Since the PTQ results are starting to come in and since the old thread was largely pre-banlist discussion I think we can safely restart this thread.
I am attempting to keep the OP current with representitive lists if I can get them in a timely manner, but bear in mind that metagames differ, so what may be good in Brazil might face a different field in Canada.
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I was digging through my lists and updating some decks, while removing others. Thought it might be interesting to see what archtypes everybody is testing against. My list is a little long and I dont usually get around to testing all of them thoroughly, so I will break it down into decks I definitely should test against (decks I expect to see at a PTQ) and decks that I want to test against (decks that I might see at a PTQ):
Definitely:
Jund
Blue Zoo
Gifts
Storm
Melira Pod
Twin
Maybe:
Rb Burn
Affinity
Hive Mind
Living End
Martyr
Elves
Boros
Teachings
I guess you could say that this is my list of decks to beat and decks to watch.
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My friend Top 4'd with his Bant "counter-cat" deck (4 counters main, 4 Mindbreak in sb). He told me his matchups included tribal zoo, hive mind, 2 twin combo, BUG, Melira pod (no storm or rdw for him lol).
Affinity isn't even the best deck in the format...
Personally, the metagame right now to me looks like this:
Tier 1:
Jund
Zoo
Affinity
Storm
Twin
Melira Pod
UW Tron
Tier 2:
Delver Tempo (UB, RUG, BUG, Grixis... though this deck is very new and will most likely be Tier 1)
Twin Pod
Living End
Martyr-Proc
Teachings
Solar Flare
Red Variants (RB, Boros, RDW)
It will be intresting to see if merfolk played competitivly, they have been tearing up mtgo dailys.
I've never seen a format where the meta is so different on MTGO than in paper. White is all over the place online too but not getting much love from paper players.
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Out of the blackness and stench of the engulfing swamp emerged a shimmering figure. Only the splattered armor and ichor-stained sword hinted at the unfathomable evil the knight had just laid waste.
I've never seen a format where the meta is so different on MTGO than in paper. White is all over the place online too but not getting much love from paper players.
Yeah I'm expecting jund, zoo, affinity, pod and storm. But I'd love to see some rogue decks make an appereance. (Not that I consider Merfolk to be rogue)
Wait, TRON is tier 1 now? Have I been living under a rock?
I've been accused of such, but the best result I've seen for the deck so far is 4th place in a MTGO Premier event which is probably equal in skill/depth to a smaller PTQ. I think its showing up heavily in certain metas.
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Wait, TRON is tier 1 now? Have I been living under a rock?
Just goes to show how wide open the meta is, in my opinion. I'm looking forward to seeing not only the spread of the decklists, but how the win percentages among the varied decks are.
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Also, consider that Liliana counts as occasional mana denial, and it starts to become a significant portion of our strategy.
Wait, TRON is tier 1 now? Have I been living under a rock?
I think people are paying a lot more attention to the MTGO dailies then they deserve at the moment. They're 30-50 man tournaments with 4 rounds. People are grinding them for tix so a lot of the "top decks" might actually be top players playing deck x with good success. There's also the small point that players who want to PTQ with a deck generally won't want to go on MTGO and go 4-0 in dailies all month with it before their PTQ. It's a good indicator, but I think when we get some more PTQ top8s it'll be a better idea of the actual tiers.
There are a lot of variants and options in the format, they all have there strengths, but Im quite sure you can say what decks are the best already at this point.
Jund: Why play any other midrange strategy? Stupid inherent card advantage, universal answers, debilitating discard, reasonable clock. Secretly the best control deck.
Delver Tempo + Merfolk: In all its flavors, just the most efficient agro control cards.
Pod Decks: Creature combo is good cuz it can just win by beat down or out of nowhere.
Affinity +Boros+Zoo: Fastest posible agro decks.
Going into a tourney why would you play anything besides these?
Everything else is tier 1.5 because its easily disrupted, too clunky or just playing to fair.
I love me some U/Wx control but if I could afford Goyf I would play jund. Not playing Goyf decks just seems wrong more or less.
Sorry, I should have specified the list from the top 8 at the PTQ. Seeing as it was classified as UB rather than grixis, I am curious to see what card choices they felt were advantagous enough to keep from splashing.
Sorry, I should have specified the list from the top 8 at the PTQ. Seeing as it was classified as UB rather than grixis, I am curious to see what card choices they felt were advantagous enough to keep from splashing.
Fair enough. I'll see what I can find. The poster right after you posted up a random Grixis list (which I redacted), so that link was for him as well.
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This is a strange meta because a lot of people are playing somewhat budget decks because they don't want to commit to the format, or they don't want to commit to a deck until they know thier choice isn't really a fad deck, or a deck that will be tier 2 when/if the meta becomes less diverse.
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This is a strange meta because a lot of people are playing somewhat budget decks because they don't want to commit to the format, or they don't want to commit to a deck until they know thier choice isn't really a fad deck, or a deck that will be tier 2 when/if the meta becomes less diverse.
Or get nailed with the banhammer. Who wants to buy a Reanimator, Tron, or Jund deck if Bloodbraid Elf and/or Gifts Ungiven get banned in March? There's going to have to be two or three cycles of banning announcements before people feel really confident in this meta.
Online PTQ currently in round 6. After five rounds the following decks are 5-0.
Mono Blue Faeries
Red Affinity
Melira Pod
GW Tokens
Mono U Merfolk
Bant Aggro
UW Control/Midrange (Hawks, Finks, Cliques, manlands, swords, and counters)
There looked to be plenty of Jund and Twin winning in the early rounds but seem to have all lost in the last round or two.
Won by splinter twin and 3 twins on the top8. Not surprising. Let's see how this works out, but twin seems like the clear best combo deck in the format because of its resiliency against hate. In the final, it beat a deck with maindeck hate (soul warden) and sideboard hate in the form of gaddock teeg and ghostly prisons. But spellskite, firespout and echoing truth gave the tournament to the combo deck.
Won by splinter twin and 3 twins on the top8. Not surprising. Let's see how this works out, but twin seems like the clear best combo deck in the format because of its resiliency against hate. In the final, it beat a deck with maindeck hate (soul warden) and sideboard hate in the form of gaddock teeg and ghostly prisons. But spellskite, firespout and echoing truth gave the tournament to the combo deck.
You do realise that having hate is a guarantee of a better chance of winning, not actually winning the match up, right?
Looks like a very unexpected top 8 to me:
2 control decks
No spot for Jund
No fast aggro ala Affinity or Zoo
Beating Twin doesn't just require chucking a bit of hate in, it also requires a solid gameplan for interacting with it (since it needs to land a creature, has a plan of it's own to bounce your Torpor Orb etc). It'll ebb and flow in success according to the amount of respect it's given. It'll do very well right now because it had a bad worlds and people are just paying the match-up lip service.
Yeah it was a very surprise for me too. I think that Jund is the most optimal deck right now (with all the discards cards it can beat splinter twin easily imo), and also surprising neither an affinity deck or a zoo one. We`ll see how today`s PTQ works out.
As for Splinter, i remember one game were he bounce the warden end of turn, plays the pestermite, and then next turn combo without danger. It is the best combo deck, by far. But as for the best deck of the format, is too soon to tell.
Yep, if you present one roadblock to Splinter Twin it's just slowing them a bit i.e. they go off once they have the bounce.
The way to beat twin is to either do something with the bit of time you buy, or buy enough time anyway (double up on the hate, just make sure it's diverse so you don't lose to echoing truth).
Jund = discard their combo piece and they need to spend turns digging for another. Apply enough pressure and they may run out the creature unprotected and you terminate it.
Zoo = Canonist or Gaddock Teeg and aggro = they're forced to run it out there before they have mana to roil AND pestermite. So you path them.
Affinity = I usually bring in Canonist and Torpor Orb. I'm sure you can guess by now the plan being that I buy enough time to kill them or force them to go off and hope I 'don't have it' (Galvanic/Shrapnel Blast/Dispatch? You Betcha).
Clear plans, not just hate. This isn't Dredge where you mull down for Leyline to auto win
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I am attempting to keep the OP current with representitive lists if I can get them in a timely manner, but bear in mind that metagames differ, so what may be good in Brazil might face a different field in Canada.
Paper:
Seattle
Portland (WK 1)
Montreal
Denver
Manchester
Rome
Bologna
Turin
Ocoee
Garden City
Burnsville
Brooklyn
Lubbock
Paris
Albuquerque
Hamburg
Milan
Ottersthal
Rennes
Toulouse
Zwolle
Portland (WK 4)
Hattiesburg
Louisville
Toronto
Copenhagen
Madrid
Hanau
Online PTQ:
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3372933
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3372945
Online Premier Events:
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3284020
3314372
3314381
3372937
3345542
3345532
3400387
3428002
MOCS
3372957
Grand Prix
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Lincoln D1
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Decks to Beat
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Steven J Birklid
3 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Glimmervoid
4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Mountain
Creatures (25)
4 Arcbound Ravager
3 Etched Champion
4 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
2 Steel Overseer
4 Vault Skirge
4 Cranial Plating
4 Galvanic Blast
4 Mox Opal
3 Shrapnel Blast
3 Springleaf Drum
2 Steelshaper's Gift
1 Ancient Grudge
4 Blood Moon
1 Etched Champion
4 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Spellskite
1 Torpor Orb
2 Whipflare
Jared Carrier
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Glimmervoid
4 Inkmoth Nexus
Creatures (26)
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Master of Etherium
4 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
2 Steel Overseer
4 Vault Skirge
4 Cranial Plating
4 Galvanic Blast
4 Mox Opal
3 Springleaf Drum
3 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
3 Dispatch
4 Ethersworn Canonist
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Tidehollow Sculler
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ccomakoto (1st Place)
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blood Crypt
2 Copperline Gorge
1 Forest
2 Marsh Flats
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Raging Ravine
1 Rootbound Crag
1 Stomping Ground
1 Swamp
2 Treetop Village
2 Twilight Mire
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Dark Confidant
2 Grim Lavamancer
3 Kitchen Finks
4 Tarmogoyf
Spells (19)
3 Blightning
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Liliana of the Veil
2 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Putrefy
3 Smother
3 Thoughtseize
2 Combust
3 Jund Charm
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Seal of Fire
3 Seal of Primordium
2 Sulfur Elemental
2 Sword of Feast and Famine
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Dan Lanthier
1 Academy Ruins
1 Breeding Pool
2 Cascade Bluffs
5 Island
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Steam Vents
3 Sulfur Falls
Creatures (13)
4 Deceiver Exarch
3 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
3 Pestermite
3 Spellskite
4 Dispel
3 Flame Slash
3 Remand
1 Repeal
4 Serum Visions
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Splinter Twin
3 Ancient Grudge
3 Blood Moon
1 Echoing Truth
3 Engineered Explosives
1 Flame Slash
1 Mutagenic Growth
2 Negate
1 Repeal
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kbr3
4 Arid Mesa
2 Boros Garrison
4 Marsh Flats
4 Mountain
2 Plains
2 Sacred Foundry
4 Scalding Tarn
Creatures (23)
4 Chandra's Phoenix
3 Figure of Destiny
4 Goblin Guide
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Plated Geopede
4 Steppe Lynx
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Helix
4 Path to Exile
3 Searing Blaze
3 Combust
3 Disenchant
3 Refraction Trap
3 Shrine of Burning Rage
3 Volcanic Fallout
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Bruno Panara
4 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Mutavault
1 Swamp
3 Island
1 Steam Vents
2 Watery Grave
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Scalding Tarn
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Dark Confident
3 Snapcaster Mage
3 Vendilion Clique
1 Sword of Light & Shadow
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Disfigure
4 Smother
4 Serum Visions
1 Cryptic Command
2 Spell Snare
4 Mana Leak
3 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Negate
1 Dpell Pierce
2 Duress
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Kira, Great-Glass-Spinner
Raja Sulaiman
4 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Darkslick Shores
2 Faerie Conclave
4 Island
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Mutavault
1 Swamp
1 Watery Grave
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4 Dark Confidant
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Vendilion Clique
2 Cryptic Command
2 Doom Blade
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Mana Leak
1 Repeal
4 Serum Visions
3 Smother
2 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Damnation
2 Darkblast
1 Duress
2 Engineered Explosives
3 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Trinket Mage
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Jason Schousboe
1 Breeding Pool
1 Calciform Pools
2 Island
3 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Steam Vents
3 Sulfur Falls
4 Desperate Ritual
1 Empty the Warrens
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Grapeshot
1 Lightning Bolt
4 Manamorphose
3 Past in Flames
4 Peer Through Depths
4 Pyretic Ritual
3 Pyromancer's Swath
4 Seething Song
4 Serum Visions
4 Sleight of Hand
3 Ancient Grudge
2 Combust
1 Dispel
1 Fungal Reaches
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Wipe Away
2 Wurmcoil Engine
Pekka (4th Place)
3 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Steam Vents
4 Sulfur Falls
Spells (44)
4 Desperate Ritual
2 Empty the Warrens
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Grapeshot
4 Manamorphose
3 Past in Flames
4 Peer Through Depths
4 Pyretic Ritual
3 Pyromancer Ascension
4 Seething Song
4 Serum Visions
4 Sleight of Hand
3 Dispel
3 Echoing Truth
2 Empty the Warrens
3 Gigadrowse
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Shattering Spree
1 Spell Pierce
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_ShipItHolla (1st Place)
1 Arid Mesa
1 Blinkmoth Nexus
2 Celestial Colonnade
3 Hallowed Fountain
5 Island
1 Moorland Haunt
3 Mutavault
2 Plains
3 Scalding Tarn
4 Seachrome Coast
1 Steam Vents
Creatures (12)
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Squadron Hawk
4 Vendilion Clique
1 Batterskull
4 Cryptic Command
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Mortarpod
4 Path to Exile
4 Remand
3 Spell Snare
1 Steelshaper's Gift
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
2 Vedalken Shackles
2 Disenchant
1 Dispel
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Gut Shot
3 Kitchen Finks
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Pulse of the Grid
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Sword of War and Peace
2 Wrath of God
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Cliff Weixler
3 Forest
1 Godless Shrine
4 Marsh Flats
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
2 Razorverge Thicket
2 Swamp
2 Temple Garden
1 Twilight Mire
4 Verdant Catacombs
Creatures (28)
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Eternal Witness
1 Grand Abolisher
4 Kitchen Finks
3 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Murderous Redcap
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Reveillark
1 Shriekmaw
1 Spellskite
1 Sun Titan
3 Viscera Seer
4 Wall of Roots
4 Birthing Pod
3 Chord of Calling
3 Thoughtseize
1 Acidic Slime
1 Entomber Exarch
2 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Fulminator Mage
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Nekrataal
1 Obstinate Baloth
1 Orzhov Pontiff
3 Path to Exile
1 Thoughtseize
1 Withered Wretch
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Affinity isn't even the best deck in the format...
Personally, the metagame right now to me looks like this:
Tier 1:
Jund
Zoo
Affinity
Storm
Twin
Melira Pod
UW Tron
Tier 2:
Delver Tempo (UB, RUG, BUG, Grixis... though this deck is very new and will most likely be Tier 1)
Twin Pod
Living End
Martyr-Proc
Teachings
Solar Flare
Red Variants (RB, Boros, RDW)
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I've never seen a format where the meta is so different on MTGO than in paper. White is all over the place online too but not getting much love from paper players.
Yeah I'm expecting jund, zoo, affinity, pod and storm. But I'd love to see some rogue decks make an appereance. (Not that I consider Merfolk to be rogue)
My H/W list
2 [7E] Island (3)
1 [M11] Swamp (4)
2 [RAV] Mountain (1)
2 [DIS] Blood Crypt
3 [GP] Steam Vents
4 [ZEN] Arid Mesa
4 [ZEN] Scalding Tarn
1 [RAV] Watery Grave
// Creatures
3 [INN] Snapcaster Mage
4 [M12] Grim Lavamancer
4 [INN] Delver of Secrets
4 [ZEN] Goblin Guide
4 [RAV] Dark Confidant
// Spells
3 [EVE] Raven's Crime
4 [M11] Lightning Bolt
3 [ROE] Inquisition of Kozilek
4 [RAV] Remand
4 [NPH] Vapor Snag
4 [FD] Serum Visions
// Sideboard
SB: 1 [EVE] Raven's Crime
SB: 1 [ROE] Inquisition of Kozilek
SB: 3 [PLC] Extirpate
SB: 3 [M10] Pithing Needle
SB: 2 [TSP] Sudden Death
SB: 2 [CFX] Hellspark Elemental
SB: 3 [WWK] Smother
This is not the place for decklists that haven't placed well in a tournament. t_c
Wait, TRON is tier 1 now? Have I been living under a rock?
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I've been accused of such, but the best result I've seen for the deck so far is 4th place in a MTGO Premier event which is probably equal in skill/depth to a smaller PTQ. I think its showing up heavily in certain metas.
If you look around you'll find the threads you are looking for:
Grixis Tempo
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=381652
Just goes to show how wide open the meta is, in my opinion. I'm looking forward to seeing not only the spread of the decklists, but how the win percentages among the varied decks are.
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I think people are paying a lot more attention to the MTGO dailies then they deserve at the moment. They're 30-50 man tournaments with 4 rounds. People are grinding them for tix so a lot of the "top decks" might actually be top players playing deck x with good success. There's also the small point that players who want to PTQ with a deck generally won't want to go on MTGO and go 4-0 in dailies all month with it before their PTQ. It's a good indicator, but I think when we get some more PTQ top8s it'll be a better idea of the actual tiers.
Jund: Why play any other midrange strategy? Stupid inherent card advantage, universal answers, debilitating discard, reasonable clock. Secretly the best control deck.
Delver Tempo + Merfolk: In all its flavors, just the most efficient agro control cards.
Pod Decks: Creature combo is good cuz it can just win by beat down or out of nowhere.
Affinity +Boros+Zoo: Fastest posible agro decks.
Going into a tourney why would you play anything besides these?
Everything else is tier 1.5 because its easily disrupted, too clunky or just playing to fair.
I love me some U/Wx control but if I could afford Goyf I would play jund. Not playing Goyf decks just seems wrong more or less.
Sorry, I should have specified the list from the top 8 at the PTQ. Seeing as it was classified as UB rather than grixis, I am curious to see what card choices they felt were advantagous enough to keep from splashing.
My H/W list
Fair enough. I'll see what I can find. The poster right after you posted up a random Grixis list (which I redacted), so that link was for him as well.
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This is a strange meta because a lot of people are playing somewhat budget decks because they don't want to commit to the format, or they don't want to commit to a deck until they know thier choice isn't really a fad deck, or a deck that will be tier 2 when/if the meta becomes less diverse.
Or get nailed with the banhammer. Who wants to buy a Reanimator, Tron, or Jund deck if Bloodbraid Elf and/or Gifts Ungiven get banned in March? There's going to have to be two or three cycles of banning announcements before people feel really confident in this meta.
Mono Blue Faeries
Red Affinity
Melira Pod
GW Tokens
Mono U Merfolk
Bant Aggro
UW Control/Midrange (Hawks, Finks, Cliques, manlands, swords, and counters)
There looked to be plenty of Jund and Twin winning in the early rounds but seem to have all lost in the last round or two.
You do realise that having hate is a guarantee of a better chance of winning, not actually winning the match up, right?
Looks like a very unexpected top 8 to me:
2 control decks
No spot for Jund
No fast aggro ala Affinity or Zoo
Beating Twin doesn't just require chucking a bit of hate in, it also requires a solid gameplan for interacting with it (since it needs to land a creature, has a plan of it's own to bounce your Torpor Orb etc). It'll ebb and flow in success according to the amount of respect it's given. It'll do very well right now because it had a bad worlds and people are just paying the match-up lip service.
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Yep, if you present one roadblock to Splinter Twin it's just slowing them a bit i.e. they go off once they have the bounce.
The way to beat twin is to either do something with the bit of time you buy, or buy enough time anyway (double up on the hate, just make sure it's diverse so you don't lose to echoing truth).
Jund = discard their combo piece and they need to spend turns digging for another. Apply enough pressure and they may run out the creature unprotected and you terminate it.
Zoo = Canonist or Gaddock Teeg and aggro = they're forced to run it out there before they have mana to roil AND pestermite. So you path them.
Affinity = I usually bring in Canonist and Torpor Orb. I'm sure you can guess by now the plan being that I buy enough time to kill them or force them to go off and hope I 'don't have it' (Galvanic/Shrapnel Blast/Dispatch? You Betcha).
Clear plans, not just hate. This isn't Dredge where you mull down for Leyline to auto win
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