Oh snap, that is an awesome idea! I hadn't even thought of that!

Also, Scavenging Ooze would probably actually make a pretty good substitute for Deathrite Shaman in the main. I'll test them both out and get back to you. I'm only a bit hesitant because my meta is mostly control.

Well if that's the case then go split 2/1 Have 2 DRS in main and 1 Scavenging Ooze .

This way the sideboard is just a "tweak" depending on your matchup which is the exact position you want to be in

Good idea, updated.

I love beating Esper and American control decks. Now just find me an answer for Grixis and i'll be happy, hahaha. I assume your opponent was mad because he didn't draw into any detention sphere's to kill your Pithing Needle?

kyuuri117

Exactly, he tried to draw into them for so long that it became quite the spectacle to everyone watching our match. He kept repeating "I'm running 3 of them! I'm running 3 Detention Sphere s!"

They were all within the last 10ish cards of his deck. I told him that maybe he should spend more time shuffling between games. He left. We laughed.

I haven't really seen any standard Grixis decks lately, how are they shaping up post-Theros? They lost several good cards for the long game from M13. What about them is giving you problems?

Umm, last week I brought my Simic deck to standard. Had four pithing needle in the sideboard, but no enchantment destruction so I lost against Esper control. Pithing needle's kept getting detention sphere'd, so that was over pretty fast.

Against Grixis I swept him the first game easily. Second game he side boards in a full set of far // away, doom blade, syncopate, dissipate. He's got his four nightveil spector. Every single hit his spector got took away my land. By turn 12, where I lost, I had three land out. It was an embarasment. Ended when he got the underworld cerberus out.

Same thing happened game three. Underworld cerberus ended the game after he stole all my mana. I had no answers, and I cant think of anything that I could have side boarded in to make a difference.

In the end, I just decided that I was gonna turn the deck into a mono green deck so it was much faster, but I still cant figure out how to stop grixis control. If you want to check it out and offer any suggestions, i'd appreciate it. Here's a link Epic, Electric, Eso Ecosystem.

Hey,

After doing some playtesting vs super fast aggro decks, Returned Phalanx has worked well out of the sideboard vs them. It's a turn 2 3/3 that can attack later if you have one on the field and open mana.

Just thought I'd share with a fellow BUG player. I'm going to my FNM this Friday and I will be making some adjustments to my list before going there and let you know how it turns out.

what do you sideboard the Cyclonic Rift to ward against? I appreciate your comment on my bug deck and was considering most of the cards that make up the differences between our decks, I strongly considered rift but I'm not sure if meta demands that I cover for (im assuming) weenie decks.oh, and +1

Change of plans for me. I am going to run a Junk list (G/B/W) instead, but I'll let you know how that goes. In playtesting, BUG just wasn't measuring up to monoblack/monoblue or Monored Blitz so I made the switch to one that seems to be working much better overall.

Good luck!

@kharrison3:

Cyclonic Rift is really the only answer this deck has to one of the "gods" of Theros as they are indestructible. Without things like Detention Sphere , this deck has trouble dealing with a resolved Thassa, God of the Sea or Erebos, God of the Dead . It also can be a one sided board wipe if you can get to 7 mana, which should win you the game.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Plus I've had some fun bouncing my creatures back to my hand if they've been stolen by Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver , but that's rarely come up. Good luck at FNM to you too harrydemon117! What list are you running? I played some junk tokens before rotation, but I'm having trouble adapting that for standard now, so I've been focusing on this BUG list lately.

Thanks!

Mine was more of a "Junk Walker Midrange" list before rotation. It had Garruk, Primal Hunter , Garruk Relentless  ^Flip , Liliana of the Veil , Sorin, Lord of Innistrad , along with things like Restoration Angel and Thragtusk and Angel of Serenity .

1/2 the deck rotated out lol. My updated list is here: Don't mind my Junk

Feel free to test against it. Basically, I adopted Gray Merchant of Asphodel and decided to run A LOT of black permanents. Maybe that will help in BUG? There are a lot of similar cards, but BUG just didn't seem to have an answer to a resolved Blood Baron of Vizkopa if Lifebane Zombie doesn't hit it. Advent of the Wurm seems to be pretty good against it

harrydemon117 That's a pretty good point. I had been hoping to hit it with Far / Away or Thoughtseize but that won't always be a possibility. I'll sideboard a few Devour Flesh to help with that, plus I'll have some more instant speed removal that can hit those evade-y creatures. Thanks! I'll also run some playtests against your Junk deck and see what happens, might end up making some more changes to deal with a wider meta.

hm thanks I'll put one in my side I think :D

I can actually see some real potential.

this is mine id love ur oppinions.http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/24-09-14-makin-waves/

I like the idea of this color combo, I feel it certainly wreack some havoc.

I'd cut one Prognostic Sphinx and mainboard Bile Blight over Drown in Sorrow, at a 3-of.