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Mox Diamond is great, and has lots of (okay, a few) interactions. Turn 1 Fetch, Mox Diamond, Life from the Loam is a perfectly fine start. One of the stronger ways to use it is to put out hard-to-remove permanents. Turn 1 Bitterblossom, that sort of thing.

It's more that you can strip the wrath out of their hand. They're not specifically anti-control, but I think they're more effective against control. If you can strip the wrath out of their hand your win percentage goes way up. Taking out any given aggro card (and losing 2 life in the process)...

I personally felt that the players in this draft were not taking fixing or splashing aggressively enough, and blue was super open. I got one pack with a two-card pack of Venser, Shaper Savant and Cryptic Command. I would have played Cryptic if I wasn't super overloaded on 4-drops, but did...

I was thinking more along the lines of Thoughtsieze

Note that red (and other aggro strategies) should have a large chunk of "virtual card advantage", defined as the difference in hand size when you kill them.

Thanks, it's for an article, so the first one is perfect.

Someone made a comment about having difficulty fighting blue's card advantage. Wondering if there are things we can give to other colors. For my part, my deck really didn't want to see recursive threats. If someone had been hitting me with Hallowed Spiritkeepers and Shambling Remains and that...

I think Crystallization is the best option here. I actually already run gift of orzhova, and hobgoblins doesn't feel like where this cube wants to be.

Engineered Explosives is amazing. I run a super fast format, and it's great here. 3 mana, kill two aggro one-drops. 4 mana, wreck your bitterblossom. That happened tonight. EE sees play in high-powered constructed, and Ratchet Bomb sees play nowhere.

I don't know. Do you have any suggestions?

3-0 with this pile (2-0, 2-0, 2-1). Had some active chatters in the stream, deck functioned as intended. I really liked the utility lands this deck ran, and it was pretty difficult to make cuts, with cards like Cryptic in the sideboard.

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Ideally. The most fun part is always the Skype banter at the beginning.

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Why did deed never see play there?

I will warn, I got into Pauper and had a few of the T1 decks (Delver, Post when it was legal, MBC) and got bored of it rather quickly. The most fun I had with the format involved some awful brews. Here's one: It basically revolved around dumping guys into the yard, bringing them back via...

Exploit also triggers Evolve (e.g. play Faithful, sac it to itself), which is an interesting interaction.

Card's I think are worth considering: Tajuru Stalwart Skyrider Elf Painful Truths Rogue's Passage Fieldmist Borderpost Endless One Roil Spout Roilmage's Trick Boggart Ram-Gang Radiant Flames Cryptborn Horror Curse of Chains Minister of Pain Sidisi, Undead Vizier Silumgar Sorcerer Sidisi's Faithful

My main problem with Brilliant Spectrum is the existence of this card: Allied Strategies Also, Spectrum felt like quite a poor card if I cast it for only X = 3.