Ornithopter is tutorable by fetches? You always play Flayer at turn 2? If you do Grisly at turn 2 and Flayer in turn 3? So you will have one open fetch to tutor your dryad.
If your only use for Caryatid is grave pitching there are better candidates (like Striped Riverwinder which comes with its own pitching mechanism). Caryatid is in this deck over other hexproofers in large part to get played.
I’m not saying playing Firebrand to hang around is what you want to do in general ... but it is a tactical play to deal with Lili. If you know their deck is likely to drop Lili and make you sac, the tactical move is to play around it by leaving a saccable body around you otherwise might not have. It makes more sense than including and playing a summoning sick land for the same purpose.
I understand what you are saying, but I see Dryad Arbor as one more option to deal with Lili. What's the problem of using it? I only see benefits.
Are you playing any weenies (firebrand, courier, even caryatid?) - I expect the best way to deal with sacrifice effects in this deck, once you know they’re out there, is to keep weenie sac fodder on the board. Don’t let Lily force a Flayer sac because it’s your only creature.
If you’re still playing old school ‘all the fat’ - just Zetalpas and reavers and Samut - that could be a problem.
I want Firebrand and Caryatid in the GY, not on the battlefield. The only creature that I want on the ground is Troll... It's small chances to have both in hands.
I'm not sure why people is so concerned about match up against Liliana of the Veil. Decks that plays liliana isn't the worst opponent we have to face. I think Dryad Arbor in a three color deck will not work properly. We'd have to play 4 Wooded Foothills to utilize it and it not the best fetchland for us.
With that being said I have tried discarding it with Lotleth Troll and returning it to hand with Life from the Loam before and it was much fun.
I have A LOT of problemns with Liliana. Jund, Mardu, Death Shadow, Abzam uses Liliana. It's the only card that can kill our Flayer.
The final GRN spoiler load dropped today, and Torch Courier caught my eye for this deck.
It`s another R-cost 1/1 with Haste and a self-sacrificing ability (think Fanatical Firebrand) - but unlike Firebrand whose sac ability pings something for 1, this card's sac ability gives a creature haste until EOT. The sac doesn't require tapping either, for what tiny little relevance that has.
Any potential for the decks running Firebrand to swap to this? If we wind up making a big Soulflayer without haste - or even if we wind up hardcasting one of our big nonhaste creatures (Chromanticore?) we can cash it in to give the new arrival haste. And if course it has the usual utility of being self-saccable to add a haste creature to the graveyard to make your next soulflayer hasty. A slight bit of extra spice? Cast Torch Courier on 1 and attack. On 2 attack again, cast Sylvan Caryatid, then sac Torch Courier to give Caryatid haste so you can use its mana for something right now, meanwhile populating your grave with a haste creature.
I think is very interesting, but the main reason to Fanatical Firebrand have any spot in this deck despite have Haste keyword is the it can handle with x/1 creatures like Thalia, Snapcaster Mage, Dark Confidant, Mana Dorks, Bloodghast, Gravecrawler. This is very important tempo play in some matches which is the difference between win or loss.
I guess the Torch Runner will be good against control decks attacking while you set your board or graveyard and save some clock in the match.
Needs several playtest.
Why not Thrun over Tyrant? Trample is so relevant to keep a card cmc 6? Thrun is eaier to be cast. Im using 2 Thrun and 2 Tyrant because Thrun is legendary. Caryatid is out!
1-1 vs BW Vampire
2-0 vs Mardu (Leyline os Sanctity saved my ass)
2-1 vs G Tron
2-1 vs Storm
I'll put my list later.
I'm sorry, but i'm gonna test.
I understand what you are saying, but I see Dryad Arbor as one more option to deal with Lili. What's the problem of using it? I only see benefits.
I want Firebrand and Caryatid in the GY, not on the battlefield. The only creature that I want on the ground is Troll... It's small chances to have both in hands.
I have A LOT of problemns with Liliana. Jund, Mardu, Death Shadow, Abzam uses Liliana. It's the only card that can kill our Flayer.
Do you think Fanatical Firebrand is better than Bomat Courier? I really like both, but Bomat helps a lot to find the Delirium