Unlocking the Vault #20: Landstill Primer

Posted on March 13, 2012 by enderfall

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  1. Hi enderfall,
    nice article, as always. I really like how much you go into detail and share your – in my opinion – experienced thoughts. I do enjoy to follow the train of thoughts of players of eternal formats since they tend to be quite skillful.
    However, I don’t think it’s possible to Misdirection a Gush since it doesn’t target, does it.
    Anyway, thanks for the article and keep writing/ recording!
    Cheers,
    High_Gene

  2. Hello High_Gene,

    You are correct. Gush does not target and can not be misdirected. A slight oversight on my part and thanks for catching that. For some reason I thought I had misdirected a Gush before, but obviously that never happened. Perhaps I was thinking of Deep Analysis (another draw 2), which doesn’t come up so often in Classic.

    I’ll make sure that part is removed from the primer.

  3. Not exactly on topic, but it is somewhat topical.

    I’m actually running a deck that relies heavily on the graveyard, so grafdiggers is a major concern. If i’ve got an ancient grudge in the graveyard, and someone drops a grafdigger, can I flash it back before the cage hits the field, then have it resolve after the grafdiggers hits the field?

    And along those same lines, if you pump a creature with kessig wolf run, and it undies, will it keep the buff until the endstep, or does it lose the buff when it dies?

    Thanks in advance and sorry for the hijack

  4. Hello dataphreak, thanks for reading my article. I’m no judge, but I believe that in order to cast grudge you need to target an artifact already on the battlefield. So while the Cage goes on the stack, you could use grudge to destroy another artifact, but not the Cage that is still on the stack.

  5. love the article. One positive about fluster over trap tho early on it is ess a pierce where trap there is the possibility that its nothin but force fodder the first few turns.
    And ET landstill can give u a awesome toolbox style deck/board to find that 1 cruc 1stony etc to give u a 4 of board card with 3 ET and a 1 of. i found i prefer humility to moat actually gives insane advantage with factory. serenity for UW and eflux for most landstill are a great way to keep stax/affinity in check too epec as the best land they have does nothing to help with flux.
    on a diff note i would love to deep anal. again…. good ole tog…..