Lose Focus

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Lose Focus

Instant

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

RiotRunner789 on

2 months ago

Well, thinking of your mana leak theme,

Lose Focus is fun with replicate.

Supreme Will: Use to run this in standard to either protect or dig for your commander. Rat colony was a fun deck, just wish Tetsuko could be their commander. Confounding Riddle is just a newer version of this card as well (which you already run).

There are a few counters (2 or 3?) in recent sets that say something like, 'counter target spell unless opponent pays 2, get x small effect' Most I think cost 1U. Not sure if those would be your jam.

I think you have or are already running the best unlimited hand size cards. I will just reiterate Library of Leng. No discard phase = never discarding down no matter what you handsize is (negates something like Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur being used against you).

lagotripha on Counter Everything?

2 years ago

Jwari Disruption  Flip is great as it sits in land slots - sandbar will do fine in its place so long as your spell count is high enough. Even a one of in your list massively improves tempo if your opponent plays around it.

Mana leak has some sweet alternatives - Lose Focus in particular lets you scale up as the game draws on, and is hard to protect against due to copies.

Thassa's Intervention is both cheaper than memory deluge and acts as a counterspell.

I'd give a little thought to old Grindclock style decks, where you just play protect the artifact until you can win - or play something like Zur's Weirding where you reach a point where you just lock out the game and win on life. As is, you'll need to use recursion on mill spells which isn't being used holding up counterspells.

The main thing I'd consider going outside budget for is Surgical Extraction - hitting the shuffle eldrazi is essential to mill decks, while being able to remove a deck's main threats or answers when you see them in the graveyard is incredible. On that note, Gut shot/Void mirror is a nonbo- you'll want one of them in the sideboard to swap into. Tormod's Crypt or similar will do on a budget, but you do need to have an answer for milling a Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger or similar somewhere in the 75.

Baral's draw/discard is mostly land filtering here, and the cost reduction isn't as crazy as it is when ramping - you could safely swap it for more draw power.

Broken Ambitions is traditional for counter/mill.

I'd want a wrath effect or comparable card in the side or main - as is you have 4x suspend, 4x gut shot for creature matchups, which doesn't feel like enough what with the time counter thing meaning you need another card afterwards - its a great synergy with void mirror, but I'd want a bit more.

More important than any of this advice is this - target your meta. Put sideboard cards maindeck to win your FNM - the control decks that make it through tournaments aren't the ones that have the best 'generic answers' (though they feature them), but ones that target metagame weaknesses - the maindeck Steel Sabotage or Narset's Reversal or for example. The void mirror setup is an incredible start for that - build out from there.

thijmnesoy on Pauper artifacts

2 years ago

a nice trample enabler might be Temur Battle Rage it's single use, but it might fit in nicely with Immolating Souleater

also, I don't think it's worth playing Stoic Rebuttal over Counterspell, unless you're already playing a playset of Counterspell, maybe Mana Leak or Lose Focus is nicer since you're in 3 colours

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