Perhaps we can take it as understood that the poster meant Jace's Defeat.
I'm honestly starting to think his defeat may be one of the better answers in the format. Sorcery speed removal is not something you want to bank on as an answer against control. Instead of creature based damage or sorceries, it'll be interesting to see which faster answers become the most prominently used against Jace, or even BBE.
For those of you who dropped Atarka's Command, mind sharing your thoughts on why? There's been a huge spike of burn in my area and I'm tempted to give Boros Drev a shot despite how much I like AC.
I piloted a Naya list (for the record, my list was sans Nacatl) to 3rd place at states a couple weeks ago, and I'm also considering straight up Boros as opposed to Naya.
The thing I ultimately like is that the mana is more consistent. There were plenty of times where I wanted to cast both SB destructive revelry and Atarka's command, but could only do one or the other. Otherwise it was fetching for basics at first, then drawing a RG spell after not having a fetch available. I think having white for Boros Charm and Lightning Helix is enough. It also allows for more useful sideboarding. My ideal SB would be something like this:
Obviously this is mostly a meta call, but I think that currently helps out for a decent few of our bad match-ups. As for main board, nothing wrong with having 3-4 foundries instead of no grounds. If you previously run copperline forge, either more mountains or Clifftop retreat would do in a pinch. It's not that green stretched the mana too much, it just didn't seem necessary for one MB option and one SB option. Most of the time I was playing A-command, it was for the Skullcrack effect, so I think there's plenty of validity to running 4x Skullcrack in your 60.
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Perhaps we can take it as understood that the poster meant Jace's Defeat.
I'm honestly starting to think his defeat may be one of the better answers in the format. Sorcery speed removal is not something you want to bank on as an answer against control. Instead of creature based damage or sorceries, it'll be interesting to see which faster answers become the most prominently used against Jace, or even BBE.
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I piloted a Naya list (for the record, my list was sans Nacatl) to 3rd place at states a couple weeks ago, and I'm also considering straight up Boros as opposed to Naya.
The thing I ultimately like is that the mana is more consistent. There were plenty of times where I wanted to cast both SB destructive revelry and Atarka's command, but could only do one or the other. Otherwise it was fetching for basics at first, then drawing a RG spell after not having a fetch available. I think having white for Boros Charm and Lightning Helix is enough. It also allows for more useful sideboarding. My ideal SB would be something like this:
3x Molten Rain
2x Smash to Smithereens
2x Wear // Tear
2x Path to Exile
2x Celestial Purge
1x Grafdigger's Cage
1x Anger of the Gods
Obviously this is mostly a meta call, but I think that currently helps out for a decent few of our bad match-ups. As for main board, nothing wrong with having 3-4 foundries instead of no grounds. If you previously run copperline forge, either more mountains or Clifftop retreat would do in a pinch. It's not that green stretched the mana too much, it just didn't seem necessary for one MB option and one SB option. Most of the time I was playing A-command, it was for the Skullcrack effect, so I think there's plenty of validity to running 4x Skullcrack in your 60.