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SilvergillMaster posted a message on [Primer] Merfolk (3/2012 - 11/2015)http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=83500 is a pretty sweet list for U/W I won't lie, might even consider testing this out at the next event at my LGSPosted in: Modern Archives - Proven -
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FANAttIC posted a message on [Primer] Merfolk (3/2012 - 11/2015)Silvergill Adept can't be sideboarded out.Posted in: Modern Archives - Proven
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4 Tarmogoyf
4 Dark Confidant
4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Scavenging Ooze
Instants
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Kolaghan's Command
2 Terminate
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Maelstrom Pulse
Sorceries
4 Thoughtseize
2 Lingering Souls
1 Collective Brutality
4 Liliana of the Veil
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
Land
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
3 Raging Ravine
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Swamp
1 Blooming Marsh
1 Godless Shrine
1 Blood Crypt
1 Stomping Ground
1 Forest
4 Fulminator Mage
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Collective Brutality
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Damnation
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Dreadbore
1 Lingering Souls
1 Duress
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I'm toying with the idea of going to the upcoming SCG Open and will probaly play this deck. I plan to change up a few of the cards and will re-post once I come to final decision.
2 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
2 Archangel of Tithes
4 Magus of the Tabernacle
Land Destruction
4 Stone Rain
4 Molten Rain
4 Boom // Bust
1 Crucible of Worlds
Control
2 Anger of the Gods
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Lightning Helix
1 Condemn
4 Ghostly Prison
2 Ajani Vengeant
2 Needle Spires
2 Temple of Triumph
4 Arid Mesa
1 Rugged Prairie
4 Flagstones of Trokair
4 Ghost Quarter
4 Sacred Foundry
2 Mountain
2 Plains
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Rest in Peace
3 Stony Silence
4 Kor Firewalker
1 Porphyry Nodes
1 Nevermore
2 Wrath of God
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Playing Path to Exile never made much sense to me, especially in a pain-free (manabase that is) deck that can afford to run Dismember. I agree that giving your opponent free lands goes totally against the cards you mentioned (Spell Pierce, Monastery Siege, Spreading Seas, Cursecatcher, etc). This may sound weird, but I'd probably run Reality Shift before I ever ran Path to Exile. A 2/2 creature (most likely can't manifest it) that can't block my islandwalking creatures is a better trade-off than giving my opponent free lands.
On the topic of Stony Silence vs Kataki, War's Wage: Merfolk is a tempo aggro deck, so whenever we can play a hate card that also doubles as a creature we should do so. Also, a turn 2 Kataki, War's Wage is basically GG for affinity unless they have Galvanic Blast. In almost any other deck (except Hatebears) I would run Stony Silence, just for it's dual applications against tron.
A similar tempo argument can be made for Rest in Peace and Relic of Progenitus. Being able to cantrip off of Relic of Progenitus, means that we draw into our threats faster. I also think [/card]Relic of Progenitus[/card] is one of the best sideboard cards ever printed (even mainboard in some decks). I run it in almost every deck i've ever built.
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