Comments on: Where Is My Mind: Brewing BW Shadow Pox https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/09/where-is-my-mind-brewing-bw-shadow-pox/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Wed, 04 Oct 2017 02:35:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jordan Boisvert https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/09/where-is-my-mind-brewing-bw-shadow-pox/#comment-2128767 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 02:35:54 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15459#comment-2128767 In reply to Nat Crosman.

Definitely not tracking. You just really want to open Urborg though. Smallpox lets you sacrifice/dump extras, and you can also pitch them to Lili. So far having more Urborgs never loses me the game, but missing the first one can.

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By: Nat Crosman https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/09/where-is-my-mind-brewing-bw-shadow-pox/#comment-2128766 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 02:10:10 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15459#comment-2128766 Interesting brew. Four Fetid Heath plus eight legendary lands seems like it might be pushing the envelope pretty hard though. Though I guess Flagstones doesn’t really suffer from the legendary rule the same way that Urborg does. Are you tracking mulls for wrong land combinations in the opener, as opposed to mulls for wrong number of lands in the opener?

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By: IxidorsDreams https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/09/where-is-my-mind-brewing-bw-shadow-pox/#comment-2128765 Sun, 24 Sep 2017 17:58:00 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15459#comment-2128765 Never seen anything like this– my God it’s like your discovered something new

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By: Jordan Boisvert https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/09/where-is-my-mind-brewing-bw-shadow-pox/#comment-2128764 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 06:01:11 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15459#comment-2128764 In reply to Pedro Fausto Rodrigues.

I love Looting in general, but in decks that can benefit off the grave dump, it’s superb. I don’t usually run it in my Pox decks because it makes the mana miserable. Trying to support Looting, Pox, and Flagstones in one deck stretches us very thin, and makes us too soft to land destruction IMO. You also risk delving too deep into graveyard synergies at that point, so Rest in Peace & co. become great against us as well.

Going all-in on the land destruction plan can be fun, and I’ve tried it a few times. It’s good in some matchups, but super weak against anyone proactive. If opponents stick an early threat (or, God forbid, two), we just lose. Land destruction spells are also pretty weak in the late-game; Smallpox itself sort of has this problem too, but it’s passable since it still kills creatures. It also asks a lot of the deck. Often we can’t cast BB on turn two for value and have to wait until turn three (i.e. with a fetch), which is too late most of the time. Easy to draw the wrong pieces at the wrong time.

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By: Pedro Fausto Rodrigues https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/09/where-is-my-mind-brewing-bw-shadow-pox/#comment-2128763 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 04:00:58 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15459#comment-2128763 I’m really looking forward to see what kind of smallpox deck you will brew (if this list isn’t already good enough).
I’ve been testing a Mardu smallpox version with faithless looting, bloodghast, lingering souls and boom/bust.
Even with the clunky Mana base, the idea is to break even more the symmetry on different angles and with micro synergies.
Turn 1 faithless discarding bloodghast and/or souls is wonderful.
Turn 2 urborg/flagstones into smallpox is the default to any smallpox.
But, if you can’t have urborg, you can boom bust your flagstones, fixing your Mana and destroying the opposing lands.
You can even target your fetchlands with boom/bust.
To close the game: Gideon of trials and/or gurmag angler.

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By: Jordan Boisvert https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/09/where-is-my-mind-brewing-bw-shadow-pox/#comment-2128762 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:03:32 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15459#comment-2128762 In reply to Roland F. Rivera Santiago.

That, and I don’t want to overcommit into a single angle of attack. I’d rather run more ‘walkers as three-drops since LtlH helps address certain issues the deck has and pressures opponents from a unique angle. There are few effective ways to remove a PW in Modern, while answers to Lingering Souls abound.

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By: Roland F. Rivera Santiago https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/09/where-is-my-mind-brewing-bw-shadow-pox/#comment-2128761 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:57:15 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15459#comment-2128761 Spicy list! I like this take on Smallpox. I suppose the new planeswalker rule is the rationale behind running 4 LiliVeil and 2 LiliLastHope over Lingering Souls 3-4 in the main?

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