Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning

There’s a new Avacyn now guys, if I may direct you to the M15 spoiler.

Guardian Angel (new version) is bulk prices (like a dollar each). Angel of Hope is about 25$ a copy, even off ebay.

Granted, if Avacyn were printed in these, I’d snap-buy the duel deck, just to get a copy for my Naya EDH (needs a Sigarda and an Avacyn).

WHOA. I didn’t know we had a full board!
Blue Player blocks the other 4 creatures with his 4 Wall of Frosts.
Hear that? That’s the sound of your Boros Charm getting Counterspelled.
Eat your heart out, Control Players.

Man, I love T59 Win Cruel Control.

Sorry for doing this to you, but once Silence is put on the stack, you can still counter it. Rebuff the Wicked wouldn’t work either, because Silence is not a permanent. Blue player casts Stifle on your Odric, blocks Odric with his Aetherling, and continues to befuddle the inferior minds he is playing against.

Nice try, guys, but I’ve got too many answers to your pesky problems.

Well, I’m glad Counterspell only costs two mana. Oh, you went first? I have a Force Spike with your name on it.You see all those cards you just named off? There are a greater number of counterspells that can do better. Since you people like white so much, let’s say they splash white in the Arcanis deck for a little Azorius control. Now I have access to mean things like Render Silent, or Mana Tithe.

What’s that you hear? A WHITE COUNTERSPELL? Betcha didn’t even know that existed.

Also, if we’re going to start sideboarding, I could go all out with a Spellskite or a Pithing Needle. Spellskite would screw your defensive combat tricks even harder.

After all is said and done, it really doesn’t matter how fast you are. Cunning beats all.

White is an amazing color, guys, but let’s at least TRY to use some of the other two in order to combat Arcanis. Make it a challenge.

What is with you people and Living End? Pact of Negation. The Quasi-conditions automatically make the Blue player win, because nobody wants to argue conjecture when there are too many probabilities. And let’s face it:

Ain’t nobody got fo dat.

Infinite Mana, amnesiac. And who has the money for Force of Will?

First of all, what a badass name. The button beneath said, “Reply to the wind”. I thought that was pretty clever.

Also, Stifled again. We are not done until I say so.

Alright, against Emrakul, there’s very little defense, same with Progenitus. Good thing cards like Rout and Day of Judgment and Wrath of God and Supreme Verdict and Final Judgment exist. I especially like Rout. An instant speed bomb. Wonderful. Terminus works wonders, too.

Although, terrifyingly, only one of these is a permanent solution.

Another thing to add to blue against Emrakul is Mindbreak Trap I believe. Could be completely wrong on that because of his protection, but I think it works?

Hard to do, and easy to destroy artifacts with any color.

This is why blue is a garbage color for players without the guts to really challenge themselves in mtg. It’s undercosted defenses for basically everything make it easy for the low intellect player. If that offends you, good. :) Bye, little man.

First of all Stormtide Leviathan, Jace’s Mindseeker, Shipbreaker Kraken, Aetherling, Illusianary Angel, and Aeon Chonicler. Second there is this amazing combo my friend has with blue that. Omniscience+Enter the Infinite. Then all you need is any card that lets you have no max hand size: Kruphix, Vensers journal, Tamiyo the Moon Sage, etc. and a card to keep putting back into the deck: Blue Suns Zenith
The best is to use tamiyo’s -8 that lets you have no max hand size and reuse the counters. You would have Unlimited mana due to omniscience, most of your deck in your hand due to Enter the infinite, and keep casting blue suns zenith so you don’t lose by milling yourself.

We’re playing Modern. I assumed that these were quasi-conditions where each player had unlimited mana and access to any cards in his/her deck, as well, there are no turns, only two states of active player and inactive player.

Cause, let’s face it, there’s no real way to do this besides intensive and time consuming matches. And no, I’m not willing to go to Tappedout and log them for the benefit of the people reading the comments. Unless they want that.

All those for: upvote. I have to get a lot, so, everyone do what they can.

EDIT: Actually, at this point, there really isn’t a format either. It’s all hypothetical.