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I'm trying other decks at the moment, but I love caw-gates so much as a deck. It's so weird and crazy it ever wins games.

Im asking bc the deck seems to have gotten fairly resilient with mana producing dorks and the fact that it can jam so many versatile creatures like Mesmeric Fiend and Masked Vandal.

In my view, this deck has quickly gone from a *glass cannon* type matchup to a much better deck with so many interesting choices.

So with fiends and vandals 4 of and ready at anytime to disenchant your Nihil Spellbombs and the like and also the fiends to remove the counterspells, what are the cards that are actually effective or more than favorable? I'm trying to think beyond the typical *Oh i boarded in my thraben charms but they had mesmeric fiend so i lose* matchup scenario.

Prismatic strands seems like a card that sticks out, being in your graveyard and potentially 0 cost at instant speed. Wildfire on the right turn can be good too for obvious reasons. What else actually is advantageous?

I'm fully aware of the difference between the two, but is there any upside to running one over the other in MonoU Terror decks? They don't ever need to cast it on a non-red target (because if you're using it to fill the graveyard, you're probably screwed anyway) and I don't believe anyone is still playing [[Phantasmal Bear]], so no real upside in Hydrblast. The only relevant spot where you'd prefer BEB would be against [[Standard Bearer]] and [[Coalition honor Guard]], but what would be a deck running those against which you would side in BEB/Hydro?

I'm testing it on endstep, because most of the times i feel the original BW has some difficult to close games and lembas is significantly worse than cryogen.

It really feels like it close games easier without losing the affinity (still uses 8 artifact lands instead of 10 of the original BW, but we got giant's that gives affinity too so it's a fair trade)

Why 3 Basilisk: To gives us the permission to still uses 8 tapped lands. I see the gates lists that uses 4 Basilisks usually uses 10~12 tapped lands on minimum. BTW the draw power of Cryogen Relic helps us to find easily at least one of them

Giant's Boulder helps mana fixing for cryogen relic/baleful strix/uncolored basilisk gate, at the same time it gives affinity for the rat/dispatch. Also a good late-game removal, but i'm starting to think 2 is ok? The tapped gates are easily fixing the mana

and 1 Strix because of why not haha

Could you guys offer any insights on whether you would change anything while keeping the premise of a BW Blade deck with a blue splash?

Have been playing for half a year now almost, and had a blast with mostly gruul tremors (350 games on endstep lol) and rakdos madness. I love aggressive decks in TCG's, but also love grindy midrange decks. Have been wanting to play a Tron buiild for a while now too. Mostly i'm up for a challenging deck that's somewhat future proof (for as far as we can look into the future) and works well in this meta. Thanks!

My next deck I want to build is fog. There's a lot of rally at my LGS and a lot of boggles. It seems like simic gets played more. Is there a clear better deck? What should I build

In the current meta, how good is Jund Wildfire? It seems like the downgrade of Baleful Strix to common has hit us a bit hard. But I'd like to see other players' thoughts.

Every single game I play all I deal against is that stupid refurbished familiar with artifact slop and dispatch or mono red rally or madness or faeries and Tron just feels so bad right now unless you start with an absolute nut hand or draw something amazing zzz