MTG Salvation

can anyone give me advice on how to play against decks like infect, death's shadow and delver decks? I have a hard time knowing when to just go all in and when to prepare for a counter war. any kind of advice will be great

Grixis Shadow should be lfie for top 8 at the SCG right now, I really like kolaghan's command among other crds now

went 2-2 at FNM with this list. Needs a lot of work still, mostly with numbers and equipment



Round 1 I easily 2-0 burn. Game 1 he put some early pressure on but I tutor for the basilisk collar off my stoneforge mystic, thinking he'd bolt the sfm. that way I could drop a goyf next turn and the collar. he let me keep the sfm but I still do that plan. I stabilize after that. Game 2 I just run over him

Round 2 I easily 2-0 a casual approach of the second sun control deck. I didn't even really get to see his plan game 1, game 2 he cast a first approach on 7 and puts himself at a comfy life total. His next turn he sacrifices an ipnu rivulet to get closer to the approach but never sees another land to cast again as lands were what he milled

Round 3 I lose to elves -02. I mull to 5 and get run over g1, g2 I wasn't able to stabilize in time

Round 4 I lose to scapeshift 1-2. game 1 he runs me over. game 2 he mulls to 5 and I don't see a green source but I win. G3 he wins off a combination of zombies from field of the dead and valakut damage as I was not able to apply enough pressure

the heaths are basically there because I don't have verdants. I put the basilisk collar in as I couldn't find any other equipment in time and there's a lot of burn in that store (which explains a bit of the sb as well]. I need some numbers of fulminator mage

rest of the numbers need a fair bit of work.

edit: missed that it was duels:I haven't played duels in a while and I'm not sure which version you're playing but a list of what cards you have available would be a lot more helpful

I might have a different perspective since Canadian GPs are few and far in between, so the at least the ones I have attended in Eastern Canada have had reasonable attendance (1000+ in mains, with plenty people playing sides)

I think the main factors from at least people I know though are that price is a concern as they are quick approaching $100. I'm not sure if CFB being the sole TO for them has any impact on that but they are quite expensive. I think the first one I played (GP Ottawa 2014) was maybe around $60 if that.

I think another issue is that people just found that playing the MCQs (PTQs) to be better value as there were less rounds and less players. So trying to spike a smaller event was probably easier if you wanted to qualify for the MC

I don't know if the push of Arena influences this much as the appeal to GPs is also the social experience which you don't get on Arena

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I think banning looting is just reckless. If I understand this corectly, banning looting makes these decks unplayable:

- Mardu Pyromancer
- UR Phoenix/ Mono Red Phoenix
- Grixis Goryo's Vengence
- Dredge
- Hollowed One

This is going after way too many decks at the same time. I think they should have just banned Hogaak and unbanned stone forge and left it there.

I feel that while it's unfortunate that there were so many decks that had to suffer because of the sins of Hogaak, I feel that looting just caused too many decks to be absurd in dredge, Hogaak (by that dredge vine as well) and even Hollow one. TBH even though I had success playing Mardu Pyro, I certainly won't be missing the other decks being weakened by the ban

I think people are discussing izzet charm in izzet phoenix which is a lot slower but mono red might be out of luck

I think this might be my second favourite B and R update behind the JTMS/BBE unban

I also like to point out:

- Ancient Stirrings
- Mox Opal
(Explicitly mentioned in a B&R as dangerous cards)

- Cavern of Souls
- Goryo's Vengeance
(Discussed extensively on forums as potentially dangerous cards)

Considering how wide reaching this faithless looting ban is and how they have explicitly discussed Mox Opal and Ancient Stirrings as potentially dangerous cards, I think its not unreasonable to expect a Mox Opal/ Stirrings ban in the near future.

I think that mox opal and ancient stirrings have been cards that people have complained about for almost as long as I started playing modern in 2015, so maybe if looting got the ban hammer then their time is coming soon

I would like to see cavern get banned as it makes weird gameplay IMO and makes control a bit worse against tribal decks but I think it's MUCH lower than the first 2 cards

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So Jund gets Wrenn and Six, Abzan gets StoneForge Mystic. What do you think?

I'm thinking of trying something with sfm in it now, I should be able to borrow the minimal parts I need for it

I'm still working on a list but will post when closer to something of a working list

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Here is what I brewed up at lunch. Obviously the manabase needs to be added still and I'm debating on a second Sword of Fire and Ice over the Sword of Feast and Famine

DeckMagic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
Creatures: 4 Stoneforge Mystic 4 Seasoned Pyromancer 4 Young Pyromancer Spells: 4 Lingering Souls 2 Smiting Helix 2 Dreadbore 3 Kolaghan's Command 4 Inquisition of Kozilek 3 Thoughtseize 4 Lightning Bolt 3 Path to Exile	Equipment: 1 Sword of Fire and Ice 1 Sword of Feast and Famine 1 Batterskull

I really like this list. It's unfortunate that we had to take a hit/banning for the sins of degenerate decks but I still agree with looting getting banned. SFM seems really cool in our deck though

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I think banning looting is just reckless. If I understand this corectly, banning looting makes these decks unplayable:

- Mardu Pyromancer
- UR Phoenix/ Mono Red Phoenix
- Grixis Goryo's Vengence
- Dredge
- Hollowed One

This is going after way too many decks at the same time. I think they should have just banned Hogaak and unbanned stone forge and left it there.

I feel that while it's unfortunate that there were so many decks that had to suffer because of the sins of Hogaak, I feel that looting just caused too many decks to be absurd in dredge, Hogaak (by that dredge vine as well) and even Hollow one. TBH even though I had success playing Mardu Pyro, I certainly won't be missing the other decks being weakened by the ban

I think people are discussing izzet charm in izzet phoenix which is a lot slower but mono red might be out of luck

I think this might be my second favourite B and R update behind the JTMS/BBE unban