Role Assignment

Against low-curve creature decks

You are a combo-control deck. Avoid falling irrecoverably behind, trade with Solitude, Prismatic Ending, March of Otherworldly Light and post-board Wrath of the Skies, preserve life, reanimate Atraxa, Grand Unifier rather than Griselbrand whenever possible, and turn Atraxa or Quantum Riddler into a stable blocker. You are not obliged to race a deck that cannot beat a stabilized Atraxa.

Against spell-based combo

You are a disruptive combo deck. Thoughtseize, Force of Negation, Consign to Memory, Spell Snare and Mystical Dispute buy one or two turns. Spend those turns presenting Goryo, not trying to become a control deck. Your interaction is there to make a window, not to establish inevitability.

Against graveyard hate

You become a blink-midrange deck that still carries combo equity. The common overreaction is boarding out too much of the reanimation package, which validates every piece of hate they brought.

• Bring Quantum Riddler where it fits.
• Keep Psychic Frog and Solitude.
• Keep enough Goryo copies to punish an opponent who draws none of their hate.
• Answer the hate itself with Ending, March, Teferi, Time Raveler, Wrath, Clarion or Consign.
• Make their narrow cards sit awkwardly beside your fair pressure.

Against blue control

You are an instant-speed threat deck. The game is not a turn-three sorcery-speed setup chain into their open mana. It is forcing them to choose between Psychic Frog, an end-step Goryo, a warped Quantum Riddler, Teferi, Time Raveler, Thoughtseize, a hard-cast threat, and a Consign or Mystical Dispute exchange. They cannot hold up answers to all of it.

Against Eldrazi and colourless decks

You are a tempo-combo deck. Do not try to match their late-game threat quality. Use Thoughtseize, Solitude, Force, Consign, Clarion and Goryo to establish Atraxa, Grand Unifier or Griselbrand before their land engine and cast triggers take over.

In the mirror

You are a stack-and-information deck. It is about graveyard timing, Surgical windows, Spell Snare on Goryo or Frog, Teferi, Time Raveler, Mystical Dispute exchanges, Consign on an entry or delayed trigger, and whether the fair Riddler plan beats exposing a target to their graveyard hate.