As much as I want to suggest the cycling angel earlier, I'm gonna go old school with
Radiant's Judgment. A very reasonable removal spell that feeds our alternate strat.
Some simple, easy yays to make that are self explanatory. AssTroph, beast within, diabolic intent are all simple and easy. think bogbender and heretic cathar are good enough with the strategy to be worth inclusion, so those are yays as well.
Archon of Valor's Reach yay - 5 nay - 1
Spirit of the Labyrinth yay - 1 nay - 3
Sterling Grove yay - 3 nay - 0
Final Parting yay - 1 nay - 1
Assassin's Trophy yay - 2 nay - 0
Thalia, Heretic Cathar yay - 1 nay - 0
Diabolic Intent yay - 2 nay - 2
Beast Within yay - 1 nay - 0
Slippery Bogbender yay - 2 nay - 0
Radiant's Judgment yay - 0 nay - 0
kirkusjones wrote: ↑1 year ago
EDIT - Yea to
Diabolic Intent. I agree with @Dunharrow, though. We probably also want
Demonic Tutor as well. Additionally, I remember a big reason for the Yasharn include was to shut off treasures. While
Collector Ouphe doesn't have any keywords, it comes down earlier than Yasharn, accomplishes the same task (and more) and doesn't mess with our gameplan. When we revise the decklist, I think we consider that swap.
Worth noting, demonic tutour misses the $30 price cutoff we set, which makes diabolic intent the next-best-in-class™ for the effect given it's just below the mark at $28.
kirkusjones wrote: ↑1 year ago
I'm also just tired of seeing "well, we probably shouldn't play that because Yasharn." The hateboar isn't good enough to justify excluding multiple cards that would improve our deck.
This is what I've been saying, but it's been ignore. This card is vastly at odds with us in a myriad of ways but people see ETB and they try to force it. "If it doesn't have ETB it's worthless". Which is a fine outlook in Karador, but we're not in Karador or Meren, we're on Kathril.
Next deck I think I'm going to try a different format to help with this.