Related to this topic, why is it often considered "bad" to play targeted discard AND countermagic in the same deck? A lot of lists seem to either lean one way or another in that regard with no in between. Gods_Shadow's deck is the only one I've seen recently that blends the two.
If we're trying to ensure we survive until getting to play cryptic command, then wouldn't targeted discard be far more advantageous than mana leak, logic knot et all? And in this vein if we ARE trying to get to the cryptic/k command end game couldn't remand help bridge us there as it cantrips into more answers?
PS @Gods_Shadow love your work man, especially the youtube vids, do you ever feel like you're stumbling on mana while playing the deck? Do the three cryptic and three Pia and Kira ever sit dead in your hand? Have you considered pyromancer main board before?
Hey everyone! Made an account to finally start posting and hopefully contribute to tuning these lists! I'm planning on posting my results here (mainly play in paper so it'll be somewhat infrequent).
If we're trying to ensure we survive until getting to play cryptic command, then wouldn't targeted discard be far more advantageous than mana leak, logic knot et all? And in this vein if we ARE trying to get to the cryptic/k command end game couldn't remand help bridge us there as it cantrips into more answers?
PS @Gods_Shadow love your work man, especially the youtube vids, do you ever feel like you're stumbling on mana while playing the deck? Do the three cryptic and three Pia and Kira ever sit dead in your hand? Have you considered pyromancer main board before?
Anyway, here is what I am currently running:
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/954785#paper
Trying to keep this list together and play it for a few weeks as I have a tendency to tinker like crazy before getting a valid sample size.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!