Transfomers: 3/4 color control to Slaver

[jcb193]

I'm posting this on the newb forum, because most players would consider the topic of transformable sideboards a thing of the past.  I noticed that cerebral assassin attempts it, but many players argue back saying the transformation adds little to the sideboarding matchups.  I then noticed that a few decks: some Oath lists, 3/4-color control, and control slaver share many of the same cards.  Enough so that transofmation would be possible, especially between control slaver and 3/4-color control.

I was curious if anyone has tested this premise, or is it still assumed that it is better to have counters in your sideboard than to have your opponent incorrectly adapt to yours.  

Ie: bringing welders in against a deck that is afraid of DOJ, etc.

Just a thought......

[AnFgangsta]

The idea of transformable sideboards really makes a deck versatile.  For example, about a year and a half ago (maybe a tad longer) Grow A Tog was rampant, and the deck Diamond Dallas was created which was Gro A Tog/Miracle Gro, with the Oath Engine sideboarded, thus creating 2 different decks out of one.

Now onto your idea of 3/4cc and slaver, that seems more like a bit of a stretch, what about TfK etc? See the thing with Oath and Gro were that they can use the same cards and be 95% effective as their normal decktype, and in some cases stronger due to the power of an early Daze, etc. I just feel that turning 3/4cc into slaver would just require so much alteration that you would be taking more than 5% of the decks effectiveness away. However, I mean you could always twiddle around with decklists, maybe add intermediate cards much like Daze was to Counterspell/Mana Leak, and see what happens here. Best of luck.

[Zherbus]

For example, about a year and a half ago (maybe a tad longer) Grow A Tog was rampant, and the deck Diamond Dallas was created which was Gro A Tog/Miracle Gro, with the Oath Engine sideboarded, thus creating 2 different decks out of one.

You mean Emerald Alice? Or were they beaten to it by a full year?

As far as transformational sideboarding with control decks is concerned, I think that enough decks have a catch-all plan against "Control" decks (that is decks with 4 Brainstorm, 4 Force of Will, 4 Mana Drain) that it mostly doesn't matter which flavor of control you are playing.

Perhaps within a different archetype this could still be employed. Nothing jumps out as obvious though.