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Posted on April 19, 2016, 10:51 a.m. by 8vomit

Hello all!

I took my newest project, Duskmantle Combo: Can it work?, to FNM this past week. It played fairly, I think i took 6th. But that is not good enough.

Things that i repeatedly had issues with were enchantments, planeswalkers, and artifacts. All of these things are very hard to deal with if I miss countering it. My 1x Cryptic Command is my only hope. Pithing Needle crippled me hard.

So I want to better suit my main board for these threats, as well as fine tune my sideboard. Please give me some help here. I just want the deck to be competitive on an FNM level, anything beyond that is unnecessary. The combo is too fragile for competitive play, I think.

Thanks for looking!

Recover819 says... #2

More discard? Like Duress?

April 19, 2016 11:33 a.m.

TMBRLZ says... #3

You want hand removal and counterspells.

Don't run Drown in Sorrow and Damnation. Pick one. (Aka pick Damnation). Running both makes no sense.

As a combo deck your sideboard needs to be less about responding and more about protection. You're trying to respond to people responding to you.

I would make the side more like this:

April 19, 2016 11:55 a.m.

TMBRLZ says... #4

If you want to be more indiscriminate and run Thoughtseize over Inquisition of Kozilek that's also fine. I just don't like losing the 2 life more often than not and I want to be going off by the time they're reaching their three mana breaking point.

April 19, 2016 11:56 a.m. Edited.

Onion_duck says... #5

Unfortunately doesn't really have ways to deal with enchantments or artifacts once they hit the field. Besides what others have already suggested you could splash then you would have access to Oblivion Ring or even just Disenchant.

April 19, 2016 12:41 p.m.

Arich121 says... #6

A combination of discard stuff like Duress Thoughtseize or other spells with cards like Echoing Truth, Cyclonic Rift, Compelling Deterrence or Into the Roil seem like decent options. the echo and rift are the better ones imo.

April 19, 2016 1:19 p.m.

TMBRLZ says... #7

There's also Annul and Steel Sabotage to consider.

April 19, 2016 1:52 p.m.

8vomit says... #8

I think what I'll do is add a 2nd Spell Pierce to the mainboard and add Echoing Truth 2x to the sideboard. Maybe add a 3rd thoughtseize to the sb as well.TMBRLZ I only own 1 damnation currently that is why I still use drown in sorrow

April 21, 2016 9:47 a.m.

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