It's not useless, on the contrary - fixing or improving 2-3 common matchups is a perfectly viable strategy, whereas you would need 8-10 cards to be able to beat Bogles reliably post-board for instance.
Natural State is a very strong card, but crucially cannot deal with a resolved Chalice :-(
That being said, the sideboard is still a work in progress.
Ceremonious is also for the Tron and Affinity matchups - not sure I like Natural State in a list that splashes Red. What enchantments are you scared of besides Blood Moon? In a pure U/G list I'd run 3-4. Perhaps you do need some GY hate - if so Relic is definetly a good option.
Actually, if we're upping the land count, we might as well jam two Nissa, Voice of Zendikar in the board. She works wonders in the grindy matchups, both providing fodder for Pongify effects and antheming the squad to help punch through blockers.
Well,if you're upping the land count, I think we might as well cut the 2x Chart a Course/Atarka's Command and find another creature to jam in there. The 4th Avatar is definetly seviceable. As far as the 8x Pongify effects, they do a lot more than just combo-wombo with Undying. With a bit of setup, they're essentially "Counter target removal spell" or Terminate or 3/3 Flash, all for the price of U. The card is just so versatile - I suggest you play with the 8x setup a few more leagues.
I really like the idea of Copter, seems like it could keep up a good grind. Not sure about the Rampager though. 3 mana for a 3/4 seem a bit tough, even with the evolve triggers - that being said, he might work. And thanks for the kind words
It's certainly powerful - no doubt about that. It could perhaps do some lifting in the matchups where your opponent threatens to outclass your creatures like E-Tron, B/G/x and Humans. In all honesty, I would probably prefer having a Dismember over Hardened Scales in those matchups though.
No, in that scenario u'll get a 4/4 E1, but the most common scenario is Pongifying a Young Wolf with a 1/1 E1 or 1/2 Raptor on the board. In that scenario u'll get two triggers, one from the 2/2 Wolf and one from the 3/3 Ape token. The Experiment will however only become a 3/3, as it will trigger 2 counters from the 2/2 Wolf, and then no counters from the 3/3 Ape.
If anyone is generally lurking on this thread, I would love some input on the possibility of creating a less painful manabase based on fastlands. Wwould need to find a replacement for Narnam probably
The reason for not having GY hate is that the GY based decks are usually very good matchups. I would probably go with Surgical if I wanted GY hate.
Magma Spray is far from perfect, and is probably not good enough atm to see play. Dismember instead is a viable option. Alternately you could jam something like Flame Slash? I'm close to cutting the Chart a Courses from the MD and replacing them with 2x Atarka's Command, as speed seems to be the way to go atm.
Unified Will specifically serves as a counter against the heavier decks like Titanshift, Ad Nauseam and different Tron versions - being able to tag any spell is more important than the conditionality. If you don't have more creatures on the board than your opponent, you're probably losing anyway...
The manabase is extremely greedy and Blood Moon is a serious issue (just not serious enough that I actually want to dedicate cards to it). Most GQ/FoR decks however are very slow, meaning we can usually race them regardless of them popping a land. The U/G version of the deck doesn't have this issue though, but suffers from other issues :-(
I used to run Destructive Revelry, until at some point I noticed that there were no enchantments worth destroying apart from Blood Moon...
Natural State is a very strong card, but crucially cannot deal with a resolved Chalice :-(
That being said, the sideboard is still a work in progress.
Chart a Course is probably not what the deck wants - thinking of going back to Atarka's.
Magma Spray is far from perfect, and is probably not good enough atm to see play. Dismember instead is a viable option. Alternately you could jam something like Flame Slash? I'm close to cutting the Chart a Courses from the MD and replacing them with 2x Atarka's Command, as speed seems to be the way to go atm.
Unified Will specifically serves as a counter against the heavier decks like Titanshift, Ad Nauseam and different Tron versions - being able to tag any spell is more important than the conditionality. If you don't have more creatures on the board than your opponent, you're probably losing anyway...
The manabase is extremely greedy and Blood Moon is a serious issue (just not serious enough that I actually want to dedicate cards to it). Most GQ/FoR decks however are very slow, meaning we can usually race them regardless of them popping a land. The U/G version of the deck doesn't have this issue though, but suffers from other issues :-(