Affinity has had to choose between red or blue for Galvanic Blast vs Thoughtcast. With Magmatic Insight they can abandon the blue plan, plus it makes them less reliant on the Affinity mechanic (though they would still have to find deck slots).
I think you'll have more chance to wiff waiting a land than powering up affinity for Thoughtcast.
Not so sure about the Tron MU, turn 3 with lftl and ghost quarter in hand is gas against tron given they play just one basic in most lists.
GY is a concern though and man this deck does nothing without the GY...
Magmatic insight is real.
Loam decks will benefit greatly of this card, additional Faithless Looting are always nice and a way to convert the CA from lands to business spell for me is what the deck needs, too often you sit on your 5 lands hand drawing one card a turn hoping for a finisher or dredging hoping to hit a looting doing anything relevant.
Jab is a sorcery, weak to GY hate and do less damage, while paying the same amount of mana.
SA and Vortex are both enchantment and do the same amount of damage, at instant speed.
I think the second comparison is more fitting, but you can choose to call it a good Flame Jab or a bad SA.
Glad i was impressed by the list of Levy at Copenaghen and bought the deck on MODO a coupe of weeks ago, i don't want to image the price spikes with all this hype. Seismic Assault is better in every situation, Molten Vortex is just easier to cast through counters so maybe it could be a meta choice or SB material?
I'll definitely test it either way.
I guess i was wrong on affinity, i thought that an heavy presence of Kappa command both in Jund and Grixis would have made the deck not more viable, i'm impressed.
On the control topic, i think that Grixis Control is in fact control, why nobody account for it?
Good to see finally wrath MD in this meta (2 wrath of god in Junk).
Temur Delver, with mandrills and shoals, confirms at good competitive levels.
Matt Tarbak on twitter: "If you cast Day's Undoing, any abilities that trigger before you start ending the turn won't happen (i.e. ones like Sphinx's Tutelage)".
The Notion Thief dream is dead.
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Notion Thief replaces, so it still works - note the 'if an opponent would...instead' compared to Sphinx's Tutelage's 'whenever' (i.e., a trigger)
Matt Tarbak on twitter: "If you cast Day's Undoing, any abilities that trigger before you start ending the turn won't happen (i.e. ones like Sphinx's Tutelage)".
The Notion Thief dream is dead.
Faerie Miscreant is very very bad, it could be easily stupid good but end up being stupid bad.
Just Flash or even better drawing with any faerie would have made it playable.
I would play Probe over it any day of the week.
I think you'll have more chance to wiff waiting a land than powering up affinity for Thoughtcast.
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GY is a concern though and man this deck does nothing without the GY...
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Loam decks will benefit greatly of this card, additional Faithless Looting are always nice and a way to convert the CA from lands to business spell for me is what the deck needs, too often you sit on your 5 lands hand drawing one card a turn hoping for a finisher or dredging hoping to hit a looting doing anything relevant.
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Jab is a sorcery, weak to GY hate and do less damage, while paying the same amount of mana.
SA and Vortex are both enchantment and do the same amount of damage, at instant speed.
I think the second comparison is more fitting, but you can choose to call it a good Flame Jab or a bad SA.
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Seismic Assault is better in every situation, Molten Vortex is just easier to cast through counters so maybe it could be a meta choice or SB material?
I'll definitely test it either way.
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Also, this is much worse than Slaughter Games.
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Totally forgot about it, i guess i'm not playing much standard lately '-.-
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On the control topic, i think that Grixis Control is in fact control, why nobody account for it?
Good to see finally wrath MD in this meta (2 wrath of god in Junk).
Temur Delver, with mandrills and shoals, confirms at good competitive levels.
And whoa 4c-CoCo is deep!
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I was thinking about Nekusar and got confused, you are right.
Do you mean a fixed Timetwister?
(caveat: not sure if trolling )
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The Notion Thief dream is dead.
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Just Flash or even better drawing with any faerie would have made it playable.
I would play Probe over it any day of the week.
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