I'm a fan of Dark Ritual however, i'm going to replace it in the next event.
I have 18 black sources + 4 mishra (+4 DR).
Do you think I need more black mana if I replace the DR?
I run 4 smallpox and 2 Pox.
I'm thinking in replacing DR with +2 swamp, +1 pox, +1 flex slot.
@Dromar: how is your experience with 20 black sources and 8 pox?
I want to share some thoughts about the following cards:
- Tombstalker: It was great in my matchs, when it resolves is a fast clock that helps ending games (wich is really important in this build).
- Ratchet bomb: was very helpful, it is not great in any matchup, but its very versatile, allowing to blow more than one permanent and recovering the board control. If you cast it early your opponent will tend to play one threat a time so is easy for us to disrupt him.
- Sensei's: great in playtesting, never used it in a real game because I don't have it (coming soon!).
- Dark Ritual: the main reason to run it is playing 1st turn lili, that play is too good in my opinion. It allows you to make explosive starts. It is also a dead card late game but if you don't run it you have to increase the land count (+2) (which are dead cards late game too). It has really good sinergy with tombstalker! I'm going to try without it and then I will tell you!
I have 18 black sources + 4 mishra (+4 DR).
Do you think I need more black mana if I replace the DR?
I run 4 smallpox and 2 Pox.
I'm thinking in replacing DR with +2 swamp, +1 pox, +1 flex slot.
@Dromar: how is your experience with 20 black sources and 8 pox?
I want to share some thoughts about the following cards:
- Tombstalker: It was great in my matchs, when it resolves is a fast clock that helps ending games (wich is really important in this build).
- Ratchet bomb: was very helpful, it is not great in any matchup, but its very versatile, allowing to blow more than one permanent and recovering the board control. If you cast it early your opponent will tend to play one threat a time so is easy for us to disrupt him.
- Sensei's: great in playtesting, never used it in a real game because I don't have it (coming soon!).
- Dark Ritual: the main reason to run it is playing 1st turn lili, that play is too good in my opinion. It allows you to make explosive starts. It is also a dead card late game but if you don't run it you have to increase the land count (+2) (which are dead cards late game too). It has really good sinergy with tombstalker! I'm going to try without it and then I will tell you!