I disagree on Thassa’s Ire being rubbish – it’s very solid value/inevitability in a control deck (and has loads of incidental synergy with stuff like inspired and helix) – preferably blue black with Grim Guardian and other constellation-funtimes. I’d never waste a high pick on it, because it’s so dependent on you having a very slow, controlling deck – but it will spin 95% of the time, so you can snag it late for little-to-no opportunity cost.

Not the card if you are aiming to be fast and sleek… but its flexibility is impressive in the late game.

That deck was me attempting to do the Grim Guardian deck in full block to see if it was a thing. I never really got to do anything with it as the draws just weren’t there for me. But thought I had a pretty reasonable setup for it.

I also got out of pack 1 with three Chosen. And as already mentioned, you really should have brought in Eye Gouge for them. It only straight up killed four things in my deck, those three and the Nyxborn Eidolon, but very quickly in game one I realized I had no answer to your guy’s deck. My ‘stall and chip away’ plan wasn’t going to stop big creatures with mass amounts of evasion. I was leaning on those Chosen pretty hard. I was already on the back foot to start with against your deck, as you very easily went up and over all of my defensive creatures, and the Chosen were the only thing really stopping you.

But I fully understand why you didn’t. You never saw more than two Chosen at a time, and didn’t see Nyxborn Eidolon until game three (who isn’t really a threat anyways). It didn’t seem good against anything else, so bringing in an answer to only theoretical two cards doesn’t sound like the best. Especially when your deck was that strong.

Regardless. Fun games guys.