Mirran Crusader needs a big mention in the Melira POD matchup, as that's the main reason many are mainboarding it now. It tends to just end the game very quickly against Melira POD.
Good sideboard cards against Scapeshift:
Leyline of Sanctity
Runed Halo (naming Valakut, the molten pinnacle)
Fulminator Mage
Liliana of the Veil
Burrenton Forge-Tender (Protection against red sweepers)
Aven Mindcensor
Tectonic Edge
Good sideboard cards against GR Tron:
Stony Silence
Fulminator Mage
Aven Mindcensor
Tectonic Edge
Ghost Quarter
Burrenton Forge-Tender (Protection against red sweepers)
Pithing Needle or Oblivion Ring against Karn.
Good sideboard cards against Storm:
Rest in Peace
Leyline of Sanctity
Runed Halo (naming Grapeshot)
Liliana of the Veil (reducing their hand is important)
Zealous Persecution (killing goblin swarm)
Also Rule of Law, Ethersworn Canonist etc., but I don't think we need that narrow cards when we have so many other good answers.
Bogles:
Runed Halo (usually naming bogle or the hexporoof elf)
Liliana of the Veil (or other cards with an edict effect)
Mirran Crusader
Zealous Persecution (on the play you can sweep their 1/1 hexproof creature in response to an aura spell)
Enchantment removal like Disenchant or Oblivion Ring
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Hi, interesting take on the deck!
"Jace isn't a control card
you have to play a deck that gets on board early
and then plays jace
jace is a midrange card"
Now, what does it look like, a midrange deck in jeskai colors that plays jace? What are the midrange creatures best fit to play with jace (besides snapcaster)? Geist is a traditional midrange creature, but isn't it too offensive to play with jace? Shouldn't it rather be defensive creatures that can protect jace against attackers?
Jeskai colors lacks beefy defenders like tarmogoyf/tasigur. The closest we got there is perhaps Blade Splicer or Wall of Omens. We do have access to some cards that can go wide, like Young Pyromancer and Secure the wastes that can defend or chump with tokens. Spell Queller has at least a 3 toughness butt, so it can defend against some weenies.
"Jace isn't a control card
you have to play a deck that gets on board early
and then plays jace
jace is a midrange card"
Shaheen didn't take these words lightly, but is he right?
Great
Found some more from the stream:
34 Graves, Robert - Kiki Chord
41 Kiefer, Quinn - Hollow one
64 Sullano, Andrew - Elves
33 Yeem, Soohwang - Burn
34 Graves, Robert - Kiki Chord
35 Yam, Wing Chun - Burn
36 Kiefer, Jack - Ponza
37 Severson, Eric - Hollow one
38 Liu, Richard
39 Weitz, Benjamin - Ironworks
40 Carpenter, Brad - Grixis Shadow
41 Kiefer, Quinn - Hollow one
42 Shaath, Zuhair - Zoo
43 Loveman, Eli
44 Gordon, Ray
45 Stern, Jon - Mono green Tron
46 Swanson, Gray
47 Tomajko, Oliver
48 Baeckstrom, Andrew - Ironworks
49 Kovac, Chase
50 Turensky, Benjamin
51 Goeltz, Austin
52 Colker, Nathan
53 Marino, Lee
54 Garcia Rosas, Jose Daniel - BW Pox
55 Adams, Jesse
56 Meyer, Ben - Burn
57 Pardee, Samuel - Ironworks
58 Eakins, Loren
59 Babis, Robert - Goblins
60 Li, Chris
61 Moran, Spencer
62 Kirshon, Daniel
63 Carey, Bryan - Jund
64 Sullano, Andrew - Elves
How did you manage to beat dregde? I always felt Relic of Progenitus is not enough in that matchup and that I need Rest in Peace to really have a chance.
I've been having some success Molten Raining their Utopia Sprawl enchanted forests. Maybe you're right and I was just lucky, I'll test some more.
One advice: If you have several fetchlands, play them out without cracking them for as long as possible. If you only have two uncracked fetches in play, they can't play their turn 2/turn 3 Molten Rain/Stone Rain (because you would crack it in response). And then the next turn, hopefully you have enough mana and countermagic to protect yourself.
If you have room for Spreading Seas, it's a great spell in this matchup, both because Utopia Sprawl falls off when you play it on an enchanted forest, and because you can play it on your own land under a Blood Moon to make an island (provided you already have one basic island in play).
If you have Molten Rain in the sideboard, you can play it on their enchanted land (two-for-one)
That will depend heavily on the matchup. In the games I've won against jund on the back of this card, I've been happy to draw multiple copies. It's an ok play for 4 mana and gets increasingly more insane from 5 mana and up.
If you really WANT to draw one copy during the game, then that will probably not happen if you play only one copy in your 60. If you play 2 copies, you have a reasonable chance of drawing it through the course of the game.
I'd say the tokens synergizes well with Jace and other walkers because it can protect it and chump block if necessary. End step secure + main phase Jace, and you're in a good spot to start brainstorming.
In non-grindy games, 3 power at instant speed for 4 mana is similar to a restoration angel and a decent clock to play out when they didn't play anything worthy of your counterspell.
Many people are experimenting with Young Pyromancer now in the wake of it's success in the Pro tour in UR and mardu colors.
Not so much in jeskai colors, though, even after the success of UR Pyromancer, but this bad boy with disrupting shoals showed up in the latest league results:
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/985686#online
Eldrazi - 5 out of 6 day 2 decks made top 32
Storm - 5 out of 7 day 2 decks made top 32
Company - 4 out of 6 day 2 decks made top 32
Decks with weak conversion from the day 2 meta to top32 in Dallas Open:
Burn - 1 out of 6 day 2 decks made top 32
Tron - 1 out of 5 day 2 decks made top 32
Hexproof - 1 out of 4 day 2 decks made top 32
Jund - 2 out of 6 day 2 decks made top 32
http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/deckshow.php?&t[C1]=28&start_date=03/09/2018&end_date=03/11/2018&start=1&finish=32&event_ID=47&city=Dallas&limit=50