vs Goryo’s Vengeance
12 creatures after boarding · at or above the floor of 10.
Bring in
Take out
They are the faster deck at combo speed and the slower deck on the battlefield. Your clock has to make their setup turn unaffordable.
Spell Snare answers Goryo’s Vengeance exactly: it costs {1}{B}, which is mana value two.
Consign to Memory counters the Goryo exile trigger and the Atraxa entry trigger, so it is live against both halves of what they are doing.
PreserveSlickshot Show-Off · Cori-Steel Cutter · Lightning Bolt · Their maindeck has almost no way to kill a resolved threat on their own turn, so the clock is what makes their end-step line too slow.
Avoid · Do not hold burn for their creatures. Atraxa is seven mana value and Lightning Bolt does nothing to it.
Avoid · Do not board in graveyard hate as a plan. One Tormod’s Crypt is a tempo card, not an answer to the deck.
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Memory aids
Keep probabilities: how often the opening seven contains each structure these plans assume, on the exact sixty.