Also, How do you get your text boxes transparent? I can't find the code for it anywhere lol

Respectively: By the hands of fate, I almost always have Clash in my opening hand. And I love casting scorn with no reveal when they tap out because it makes them cry lol. But for the force spikiness Clash is still better because it is , not .

And here's the code, just remove the spaces inside the carrots:

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I understand why you like clash, I would too if I got them in my opening hand lol.

And thank you, you're a saint and a scholar. I've been looking for that code for a while :)

So my question is when your main 'wincon' is dragons why run Planar Outburst over Crux of Fate?

I prefer 5-mana Wrath of God to crux anyway, just because I annoyingly often have to actually think about it. Also, thee Awaken is great.

But plannar dont kill lands, crux yup, im too think crux is better than than plannar

But I do run Awaken, and Planar will leave me with the only critter on the field for 3 extra mana.

In fact, last night, (I went 3-1!) I played a game in which it got pretty down to the line- no board states on either side, a few cards in hand, my turn, both nearly dead. I topdecked a Planar Outburst. I had 9 lands. I awakened, wiped an uninhabited field, and swung for game! I used a boardwipe as a creature for game!

hi angel, im following the new deck, and i buy the ojutai i need the languish and some duallands but is ok, now i have a question how do u do when u are vs an a atarka command deck? what sd and what put in mb thx!

I'm glad you like the deck so much! I would side as follows:

If it's Atarka Deck Wins:

-3 Silumgar's Scorn

-1 Scatter to the Winds

+4 Horribly Awry

Ignore those if it's more burn than creatures, but I think most Atarka Deck Wins decks are more creature heavy than burn.

-3 Utter End

+3 Surge of Righteousness

If tokens play a major role:

-2 Dragonlord Silumgar

-1 Planar Outburst

+3 Virulent Plague

If it's landfall:

-4 Clash of Wills

+4 Horribly Awry

If you see enough Makindi Sliderunner/other creatures, maybe drop Utter End for Surge of Righteousness.

ty u a lot, can u do a review of the games u play? sd and mb, that can be very usefull, me too im gonna writte my reviews of the deck!

Cool, no problem! Let's see how much of FNM I can remember:

Round 1: I seriously do not remember, I just remember that I went 2-0

Round 2: Bant control/midrange sort of: 2-0, no idea what I side boarded.

Round 3: Azorious control sort of: 1-2: Uhhhhhhhhhhh I think I sided in my disdainful strokes.

Round 4: 5-Color Bring to Light with rhinos and woodland wanderers, playset of jace, Dragonlord Ojutai, probably at least $400 easily: 2-0. Sided Horribly Awry and Disdainful Stroke, which is odd, but most of those creatures are 4 or less and most of the deck was 4 or more. In fact, a lot of 4 drops. But also 5-mana board wipes and of course pplayset Bring to Light, so yeah. Worthy of Disdain I think.

Hows it performing?? Any PPTQs?

Can you take a look at my Orzhov control, give me any advice? I actually won this week.. Hope it performs tonight.

I went 3-1 tonight, as follows:

Round 1: GW aggro: Win 2-0

Round 2: GW aggro: Win 2-0

Round 3: Jeskai Black: Loss 0-2

Roud 4: Assault formation: Win 2-0

I'll check it out.

+1 from me, you are now at 45!

I am interested in hearing about your loss against Jeskai Black. Were you having mana issues, just not getting the draws needed, etc?

Hmmm, let's think...

I guess it was just the threat-per-cubic-centimeter of the deck. I would get out an Ojutai and he'd Crackling Doom, then he'd cast a Mantis Rider and a jace next turn and Dispel my counter and then I'd next turn Foul-Tongue Invocation and get rid of his rider but he'd flip up jace... I guess he just out played me? He also managed to kill my Shambling Vents which was good for him. Awaken ended up just enabling him to kill my lands. At some point he cast 2 Dig Through Time in the same turn, and I could only counter one of them. I guess if I'd had greater access to the right responses it probably would have turned out better, like well timed Languishes. Nothing exactly stands out in my mind as "why I lost."

Think of his deck as having a high pressure in newtons where newtons is high value things.

Yeah, Jeskai Black has a lot of answers and potent threats. They can potentially have a lot of dead cards in hand though, say if you do not allow them to get maximum value out of cards like:

- Fiery Impulse
- Kolaghan's Command
- Crackling Doom

This is exactly what I am doing with my latest brew, check it out:

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Alright, here's how last night went:

3-1

Round one: Flip-flying Jeskai Black: Loss: 0-2

2: Boros Aggro: Win: 2-0

3: Kolaghan Aggro: Win: 2-0

4: Orzhov Warriors: Win: 2-0

Pulled the best card in the set though.... Full-art Island!

I sided in Horribly Awry over Silumgar's Scorn every game... Should I maybe maindeck it? Does it possibly make more sense than Silumgar's Scorn in the deck since it's a strictly worse hybrid of Force Spike and Clash of Wills unless I have a dragon? But if I do it's Counterspell! Struggling.

EDIT: I am going to try that for now, but that's where I'd like some feedback. Thanks!

I would run Crux of Fate over Planar Outburst

I've thought about that, but I keep coming to this conclusion:

1) The late game 4/4 haste as the only thing on the field requires a response and is nice, especially if it's Shambling Vent.

2) If I have a draconian presence, I most likely have control over the board.

3) Ergo, the two times I'm most likely to cast a boardwipe would be either T5-T6, when I probably don't have any creatures; or late game if my opponent has have a board shift in their favor when I may not have a creature in which case the 4/4 is a strict upgrade.

But ultimately you're correct, it is more risky to run Planar Outburst over Crux of Fate. But I, for myself, prefer the higher risk-reward.

Thank you for your input!

Do you have delve problems since you aren't running fetches?

No. Not that I wouldn't totally run them if I wanted to buy them though lol.

Most recent FNM:

2-1-1

Round 1: Golgari Elves Aggro: Win: 2-1

Round 2: RDW: Win: 2-1

Round 3: 4-Color, not-blue, bunch of value things...: Tie.

Round 4: Assault formation: Loss: 1-2

Reason for Round 4 Loss: kept a hand with 3 lands, none of which were blue sources. Reason: Had a dragon, multiple Foul-Tongue Invocation, and Utter End. Did not draw the fourth land. Instead I drew 2 more Utter End and a couple of counters...

Make sure you test for the Ramp match up. People are figuring it out and it's atrocious for control. Knocked me out of top 8 this week, and it feels borderline hopeless as far as the match up's concerned.

What do you recommend? What did you learn?

The one asset control players actually have: The ability to learn and adapt, and make other people think we are actually capable of doing anything else...

Strangely enough, the best way for us to beat the ramp match-up seems to go underneath it. The real problem is if Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger gets cast, it sets us really far back unless we have the board basically flooded and have them heavily pressured before they get to that point. The only saving grace once he gets cast is making sure they don't have another in hand before dropping a Dragonlord Silumgar. Still not a great match-up even in these instances because we have to basically convert to an aggro deck to really go underneath them.