UTron is fun, but extremely difficult to beat as UR Twin. I think Will doesn’t know UTron that well I guess… At any rate, you want to side out the combo first and secondly tempo them out. You want to transform into a tempo deck which means bolt-snap-bolt, using Clique as a beater, bring in dispels, negates, and even Keranos to just jam a grindy threat.

Because this article is complete trash. The sideboard “primer” and I use that word lightly, is garbage?

Why keep in any decievers against jund? Because this guy is a numnut.

3-4 dispel is mandatory in this deep blue metagame.
shackles is a bad batterskull and even batterskull is unplayable right now.
shatterstorm is a bad ancient grudge.

why are we leaving in dispel against abzan and affinity but siding it out against infect?
why are we boarding in blood moon against twin and leaving it on the sidelines against infect?
why would we want spellskite against jund? why would we leave it out against affinity and burn?
why on god’s green earth would you take out dispel against amulet bloom?
why would you cut remand in the snapcaster mirror?
why are we leaving in so many lightning bolts against everyone? what does lightning bolt do against amulet bloom or grixis control or UWR? why are we cutting electrolyze against snapcaster decks? do we really expect lightning bolt to be better against opposing snapcasters than electrolyze?
why do we ignore the importance of ancient grudge against collected company and infect?

Yeah, GR tron is a great match-up. But I’m asking about Utron, or Mono Blue Tron. They don’t run Karn (Karn is pretty bad when you play it outside of T3/T4), don’t prioritize getting tron asap (they can win a lot more games without tron than GR tron can), and run a plethora of interaction in comparison to GR tron.

YAY!

Cause you can remand your own spells and gain value, also can remand bombs like Jace or Keranos…
And flashbacks spells

Hey! In hindsight it’s probably right to leave in 2 or so against any of the delve-based control decks, but you totally want more hard counters in these match ups.

In hindsight, it’s probably right to leave in 2 remand against the control decks running the delve creatures! Tron is actually pretty good – tapping the tron lands on upkeep keeps them off the Karn/Wurmcoil for awhile, and the interaction game one is next to nil outside of O-Stone.

P.S Sorry for my bad english 😛
P.S 2. Pestermites are better against “abrupt decay” meta and Deceiver is better against current “bolt, bolt, bolt everywhere” meta
P.S 3. Thank for reading this 😛
P.S 4 I’m reading modernnexus from “grixis” articles. I love this site ^^

Creatures 13:
4 Deceiver Exarch
4 Snapcaster Mage
2 Pestermite
2 Vendilion Clique

Inst/sorc/ench 24:
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Serum Visions
4 Remand
4 Splinter Twin
2 Cryptic Command
2 Dispel
1 peek
2 Spell snare
2 Electrolyze

Mana Base 23:
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Polluted Delta
3 Steam Vents
3 Sulfur Falls
1 Breeding Pool
5 Island
1 Mountain
1 Desolate Lighthouse
1 Cavern of souls

Sideboard 15:
1 Engineered Explosives
2 blood moon
2 Anger of the gods
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Spellskite
1 Dispel
1 Teferi, mage of zalafir
1 Counterflux
1 Grim Lavamancer
2 Keranos, god of storms
1 Roast

IMO sideboard guide in this primer is kinda wrong. If i would play Will’s deck my sb guide will look more like this:
Jund/Junk:
This MU always was bad for UR Twin. IMO sideboard in this deck is poor against them.
Board-in: 2x Blood Moon; 1x Keranos; 1x Teferi; 1x EE; 1x Negate; 1x Counterflux;
Board-out: 3x Twin; 3x Deceiver; 1x Peek
They have over 9000 thousand removal and discard so trying to combo-off is a nightmare. After sideboard we are going to play UR control with keranos as a win-con. A bunch counterspells is good idea in this matchup.

Affinity:
board-in: 1x Shatterstorm; 1x Explosives; 1x Spellskite; 2x Grudge; 1x Anger; 1x Shackles
board-out: 4x Remand; 1x Dispel; 1x Peek; 1x Clique
Shatter and grudge are obvious here, EE and anger are our additional sweepers. Spellskite is must-be card cause it’s only thing in deck that can block etched champion. Shackles are intresting here as they can stole they champion and give us few turns of live.
Remands are just bad in this mu, they’re giving us nothing except draw 1 card. Would you play instant card “draw 1 card” for 2 mana? Peek, and clique. We dont need hand information in this mu cause they usually don’t have cards on hand. Dispel is another poor card. After sideboard we probably have between 4-8 targets for it and those targets are not rly important.
Just try to stabilize situation on board and then comfortible combo-off

Burn:
MU favorable for us but also skill testing for both players.
Board-in: 1x Dispel; 1x spellskite; 2x Negate; 1x counterflux; 1x anger;
Board-out: 1x Vendilion; 4x Remand; 1x Roast;
Counterspells are our most advantage here so we should use as many as possible (except remands, same situation i wrote for affinity). If they can’not remove spellskite you probably will get easy win. Try to combo-off them and stay tuned for 4x Destructive revelery from them. (Why in this list is only 1 spell snare :/???)

Tron/bloom:
Here i can agree with Will about sideboard but I will add counterflux and dont remove dispel as i can destroy amulet bloom “hive-mind” plan and can stop tron from destroing our mana base with boil.

Infect:
Board-in: 2x Blood moon; 1x Anger; 1x EE; 1x Shackles; 1x Spellskite; 1x Dispel; 2x Negate; 1x Grudge
Board-out: 4x Remand; 1x peek; 2x clique; 1x Deceiver; 1x Twin; 1x Crypitc;
In this matchup we want to stabilize board situation and then play our combo for free win. Blood moons are great here cause they can win game for us, also they are turning off inkmoth nexus and pendelhaven. Counterspells are here to counter they creatures boosts. Grudge is dedicated for they spellskites they will bring against us.

Grixis/ UWx:
I played grixis for few months now and board-out remands sounds like joke for me…
No comment here.
Board-in: 1x Dispel; 2x Blood moon; 1x negate; 1x Teferi; 1x Keranos; 1x Counterflux
Board-out: 3x Twin; 3x Deceiver; 1x Peek;
It’s another mu where you are probably not able to win by combo. They have too many removals and counters. Again here we go with control plan. (don’t play blood moon against UR twin)
Moon is rly intresting in MU with grixis. If they did not expect moon its just free win for us. It’s not best card here but it give huge advantage when is played correctly.

Twin:
Totally depending on deck your opponent’s playing.

COCO variants:
Here is fine in primer. (but i would think about playing moon here :D)

Merfolk:
Fine. (again +1 moon here. Just to stop them from hitting us with mutavault)

DTT was released less than a year ago, by right before do you mean the release of BNG?

A bit more of an obscure question, but how does UR Twin deal with Utron? Seems like a very rough match-up. Outside of getting lucky and hoping they don’t have an answer to the combo (of which they have many), or playing as aggressive as possible (i.e bolt snap bolt), it doesn’t seem very favorable to us at all.

Experience: 1.5 years with various iterations of Twin, starting just before the Dig Through Time era.

I’m not sure how that is. Why would you want a remand rotting in your hand when you could have threats?

We’ll keep trying to roll out primers on a regular basis, and Amulet Bloom will be coming before too long.

Just checking: did the article make you feel this way because it gave you all these cool new tips you hadn’t thought of before? Or because it gave bad advice? If the latter, definitely let us know what you didn’t agree with and thought could have used improvement.