Comments on: Insider: Layers

By: Dylan Beckham

Dylan Beckham — Thu, 08 May 2014 19:49:09 +0000

In reply to Matt Sears. I miss that too. :'(

By: Dylan Beckham

Dylan Beckham — Thu, 08 May 2014 19:48:43 +0000

In reply to Sigmund Ausfresser. Flame slashes number are relatively small. As well with Abrupt Decay. The issue is if G/B/x decks are actually going to pick back up once the season starts. As of this moment, no results have been posted that look promising on the big scale. That's why I have discounted the usage of spot removal. Spot removal, in general, is not something that is featured in wide spread, large amounts at the moment in Modern. Most removal is all 3 damage based was the point I was driving home. Spot removal will always kill your biggest creatures, but Smiter forces your opponents to know care about spot removal more, instead of trying to focus on the tempo/burn plan they have been going with, effectively shortening the game and giving Snapcaster + __________ less time to be effective

By: Dylan Beckham

Dylan Beckham — Thu, 08 May 2014 19:45:12 +0000

In truth, comparing the two is apples to oranges. They change the role that you would expect each one to play. Going from more of a resource management to a ground and pound.

By: Sigmund Ausfresser

Sigmund Ausfresser — Fri, 02 May 2014 17:00:32 +0000

In reply to Whitechocobear. Also, don't forget Flame Slash is starting to see play as well. That being said I don't disagree with the call.

By: Matt Sears

Matt Sears — Fri, 02 May 2014 14:38:51 +0000

He’s fantastic in hate bears as well. As a side note…I miss DRS…powering out turn 2 liliana was THE thing to do.

By: David Schumann

David Schumann — Fri, 02 May 2014 12:12:26 +0000

Great article. Though I disagree with this statement “Loxodon Smiter does all the things that Deathrite Shaman did for the deck”….Smiter does not help power out a turn 2 Liliana…which was a house against any control and many combo decks. As Liliana +1 also put her out of bolt range (so in fact she’s very similar to your smiter in that regard). I do love the Smiter call though (just don’t believe good replacement for DRS is a fair comparison). The good news to me is that as we head into the summer and the RtR block cards begin to drop as people try to unload I think his value will be low enough to buy in heavily as your points about him being really good in modern are well said.

By: Whitechocobear

Whitechocobear — Fri, 02 May 2014 09:53:25 +0000

In reply to Whitechocobear. I see what your saying about bolts etc but dismissing plain removal is kind of weird considering basically every deck that cares about dealing with it plays straight removal spells of some sort

By: Whitechocobear

Whitechocobear — Fri, 02 May 2014 09:51:13 +0000

Abrupt decay deals with smiter in modern and is commonly played right?