So now I need even more slots to play Courser of Kruphix, 'cause it's part of the package...I'll think about it, but don't really feel like cutting my Spellskite or Selfless Spirit for that super-clunky card. I feel these changes take the deck in a wrong direction.
Minor point: I was also left scratching my head over that article. Didn't say anything 'cause I didn't want to look arrogant, but there's one part when the guy says he "thought CoCo was a combo deck, then he discovered it's a complex deck that can do different things among which there's also comboing off". Or something like that. And I was like...seriously? You discover that just now? CoCo is no Storm or Ad Nauseam, that's why he it's a way better deck to me: less repetitive, less boring, able to win without its main plan to work. It's always been like that since the old Birthing Pod. The fact someone wouldn't know it and would only discover it after months playing the deck left be baffled.
Anyway, if there's some grave hate I can't deal with I still have our usual two options: either win via beatdown or win via combo (Thune-Feeder). Tracker is just an additional threat but doesn't give us something new alltogether.
I did generate some value with that Tracker vs Jund, as I did in fact have a fetch, but that one card didn't matter (it was a Viscera Seer). Like I think Pokken said, there's a lot of air we can draw into, and usually it's more powerful to be able to take back a specific card from our graveyard. That was a case where he was proven right.
Didn't test any further Tracker yet 'cause I'm testing two other decks besides CoCo.
I think what he meant was that he had previously seen the combo as plan A, but after talking to DeMars and such realised that combo is not plan A.
.Second thing is you boarded out 2 Finks vs jeskai. Dont do it! We need as much resilient threats as possible. Board out some 2/2 vanilla combo bears (and at least 1 seer) cause its not likely that we can combo him (this is a very interactive matchup) Moreover this is a matchup where township shines. Get out a noble hierarch with a finks and never overload the board too heavy.
Oh I fully agree on this! Didn't comment on the details but I thought the same. In general, you rarely want to board out Finks. Actually, I'm not sure there's any MU where you should board out Finks.
I have seen it being suggested that Finks should be boarded out against infect.
I am considering putting 2 Dismember in the sideboard, but not sure what to cut in that case.
Cut the two kataki for them. 3 stony will handle affinity for you. I'd cut a finks (or 2) for familiars, to better your jeskai ascendancy match up which I expect to be vet popular. Also cut one eidolon of rhetoric for an EE, I always like one in my side if I can find room.
Thank you for the advice. I followed it and exchanged 2 finks with familiars. Unfortunately, i had bad luck throughout.
G1: 0-2
This was against a Pod deck. I drew miserably and it was over quite fast.
In: 1 Spellskite, 2 Dismember, 2 Stone Silence, 1 Mark of Asylum
Out: 4 Familiar, 1 Thalia, 1 Blade Splicer
G2: 1-2
This was against a monored burn deck with some creatures, Won 1 duel thanks to Finks, which I flickered a couple of times.
In: 1 Mark of Asylum, 1 Forge-Tender, 1 Spellskite, 1 Eidolon
Out: 1 Resto, 1 Vial, 1 Path, 1 Blade Splicer
G3: 1-2
Against Rug. Had problem with Huntmaster of the Fells. The duel I won, I managed to lock him away really early with 2 Ghost Quarter and Arbiter out.
1 Godless Shrine
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Swamp
2 Forest
2 Temple Garden
3 Gavony Township
2 Horizon Canopy
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
2 Razorverge Thicket
4 Chord of Calling
4 Collected Company
4 Birds of Paradise
2 Noble Hierarch
4 Devoted Druid
2 Duskwatch Recruiter / Krallenhorde Howler
4 Kitchen Finks
2 Viscera Seer
3 Vizier of Remedies
1 Selfless Spirit
1 Scavenging Ooze
3 Eternal Witness
1 Tireless Tracker
1 Anafenza the Foremost
1 Tireless Tracker
1 Reclamation Sage
1 qasali pridemage
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
2 Path to Exile
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Stony Silence
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Pharika, God of Affliction
1 Surgical Extraction
I expect a wide range of tier 1 and tier 2 decks.
What are the must-haves for the sideboard? Any other advise?
Noteworthy is that he is up to 3 Trackers in main.
I think what he meant was that he had previously seen the combo as plan A, but after talking to DeMars and such realised that combo is not plan A.
I have seen it being suggested that Finks should be boarded out against infect.
I think I will put this together on MTGO and practice more with it. =)
Thank you for the advice. I followed it and exchanged 2 finks with familiars. Unfortunately, i had bad luck throughout.
G1: 0-2
This was against a Pod deck. I drew miserably and it was over quite fast.
In: 1 Spellskite, 2 Dismember, 2 Stone Silence, 1 Mark of Asylum
Out: 4 Familiar, 1 Thalia, 1 Blade Splicer
G2: 1-2
This was against a monored burn deck with some creatures, Won 1 duel thanks to Finks, which I flickered a couple of times.
In: 1 Mark of Asylum, 1 Forge-Tender, 1 Spellskite, 1 Eidolon
Out: 1 Resto, 1 Vial, 1 Path, 1 Blade Splicer
G3: 1-2
Against Rug. Had problem with Huntmaster of the Fells. The duel I won, I managed to lock him away really early with 2 Ghost Quarter and Arbiter out.
In: 1 Spellskite, 2 Dismember
Out: 1 Thalia, 2 Familiar
G4: 0-2
Against RUW Control. Had problems with Snapcaster Mage and counterspells.
In: 3 RiP, 2 Dismember, 1 Mark of Asylum, 1 Spellskite
Out: 2 Familiar, 1 Resto, 1 Thalia, 1 Splicer, 1 Finks, 1 Vial
It just wasn't my evening. I think my sideboarding was quite ok, though I don't think I ever drew one of the cards from the sideboard.
After this, I am considering 1 Spellskite, 2 Finks and 3 Familiar in main.
4 Leonin Arbiter
2 Brimaz, King of Oreskos
3 Aven Mindcensor
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Blade Splicer
3 Restoration Angel
2 Judge's Familiar
3 Kitchen Finks
4 Aether Vial
4 Ghost Quarter
3 Tectonic Edge
2 Horizon Canopy
1 Eiganjo Castle
13 Plains
2 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Mark of Asylum
2 Disenchant (Since I don't have Sundering Growth)
1 Spellskite
3 Rest in Peace
2 Kataki, War's Wage
3 Stony Silence
I am considering putting 2 Dismember in the sideboard, but not sure what to cut in that case.