The 'card battles' I'm referring to are basically a question of - which card is better for slot X? For example, before the SoM block a big battle was between Darksteel Colossus and Inkwell Leviathan. Darksteel allowed you to win 1 turn faster, but Inkwell was harder to deal with.
So I'll list some cards.. and if you can, try to give some reasons why you chose card A over card B.
EDIT: Damn I apologize for responding to a topic from 6 months ago. It was at the top of the list lol.
IMO:
1: Ponder VS Preordain
We're a combo deck, Ponder is just clearly better.
2: Fact or Fiction VS Jace, the Mind Sculptor
I wouldn't play either of these. Especially not Jace
3: Intuition VS Grim Tutor
Grim Tutor just gets you the card you want and gets cast off of rituals. Unless the opponent foolishly gives you Yawgmoth's Will, you're not doing anything with the two good cards that your opponent will bin off of Intuition and it's not like you're playing regrowth or recoup or anything so there are no Intuition tricks here.
4: Hurkyl's Recall VS Rebuild
I would play both
5: Chain of Vapor VS Echoing Truth
Chain of Vapor. You don't have anything that you really care if your opponent bounces other than Blightsteel, it's cheaper and it can bounce lots of Moxen for huge storm counts. Echoing Truth does get around Misstep though, so there's always that. Still I wouldn't play worse versions to dodge CMC 1.
This thread is to discuss certain similar cards, and talk about which ones may be better for TPS..
A typical TPS deck...
2 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Underground Sea
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Memory Jar
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
4 Dark Ritual
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Imperial Seal
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Tinker
2 Cabal Ritual
4 Duress
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Intuition
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mind's Desire
1 Ponder
1 Misdirection
The 'card battles' I'm referring to are basically a question of - which card is better for slot X? For example, before the SoM block a big battle was between Darksteel Colossus and Inkwell Leviathan. Darksteel allowed you to win 1 turn faster, but Inkwell was harder to deal with.
So I'll list some cards.. and if you can, try to give some reasons why you chose card A over card B.
1: Ponder VS Preordain
2: Fact or Fiction VS Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3: Intuition VS Grim Tutor
4: Hurkyl's Recall VS Rebuild
5: Chain of Vapor VS Echoing Truth
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IMO:
1: Ponder VS Preordain
We're a combo deck, Ponder is just clearly better.
2: Fact or Fiction VS Jace, the Mind Sculptor
I wouldn't play either of these. Especially not Jace
3: Intuition VS Grim Tutor
Grim Tutor just gets you the card you want and gets cast off of rituals. Unless the opponent foolishly gives you Yawgmoth's Will, you're not doing anything with the two good cards that your opponent will bin off of Intuition and it's not like you're playing regrowth or recoup or anything so there are no Intuition tricks here.
4: Hurkyl's Recall VS Rebuild
I would play both
5: Chain of Vapor VS Echoing Truth
Chain of Vapor. You don't have anything that you really care if your opponent bounces other than Blightsteel, it's cheaper and it can bounce lots of Moxen for huge storm counts. Echoing Truth does get around Misstep though, so there's always that. Still I wouldn't play worse versions to dodge CMC 1.
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