Naturalize, Bramblecrush, Abrupt Decay

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Posted on Sept. 11, 2012, 2:10 p.m. by snotskie

What are your thoughts on these three?

Naturalize : 2 drop, instant, blows up artifacts and enchantments.

Bramblecrush : 3 drop, blows up anything but creatures.

Abrupt Decay : 2 drop, instant, can't be countered, blows up anything 3 CMC or less.

I'm thinking of running one of these mainboard and another sideboard in my Fight! Ping! Bash! deck.

omgroflme says... #2

Naturalize was always a sideboard card.

Abrupt Decay definately will see play in many mainboards

September 11, 2012 2:30 p.m.

squire1 says... #3

Abrupt Decay is delver protection. It kills every permanent in that decck

September 11, 2012 2:42 p.m.

snotskie says... #4

Bramblecrush is a slower version of Naturalize that also handles planeswalkers and lands, so I'm considering it for the new B/G planeswalker. Naturalize would be used if she didn't see all that much play.

Abrupt Decay is definitely anti-delver, but will delver still be a top archtype in meta once rtr comes out? I am still considering it, though, because it also removes small creatures and tokens.

September 11, 2012 3:28 p.m.

ameuser says... #5

Bramblecrush costs four mana: 2GG. And it's a sorcery. Pretty bad, and not even usuable in Limited, really...why run it? Is it commonly used in standard right now?

September 11, 2012 4:47 p.m.

snotskie says... #6

Bramblecrush is quite versatile in standard. Being able to blow anything up is worth the cost and speed. It definitely would not be mainboard though.

September 11, 2012 8:09 p.m.

ameuser says... #7

Okie dokie then. But the Abrupt Decay looks so good, like far and away the best of the three cards...so cheap, so instant-speed, so versatile (especially in standard), so uncounterable...what more can you ask for besides just having it be an instant-speed Vindicate , which of course would be ridiculous haha

September 11, 2012 9:15 p.m.

snotskie says... #8

My only problem with Abrupt Decay is that RTR has a lot of nasty 4+ CMC permanents that could really cause some problems.

I guess I'll run Naturalize mainboard at FNM until I get a good feel of what cards I need to answer locally, sideboarding Bramblecrush for those cases where Naturalize isn't enough.

September 12, 2012 12:37 p.m.

Cirdan13 says... #9

I would say mainboard Abrupt Decay as it can deal with creatures as well as artifacts and enchantments and side Naturalize for the larger threats that might come out. As Naturalize can kill anything that Bramblecrush can except planeswalkers and land and you can always side Dreadbore to deal with the planeswalkers as you are already running a touch of red with your G/B and land destruction isn't a priority with your deck but if you still want to be able to deal with some of the more threatening nonbasics (i.e. Kessig Wolf Run , Gavony Township , Hellion Crucible , etc.) you could replace a couple forests for some Ghost Quarter s.

September 12, 2012 12:59 p.m.

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