but let's be honest, the mono U decks were floating around in the same shell before cgb posted. his differed going to the more heavy counterspell route in the first iteration.

personally? i wait for the consider

As a newfound tempo player, this consider comment had me lol

There are several ways to battle against these decks, however they mostly play in best of 1 where you cannot really make your deck against a couple of unpleasant decks.

And this is exactly why this deck is useless. Thank you. Had I read your post earlier, I would have saved myself so many wasted wildcards.

A that’s why I have ton of counterspells😊

@@imapseudonym1403I wouldn’t say useless, it got me in platinum in two days so😂

AKA Moist Gruul

He was my favorite player in the tournament for standard he went nuts. I couldn't find the match he got knocked out in, please link.

For sure!!!! If he could of got through explorer he probably would of won that deck was wrecking !!!

Didn't he get stuck trading off in a mirror match? I watched a few minutes of him playing vs the same deck and couldn't take it anymore lol

Would also love this.

Living up to his name once a year, yet its not even his deck

If you haven't noticed he's going through the top decks from world's, he's been doing it all week.

For posting a deck that Arena already rigs agaisnt I give -1/-1 counter.

@@bounceday +1/+1 means +1 Like/+1 Comment. So you have a +0/+1 counter... 🤫

The thing I like the most about my version and CGB one is the March. I honestly think it's strictly better than slip out the back, most of the times, and the ceiling is so much higher. You can literally freeze a whole board and gives you other outlets to use the card advantage as a resource

I have been running that original CGB build since it came out, and have modified it myself over time. I had upped the Terrors to 3 and added some scatters at the expense of syncopate too, mainly due to the amount of aggro builds i'd been coming up against. I still run March over Slip for the reasons you mention. I feel like Slip is much better with Delver then with Djinn/Terror due to how it massively accelerates the clock and takes it out of removal range. Slip not only dodges the first removal on a delver, but it also takes it out of shock ranges, and stop its getting cut down. It also is a 33% increase in damage. With Djinn, your mostly only swinging 2 or 3 times anyway, and slip is pretty much never going to make you win a turn faster, but March will win you games you would have lost otherwise (Either by gaining you a turn quicker by removing a chump blocker, letting you live to the lethal turn by removing thier attacking board or just flat up breaking through a stalemate when they have flyers or spiders.)

@@GamerFlair Sounds like we came to the exact same conclusions haha. Slip is great with delver but I hate that card with a passion. The deck already feels swingy enough without a card that fizzles every freaking turn (unles it's against you ofc lol) and I subscribe to the idea that focusing on protecting the actual bombs is a much more consistent plan. It's been a while since I've played with the djinn bubble, but next time I'm on it, I'll try to lean even more on the essence scatter. Syncopate is great, but there are way too many times when it doesn't fit well with the make disappear and with the game state. Games go grindy wayy too often to have all those mana related counters

I've been running this list with Syncopates and Essence Capture - the Syncopates are a good idea, the essence capture not so much. The +1/+1 counter is less meaningful than the 1 mana discount that djinn gives you off Scatter

I'm blue

I mean you can go 2/3rd blue and 1/3rd red and add perhaps Lightning strike or so in order to make sense for red

@@schumerus6786 I'm basically a 1/2 1/2 currently. Mostly using red for burn, a few pump spells, and artifact destruction. Blue for counter, bounce, and draw. Haughty, Electro, and Serpent as the main creatures. It hasn't been doing terrible.

Well, you really need the full set of Djinns because it's more or less the best card in the deck. So I would say four rares are nonnegotiable, but anything else is on the table for replacement if you want to play alternative options.

@@canman87 yeah, I meant sometimes you're lucky and you already unwrapped some in your free packs

My 2nd impression is that this deck has already been flagged and draws are manipulated. getting land flooded every time. I'm going to emphasis thats its every time. Like three land thirst draws.

True. And only are four djinns....

@@bounceday True too. Are draws manipulated?

scatter becomes one-mana with djinn out, capture doesn't. plus you're really only running a handful of creatures, so most of the time you won't put a counter on anything

If you play Delver of Secrets instead of Tolarian Terror, in that case maybe is preferable Essence Capture, after all, reduction of Haughty Djinn is very later

Essence Capture has double blue pips, so it doesn't get its cost reduced by Haughty Djinn.

@@marcusagidius1178 thanks and very true :)

If you play Delver of Secrets instead of Tolarian Terror, in that case maybe is preferable Essence Capture, after all, reduction of Haughty Djinn is very later.

Academy Loremaster is great; I don't know why more people aren't playing that in their Mono-U lists.

Delver is unplayable. It only sees play in legacy because of Brainstorm, but the deck would cut it there if anything better comes along. They actually cut it when Ragavan was legal. Delver is a rubbish card in every format.

It's fun for the player casting it LOL

Anything that limits or punishes card drawing for starters.

Sheoldred, Liliana, powerful ETB effects.

You are crazy, delver made my wins go up way more VS without them.

There are both in this list.

Pierce can snipe powerful plays in the first 4 or 5 turns. Discard it to Thirst later.

UU Vs 1U casting cost

Essence Capture not getting to benefit from Djinn's cost reduction is actually a pretty big drawback when compared to the slight benefit of an additional +1/+1 counter. If you're tight on mana, the cost reduction can be game changing, whereas your creatures are generally big enough that an extra point of power doesn't meaningfully increase your clock.

If you play Delver of Secrets instead of Tolarian Terror, in that case maybe is preferable Essence Capture, after all, reduction of Haughty Djinn is very later.

Esper is a good matchup for the blue deck. Bad players have a problem of over sideboarding and damaging their game plan.