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6 months ago ::
Dec 27, 2012 - 1:06PM
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Date Joined:
Apr 21, 2010
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Almost completely stolen from miss_bun's superjanky Legacy list. 4 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Signal Pest
4 Myr Servitor
3 Erayo, Soratami Ascendant 4 Cranial Plating 4 Thoughtcast
3 Artificer's Intuition
2 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Time Sieve
2 Genesis Chamber 4 Mox Opal
4 Glimmervoid
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Blinkmoth Nexus
1 City of Brass
1 Swamp
1 Island
Sideboard
4 Ethersworn Canonist
3 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Aether Vial
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Pithing Needle
1 Executioner's Capsule
1 Elixir of Immortality
Etiamnunc sto, etiamsi caelum ruat.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 28, 2012 - 10:27AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 26, 2011
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The sideboard is flat out terrible. Cage stops exactly none of the graveyard decks in the format, you don't card about counterspells on your creatures enough for Vial to be good, Chalice wrecks you too and Elixir is completely pointless as there is no mill and you're the beatdown. Also, there isn't enough Storm in most metagames to make Canonist viable as a 4-of.
As for the main deck, I think there's several problems.
First, while it may appear to be the case, slamming Erayo into an Affinity deck doesn't work. Affinity wants to put it's hand on the table on turn 1, then smash with a Cranial Plating on turn 2/3. Erayo wants you to hold your hand until you can play it, then put your hand on the table. It's a contradiction because the aggro aspect will be lost by the time you get to play Erayo.
Second, 18 mana sources is simply not enough. You've got 3 and 4 drops in the list that you will never be able to cast. This is especially true since 4 of them are legendary, 7 are very suspectible to being killed and 4 depend on sticking permanents.
Third, Time Sieve is terrible when you can't recur 5 artifacts or need to constantly play creatures. The only recursion you have is Myr Servitor, which is very easily disrupted before you start taking infinite turns. The combo is just too fragile.
If you want to play Affinity, play Affinity. If you want to play Time Sieve, play a dedicated Sieve deck (my LGS owner plays one, but I don't have the list).
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6 months ago ::
Dec 31, 2012 - 8:26AM
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Date Joined:
Nov 18, 2012
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What makes you think cage is graveyard hate?
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6 months ago ::
Dec 31, 2012 - 8:53AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 26, 2011
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Me? The lack of other graveyard hate. If there were 2x Relic of Progenitus  or such in the board, I'd consider it Pod hate. However, there isn't and there's already Pithing Needles for Pod.
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