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Sorry.
No one answered, would Prowling Serpopard be any good a sideboard card?
Hard no. For the same reasons we don't play Loxodon Smiter anymore, this card is underwhelming. We have a strong matchup against counterspell decks anyway thanks to Voice, playing at instant speed and our own counterspells. Also, it dies to Bolt, which most blue-based decks also play.
Unified Will hits everything and it's not hard to have more creatures on board in the matchups where you want it. I probably would run a 3-1 split of that and Negate.
There are definitely keepable hands with no dork. Against midrange decks for instance dorks are at their worst. I'd also keep a hand with no dork but a high value card in the matchup, such as Stony Silence against affinity.
In general you can usually get away with a slow hand if you're on the play.
Where it becomes sketcky is on the draw against fast decks. In that circumstance any hand without a dork is suspect.
Has anyone played against the new flavor of the month, Death's Shadow Jund? I have not so I'm just theorycrafting here, but the matchup seems highly winnable to me.
Spell Queller seems like a beast. They play Tarfire which can't kill Queller, while their Fatal Pushes are going to be stretched very thin. We'll often be able to snag their only creature, a traverse, or a battle rage. Can't counter ghor-clan's bloodrush mode though, unless I'm wrong about that?
Scavenging Ooze is great as well, keeping delirium and goyf in check.
Our fliers, in general, will be good because they have no way to block them. With the damage they deal themselves, any flier + Exalted is a 2-3 turn clock.
The all-star though, would have to be Reflector Mage. If I were expecting a lot of Deaths Shadow Jund, I'd pack 2-3 Reflector Mage in my 75. With only effectively 2 creatures in their deck, it can set them back 2 full turns.
I'm still not advocating for planes walkers in this deck, but for what it's worth, Tamiyo would be good here...
Hard no. For the same reasons we don't play Loxodon Smiter anymore, this card is underwhelming. We have a strong matchup against counterspell decks anyway thanks to Voice, playing at instant speed and our own counterspells. Also, it dies to Bolt, which most blue-based decks also play.
In general you can usually get away with a slow hand if you're on the play.
Where it becomes sketcky is on the draw against fast decks. In that circumstance any hand without a dork is suspect.
Spell Queller seems like a beast. They play Tarfire which can't kill Queller, while their Fatal Pushes are going to be stretched very thin. We'll often be able to snag their only creature, a traverse, or a battle rage. Can't counter ghor-clan's bloodrush mode though, unless I'm wrong about that?
Scavenging Ooze is great as well, keeping delirium and goyf in check.
Our fliers, in general, will be good because they have no way to block them. With the damage they deal themselves, any flier + Exalted is a 2-3 turn clock.
The all-star though, would have to be Reflector Mage. If I were expecting a lot of Deaths Shadow Jund, I'd pack 2-3 Reflector Mage in my 75. With only effectively 2 creatures in their deck, it can set them back 2 full turns.
I'm still not advocating for planes walkers in this deck, but for what it's worth, Tamiyo would be good here...
Thoughts?