Been running it as a singleton. Has seemed pretty good if you're playing a deck that will give you a little breathing room; awful against aggro of course.
I expect to draw with it 2-3 times in a game if I draw it, and if I have a Knight online it more or less guarantees victory if I don't have to play tightly with tempo.
I need to test it more thoroughly, but I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on it. I am considering adding a second; I don't want to go much higher than that because I don't want to end up with multiples (except in very specific situations).
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The mistake I initially made with it was trying to maximize my card advantage from it by dropping it asap so I could get draws all the time. That totally ruins tempo and basically guarantees a loss. It has been helpful when I drop it when I'm starting to run out of gas, which gives me an extra push in winning topdeck wars.
It's been nice in my goldfishes. I don't think I'd go higher than a 1 of though. I haven't had the opportunity to try it out against others. It seems like it's basically a win card for those games where we draw out and are top decking. I've had a number of matches where we both empty our hands and exchange removal for the threats we drop. Sundial with our fetches would be really good for those situations. Or even when the board is cluttered up and you are top decking, using the knight to power the sundial.
I had what was essentially a perfect scenario for it last night - drew it in 2 of 3 matches against a BR control deck which was efficiently killing creatures while keeping his hand stocked (win condition = thought hemorrhage, haunting echoes and sadistic sacrament to exile all threats), drew 6 cards off it in game 1, lost game 2, drew 10 (!) cards off it game 3 off a couple of KotR taps.
This is as close to an optimal case as you could get. It is NOT the typical case. But the Sundial seemed to help against Jund (as something that put me over the top in a close game that I might have lost, not as something that would recover from a bad start or a Jund god-hand) and is sort of answer-or-die for UW Control. And it's totally coming out against RDW or other fast aggro.
UPDATE: After running it out against UW Control a couple of times, I *strongly* recommend finding a slot for it if you expect to face control decks. When I saw it relatively early, I sometimes ended up drawing more cards than they did (this includes dealing with Jace 2.0s and such), and when I saw it late it was still backbreaking. They can of course answer it, but forcing them to spend an O-Ring or counter on it isn't that bad anyway.
Been running it as a singleton. Has seemed pretty good if you're playing a deck that will give you a little breathing room; awful against aggro of course.
I expect to draw with it 2-3 times in a game if I draw it, and if I have a Knight online it more or less guarantees victory if I don't have to play tightly with tempo.
I need to test it more thoroughly, but I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on it. I am considering adding a second; I don't want to go much higher than that because I don't want to end up with multiples (except in very specific situations).
To be more on topic, it seems fine if you can fit it in somewhere for Junk.
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I don't know where I'd put it in, as it's not a threat, however it is CA which Junk sorely needs.
This is as close to an optimal case as you could get. It is NOT the typical case. But the Sundial seemed to help against Jund (as something that put me over the top in a close game that I might have lost, not as something that would recover from a bad start or a Jund god-hand) and is sort of answer-or-die for UW Control. And it's totally coming out against RDW or other fast aggro.
UPDATE: After running it out against UW Control a couple of times, I *strongly* recommend finding a slot for it if you expect to face control decks. When I saw it relatively early, I sometimes ended up drawing more cards than they did (this includes dealing with Jace 2.0s and such), and when I saw it late it was still backbreaking. They can of course answer it, but forcing them to spend an O-Ring or counter on it isn't that bad anyway.