I am planning on playing this deck at GP Vancouver this weekend, and am looking for some thoughts on my list. I am currently trying to decide on a couple flex slots MB + tuning the SB.
With a relatively uncertain meta that is in flux, I am aiming to have the best match up against the largest number of decks (hoping for lower percentage gains against some decks post-SB, but opting for cards that are more useful against more decks). That being said, I am also hoping to shore up the tougher match ups of Urza-Tron, Valakut, Ad-Nauseum and Goryo's and am finding it hard to balance those two goals. I am entering this GP with 2 byes, so I am hoping that I have a lower chance of getting paired with fringe decks and want to tune my list as best as possible. Due to the nature of playing in a GP instead of a 3 - 5 round tournament, I am curious as to all of your thoughts on how to tweak this list for a longer tournament. I am playing this deck due to its resiliency to a large number of decks, have experience playing it, and feel that it is well-suited to large tournaments.
I am loving Tireless Tracker, but am thinking about running a single Renegade Rallier in one of the flex slots to help out against Tron and Valakut. It just seems so good to be able to recur a Ghost-Quarter in these match ups. I am worried this might be a bit too much of a corner case, as it would require having both copies of a one-of G1. My plan post-board currently is to board in the counters + Stony Silence + Ghost Quarter vs. Tron (cutting 1 retreat, 4x path and 1x other creature). Against Valakut the plan is to board in counters + Ghost Quarter and cut a mix of 4x path/retreat, but need to see if Worship merits consideration as well. The problem here is that I am adding so many non-creatures, I really don't want to dilute my Coco too much. Any thoughts on how to better prepare for these matchups? I was considering adding 1x Crumble to Dust to the board as it completely hoses both decks, but am not sure if this is the correct use of a SB slot.
Against Goryo's I was thinking of switching one unified will for a Spell Pierce, but besides this I am mostly just hoping that they don't go off too early. Scooze + Bojuka Bog are great here, so the main worry is preparing for their early combo-kill. As for Ad-Nauseum decks Spell Queller and the Pridemages play a big role here, but do you think Surgical Extraction might be useful against these strategies?
Here is my list + sideboard for reference.
3x Noble Hierarch
2x Voice of Resurgence
2x Qasali Pridemage
2x Scavenging Ooze
2x Selfless Spirit
1x Spellskite
4x Knight of the Reliquary
4x Spell Queller
2x Tireless Tracker
1x Vendilion Clique
1x Eternal Witness
1x Gavony Township
1x Kessig Wolf Run
1x Ghost Quarter
1x Horizon Canopy
1x Bojuka Bog
2x Worship
2x Negate
2x Unified Will
2x Kitchen Finks
2x Izzet Staticaster
1x Blessed Alliance
2x Stony Silence
With a relatively uncertain meta that is in flux, I am aiming to have the best match up against the largest number of decks (hoping for lower percentage gains against some decks post-SB, but opting for cards that are more useful against more decks). That being said, I am also hoping to shore up the tougher match ups of Urza-Tron, Valakut, Ad-Nauseum and Goryo's and am finding it hard to balance those two goals. I am entering this GP with 2 byes, so I am hoping that I have a lower chance of getting paired with fringe decks and want to tune my list as best as possible. Due to the nature of playing in a GP instead of a 3 - 5 round tournament, I am curious as to all of your thoughts on how to tweak this list for a longer tournament. I am playing this deck due to its resiliency to a large number of decks, have experience playing it, and feel that it is well-suited to large tournaments.
I am loving Tireless Tracker, but am thinking about running a single Renegade Rallier in one of the flex slots to help out against Tron and Valakut. It just seems so good to be able to recur a Ghost-Quarter in these match ups. I am worried this might be a bit too much of a corner case, as it would require having both copies of a one-of G1. My plan post-board currently is to board in the counters + Stony Silence + Ghost Quarter vs. Tron (cutting 1 retreat, 4x path and 1x other creature). Against Valakut the plan is to board in counters + Ghost Quarter and cut a mix of 4x path/retreat, but need to see if Worship merits consideration as well. The problem here is that I am adding so many non-creatures, I really don't want to dilute my Coco too much. Any thoughts on how to better prepare for these matchups? I was considering adding 1x Crumble to Dust to the board as it completely hoses both decks, but am not sure if this is the correct use of a SB slot.
Against Goryo's I was thinking of switching one unified will for a Spell Pierce, but besides this I am mostly just hoping that they don't go off too early. Scooze + Bojuka Bog are great here, so the main worry is preparing for their early combo-kill. As for Ad-Nauseum decks Spell Queller and the Pridemages play a big role here, but do you think Surgical Extraction might be useful against these strategies?