However, jamming a more than likely uncastable Kiki-Jiki in the board with the statement "Just, you know, be a professional and do not draw the Kiki-Jiki" doesn't necessarily come off as quality content or deck building advice.
Except it is good deck building advice. You are simply choosing a different way to lose games. The conjecture is essentially:
You lose more games to having a bunch of red lands in your deck that don't cast many of your spells, than you will lose to drawing one copy of Kiki you can't cast when you need to board it in.
I'm not just making stuff up and throwing untested lists together while telling people to get lucky. Magic is a game of variance by design and I am simply picking a different thing to lose to than the traditional lists.
People on forums like this crack me up. Writing things like this contribute nothing to the discussion and just serve to make the author feel smarter than the person they are putting down. It is fine to explain why someone / something is wrong - but actually explain why. Just saying "this is wrong" isn't helpful or constructive.
I put a lot of work into that Chord list for the PC and I think it is very reasonable. I talked a bit about it here including talking about why the life combo isn't great, but why I ended up playing it anyways. I went 1-2 at the PC in the modern portion, but anyone who has has played enough events will be able to tell you that a three match sample is far from relevant for determining if a deck is reasonable or not.
People constantly understand the cost of having multiple cards that are a fourth color in this deck. It gets less free with every card you add. I think Baloth is much better than Rhino not only against Liliana decks, but because that fourth point of life is very important against Burn as well.
You are generally the control deck against Abzan Company. Bring in all your removal and your cuts seem fine. I don't mind sorcerer because it interacts with their combo. While you don't care about them gaining infinite life, you DO care about them scrying whenever they want.
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Except it is good deck building advice. You are simply choosing a different way to lose games. The conjecture is essentially:
You lose more games to having a bunch of red lands in your deck that don't cast many of your spells, than you will lose to drawing one copy of Kiki you can't cast when you need to board it in.
I'm not just making stuff up and throwing untested lists together while telling people to get lucky. Magic is a game of variance by design and I am simply picking a different thing to lose to than the traditional lists.
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The list I linked has both Kiki and Chord of Calling in it...
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People on forums like this crack me up. Writing things like this contribute nothing to the discussion and just serve to make the author feel smarter than the person they are putting down. It is fine to explain why someone / something is wrong - but actually explain why. Just saying "this is wrong" isn't helpful or constructive.
I put a lot of work into that Chord list for the PC and I think it is very reasonable. I talked a bit about it here including talking about why the life combo isn't great, but why I ended up playing it anyways. I went 1-2 at the PC in the modern portion, but anyone who has has played enough events will be able to tell you that a three match sample is far from relevant for determining if a deck is reasonable or not.
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Not to mention just being easier to cast.
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