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I believe that having two K-Commands main is still decent depending on meta. Also I think it's time to shift to a more aggressive role in the current meta that appeared.

How do you play against eldrazi tron? I have been having trouble against it unfortunately.

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Lili is good against mirror matches, jund, abzan, control, and eldrazi tron

Lingering souls are also good against the mirror, Jund, Abzan + affinity. Ceremonious rejection are there for the Tron matchup.

Souls are also great against control.

No. It shouldn't feel bad to draw inquisition later in the game. You just keep it in your hand until you want to deploy a threat to clear the way. You want discard T1 so 6 discard spells is the minimum.

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do we really want to be putting our delve threats out quick?

Yes. Yes, we do.

The fact that you can play Tasigur and Gurmag Angler on turn two is one of the big reasons Grixis Shadow is a Tier 1 deck.

Our only counterspell is dependent on playing an early creature, and our best game plan against basically everyone is quick, large threat plus disruption.

Against something like Affinity, we can sit back and be a Fatal Push deck. Against Burn, Scapeshift, Storm, and many others you REALLY want to be a turn 2 Tasigur deck.

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Is this a primer or what is it? Because viewing other primers, the intro of this seems a little outdated compared to others. Just curious that is all, no need to start an argument.

It would help if you pointed out exactly what is "outdated".

I could see an argument for going up to 2 or 3 Bolts if your area is completely overrun by Spell Quellers.

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So my record against Abzan Midrange variants is something like 1-20. Lingering Souls gets me every darn time! I'm pretty sure I have enough answers to it, but I just cannot win. I'm starting to think I'm taking the wrong role in the match-up. Has anybody else had a similar experience? I'm also wondering how you approach the match-up. Do you shock yourself aggressively or do you try to play a slower game? Thanks all!

Are you running Temur Battle Rage? If not give it a try, allows you to run over Lingering Souls.

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How are you doing with opt, are you running 4/2 split with visions or vice versa?

After experimenting with the 18 lands and 2 cantrips list I've gone back to 19 lands and run the full playset of opt right now with no visions. I'm really liking the current setup. I got more value out of having the additional cantrips when I used to play pyro in the board but without them I feel it creates a bit too much air in the deck and I'm spinning my wheels more than I would like. If I was to go back up to 6 cantrips (excluding scour) I would most likely favour opt as a 4/2 split personally

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Now, does anyone have thoughts on chart a course instead of running the two of opts/visions list?

It gets tricky comparing the two since opt/visions are cantrips whereas course is card advantage.

Opt/visions are one mana spells that replace themselves and in the case of visions helps you set up future draws to either ensure you hit land drops or try to prevent flooding. On that note, I've gone back and forth between the 2 myself and I tend to like opt because of the scry before draw (running as many fetches as we do, getting that second card off the scry can be difficult to wait on) but always seeing 3 cards can't be understated either.

As for chart a course, it's an extra mana and requires us to be attacking to get the most use out of. With our very low threat count that's often easier said than done. If we're attacking with our creatures we're generally pretty far ahead already or we're in a matchup where we need to be aggressive. In either case I don't see what chart a course is doing for us at that point, I'd rather have the earlier or cheaper spell personally. If we needed raw card advantage I'd rather run a more synergistic spell with the deck like painful truths which lets us lose life and the number of cards we get is not dictated by creatures or lack of.