Two players of my local gamestore playtest for a GP trial (one GW Hatebears, one Angelpod)
Out of 10 games it was 8/2 for hatebears, the 2 games he lost, was due to manadeath.
How do you win against GW Hatebears ? What's the plan ?
I watch them durdle around post board with Pod hate while I beat them down with better creatures.
If you're that worried about burn and delver play 3 kor firewalker in the side. I don't think siege rhino is bad but it's pretty awful in Melira versions. Where you either grind them or combo them. If it was angel pod I could see rhino being better.
Kor Firewalker makes sense in the Burn matchup, devoting 3 slots to him SB seems questionable. Siege Rhino is the definition of good when it comes down to grinding it out, and has literally no effect on the decks ability to combo out.. Which shouldn't be your game plan in most instances regardless.
Changes I've made post the Delver/Burn cruise takeover so far, here's my current list:
Main Board:
-1 Kitchen Finks - Currently cut for Rhino. Not sure if I'm correct in cutting here.
-1 Wall of Roots - I've been back and forth on this card since I started playing 2 Chords.. There just wasn't a reason to keep it in any longer besides blocking Monastery Swiftspear and Goblin Guide in my meta.
+1 Siege Rhino - All I see is this card being compared to Obstinate Baloth and I'm pretty sure it's 100% incorrect. The Drain on repeat has the ability to just end games on its own, dodging 80% of the removal in the format I think this card is an easy inclusion.
+1 Phyrexian Metamorph - This card is amazing and extremely versatile, I can't believe it was ever cut from list to begin with. Against Fair Decks it's absolutely absurd becoming a 2nd Pod or acting as your 2nd Resto.
0 Reclamation Sage - This one is tough, There still isn't a match up where I'm in love boarding this card in (besides affinity.. sorta). What am I doing wrong here?
I watch them durdle around post board with Pod hate while I beat them down with better creatures.
-4 Birthing Pod
-1 Sin Collector
+1 Thrun, the Last Troll
+1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
+1 Orzhov Pontiff
+2 Path to Exile
Kor Firewalker makes sense in the Burn matchup, devoting 3 slots to him SB seems questionable. Siege Rhino is the definition of good when it comes down to grinding it out, and has literally no effect on the decks ability to combo out.. Which shouldn't be your game plan in most instances regardless.
Main Board:
-1 Kitchen Finks - Currently cut for Rhino. Not sure if I'm correct in cutting here.
-1 Wall of Roots - I've been back and forth on this card since I started playing 2 Chords.. There just wasn't a reason to keep it in any longer besides blocking Monastery Swiftspear and Goblin Guide in my meta.
+1 Siege Rhino - All I see is this card being compared to Obstinate Baloth and I'm pretty sure it's 100% incorrect. The Drain on repeat has the ability to just end games on its own, dodging 80% of the removal in the format I think this card is an easy inclusion.
+1 Phyrexian Metamorph - This card is amazing and extremely versatile, I can't believe it was ever cut from list to begin with. Against Fair Decks it's absolutely absurd becoming a 2nd Pod or acting as your 2nd Resto.
Side Board:
-1 Dismember - Meta call
+1 Abrupt Decay - Meta call
0 Reclamation Sage - This one is tough, There still isn't a match up where I'm in love boarding this card in (besides affinity.. sorta). What am I doing wrong here?
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Temple Garden
1 Godless Shrine
2 Forest
1 Swamp
1 Plains
3 Gavony Township
3 Razorverge Thicket
Creatures 29
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Noble Hierarch
1 Viscera Seer
3 Voice of Resurgence
1 Spellskite
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Qasali Pridemage
3 Kitchen Finks
1 Eternal Witness
1 Sin Collector
1 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Murderous Redcap
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Restoration Angel
1 Siege Rhino
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Shriekmaw
1 Reveillark
2 Chord of Calling
2 Abrupt Decay
Artifact 4
4 Birthing Pod
1 Dismember
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Sin Collector
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Entomber Exarch