Endless sands. In France people love to play controls deck, like grixis or Jeskai. And thoses matchup are a bit rought. And a card like endless sand is close to impossible to deal with, so you just hold your mana, and wait for their removal. they often end up in set up where they have to crytic bounce the land in order to not die. It'll give you a lot of windows to get some advantage.
It could be a Field of ruind instead if ppl goes into big mana even more.
Dusk//dawn. The card is a bit too clunky, and shadows decks aren't played that much anymore. I could see myself playing a one off seetle the wreackage, but not sure it's good against good players cause you can play around pretty easily if you're far ahead.
Gelid Shackle. It's good against shadows, any company deck, any deck playing mana creature (ponza, kikichord etc...) It's also an extra removal for m/u like Jund/abzan. It's worth to trade your plains for Snow covered ones.
Smuggler's copter. When the card came out i've played up to 3 copies in the main deck. The biggest problem is the Nombo with Thalia. It's also a bad blink target for angel and flicker. And it's really bad if you're opponent gets some stony silence, like UW does sometimes in the M/U. Also, if you board in your stonys you need to get those out with the Thraben inspector (cause clue =Artifact).
With all of thoses things consider i'm not a big fan of it, but the card is fine in the deck. More like a personal choice
Wow 60-80 players is quite good IMHO. Btw can u share what your localgame meta when u play RW DnT. I Tried in cockatrice and i got so much fun especially against Dragon deck that is on rising because of the new Sarkhan PW card (Sarkhan FireBlood). I got really pressed because of early storm breath dragon buat Restoration Angel and Kiki Jiki save the day haha
609.7a. If an effect requires a player to choose a source of damage, he or she may choose a permanent; a spell on the stack (including a permanent spell); any object referred to by an object on the stack, by a replacement or prevention effect that's waiting to apply, or by a delayed triggered ability that's waiting to trigger (even if that object is no longer in the zone it used to be in); or a ...
face-up object in the command zone. A source doesn't need to be capable of dealing damage to be a legal choice. The source is chosen when the effect is created. If the player chooses a permanent, the effect will apply to the next damage dealt by that permanent, regardless of whether it's combat damage or damage dealt as the result of a ... ["!next" for page 2/2]
So sadly I cannot do that. That mean do not do that trick with burrenton and snapcaster interaction
"My view on interpreting this is the following: your opponent casts snapcaster. You let it resolve. Your opponent targets lightning bolt with snapcaster's ability. Now, before the ability resolves, it appears that there is an object on the stack (snapcaster's ability) targeting a particular card (lightning bolt). From my understanding, you can sac forge-tender in response at this moment choosing lightning bolt as a source, and your opponent can't cast it in response since snap's ability hasn't resolved yet. So... yes, I think you can do that"
I think this is the best explanation for this interaction. CMIIW pls
Hi wanna ask. My opponent snapcaster mage enter the battlefield and target his lightning bolt in his/her graveyard (and he/she dont cast it right away) and blocking my attacking burrenton forge tender. Can I sac my forge tender saying lightning bolt and prevent his lightning bolt ?
That is correct. You cannot respond to your opponent paying two mana to avoid arbiters effect, however you can say "after you pay 2 and I receive priority before the search resolves, I cast restoration angel targeting leonin arbiter". You will always receive priority again after your opponent pays 2 for arbiter and before a search effect resolves
This is incorrect. Though paying for arbiters ability does not use the stack, it is still considered to be taking an action, and therefore the stack does not resolve until both players pass priority without taking an action. If your opponent pays 2 mana for arbiter, you will receive priority again and be able to blink arbiter before the stack resolves.
1. I GQ my opponent land (GQ on the stack and the priority goes to my opponent)
2. My opponent do special action (pay 2 mana for leonin arbiter trigger abilites) so the game make the priority to my opponent
3. Because my opponent get priority the game pass back the priority to me (so the stack have not resolve) and because the priority back to me I blink the artbiter
4. in results my opponent must pay 2 mana more (do another special action) if he want to search for basic land from gq abilities
Thx aqua_benta for the explanation. Gonna try that in my LGS I often get match with BGX opponent or Control Blue deck such as Sultai Control (BWU) or Jeskai (RWU)
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How you play endless sands against BGX deck ? play the creature and when they want to fatal push it you exile that creature and later in the game u return them all ? Is that really effective ?
Gelid Shackle. It's good against shadows, any company deck, any deck playing mana creature (ponza, kikichord etc...) It's also an extra removal for m/u like Jund/abzan. It's worth to trade your plains for Snow covered ones.
gonna try this out. Btw is Gelid is also good against eldrazi tron ?
Hi Merry long time no see
Wow 60-80 players is quite good IMHO. Btw can u share what your localgame meta when u play RW DnT. I Tried in cockatrice and i got so much fun especially against Dragon deck that is on rising because of the new Sarkhan PW card (Sarkhan FireBlood). I got really pressed because of early storm breath dragon buat Restoration Angel and Kiki Jiki save the day haha
1 Battlefield Forge
1 Field of Ruin
4 Ghost Quarter
1 Horizon Canopy
4 Inspiring Vantage
1 Mountain
3 Needle Spires
4 Plains
2 Sacred Foundry
1 Tectonic Edge
26 CREATURES
4 Blade Splicer
2 Dire Fleet Daredevil
4 Flickerwisp
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
4 Leonin Arbiter
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Thraben Inspector
6 INSTANTS and SORC.
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Path to Exile
6 ARTIFACTS
4 Aether Vial
2 Smuggler's Copter
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
1 Cunning Sparkmage
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Magus of the Moon
1 Path to Exile
2 Rest in Peace
1 Settle the Wreckage
3 Stony Silence
1 Wear // Tear
face-up object in the command zone. A source doesn't need to be capable of dealing damage to be a legal choice. The source is chosen when the effect is created. If the player chooses a permanent, the effect will apply to the next damage dealt by that permanent, regardless of whether it's combat damage or damage dealt as the result of a ... ["!next" for page 2/2]
So sadly I cannot do that. That mean do not do that trick with burrenton and snapcaster interaction
I think this is the best explanation for this interaction. CMIIW pls
Many thx Dressedspring for the explanation
1. I GQ my opponent land (GQ on the stack and the priority goes to my opponent)
2. My opponent do special action (pay 2 mana for leonin arbiter trigger abilites) so the game make the priority to my opponent
3. Because my opponent get priority the game pass back the priority to me (so the stack have not resolve) and because the priority back to me I blink the artbiter
4. in results my opponent must pay 2 mana more (do another special action) if he want to search for basic land from gq abilities
Are the interactions correct ?
How you play endless sands against BGX deck ? play the creature and when they want to fatal push it you exile that creature and later in the game u return them all ? Is that really effective ?
gonna try this out. Btw is Gelid is also good against eldrazi tron ?