While Dispel is definitely much more narrow it helps us fight the faster decks (such as Phoenix) on the stack easier while still being good against control (unlike Pierce). The final change to the board is the dispel over negate. While this does give us one less card to board in aginst decks such as Humans, which is on the rise, we have the 2nd Unsubstantiate to help keep the numbers the same. Here we are giving up some creature interaction to have an actual haymaker against the Prison decks as well as against Scales. The next change is the Shatterstorm over the 2nd Abrade. This was due to lots of hate switching to being stack based as well as with the 4th pieces also letting us ignore RiP/Leyline more easily. To make space I decided to cut the Echoing Truth. First off is the going back to a full set of Pieces of the Puzzle as with the very large amount of graveyard hate, especially postboard, we now need to completely get rid of the main Gifts Ungiven plan a lot. In the Sideboard there have been quite a few changes. These factors also lead to the inclusion of the second unsubstantiate as now the top decks all have critical creatures to bounce (Phoenix, Humans, Spirits, Scales, Shadow) but with all the additional graveyard hate we still want to be able to execute a “Grapeshot + Remand + Grapeshot” line, especially with the added emphasis on the Pieces of the Puzzle plan postboard (as discussed below). Important to note that the mainboard hate is a lot of the times Surgical Extraction (mostly from Phoenix decks) so we cant even rely on tapped out opponents to signal the coast is clear. The inclusion of the 7th bear is mainly due to the meta now significantly picking up in speed and the now normal encountering of maindeck graveyard hate which makes having a bear in play all the more important to try and combo off. In doing so I have completely removed Remand from the deck to make space. The only differences are the reintroduction of the 7th “bear” in Goblin Electromancer and adding the 2nd Unsubstantiate. If anyone has comments, critiques or ideas please share, I am hoping to tune this list to be somewhat competitive.Compared to my previous post the maindeck has not changed much even with the banning of KCI and the current dominance of Arclight Phoenix and Dredge. I looked online and saw an earlier list (linked below). The manabase is mostly unchanged, slightly slimmed down though- replaced by spirit guides, and you are also trying to end the game faster. I also changed up the cantrip selection to include gitaxian probe, to thin the deck and give info to allow for a faster combo. emrakul is also a lot worse without the haste from sneak attack (not bad just less crazy). To accommodate this increase in speed I switched from emrakuls to chancellor of the annex- to add some protection along with FoW, which makes it slightly safer to jam the combo earlier. My list also puts more emphasis on speed for opting to more fast mana in addition to the usual lotus petals + sol lands in the form of simian spirit guides to allow for more turn 1&2 combos. Rather than sneak attack, I built around madcap experiment (with platinum emperion) to opt for speed- lower mana cost, and having live top-decks even if hellbent (if you just draw a madcap, you are still live). The general idea is a more aggressive take on Sneak & Show. Would love some help polishing a deck I am trying to brew. Just For Fun Deck Help Article Report News Discussion Brewing Primer Paper Event New Players SCD Casual Finance Mod Posts Places to Play MTGO Event Podcast
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