Comments on: Dime a Dozen #12: The Real Post Blues

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:18:12 +0000

newplan – Great observations! I’ve found Echoing Truth to be problematic with Curse of Chains also. I still like Archaeomancer (though I’m probably the only one left at this point). In these games, I was able to wait that extra turn if I didn’t have enough U open for me to hold up counters and bounce etc. I can’t fault anyone for playing Mnemonic Wall, however.

By: newplan

newplan — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:34:33 +0000

Although curse of chains is the least conditional removal in blue (as good in some ways as pacifism overall) I don’t like it when you run bounce as your primary plan. It’s not great with echoing truth (almost all aggro decks are playing 4 copies of each of the creatures that they’re playing so echoing truth become a card just to be used on your serrated arrows) but is especially bad with curfew and you’d normally want to bring those same cards in at least some matchups.

As a substitute you can go with a powerful blocker that an aggro deck will have trouble with – coast watcher for stompy and infect, weatherseed faeries or oraxid (2/3 pro red for 3U) for red decks, and calcite snapper as a generic guy (1/4 shroud for 1UU, can flip p/t when you get landfall).

One last thing – I know you went with archeomancers so they could put on some pressure. How do you feel about them versus mnemonic walls now that you’ve played the deck? I found that the deck was so blue hungry that the extra colorless mana was a small price to pay for a better blocker and less U.

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:46:38 +0000

Anthony – Thanks for checking them out. Happy holidays to you!

deluxeicoff – You’re more than welcome to suggest article topics if there’s something you want to see. Otherwise, please don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 01:46:51 +0000

wrote my reply…and it vanished…

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 01:28:45 +0000

Or, you can deal with it, and just hover your mouse over the words. It does pop up a card image to the right… don’t be so mean

By: deluxeicoff

deluxeicoff — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:07:38 +0000

All video-style “articles” leave a lot to be desired for me personally. They are, by nature, a much quicker endeavor – thus less thought-out and structured.

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:31:43 +0000

Well fix it faster