[Article] Eternal Europe: That Time of the Year

Good read!

Nice list you created with Past in Flames. Everybody is so excited about that card. But I do think, there is still one problem to solve. Ritual-Decks had much less top8-entrys during the last months or even years. One main reason for that is the horrible matchup against sphere.dec. This hasn't changed. So even if Intuition-Tendrils-style decks might be more consistant with Past in Flames, the matchup against MUD seem to get even worse compared to things like Bob-TPS. One Sphere and the deck has serious issues. And it is not, that there haven't been other broken Intuition piles before, like Will/Noxious Revival/Noxious Revival. What makes the new Past in Flames combinations so much better?

What I additionally found interesting: If we see more Flashback-decks in the near future, some Dredge-hate might even get playable in other matchups. Jailer is one example which so far was strictly used against Dredge and sometimes against straight aggro like Goblins. But even though it might not be the best idea to board Jailers in a blue mirror, at least it gets more attractive to run grave removal main, like Nihil Spellbomb, Surgical Extraction and co. They already have uses in certain matchups and can help to hinder broken flashback combos. And that might slow down Dredge a lot, as they have to be build more turtle style with removal maindeck.