Drown in Sorrow vs. Flaying Tendrils

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Posted on Oct. 24, 2017, 2:01 a.m. by KaiserMTG

So I'm a bit torn between either running Drown in Sorrow or Flaying Tendrils in my sideboard for my deck:



Both have their advantages and disadvantages so I'd like some external insight on the matter.

Drown in Sorrow is good because it works with Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet and can create a sizable zombie hoard for you. It can also let you eat the fallen with Scavenging Ooze and potentially return something relevant that died with Liliana, the Last Hope. However, it may be the case that having creatures exiled is just better overall. Death and Taxes lists have started running Dusk / Dawn in the side and Eternal Witness can be a pain in the arse as well. If Dredge was still popular it would be an obvious choice, but I think both are viable options atm.

Which do you think is better specific to my list??

Between the 2, tendrils. When you side in that card, you want it to be as much of a blowout as possible. Dealing with things like Kitchen Finks permanently is super valuable.

Otherwise the deck looks fun. The counterspells seem a bit out of place with all the sorcery speed effects, but I like it a lot.

October 24, 2017 2:13 a.m.

KaiserMTG says... #3

Thanks, forgot about finks that's a really good point.

October 24, 2017 2:39 a.m.

KaiserMTG says... #4

And yeah Blue is a really interesting color to splash in GBx decks because they play primarily at sorcery speed, but the access to a few counterspells has been really powerful actually. One problem I always ran into running other GBx decks was losing to the top deck. You get them empty handed with IoK, TS, and LotV and then they just top deck a Coco, Through the Breach, Scapeshift etc. and blow you out.. This has helped reconcile that issue and works to protect your Goyfs in a hostile post Fatal Push format

October 24, 2017 2:49 a.m.

cklise says... #5

Scavenging Ooze can gobble up Finks with the Persist trigger on the stack, also.

October 24, 2017 3:27 a.m.

Pieguy396 says... #6

I concur, scry 1 just isn't that relevant, whereas graveyard decks are all over the place in Modern. I've also left some comments on your actual deck.

October 24, 2017 1:33 p.m.

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