would Waste Not be a good side board option against ascendancy combo ?
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Posted on Oct. 24, 2014, 3:18 p.m. by Killabeetle
So I plan to run a b/w control list this FNM and was curious what you guys think would be the best choice to combat ascendancy all I can think of is obv thoughtseize and erase and possibly Eidolon of Rhetoric or Waste Not Thoughts ?
If they're actually looting already, nothing you get from Waste Not is likely to matter. Spirit of the Labyrinth is also fine to prevent the looting.
October 24, 2014 3:26 p.m.
Killabeetle says... #4
Those a great suggestions I thought drawing into an erase bile blight or utter end would be decent.
October 24, 2014 3:40 p.m.
It could be good if you keep them off of Sylvan Caryatid somehow, but generally speaking, they'll have a mana dork before they have the ascendancy out. Obviously the best scenario is if they have Jeskai Ascendancy out without a dork and they're playing spells and using the loot triggers to discard things, but that's still not a good position to be in. Instead of having Waste Not you could just have Erase or something else that actually kills the combo, as opposed to hoping to draw into something that kills the combo.
Slycne says... #2
Eidolon of Rhetoric - Yes, they can't win through this card. If you're really worried about the match-up this is a dedicated hoser.
Waste Not - No, this card does absolutely nothing to stop them from combo-ing. You will have a ton of mana in your pool, a bunch of cards in hand and maybe a few zombies and still just die to their combo. A basic land would almost be better.
October 24, 2014 3:24 p.m.