Try running the Tri-Fecto: Rebuild, Hurks, ANd Chain. Truth is just not as good in a "combo-deck". Three Scroll and Three Gifts Is Good Enough. You Only Need One Gifts to win the Game, and Gifting for other Gifts is pretty un-affective.
My Maindeck is still Amazing and still tools on tools
I partially agree with your first point. Chain of Vapor should go over truth, However I would like to disagree with putting hurkyl's in the maindeck. Against anything but stax it is just another dead card clogging up my hand. I think my game against stax is good enough so that I can wait til game two.
On your other point, I tested 3-ofs for both gifts and scroll, and bumped them back to 4-ofs, each for a different reason.
Merchant Scroll- I just loved playing with this card. It gives the deck so much flexibility. Think your opponent has a bomb or playing against combo? grab FoW or Mana Drain. Playing against Stax? Grab a rebuild. Battling for card advantage? Grab Ancestral. It really just helped the deck flow and work 10 times better.
Gifts Ungiven- The thing that I really like about this deck is that it can sit there for like ten turns winning small counter wars just controlling the game... and then BOOM eot gifts and gg. The deck can just WIN whenever it feels like it. When you play 4 gifts, it almost guarantees that you will have it when you need it. and if you get 2 gifts early on, just pitch one to force of will or shuffle it back in to your library. 4 gifts is a neccessity.
Being Honest, As being a Gifts Player and having ALOT of success, Listen when i tell you that GGifts has NO (ZERO) Game Against The new Pitch long variants
ummm actually I beat pitchLong on a fairly consistent basis...
Mox Pearl,
Lava Dart,
2 Gifts
For
4 Chalice
And Maybe a Single REB
Reb Against Combo.
You - Fetchland Go.
Them - Rit,Rit,mox bargain?
you- Reb?
them- GG
I've grouped these together because they seem to be saying the same thing. Ok I see your point that there are some spells you can't counter with REB, but they aren't your
only counters for god's sake. Let me give you a scenario that I guarantee is more likely than the one you showed above
Them- Bargain
Me- Mana Drain
Them- FoW
Me- REB
Them- ....mana drain resolves
you see? REB, like misdirection, is not there to counter their bombs, but to
win your counter wars. It is given to side in 3.
The rest of the board..
4 chalice
2/2 Reb/Pyroblast
2 Seal Of Removal
3 RnR
1 RRiver
1 FISHY META CARD
This is a highly metagamed, and undiverse board. Stephen menendian has written at length about the importance of keeping a diverse sideboard. 3 Rack and Ruin is almost ok when you are playing a stax-only environment, but even then, it is better to find other cards that hit stax from differnet angles.
Sideboard(15)
1 Pyroclasm
1 Rolling Earthquake
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Tormod's Crypt
4 Chalice of the Void
3 REB
1 Pithing Needle
1 Darkblast
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Hurkyl's Recall
Not Trying to be a jackass, but this is muy terrible.
I wouldnt waste two sideboard slots lo fish. The Only Cards making sense are The Chalice and REB's.(which i would play four of.)
I am mortally afraid of fish, with new sauce like SS and Jotun Grunt around and about. I am devoting all the sideboard help i can get!
RnR is the house against a plethora of decks, so two should be ideal. A random and singleton T.Crypt is wicked Janky. Same With The Single Needle.
The Odds Of drawing the one TC are FAr Worse then them Finding and resolving Will.
RnR is good against Stax, and only stax. Playing 1 is as far as I'll go. I admit that the random T Crypt is wierd, but it just randomly wins me so many games. Same with needle, needle is such a house against stuf like CS and Stax. You are also forgetting that I have tutors
Think Of this, What is Tormod's Crypt in the board for?
- If Your answer is Dragon and random Control Decks and MAybe Combp Then Why Not Seal Of Removal? It Auto wins the Dragon matchup and oath has no game with it on the table, hence improving two fairly tough matchups.
My answer is that it wins me the game against Combo. Cutting them off from the graveyard is amazing. It forces them to shoot straight through my counters and lose. There is no dragon in my meta.
thx for the help and advice!
