Sneak & Show vs OmniTell
Legacy forum
Posted on May 20, 2015, 10:23 a.m. by mckin
Im debating which deck to play for the SCG Open this weekend and I'm torn. I started off as an OmniTell player when I moved from stoneblade variants, with an end goal of building sneak. Well now I have sneak but the printing of DTT has really improved OmntiTell which is putting up a lot of really good results.
Sneak:
-Isn't all in on show and tell, I can also cast sneak so I have 8 'enablers'
-Blood Moons in the board.
-I feel its a better miracles match up, & more explosive combo, I can win turn 1, or have turn 1 emrakul just chillen.
-Weaker to wasteland.
-Weaker to delver first couple turns, stronger if I hit land drops, overmaster.
-Easier to hate out, ensnaring bridge, containment priest, karakas vs spirit of the lab.
OmniTell
-"Wasteland Proof"
-Less explosive, basically lose to counter/top with a 3 on top.
-More cantrips, less redundant pieces, more DTTs.
-WISH BOARD!<3
-Much better against D&T if no spirit
-Beats all the sneak hate.
My big thing is I really want to play Sneak, but Id rather just win/money, Sneak gets around pyroblast also, and even though its easier to hate out, the rise of OmniTell I feel like less sneak hate will exist, except its so good against other decks too like reanimator, dredge, elves, d&t, I know it will still be out there.
EndStepTop says... #3
I'd stay with omni, you already have experience with it and at larger tournaments delver is very common, making Wasteland much more prevalent.
May 20, 2015 11:31 a.m.
GeminiSpartanX says... #4
I play Sneak, and tested just last week against a player not new to legacy, but new to Omni-tell. We played 3 pre-board and 3 post-board games and I won EVERY game. I think that part of that was my opponent's inexperience with the deck, but he's been playing legacy much longer than me so go figure.
I personally believe that there is a good mashup of both decks waiting to be discovered, as I won a game against death and taxes solely because I run a single Omniscience in my Sneak MD which got past both his Karakas and Containment Priest since I was able to just cast Emrakul taking the extra turns ftw. If you have the time and a few friends with legacy decks to play against, I'd try combining the 2 into something that can be super resilient. At least that's what I'm attempting to do atm.
May 20, 2015 12:42 p.m.
From an elves player perspective, i'd rather see onmi-tell than sneak-n-show. Sneak is just more explosive, and it's easier to sideboard against omni-tell since Cabal Therapy has fewer targets it needs to hit.
May 20, 2015 12:58 p.m.
I have experience with both decks at competitive rel, and run 2 omniscienfe in my sneak board for miracles/dnt matches. I like sneaks explosiveness but at the same time omni is more resistant to things like therapy bc so many cantrips to find combopieces, but i feel is slower and worse positioned against ither combo decks
Servo_Token says... #2
I personally like sneak better, but I just love free wins in tournaments. Sneak is more likely to get there with the turn 1 emrakuls and blood moons in board.
May 20, 2015 11:10 a.m.