After explaining that, by the data, Affinity wasn't that bad, Aaron mused that, in the past three months R&D and the DCI have been reminded that Magic is not a series of balanced equations, spreadsheets of Top 8 results and data of card frequencies
The deck: Dice Roll Tribal Comparative Analysis 34 Lands 16 Ramp : Journey to the Lost City, Arcane Signet, Sol Ring, Rishkars Expertise, Reckless Endeavor, Bloomvine Regent, Encroaching Dragonstorm, Wild Endeavor, Component Pouch, Ebony Fly, Rampant Growth, Hoarding Ogre, Dragons Hoard, Druid of the Emerald Grove, Vexing Puzzlebox, Mosswort Bridge 11 Target Removal : Slight Malfunction, Staff of Nin (ping), Spit Flame, Aether Flash, Parapet Thrasher, Spikefield Hazard (ping), Warstorm Surge, Where Ancients Tread, Underdark Rift, Desert (ping), Stump Stomp 5 Board Wipes : Thunderwave, Harbinger of the Hunt, Pyrohemia, Draconic Intervention, Reckless Endeavor 4 Graveyard Recursion : Pair o Dice Lost, Song of Inspiration, The Deck of Many Things, Spit Flame (self-recursion) 2 Graveyard Hate : Return to Nature, Scavenger Grounds 1 Tutors : Vexing Puzzlebox 4 Protection : Wylls Reversal, Anara, Wolvid Familiar, Darksteel Plate, Mithril Coat 12 Card Draw : Priority Boarding, Outpost Siege, Return of the Wildspeaker, Rishkars Expertise, Shamanic Revelation, Garruks Uprising, Colossal Majesty, The Deck of Many Things, Dragonborn Champion, Staff of Nin, Dragons Hoard, Parapet Thrasher 8 Finishers/ Surprise /Alternate win conditions : Gratuitous Violence, Thrakkus the Butcher, Overwhelming Encounter, Atarka, World Render, Return of the Wildspeaker, Pyrohemia, Stalking Vengeance, Collective Inferno As we see form the comparative analysis, the rates per category are very good
Despite other Valgavoth players managing to enjoy magical-Christmas-land, curve into Valgavoth every game, always have a redirect spell, and otherwise do everything I wanted to do, my luck was to always have my Commander removed, countered or stolen
Thanks to this ability, this variant of the Witch-King can expertly buff the Nazgl which make up most Wraith decks
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That left three cards that cost five mana: Avenging Hunter, Goliath Paladin, and Underdark Explorer
