I'm highly intrigued by the BR Sui deck. Beautiful build, one can see that its creator has a good grasp of the format. Some things I don't quite understand:
- Why the singleton Duress? Wouldn't the 4th Therapy be better, especially in light of Abyssal Persecutor (which is sick sick tech)?
- What matchups is EE for? I don't think you can reliably set it on 2 without hurting yourself.
- Are 4 Sprees enough against Shops? Personally, I would incorporate Viashino Heretic in the SB, but maybe I'm just paranoid about Shops.
The list was created from another top8ing BR list played by Urs Glaubitt about a year ago (
http://morphling.de/printview.php?c=1220&d=2). Urs felt that Tombstalker was a good beater, but painful with Confidant and not synergistic with Lavamancer.
When Abyssal Persecutor was realeased I immediately remembered this list and tried to play 3 copies, paired with Cabal Therapy to get rid of him uncounterable. We cut 3 Duress for 3 Therapies, that explains the lonely Duress, but after this tournament I think 4 Therapies could work, too.
Urs back then played the "hate package" of
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Gorilla Shaman
3 Viashino Heretic
which we turned into
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Persecutor
1 Necropotence
-1 card to get to 60, and made slight changes to the manabase. This felt really good in testing.
EE is there to combat Oath, probably the deck's worst matchup along with Storm Combo. It's hard to take out the Rods for EE against Oath, but better than just scoop to the 2 mana enchantment. Also handles Time Vault.
EE also comes in against other Rod packing decks and in one game saved my butt from an attacking phalanx of Tarmogoyf, Meddling Mage (set to Lightning Bolt) and Pridemage.
Against Shops the only viable plan is mana denial, and you need to be quick. Heretic is nice, but too costly and slow. Sprees help destroying the early threats and if the game gets to late stadium, turn the board around with 2-3 replications. Also gets around Chalice@1 which is important.
