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Ethersworn Canonist slots nicely into existing creature strategies, particularly Death & Taxes, but there are other cards that will accomplish the same thing for you. While they do have ways to deal with permanents through the power of their Cunning Wish sideboards, it is a much more awkward task for a deck that is used to things always running smoothly. Omnitell is a combo deck that is both highly consistent and highly resilient, especially to more traditional means of fighting combo, such as Thoughtseize and Force of Will. With Omnitell taking over as the number one combo deck of the format we must also adapt to these changes, making sure we have the most effective disruption. If you’re on Goblins, Merfolks, Death & Taxes I would strongly recommend this card. In the decks where it does fit however I’m always happy to have it in my opening hand. In addition to this Relic is also often a low power card that doesn’t win you the game, making it difficult to fit into the decks that are already skimping on victory conditions in favor of library manipulation as they would rather play more copies of Ponder or Preordain. Many decks take advantage of their own graveyards and can’t afford to pop Relic to blow it up.

The main reason Relic doesn’t see more play at the moment is that not every strategy can realistically afford to include it. A one mana card that also cantrips is one that you will almost never be unhappy to have in your hand.I prefer Relic over Nihil Spellbomb for its ability to keep the graveyard empty, which is what you want in drawn-out games versus a Dig Through Time deck. Relic of Progenitus neatly circumvents this problem by requiring a very low investment. The other issue I would normally have with using graveyard hate to fight delve spells is that you’re playing a card that deals with only a few of theirs, and only if you draw it before they can deploy them. Dig Through Time however is a different animal, making for a slower metagame. I was never a fan of this as that would often require you to play slower cards, losing tempo to the very aggressive Viking Funeral deck.

During the Treasure Cruise era a number of people experimented with graveyard hate to fight the powerful, new Ancestral Recall. Dig Through Time has proven to be one of the strongest cards in Legacy, and BUG Delver and Shardless BUG still have Tarmogoyf. Looking at the top decks at the moment, they all utilize the graveyard to some extent. Some of these cards are all around well positioned against the current metagame, whereas some are strong in specific strategies, where they solve a particular problem for the deck. This article is a list of cards that are well positioned in today’s metagame, similar to what Carsten Kotter has done in the past. For this reason I’m more interested in looking at the recurring themes – the shared characteristics between these decks – than I am at targeting specific decks (with Miracles and Omnitell being the exceptions). This doesn’t necessarily mean that these are the decks that will see the most play at GP Lille (although I’m confident both Miracles and Omnitell will be highly represented). Rounding out the ‘decks to beat’ section over at ‘The Source’ we have Team America, Blade Control, Grixis Control and Death & Taxes.

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Omnitell in particular is centered around this advantage, with stock lists rocking a full sixteen cantrips alongside both Dig Through Time and Cunning Wish. Both decks play a lot of library manipulation and are highly consistent as a result. While metagames vary depending on your location, it’s clear that the two most popular decks are Miracles and Omnitell. The hope is that by making accurate predictions we will be better able to construct our decks to beat what other people are bringing to the tournament.

Grand Prix Lille is coming up and we’re doing our best to figure out the metagame in order to get an advantage.

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