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« on: June 21, 2005, 09:15:51 pm »

When playing Dragon over these past few weeks, I feel the sideboard isn't good enough. I'm only using the Chalices and nothing else really. What can we do for the SB here? Also, any major MB changes you see?

// Lands
    1  Swamp
    1  Gemstone Mine
    1  Tropical Island
    2  Bayou
    4  Polluted Delta
    4  Underground Sea
    4  Bazaar of Baghdad

// Creatures
    4  Squee, Goblin Nabob
    1  Ambassador Laquatus
    4  Worldgorger Dragon

// Spells
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Time Walk
    1  Ancestral Recall
    3  Duress
    4  Force of Will
    3  Compulsion
    3  Necromancy
    2  Dance of the Dead
    3  Animate Dead
    4  Buried Alive

// Sideboard
SB: 4  Chalice of the Void
SB: 3  Verdant Force - Don't use
SB: 4  Pernicious Deed - Too slow
SB: 4  Xantid Swarm - I usually have FoW

This is just like the TMD version, except I'm running Buried Alive over Intuition, because Intuition ends up with me having Laquatus in hand (Did I play it wrong or something? Why would Intuition be over Buried Alive?) Any help appreciated
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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2005, 09:30:57 pm »

Intuition is used over buried because it pitches to Force of Will, and you can occasionally search up Bazaars with it.

And looking at your build, your blue count is ludicrously low at only 9 cards(excluding laquatus since he's your only win), it's generally accepted that the absolute bare minimum of blue cards to run in conjunction with FoW is 16.
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2005, 10:06:21 pm »

Then I'll just go mono-black.
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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2005, 10:12:46 pm »

Why Intuition?
--its an all purpose INSTANT SPEED  tutor: Bazaars, Animates, Squees etc.
--pitches to FoW
--you can use it to go off:  get 2x Dragon and Laquatus and if you have Squee in the yard or some outlet you can go off

Just a few random observations:
--You'll probably want some more effective way to deal with Pithing Needle than just 4 Deeds in the board.

--Cerebral Assassin is probably the best version of Dragon.

--You have no way to deal with Platinum Angel unless you're going to use their Welders against them, which isnt the hottest plan.  Maindeck bounce would be useful as this would also help with your Pithing Needle problem.

--Beating Oath involves going off with Compulsion which, again, isnt the hottest plan.  You should consider another/different kill condition.

All that said, I really dont think its worth playing a Bazaar deck now that Pithing Needle is legal.
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« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2005, 05:55:13 am »

Two things: use the Witness kill instead of Ambassador, since he hasn't been good in ages. If you mill a Gifts deck and they have 7 mana available, their Colossus will shuffle back in and they'll kill you the next turn off a Recouped Will. Not pleasant to be on the recieving end of.

And also, holy crap is Sundering Titan good on the Dragon sideboard. You'll want infinity Stifles too to stop Seals, Crypts, Bouncers, et. al.
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« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2005, 08:13:14 am »

i would consider playing pithing needle in the side, but I am unconvinced wether it has the upper leg over stifle, particularly considering that you play FOW.
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