MTG Salvation

There was this token deck i came up across when jsut playing some casual games, and i must say, it set me back a little, with simple combos like myr sire and kuldotha rebirth coupled with other token generatros like doomed traveler, and buffing them with curse of stalked prey, and intangible virtue, i find myself being over run real quick. One thing i did was side in 4 loxodon hierarchs, but i still find myself set on the back foot. Should I be packing in a bit more discard? Running only 4 Duress atm as i favor a bit more removal against Bpod and affinity. I know tokens is not an actual meta, but Seeing as my LGS seem to be playing token decks as a trend atm, what do you guys suggest? Maelstrom Pulse seems like a good card, but most token decks are a mixture of goblin, myr and spirit, so that may be a shaky proposition. Would holding a bit back with MB'd wraths/day be in order?

What can we do about decks like elves? Is there a decent SB for them? Or do we go for 1 for 1 trades?

I always saw arena as decent tech against splinter twin, but i have never thought of it that way, reliquary tapped/sac forest/plain then proceed to use it for arena? Is there a rule explanation to this? Dont get me wrong, this type of move gets me excited to slot 1-2 arenas mainboard.

the only problem i see with skinshifter is that it takes some green all the time, i may try to switch it out for 2-3 swords, (I bring 3 shifters atm) Maybe light and shadow to protect against most removal. And yeah, i play 2 skites. i think with 3, there will be those annoying occasions against zoo where it does nothing for you, but if im gona bring some swords maybe it will be ok to bring 3 of them.

What do you guys think of congregation at dawn with the absence of GSZ? I would think chord of calling but the 3 green is killing me.

Just to get the ball rolling on this discussion, I recall from a forum nearly 2 years ago i believe, someone was looking for a replacement for tarmogoyf for budget reasons of course and he chose to use ohran viper Would that be viable? or quirion dryad, i was thinking of making old school rock/junk with loxodon hierarch and/or iwamori of the open fist are cards like batterskull or the infamous swords appropriate here? Thoughts?