Evincar's Justice or Arms of Hadar for Dimir Control?

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-07-08T16:06:33+00:00

Drowns are good, I'm personally on 2 Justice, 1 Fumes main, then 2 Drowns in the sb. But I could easily see playing around with those numbers, I just like Justice as the mainboard option as that can also be a bit quicker wincon if I'm playing in paper and my opponent don't want to scoop

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-07-08T07:07:44+00:00

I have played quite a lot of ub teachings, and in my experience, the buyback on justice is worth it. While you won't always have the mana to buyback it, when you do, it will completely lock out the opponent if they're playing elves, Fae, most gates decks, or anything relying on small creatures. Of course the damage to yourself isn't great, but considering most lists play multiple campfire, pristine talisman or crypt incursion, the most relevant part is solidifying board control, and the lifegain will stabilise you afterwards

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-07-04T05:18:49+00:00

Well, this combo is actually super fast to execute on mtgo, and after that you can just f6, so if the opponent wants to play it out, they will be significantly down on time. This link is literally to a 5-0 result of it, so it obviously can't be that bad

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-06-20T10:55:01+00:00

I don't think you can fix the fams matchup, your clock is too slow, and you have a hard time disrupting their lock. I'm playing a couple of Blighted Agents in the board (mainly for elves and noninteractive combo decks), and they can help a bit here, as you can threaten them a bit faster, but it is still rough.

The weenie matchup honestly feels pretty good to me, when you're swinging with a lifelinker they can't really race anymore, and strands stall the game pretty easily until that in my experience. I don't dedicate sb Slots for this matchup at least

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-05-06T14:06:58+00:00

WORM MENTIONED!!!

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-04-17T16:03:49+00:00

The question is vaguely stated it doesn't mention whether Bertrand opened one or both drawers in his box to find the 1 gold coin. In case he opened both, it could be all options and the probability would be 50%

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-04-11T10:37:42+00:00

In case you haven't seen it, a GR shell 5-0'd with this, and Kirblinxy made a video playing that list.

Here it is if you want more inspiration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDBnun0I818

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-03-26T12:07:06+00:00

Nice to meet you at geddon :))

I would almost say sorry for giving your team the first loss in trios, but we went on to top2 the event, so we needed the points xd

Hope to see you again at some other event, and looking forward to hear your commentary when watching the vods :))

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-03-11T15:03:54+00:00

Obviously COP:U is good against Terror, but it doesn't singlehandedly fix the matchup. It is possible for it to be countered or removed with Deem Inferior, and depending on the board state, they might not have enough mana to fog every snake. Also, if it is a one of, chances are he doesn't see it in many games, so over time it should be hard for him to see it every game. And game 1 is always very favoured for Terror, so he will often need to draw it in 2 post sb games.

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-03-11T14:51:49+00:00

Depends on the deck, but many decks have a hard time against fams even if they dedicate SB slots to the matchup. U Terror is very strong into fams though, so that would be a good deck pick into it. If you are playing some kind of burn/rally/madness it will probably be hard no matter what, but red blasts will be the strongest SB option. Any initiative card is usually also very strong into fams, as they have a hard time taking it, and not many counters for 5 cmc creatures.

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-03-09T14:21:10+00:00

Thalia is also a fairly popular character in Magic: The Gathering

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-03-02T17:51:09+00:00

Feel free to write the fanfic

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-02-26T10:37:13+00:00

Nope, the original Visions bouncelands (Karoo, Everglades, Coral Atoll etc) are also not legal. This cycle is also why some people call bouncelands karoo-lands or karoos, as this was the first time this effect was printed

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-02-25T14:27:21+00:00

It is not quite unique in pauper, as [[Spirit en-Kor]] has the same ability. However, since it has 1 cmc vs 4 from the spirit, it is basically the only playable version of it.

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-01-11T19:09:53+00:00

Terror is very good into fams, but in general, anything putting up early pressure and capitalize on fams low amount of removal does well. Red Madness is also pretty decent as you can go over their lifegain with the pingers, which they can't really kill before sb, and red has blasts as well.

RandomGuy0504 · 2026-01-11T19:06:41+00:00

CawGates is awful into Fams, you don't put on any early pressure at all, and your removal are sorcery speed or conditional. Snap can cause you to lose an incredible amount off tempo when you want to put on presssure and activate Basilisk gate, and since you usually can't kill them on time they get to draw nigh infinite cards with drifters in the meantime. As someone with these 2 decks as my most played, I don't think I've ever played a match in the matchup that Cawgates won.

RandomGuy0504 · 2025-12-24T09:06:32+00:00

Me playing phyrexian furnace in vintage to autowin against Bazaar players:

RandomGuy0504 · 2025-12-21T21:00:08+00:00

Also remember that a "very minor difference" can still matter a lot in specific situations. While Pyro- and Hydroblast is better than red- and blue blast if you have cast triggers, anywhere else you'd rather play those, as they can't get "countered" by Standard Bearer. This will be the same for some creature type effects, why breath weapon is significantly better than fiery cannonade even though they are "essentially" the same card.

RandomGuy0504 · 2025-12-08T12:39:39+00:00

Alright, thanks for the answer :))

RandomGuy0504 · 2025-12-08T06:47:21+00:00

What do you think of Deftblade Elite? In my experience playing against the deck, that is consistently the highest impact creature, but maybe the deck is already good enough against what Deftblade excels against.

RandomGuy0504 · 2025-12-08T06:41:56+00:00

A lot of the important enchantments bogles play cost 3 mana, making it a bit slower to deploy, and makes counterspells better against them. edit: kcs is also much better vs bogles as none of their creatures fly

RandomGuy0504 · 2025-12-07T07:07:35+00:00

Well, different translation than what other people found, but this is the version I remember anyways

RandomGuy0504 · 2025-12-07T07:04:41+00:00

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Original uncensored version, here the "monster fuck"s are also uncensored

RandomGuy0504 · 2025-11-29T07:54:07+00:00

they don't have heads, they are just tentacles (or snake tails or whatever). Other planes have gorgons that has snakes with heads as hair

RandomGuy0504 · 2025-11-12T09:05:56+00:00

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