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Bant Lotus Field for Cincinnati and Tamiyo Explanation
🕑 Added 2023-07-03 18:38:19 +0000 UTCI think I am definitely going through with the Joint Explorations. I don't see myself needing to test it very much but I certainly eventually will. VOD with it may be out tomorrow instead. That said, here is the updated sideboard guide with it.
Looking back, there are a lot of games where I would have preferred Joint Exploration instead of censor and I casted Censor 0 times in the last 5 matches I played (the 5-0 Pioneer League).
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/g1mMT641IU61dMjQaBFH3w
There is also the VOD with censors on my Twitch and has some really interesting lines of play with Tamiyo, that will further explain why the card is actually pretty good.
In short:
Tamiyo passive is very strong against discard and Rakdos is a top tier deck.
+1 allows you to name a lot of the 4 ofs in the deck: Discontinuity, Teferi, Proctor or even 3 ofs: Emperor, Doomskar, Farewell. Even if you don't hit anything, you can fill your graveyard with cards to buyback with the -3 next turn and you can also bin Memory Deluges with Flashback.
-3 Great buyback to have in this type of deck. I ended up beating Creativity because I was able to reliably buyback Discontinuity.
High loyalty, it is a threat that most decks HAVE to answer or it can easily take over the game. It can go up to 6 after one +1 and it stalls the game much more. With Joint exploration as well, I don't see Behold being as relevant.
Comments
Patrick Wu
I really like Joint so far,don't think ill be changing it any time soon
What do you think about joint exploration after playing a couple leagues. Still good or is there maybe a better card for this slot?
Patrick Wu
For now, it is hard to dedicate time for paper guides. I will have a VOD with commentary that explains my 5-0 LCQ event that I just had. I think it's hard to make a guide for this type of deck since it is ultimately a UW Control deck and that is how I built it. Because of that, it takes a lot of intuition and experience. When I tried making one originally, I would often put too many hypotheticals against every matchup that it was too confusing. I think VODs are the best way to go forward with learning the deck.
Have you written any guide? The typical google docs with card choices, pairings, keeps&mulligans and so on. I would be super useful for beginners on the deck
