Is it really a smart thing to do, telling innovators which archtype to focus on? It also comes off as rude and arrogant.

So here is the deck me and a few team mates have been working on recently, looking for some suggestions as it plays well it just seems to be lacking a je ne sais qua.

Yes, he drew the 3 cards, not me! (it has something to do with the "if you do" clause on Standstill...because it doesn't automatically sacrifice itself..
So what happened was I had Standstill on the board, he played Dark Ritual, I FoW'd it before sac'ing Standstill to draw 3 cards...so *my* FoW triggered Standstill and *he* drew the 3 cards. This is what lost me the game (my opponent even admitted this).
So in short...if you have standstill in play.. DON'T FORGET that YOU HAVE STANDSTILL IN PLAY

In this match though...I got completely outplayed. He was playing GrimLong (I believe that's what it was..a tendrils storm deck using Grim Tutor)..he combo'd off in g1...fine...so g2 I side in the 4 CoTV...and I figure I'd side out my 4 bounce spells. He won the second game Tinker-DSC! I didn't see that coming! And I had no bounce to save myself from it.

Is that a common SB strategy for combo players? Because I thought I had sideboarded correctly.

edit: Rereading the thread I just figured one thing out: vs combo, the correct SB Strategy would be:
+4 CotV
+3 REB
- 4 Fire//Ice
- 1 CoW (my list only runs 1)
- 1 Timewalk(?)
- 1 (Chain of Vapour?)

does that make sense?


Still learning,

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Ketchupgun