Legacy Ninjutsu
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More testing —July 14, 2014
Shardless BUG: 2:1 in testing. It's basically a mirror, with ninjas sporting stronger face damage, and BUG being more control. Damage wins.
Goblins: 1:2 in testing. Can go either way. Here, a lack of Toxic Deluge sometimes feels painful. Ninjas have a 30-40% chance to stabilize and control the board. I was running maindeck Shuriken, which proved to be instrumental when dealing with weenie gobs.
Ooops: 0:4 in testing. They just win, and post-sideboard I either draw a perfect hand with all the SB hate in opening hand, or die. Chances to draw are lower than his chances to keep a 1-shot kill. On a sidenote, same thing with most other combos. TES, ANT and Belcher are walkovers for the opponent unless I get lucky with drawing my sideboard hate G2 and G3.
Turbo Eldrazi: 2:1 in testing. Timely Sakashima's Student wins the game easily, and the eldrazi can do very little do distupt ninja draw engine.
Conclusions after testing:
In: 4x Aether Vial Out: 4x Ornithopter
Although the thopter flies over Ensnaring Bridge, vial helps in many mroe matchups.
In: 4x Duress Out: 4x Thoughtseize
Too many games come down to the wire, and I want to reduce self-inflicted pain to the bare minimum. Fetches already pack -8 life. Duress takes care of everything I want to discard anyways, and vs creature matchups I swap it for removal.
Sideboard choices: questioning Snuff Out and Dismember. The -4 to the face hurts, will test 4x Pongify instead.