I'd play it in most green decks) - but just avoiding overextension unless you absolutely need it is always the best way to go.
I'm pretty unfamiliar with cards older than Time Spiral (and may have missed cards since then, too) - I do have Mirrodin/Ravnica cards and some older Ice Age-era cards. I'm looking for a clever solution or something, e.g. letting me use those exiled cards as a resource, but have come up empty. I'm worried that I'm going to need to brute force this by just bringing up the card quality in my deck, but I'd rather avoid having to go add Necropotence or start using Strands of Night to reanimate Ulamog. I'd also prefer not having to ask my playgroup not to run GY hate against me, or doing something really unfun like Bitter Ordeal for the GY hate of every deck at the table.
Null Rod and Damping Matrix are cards that effectively shut down things like Tormod's Crypt, Relic of Progenitus, Phyrexian Furnace and are just about the best anti-graveyard hate cards out there in my opinion. Here's to hoping that Wizards makes more because we are sorely lacking in that department.
Ground Seal won't work because it shuts off my own deck.
Stifle, for one thing.
Stifle, Trickbind, Voidslime, True Believer, Leyline of Sanctity, Willbender ... yeah no way to stop it.
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It's unfortunate and I have been having the same problem. But, depending on the deck it might be worth running a Feldon's Cane. When they nuke your yard you can just start over with all the cards in your deck...maybe?
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Jester's Cap works.
and acts without effort.
Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
the Sage has nothing to lose.
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but really i think Elixir of Immortality, Feldon's Cane, Thran Foundry, Darksteel Colossus + eldrazi titans
Best of which i think is the elixer. I've been meaning to fit it in. It's gain 5 which helps when you have to use savra, and it shuffles all my tutors back in. Not bad
This is the best advice you'll find concerning your question. I played a lot of situationally good cards like Stifle, Trickbind, and Voidmage Husher in my Hanna deck for a while before just deciding that playing smart with my grave was the best way to go.
Don't get me wrong, the cards I listed are all great (and will almost always have good targets) - and Bind is way cool (I'd play it in most green decks) - but just avoiding overextension unless you absolutely need it is always the best way to go.
Other strat is to use any instant speed discard effects like Greater Good with the remaining two eldrazi legends.