Comments on: Three Decks for GP Dallas

By: Roland F. Rivera Santiago

Roland F. Rivera Santiago — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 15:53:58 +0000

In reply to Tanner Chase. That's a good point, but I'm sure he could have pulled up another example list without those oddball flex choices.

By: Zach Stackhouse

Zach Stackhouse — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:49:41 +0000

In reply to Jacob Kellogg. I mean nobody gets a cookie for predicting whether a card has an impact or not. What's the point of "gloating."

By: Tanner Chase

Tanner Chase — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 05:27:04 +0000

In reply to Roland F. Rivera Santiago. The Jund and Eldrazi lists were not his if you look between the parentheses

By: Jacob Kellogg

Jacob Kellogg — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:34:38 +0000

I can’t help smiling whenever one of the authors here talks about the awesomeness of Blossoming Defense as though it’s super obvious and everybody knows it’s the bee’s knees; when I’m pretty sure it was on this very site that during previews I read that it was overhyped and didn’t do enough and Vines/Blessing are better so it won’t find a home in Infect.

Hee hee. 😀

By: Roland F. Rivera Santiago

Roland F. Rivera Santiago — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:03:44 +0000

The introductory paragraph to this article made me chuckle. Well done. As for the lists themselves…

1. As others have noted above me, the meta has plenty of fliers, so cutting Distortion Strike is rather dangerous at the moment. What creatures do you fear so much that you feel you need Dismember in the main? Also note that the card is atrocious against Burn, which is a matchup where you need all the help you can get to begin with.

2. Why is Kessig Wolf Run in your Jund list? Is it to keep a late Goyf from being chump-blocked? Because that feels rather marginal.

3. Why is Elspeth, Sun’s Champion in your Eldrazi list over something like World Breaker? You can find it with Stirrings, cast it about as fast as Elspeth, and it more definitively answers removal-heavy matchups (which is what I assume you’d be siding in Elspeth for – this isn’t a control deck, after all).

By: Oliver Nicholas Moon

Oliver Nicholas Moon — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:51:08 +0000

In reply to Tanner Chase. Going under 4 Probes is 100% a mistake, the information the card provides, the card it draws and the fact that it is fuel for Become Immense is just too strong not too play 4 of. I also wholeheartedly disagree about cutting Distortion Strike. Abzan is real the deck, Affinity has lots of chump blocker and so does Dredge.

By: Tanner Chase

Tanner Chase — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:05:03 +0000

Please consider some supplemental evasion in your Infect list. This metagame is not “devoid of Lingering Souls”; Abzan is Tier 1 at the moment. You also don’t want a prolonged board stall against Affinity. The rate on Distortion Strike isn’t the best but it does bait people into throwing removal into protection + growth (we get to run eight of those now). Another possibility is Rancor. It has been in and out of lists for years now but Tom Ross felt it was worthwhile now with Blossoming Defense to defend the target. Some folks like Slip Through Space but I’d recommend against it unless you expect the format to slow down.