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a dedicated Survival/Dragon budget deck with ESG could work by itself
Well you would more likely play Hermit Druid in a dedicated combo deck of this type. I have tested both Ghoul and Dragon with them. This is a different deck however. It has an assortment of tools to keep your opponent honest and that is its strength.
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but this just seems like a clump of cards to me
My initial impression of the Barcelona deck was just that until I began noticing just how synergistic the deck can be. It has answers and is very flexible in your choices for both the main deck and sideboard. My brief ( I admit it was not tested thoroughly) test results were quite surprising as the deck fared much better than I anticipated. I think it has promise. Remember Venguer Masque - even Carl said that it looked like a pile when he first put it together but it became a force to be reckoned with. The question is how to improve the basic framework.
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^^^^FWI you listed STP as 3 in the MD and 4 in the SB^^^^
I'm an idiot. I tweaked the main deck but am still working on the sideboard. Put Naturalize for now and consider them meta slots.
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I prefer monoblack a ton currently), but if control were to shift back into favor I'd play it (note: for this to happen, dragon would have to be neutered in some way, making this sort of a paradox)
Actually, I expect to see UrPhid, Standstill and Keeper variants often in my meta along with the occasional Fish, GaT, and Hulk. But by far Dragon is the deck to play around here as we saw it first and have toyed with all its permutations. This seems another build to explore. I'm surprised you are not seeing control.
