I think a lot of people have been underestimating damping matrix. I'm running the OG build with no twin, 4-0'd a daily yesterday (split with last player but we played it out and I won). There's a lot of RG Tron running around online with it being good and with karn much cheaper, and even with fulminators on the play it can be too slow, a hardcast wurmcoil is hard to deal with. Damping matrix works vs relic and all the other cantrip artifacts in tron, it works vs affinity, twin, and I'm thinking of bringing the 2 I have in the SB in for Anafenza CoCo decks to deal with Scooze and Viscera Seer, the main weak points we have vs that deck.
Note: I tried the no blackcleave cliffs because of blood moon and so far I like it. Makes blood moon much easier to handle as well as I think the thinning is relevant with how much we cycle. I probably should have a split between gorge and cliffs but that's for budget reasons (cliffs shot up in price due to jund). I've never been color screwed anyways. (30ish matches with this build)
Has anyone ever tried out a sword main? I feel like sword of light and shadow could be really sweet. They makes magus a 4 toughness, if they try want to remove a reckoner on equip activation path/abupt is really the only way without consequence. Stormbreath is already hard to remove at 4 toughness and pro white so he's a very good equip target. The creature recursion could be really sweet with a removed magus of the moon. Just throwing out the idea and I realize it could be horrible but I just feel like it could fit in a 1-of, but possibly not in this abrupt decay everywhere meta.
I know it's kinda early but what do you guys think about the YMTC 4 in this deck? I'm assuming it's cost is something reasonable like BB. Seems like it could be cool potentially chaining discards, the worst part is the 2/2 zombie but even that puts them on a clock.
I'll update with my results using Damping Matrix.
Here's My deck so far:
4 Architects of Will
4 Deadshot Minotaur
4 Monstrous Carabid
4 Street Wraith
2 Jungle Weaver
2 Pale Recluse
1 Twisted Abomination
4 Fulminator Mage
2 Simian Spirit Guide
Instant/Sorcery
4 Violent Outburst
4 Demonic Dread
3 Living End
3 Beast Within
1 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Copperline Gorge
1 Godless Shrine
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Stomping Ground
1 Swamp
1 Mountain
2 Forest
3 Wooded Foothills
2 Brindle Boar
2 Gnaw to the Bone
3 Ingot Chewer
2 Ricochet Trap
2 Shriekmaw
2 Jund Charm
2 Damping Matrix
Note: I tried the no blackcleave cliffs because of blood moon and so far I like it. Makes blood moon much easier to handle as well as I think the thinning is relevant with how much we cycle. I probably should have a split between gorge and cliffs but that's for budget reasons (cliffs shot up in price due to jund). I've never been color screwed anyways. (30ish matches with this build)