When I played against him I thought he played Suicide since I didnt saw much game 1. Game 2 he shows me what he plays barely but I took the upperhand in game 3.

What went wrong here? No stax decks and GWSx finishes last!?

3 Dark Confidant
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor*

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
3 Duress
2 Thoughtseize
1 Rebuild
1 Repeal*
1 Mystic Remora*

1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Ponder*
1 Tinker

1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key

8 Solomoxcrypt
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
1 Snow-Covered Island
2 Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard (15):
4 Yixlid Jailer
3 Nature's Claim
3 Seal of Primordium
1 Krosan Grip
1 Perish
1 Mystic Remora
1 Pithing Needle
1 Forest

This is the list, but I'll add the caveat again that the new stuff (mostly the transition to green) is fairly untested compared with the core (9 months+).  As it stands, I'm guessing it's weak to Fish, but that's always something I've been comfortable with.  It hammers the mirror, oath and ritual combo and can manage against workshops and dredge.  I'm still considering * cards in the MD, changes to which could heavily influence the SB.

@ Ancestral Recall:
3cc over 2cc can improve your game against the metagame on a strategic level.

I think this explains why it needs to be excluded Imho.
If a card is only good when you are behind, it needs to be reevaluted, because there is probely a card that can serve that spot better and that is not only good when you are behind (Regrowth, seccond Jace or even Ponder). I played with twister last TNV and never ever casted it in the 10 games I played, although I had it in hand for at least 4 games, the only use it had was pitching to Fow (and that is not why I play a blue card).

It's also antithetical to a deck trying to be a series of time walks (ending of course with infinite time walks).


It's true that blue decks are increasingly explosive.  The card also has special synergies with remora.  Still, it's never been close to my 60th slot.  There are too many other things that I feel would add flexibility or consistency: repeal, fire/ice, thoughtseize, sensei's top #2, maybe even FoF (which I loathe) all come before twister.

Timetwister adds power and the opportunity to 'come back', but the cost of drawing it may have put you behind in the first place or it may just as easily allow your opponent back in or to just win.  The card is much too random, and relatively unbroken at 3 mana, for my tastes.

@Cruel Ultimatum,
Good job, glad you liked the deck! Those findings are right in line with what I expected to happen