Speaking of graveyard, I remember why I’ve stopped playing this deck: In a meta heavily dominated by dredge, and cards that abuse of graveyard (delve spell, tarmogoyf ecc) every white deck started to pls rest in peace and other graveyard hater that made snapcaster an ambush viper, tasigur a 4/5 for six and jace a bad merfolk looter.
How do you handle all this hate? RIP especially.

I guess it comes down to play style. I tend to think of Grixis more as a Jund-style deck, and so Kalitas has really treated me quite well. But I imagine it really comes down to preference and local meta.

Great points, and there’s nothing really “wrong” with the new Liliana. I still think LotV is better, and I’m not playing that, and would play the old one before considering the new one. I think were the format more midrangey it’s possible it could find it’s way in, but in this list I’m looking to be as mana efficient as possible. Maybe if the metagame shifts!

All good points and you could be correct on everything. For me, the Dredge matchup really isn’t that great, and were it not for the Jailers I probably would just hope to dodge (or not play Grixis at all because Dredge is a bad matchup). I’m not that worried as I am expecting Dredge to get hated down again soon, so I’m basically leaving it up to other people to sideboard cards for them while I tune for the next level. A Grafdigger’s Cage or two would certainly make it better, but only slightly.

That being said, just playing a 5/5 can really slow them down, as we saw with our U/W Blink deck. Our removal can ensure they won’t swarm around us too fast/too early while we dig for Anger to put them away. Yes, we’re only playing two, but a playset of Thought Scour/Snapcaster makes it “almost” three.

I’m in Dallas this week for an architecture trip, but hopefully I’ll have some time to stream it when I get back! Check my Twitter!

Ira,

I talked about it briefly during the article, but at this point I’ve spoken at length about why I’m not interested in Kalitas in previous articles about Grixis. Maybe I should have restated for clarity, but basically I don’t feel like he does enough for his cost to justify inclusion. All of the four and five drop options Grixis has played feel really clunky to me, I’d much rather be casting delve threats for one mana and have as many double spell turns as possible.

Hope that helps
Trevor

Doesn’t she just do the same thing as K Command but slower and can’t be flashed back?

I’m also unclear on why you’re not playing Kalitas. He shores up the burn matchup (a bit, depends on their draw) but absolutely crushes Dredge, while being generally solid vs Jund due to having 4 toughness.