What would you do?

dv8r · Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 129

I'm not sure I agree with ANY of you here. There is no reason whatsoever why you should not let wydern resolve in this situation. The deck in question is very answer heavy, and to be honest, the only real way either player is losing is with a resolved liliana and tons of ca that that entails. 3 damage a turn, whilst signifcant, is not the fastest clock out there, and you even have an answer in hand at this very moment.

As soon as your opponent taps low, or tries to resolve another spell you can cryptic command countering and bouncing, heck, you can even cryptic command to cantrip bounce wydern in a couple of turns when you have more mana. And can counter it on the way back down with ambitions.

I do agree that, considering you know each other's decklists, a wydern on turn 4 is particularly suspicious as it leaves you open to a nameless inversion whilst tapped out, leaving counter mana open as well. There is almost no situation I can see you using cryptic command as dismiss here, the play screams of Liliana. Bouncing a land is fine, but I personally think that allowing wydern to resolve is a fine play, and probably the one I would make in this situation.

Trotsky1 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 740

Thats an interesting take on things but the big question is can you see your opponent playing another spell after the wyden? There is a pretty good chance he could simply try and ride it to victory, making your stratergy somewhat less effective.

drawing a nameless inversion helps somewhat but then you are definatly allowing him to net card advantage, a trivial amount im sure you will argue. None the less even if you do get it back into hand, you still have a flash creature to deal with. Which will almost certainly see you having to tap mana during your own turn, whilst the bounce play solves that problem there and then. True a makeshift mannequin could repeat the situation but that card like wyden is always going to be a trouble card in the mirror.

Acid_Christ · Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 461

Eldar · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 346 Location: Rochester

I feel that the play I would make here as a cautious player would definitely be to counter and bounce a land; however if I knew I could simply outplay my opponent I would be tempted to go for the just let it resolve strategy and probably instead save mana for something more important or use manequinn for something EOT. As said before 3 a turn isn't that big of a clock and can be dealt with pretty easily. So I believe it comes down to which kind of player u are.

MilanG[GER] · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 58