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Feb 7, 2010 -- 3:18AM, CyrusBales wrote:

Explore is good(been testing it in the extended valakut deck and it's nuts), but in general it is good, however Spreading seas is just better for most match ups at the moment.

Kazuul is excellent, because your opponent can't attack into him, basically he comes down, then they need to use all their mana to attack you, rather than make more threats etc. He's an awesome road block and if they kil him, it menas I can recurr my slimes etc more, since they're still living. A five power guy is also nice if you need to clock someone quickly, if you've upset their manabase a little, but maybe don't have the cards to cripl eit just yet, you can come in with a big guy whilst they scramble for mana and you dig for LD. Ghostly Prison with a 5/4 body is bananas, in an LD deck..... even better.

Yeah but most of the removal that offs him costs 1-3 mana, which they will be able to find.  I'd rather win when my guy hits than get a soft lock on a deck barely playing threats as is.  And vs control he's just useless.

Dropping Sphinx means you can focus on keeping them off lands and just win in a few turns, which is sort of the goal of any deck.

Lotus Cobra does help cast the spells, and spreading seas and ponderland dig for you.

The biggest thign is to know when to crack fetches and what for. In the earyl game, you might need one bit of blue, that's it, so you can concentrate on G and R, red first, then G, then as turn 6 approaches, you can think about sticking a jace, and getting the relevant mana to do so.

Everflowing Chalice doesn't give coloured mana, I usually stick a dual on turn one, or a garden/ponderland. And all the land produce coloured mana(fetches fetch coloured mana obviously). So every land helps towards the colour commitment. If you find in testing that the mana doesn't work well for you, then you can up the duals. So far, it's doing fine for me, what the deck does need, is more outlining of the format, so it can adapt.