G2 I won on turn 3 OTP through Eidolon with Grapeshot to kill it at 4 life (and escaped Pact on the Fireblast he tried to catch me with) G1 Burn won turn 3 OTP, through a Flusterstorm, the turn before I could go off. But the sample size is minuscule and I’ve been fooled into thinking trash decks are good before! I’ll def give updates (17-4 currently, just opened with a loss to UG omnitell in my fifth league), and hopefully we can converge on the best ideas. In the end the real question is which strategy wins more games, and I’ve been doing a lot of winning. Thought scour just does a lot of very little things really well, while replacing itself, and I’m always happy to see one in my hand in a pre-sideboarded game. And if the opponent plays dark ritual, entomb? I think we wish we could keep our ponder, but we are certainly pitching it to force of will since e tutor isn’t a blue card. It also mills two cards which fuels another potential bottleneck and improves your chances of going off without ever needing brain freeze to begin with (as I showed in a comment above it digs much harder than ponder or brainstorm with breach in play). If you ponder into brainstorm thought scour gets even better, since now you can also mill away lions eye diamond in many scenarios, stocking your hand to better fight over a breach.
you can thought scour away two cards, (hopefully a brain freeze) in your upkeep of turn 2 after a turn 1 ponder. But actually it does even better if you ponder first. Thought scour replaces itself with a random chance to draw breach and 3 chances to “draw” brain freeze. You still need a brain freeze or milling mechanism. Is that better than replacing e tutor with thought scour? I can tell you I’m very happy to see the above hand in my deck (replacing e tutor with scour) in an unknown matchup and wouldn’t feel great about the actual hand in question. You have force of will, ponder, e tutor, led, lotus petal, 2 lands. How about when we ponder into a good card, a brain freeze we don’t have and something we don’t want, then mill brain freeze that we would otherwise need to draw (but is just as good in our graveyard)? Do you acknowledge that is a lot closer to drawing 2 cards than 1? If you didn’t have another shuffle effect it’s actually closer to a draw 3. How often are you calculating whether a line is lethal and you’re a card or two in the graveyard short? Again, your distillation is to thought scours detriment. The distillation glosses over the mana base, to enlightened tutors favor and thought scouts detriment. So if we fetched island turn 1 to ponder or something, and we have an e tutor hand we need a third land or a petal, or a plateau in our deck (also wasteland exposure). One takes you off double cantrip in the future. What land are you fetching to cast enlightened tutor? Plains? Tundra? Neither produce red. But every single subtlety that those distilled forms gloss over favor thought scour. The other is replace this card get another draw step. One Is skip your draw step, find underworld breach. If you distill the two cards to their most basic forms, you’re right. My experience with though scour has been fantastic, however, and I’m trying to highlight all the little things it does that add up to a much more powerful card than it appears. I want to preface this by saying that my confidence level isn’t super high that I’m right, and I def see merits to enlightened tutor. Breach is the only piece that needs to be in hand and the #1 thing they will counter or discard if they have any idea what you're up to, so I usually find myself wanting to be able to dig to another Breach. *ETutor can also find LED, mill (Grinding Station), protection (Grid), or Serenity, but for me at least 60% of the time it's just finding Underworld Breach.
I pilot this as a combo deck, so I would think drawing the exact right card is better than drawing 2 random cards. If you're playing a fair, grindy, 1-for-1 play style with counters and removal and don't mind waiting till turn 6-10 to go off after many trades, maybe the 2 cards are better. Are 2 random draw steps better than getting Underworld Breach?
#LIONS EYE DIAMOND UNDERWORLD BREACH COMBO PLUS#
Get Underworld Breach." A cantrip without selection is "Replace this card plus get another draw step". I see ETutor as "Skip your next draw step. same list with E-Tutor replaced by 2 Tome Scour and 2 Thought Scour (and mana base edited since I don't need white) and report back how much I missed E-tutor if any.Interested to see your results. I think I'll test my build from this post against a friend for about ten games vs.
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