Welcome to MTGSalvation Block Situations! Each week, I'll post a topic pertaining to Block that the users of MTGSalvation can discuss. This isn't a contest and there aren't necessarily any right or wrong answers (Although some answers may be better then others ;)), just a good discussion.
Your opponent is apparently playing Rakdos. You both kept 7 card hands and you were on a play. You had a slow start with forest, plains, while he led off with a turn one Frenzied Goblin and a turn two Dark Confidant. Its your turn three. This is what the game looks like going into your first main phase:
You:
19 life
In play: Forest, Plains
In hand: Golgari Rot Farm, Plains, Civic Wayfinder, Mortify, Ghostway, Skeletal Vampire, Farseek
Opponent:
18 life
In play: Blood Crypt (Tapped), Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace (Tapped), Frenzied Goblin (Tapped) Dark Confidant
5 cards in hand
Civic Wayfinder. Even though he can be stopped from blocking, that'll require the use of at least the Blood Crypt, denying your opponent a crucial development mana to get three in. And if expanding is too important to him, he might not even attack, or you'll get to block.
Farseek-swamp, rotfarm ... right? Is there a right answer? Seems like since your hand doesnt have anything cheap and usefull off the bat, mana excel to get that Wayfinder out so that Ghostway is do-able.
Farseek-swamp, rotfarm ... right? Is there a right answer? Seems like since your hand doesnt have anything cheap and usefull off the bat, mana excel to get that Wayfinder out so that Ghostway is do-able.
Why not play the Wayfinder immediately, then? That's what everyone else has suggested.
I'd just play the Wayfinder right away and get the Swamp. Yes, the Goblin can keep the Wayfinder from blocking, but like Feuerdrache said, they'll have to tap the Crypt, which slows them down pretty good.
Welcome to MTGSalvation Block Situations! Each week, I'll post a topic pertaining to Block that the users of MTGSalvation can discuss. This isn't a contest and there aren't necessarily any right or wrong answers (Although some answers may be better then others ;)), just a good discussion.
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Week 1
This week, you are playing G/W/B control. Your decklist is:
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Temple Garden
4 Godless Shrine
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Orzhov Basilica
2 Forest
3 Plains
2 Swamp
2 Golgari Rot Farm
Creatures:
4 Angel of Despair
4 Loxodon Hierarch
3 Carven Caryatid
4 Civic Wayfinder
3 Skeletal Vampire
3 Congregation at Dawn
1 Debtors' Knell
4 Putrefy
4 Mortify
4 Farseek
3 Ghostway
4 Castigate
1 Grave-Shell Scarab
1 Orzhov Pontiff
4 Rolling Spoil
4 Bottled Cloister
1 Indrik Stomphowler
Your opponent is apparently playing Rakdos. You both kept 7 card hands and you were on a play. You had a slow start with forest, plains, while he led off with a turn one Frenzied Goblin and a turn two Dark Confidant. Its your turn three. This is what the game looks like going into your first main phase:
You:
19 life
In play: Forest, Plains
In hand: Golgari Rot Farm, Plains, Civic Wayfinder, Mortify, Ghostway, Skeletal Vampire, Farseek
Opponent:
18 life
In play: Blood Crypt (Tapped), Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace (Tapped), Frenzied Goblin (Tapped) Dark Confidant
5 cards in hand
What is your play?
Why not play the Wayfinder immediately, then? That's what everyone else has suggested.