![]() Similarly, you don’t have to count your counterspells left in your deck and ration them out slowly for those situations where you really, really need them.Įlixir in your deck means that you have an engine. If your opponent kills your method to end the game, ultimately it doesn’t matter. If you want, you can just drop an Aetherling unprotected. ![]() If you are in an early game against any opponent and you have a finisher of some sort that you can’t afford to cast (or don’t dare cast), should you miss a few land drops, you can afford to discard the finisher. This is a pretty bold claim, so let’s talk about it before we go any further.įirst, when you have Elixir of Immortality in your deck, it allows you to play your game very differently. It’s not that it is necessary, it is that you are underselling yourself when you don’t play it. However, there is no deck that I would sideboard Elixir of Immortality out against, and I think that it makes every matchup you have better. I agree that you can win with Sphinx’s Revelation decks without it. I hear “Elixir of Immortality just isn’t necessary in the current metagame”. There are two camps when it comes to Sphinx’s Revelation control decks: the Elixir of Immortality camp and the No Elixir of Immortality camp.įrankly, not only do I think the No Elixir camp is wrong, I don’t think their arguments make any sense. So, especially given the ideas rumbling through my head with M15, I’m going to answer the question. “I must know… What was the logic behind the Trading Post in the board at GP Chicago?”īrandon wasn’t the only one who had this question. ![]() Visions of Trading Post flitted through my head, and I thought back to Brandon’s question: I’m not sure about you, but the days of hitting a midnight event, then showing up in the morning for more are in the past for me, I think.)Īnd so it was, going through the M15 spoilers, I noticed three cards that really caught my interest: (Incidentally, I’ll be at Misty Mountain Games for the Prerelease, so if you’re in Madison, Wisconsin, I’ll see you there! I don’t expect to show up for the so-called “Midnight Prerelease”, at least not to play I may just pop in late in the evening to see how people are doing. In part, this is because sometimes previously spoiled cards get updated or fixed, but mostly this is just to ensure that I have all of the cards completely in my mind by the time that I sit down at the Prerelease, as well as have them in my mind as I’m thinking about new decks. People have many different ways of going over spoilers, but here is my method: as the spoiled cards come more frequently, check the spoilers more often, and any time that there is a new card, look over the entire spoiler in full once again. And so, it seemed to be one of those moments where I was going to largely be saying to Brandon, “Get used to disappointment.”Īll of this, of course, was happening right in the moment of “spoiler season”, where so many of us are glued to the various spoilers, trying to glean what we can about M15 before the set becomes legal or before the prerelease. I wasn’t actually going to answer this on Twitter, largely because it seemed impossible to do in 140 characters (especially 140 minus a username).
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