Except we don't care if we get 1-for-1'd, 2-for-1'd, or even 4-for-1'd. We care that Bridge lands on the battlefield and stays there. Noxious Revival helps to accomplish that goal by letting you redraw countered, destroyed, and discarded Bridges, among many other uses.
I will admit Scooze is a big problem if we fight on that front. I don't know if Jund is upping their Scooze count or not.
I was really scared of BBE to begin with too, then I played a few games against bloody Jund and realized it is basically a sorcery speed cantrip. It's only threatening when they have a bunch of lands on top their deck. BBE does nothing when both players can see that Goyf sitting on top their deck.
Kanister did not make Top 8, but Luis Salvatto made it with Lantern! The other Top 8 decks are 2x Humans, Traverse Shadow, Abzan, Mardu Pyromancer, an Izzet midrange deck, and Hollow One Aggro.
1) I have the fourth Glimmervoid, but I get super nervous with GV when I only have one or two artifacts in post-board games because I don't want to be blown out. It's highly likely this fear is irrational though... I will go to a 4/1 split and see how that performs.
2) I didn't even think of that. I looooove having a playset of IoK in the deck and I will switch that over right away.
3) It seems like my choice here is between Island, a fastland, the second Spire, and Ghost Quarter. If I were to use a fastland, it would probably be Darkslick Shores just because Black on T1 is important (especially since I can board into 8 T1 discard spells!). I will be aware of the times where a basic Island screws me versus when it is helpful (GQ mostly) and report back on that one.
4) Mindshrieker is great against any deck that might run Stony, any deck that can overwhelm us with threat quality or quantity, as well as any deck with a large number of cantrips. It's not so good against Bolt decks because it just dies. For example, I would bring it in against GDS, Gx Tron, Hatebears, UW Control, Rock, and maybe Eldrazi Tron. I really love Mindshrieker because it serves as both a multi-Shredder and as a Tarmogoyf when needed.
I think Whir needs to run more Brutalities a la thnkr's build. I play Golgari and get away with 2 Brutalities just fine, but Whir does not have the luxury of just dumping their hand whenever they want like Golgari can.
It seems like this idea has been simmering for years, but has finally started taking off! To be honest this is awesome, and I really want to try this out!!
I will admit Scooze is a big problem if we fight on that front. I don't know if Jund is upping their Scooze count or not.
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4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Thoughtseize
Instant (5)
1 Abrupt Decay
4 Whir of Invention
Artifact (26)
4 Mishra's Bauble
4 Codex Shredder
3 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Lantern of Insight
4 Mox Opal
2 Pithing Needle
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
2 Pyxis of Pandemonium
1 Witchbane Orb
3 Botanical Sanctum
3 Darkslick Shores
4 Glimmervoid
1 Inventors' Fair
1 Island
1 Academy Ruins
1 River of Tears
4 Spire of Industry
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Pithing Needle
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Collective Brutality
2 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Nature's Claim
1 Pyroclasm
1 Search for Azcanta
2 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
2 Welding Jar
2) I didn't even think of that. I looooove having a playset of IoK in the deck and I will switch that over right away.
3) It seems like my choice here is between Island, a fastland, the second Spire, and Ghost Quarter. If I were to use a fastland, it would probably be Darkslick Shores just because Black on T1 is important (especially since I can board into 8 T1 discard spells!). I will be aware of the times where a basic Island screws me versus when it is helpful (GQ mostly) and report back on that one.
4) Mindshrieker is great against any deck that might run Stony, any deck that can overwhelm us with threat quality or quantity, as well as any deck with a large number of cantrips. It's not so good against Bolt decks because it just dies. For example, I would bring it in against GDS, Gx Tron, Hatebears, UW Control, Rock, and maybe Eldrazi Tron. I really love Mindshrieker because it serves as both a multi-Shredder and as a Tarmogoyf when needed.
Also a bit of an update: https://redd.it/7suslv