[outdated tech] Meandeck's Titan

[TylerEss]

In tons of playtesting with my wife, I've found that the gencon build of Meandeck's Titan (read:Control Slaver) all but scoops to an early enough Chalice of the Void for 0. Were the Meandeckers just not expecting to see it, or are we not playing it right, or what?

Posted in Newbie because everybody probably already knows this.

[AngryPheldagrif]

Who plays Chalice all that much any more?

And more importantly, why would anyone board in Chalices against Titan?

It's an anti-combo card. All it does is slow you down a bit. Unlike Slaver (which is supposed to be MDT's backup plan), you only need one cheap artifact to Weld out for your win condition. If they can drop Chalice and deal with Titan and do this despite the drastic loss of land and do this through your full complement of counters, then you should either play a different deck or pray you don't run into PsychoticAnti-TitanHate.dec.

-Dan

[jpmeyer]

And not only that, but if you cast it any turn other than 1, it's pointless.

[Binary]

The number of decks actually playing Chalice is sufficiently small enough that it wasn't much of a concern.

Couple that with the reduced chances of having it in hand with two first-turn mana, and the odds are that it just isn't going to come up in enough games to be a factor.