Has anyone thought of adding Izzet Guildmage to a fish build? It has a pretty efficient p/t for blue and red, and its pretty sick late game with brainstorm or lightning bolt. If you add white you could use it with sword to plowshares.

> Finally, it should be noted that control slaver isn't suited for the "random metagame."

Okay, what is best for a random metagame? Would Oath be better? Anything else? I don't have workshops, so that's out of the question.

Hi guys,

  There's all this discussion in the forum about what is the optimum build of this or that, but what if you are not in the "ideal metagame." I have a control slaver deck and I'm thinking of playing in an upcoming tournament. This tournament does not allow proxies, so my guess is that there won't be that much power. My question is, how flexible should I make my deck? Should I worry about random elf and goblin decks, or should I let the power lead me to victory. My current build is (sorry, no mox pearl):

4 Island
4 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
1 Tolarian Accademy
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Darksteel Citadel

1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt

4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Thirst for Knowledge

4 Goblin Welder
1 Gorrila Shaman
1 Pentavus
1 Triskelion
1 Mindslaver
1 Platimun Angel

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tinker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fire/Ice

Sideboard:
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Arcane Laboratory
1 Echoing Truth
1 Gorilla Shaman
3 Rack And Ruin
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Pyroclasm

Is it worth changing this build around drastically to prepare for a wide open metagame?...For example Engineered Explosives may be good in such a metagame, and Gorilla Shaman may be unnecessary. Maybe more Fire/Ice in the maindeck or at least in the sideboard? What do you guys think?

I was just wondering what the forum members think about Gifts Ungiven in some sort of Tog variant. I realize that Tog hasn't been that competitive for awhile, but I was hopeful when Gifts was printed that it could strengthen this deck. It seems like Gifts would be great in this deck as a graveyard-filling plus tutoring engine. Why hasn't this been explored much?

-tpiro

Enjoyed the report....sounded like a good tournament even though it was small.

Given that you sideboarded out 2 Wishes every round, are you thinking of altering the deck list in the future?