Good article, something to keep in mind.

Yes speed is good but through my testing the duress and FOW's just give you the game.



Same as before the duress and FOW will just win you games


Did the TPS player get unlucky? Sure, but that kind of thing does happen with the deck.


I don't understand what you're trying to say here. The only "I lose" cards most combo runs are Necropotence and Bargain. TPS runs these just like other storm decks.

All I'm saying is that giving your oponent a fresh hand of 7 is usualy never good, thus a "I lose"

Just recently I have been goldfishing TPS a LOT! And I can say with out a doubt TPS is the best tendrils based combo dekc out there right now.  And... slower is mostly better in this case.  TPS can charge through disruption,  disrupt the oposing player, and it is just plain consistant.  I say this through countless hours of play testing and winning.  Also if you play them versus eachother TPS will mostly win.  Not to say that it is perfect in every way.  But it does consitantly beat the other tendils based decks.  Also TPS has no random "I lose" cards. *chough* Draw7 *chough*  That being said, if speed is the only thing you are concerned with Meandeck Tenrils would be perfect.

Currently I am trying to decide on a version of fish to run mostley just at my local card shop but I am having dificultys deciding which version is better.  The grimlavamancer with red is just great and the possibilitys of fire/ice would be cool but is it worth the destabilization of the mana base?
Here are the tow deck lists I am considering.

U/W Fish

8th Place, SCG P9 Chicago, Piloted by Clarene Li

4 Spiketail Hatchling
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Standstill
4 Force of Will
4 Curiosity
2 Stifle
3 Meddling Mage
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra's Factory
3 Null Rod
2 Faerie Conclave
4 Tundra
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Voidmage Prodigy
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Island

Sideboard
3 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Energy Flux
2 Disenchant
2 Chill
2 Suq'Ata Firewalker
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Null Rod
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U/W/R Fish

Mana Base

4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
2 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Mishra's Factory
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl

Creatures

4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Spiketail Hatchling
3 Grim Lavamancer
3 Meddling Mage

Draw

4 Curiosity
4 Standstill

Disruption/Counter

4 Force of Will
3 Daze
1 Misdirection
1 Stifle
3 Null Rod
2 Swords to Plowshore

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk

Sideboard

4 Red Elemental Blast
2 Annul
2 Energy Flux
2 Disenchant
1 Swords to Plowshore
1 Stifle
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Crucible of Worlds

Thoughts and opinions?

What are your thoughts on spiketail hatchling?  I personaly really like the card.  At the moment I am proxing off the deck so have not played with it yet but just from my mind poped spiketail hatchling as an obvius choice.  What do you think?  Also in the SB I think waterfront bouncer might be powerful in many matches.

Edit:  Wastelands are not worth it!

Hmmm yes you have a point from testing this didn't happen too often but I will try droping the titan for a ambassador.

I have a mana crypt in there already and with this build I don't need to searhc for tike or eternal witness with a bazaar in play

Lol I totaly missed that thanks.  I guess in its place will go a sundering Titan.

I have been playing around with spoils dragon for a while and have come up with, what i think, is a very good version.  Here is the list

Modified Spoils Dragon
Combo:
4 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Eternal Witness
1 Triskelion
1 Sundering Titan
4 Animate Dead
3 Necromancy
2 Buried Alive
1 Entomb

Draw/Tutor:
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
3 Squee Goblin Nabob
4 Spoils of the Vault
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Vampiric Tutor

Disruption:
4 Xantid Swarm
4 Duress

Mana:
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
4 Dark Ritual
3 Elvish Spirit Guide
3 Swamps
3 Bayou
4 Polluted Delta

Reasoning:

Eternal Witness/Trike Kill:
I felt that if say a platinum angel hit the board it would be great to have a way to still win.  And yes I do realize that a Bazaar is needed in play to be able to win but it should not be that hard with all the tutoring.

Sundering Titan:
If it is for any reason impossible to win the conventional way just slap this Guy deny them their mana and smash face!

Entomb:  With a bazaar in play and an animate in hand, the only thing you need in the grave yard is a dragon so entomb was a natural way to go off a little bit faster sometimes.

Necromancy:  You can win on their turn and animate sundering titan without dance of the deads effect.

And now I need your thoughts.  I have been thinking of adding some of the power cards of black just as a thought but the decklist is kinda tight.  Some thing like yawgmoths will or Necropotence or something.  Also at this time I have no side board but it would be geared tword defence grid and some protection agenst ground seal and tormonds crypt.

EDIT: Fixed the darksteel problem

Thanks!
-Brian

Also I see that many of your sideboard cards require red mana but the only red available would be from forbinin orchard, are you banking on always having enough mana from the orchard?

A question about sceletal scrying.  Becuase you use gaea's blessing to continue to grab your good cards back wouldent it be tough to have to remove those cards from your graveyard?