thresh | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:10:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png thresh | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 The New Crackback: Introducing Miracle Bo https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/08/new-crackback-introducing-miracle-bo/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2018/08/new-crackback-introducing-miracle-bo/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:00:42 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=18431

There's a new Delver in town, and this one doesn't need delirium or a white splash to put the hurting on opponents as of turn one. All it requires is a single, generic mana and an appetite for attacking. Meet Bomat Courier, my latest addition to Temur Delver. Noah Walker's breakout Legacy performance with post-ban Grixis […]

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Immediately following its mainstream introduction to Modern by Josh Utter-Leyton and his crew at GP Vancouver, Death's Shadow gained significant footing in the metagame. The explosion of Jund Shadow onto the paper scene at roughly 10% has since cooled, with the deck taking a more reasonable 8% share when lumped in with Abzan Shadow builds. Part of the reason for […]

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