Hi all, I almost have the new pyro prison w/ new karn and I have a few questions: 1) what does a good opening hand look like g1? Further more, what hands look good but are not? 2) Do I need to mull aggressively? The deck seems to be more about card quality than quantity but I am still unsure how hard I need to mulligan. Lastly, 3) Do I ever pull in my singletons from the sideboard? It seems like most of the time I will be wishing for them so I am unsure if I would ever want to bring them in. Thanks for the replys!
If you are playing without paying there's no incentive for people to play it out. It happens to me all the time when I t1 a chalice. In other words, if you're not payin' their not playin' so don't take it too personally.
The 4 claim and 2 corrupter sounds right if you expect a lot of harden scales affinity. Balista sucks, even more so with extra counters on it, and they can chump block for days.
I'm going to finish humans here in a week or two and I was wondering if anyone had any tips or tricks they could share? I looked at the primer but it seems out of date.
So the latest list to top 8 ran 3 boreal druids and no mind stones. What's everyone's take on it? Seems like it helps more with the early ramp while still protecting us from blood moon. Like mind stone, still not what ya hope to hit off of bbe. Also it seems like an easy kill target.
New primer is up. Check it out and let me know what I'm missing in it.
I'm going to slowly add in all of the articles about the deck and videos I can find over the next few days. The deck doesn't have too many variations, so extra cards and stuff isn't really a thing but I added a few anyways. I'll finish some of the formatting then too. Going to try and align all of my primers so they look the same.
That's a great primer. Thank you for your hard work!
What are people’s sideboards looking like? Mine hasn’t been updated in a long time. I’m not sure if I still want nissa, voice of zendikar or what I would bring it in against.
Here is an interesting article that talks about the subject:
What is the humans match-up like for infect? Just try to race?
I played against humans at the last gp in Seattle. You definitely want to race because it's a tough match up. They have a quick clock with disruption. Blighted is your best card in this match up. Thalia and mantis rider can make it hard to get inkmoth through and they have lots of blockers for the elf. Watch out for reflector mage as well. Post board they bring in izzit staticaster. I really liked having a noble out and a pendelhaven b/c it forces them to chump block and runs them out of steam.
I've been thinking on Boreal too. Although I've not tried yet.
Mana rocks are good, mostly the Stone because it "gives" a card... but in general are terrible BBE targets :/ So I'll to try out Oath of Nissa or Boreal (only next week... this weekend it's Standard at my local store).
Basilisk Collar seems good... but against Jund? K-command is already good vs our deck and I can't give more attractive targets to my opponents :/
Pulse of Murasa has been working very well for me vs discard and control decks... and it's good enough vs Burn and Scapeshift too. Anyone else have tried it?
Being able to "return back" Gods, BBE, Thrun or a land (Field of Ruin is such a pain in the ***) and gain 6 life in instant speed is a "dream" against many decks.
Really? I felt like k command is bad against our deck. It doesn't kill any of our relevant threats, so it's usually used for discard and getting a creature back.
I know it sounds crazy but jund doesn't always play 3 k- commands in the main: as a matter of fact, some only run one and none in the side (which isn't to say that some don't still run 3). The thing is that they will tend to take out thier small removal (abrupt decay, bolt, and sometimes k command) because it's bad against our fatties and killing a mana dork doesn't help in a grindy game. They are going to bring in things like lily the last hope, damnation, and maelstrom pulse.
Edit: Here is the twitter link https://mobile.twitter.com/FlametongueKazu/status/1060354718948564992
I'm going to finish humans here in a week or two and I was wondering if anyone had any tips or tricks they could share? I looked at the primer but it seems out of date.
Absolutely not worth it.
That's a great primer. Thank you for your hard work!
I Think it replaces crumble to dust.
Here is an interesting article that talks about the subject:
http://manadeprived.com/modern-infects-not-dead/
Mine is similar but I run 2 dismember in the side and one less pulse due to the fact I still run a baby jace in the main.
I played against humans at the last gp in Seattle. You definitely want to race because it's a tough match up. They have a quick clock with disruption. Blighted is your best card in this match up. Thalia and mantis rider can make it hard to get inkmoth through and they have lots of blockers for the elf. Watch out for reflector mage as well. Post board they bring in izzit staticaster. I really liked having a noble out and a pendelhaven b/c it forces them to chump block and runs them out of steam.
Really? I felt like k command is bad against our deck. It doesn't kill any of our relevant threats, so it's usually used for discard and getting a creature back.
I know it sounds crazy but jund doesn't always play 3 k- commands in the main: as a matter of fact, some only run one and none in the side (which isn't to say that some don't still run 3). The thing is that they will tend to take out thier small removal (abrupt decay, bolt, and sometimes k command) because it's bad against our fatties and killing a mana dork doesn't help in a grindy game. They are going to bring in things like lily the last hope, damnation, and maelstrom pulse.