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…Groundskeeper is clearly not great against red land-destruction because it is so fragile to Shock and other red removal…

…do is blast opponents, but if you need to shock the system by clearing the board, you know it’s…

…It's not completely irrelevant that it will Shock its controller for a bunch, but if you are playing this…

…You can replace shock lands like Temple Garden or Hallowed Fountain with tapped duals like Arctic Treeline or Glacial Floodplain…

…It wouldn’t shock me to find that blue decks dominate this format, but there is one strategy that can…

…drop.” Fog Bank is a heck of a Thragtusk shock absorber (as well as buys you a lot of margin…

…With this sequence, you get to sacrifice your Murderous Redcap infinite times to Shock the opponent for each iteration. Technically…

…Sure, unlike the Shock Lands, they don't have the option to arrive untapped for a cost, but the fact…

…Would a counterspell attached to a Shock be anything overpowered? I don’t think so. Payback UUR Counter target spell…

…After the initial shock of symmetrical effects being remotely advantageous, even slow-witted players like yours truly could see how…

…Nasty! Chandra, Torch of Defiance will +1 to exile, cast, and then you can Shock your foes if you don…

…considering the damage many decks do to themselves with shock lands or Horizon Canopy, that's usually enough. The deck…

…That came as quite a shock, so I was interested in seeing whether this could be statistical noise. Again, I…

…I also take damage from a Shock, my Coliseum, and 1 mana burn. I think I countered his only creature…

…It should come as no shock to anyone when I say that the spring and summer sets usually have the…

…I could counter the Shock and have a comfortable zone to live in (I don't want to have to…

…in Top 8 competition (see “the gap” and Sudden Shock, above). Boros did, though, pick up two reported Top 8…

…Volcanic Hammer, Shock, and Pyrite Spellbomb are great starting points. Black has Smother, Echoing Decay, Vicious Hunger, and Dark Banishing…

…You’ll see some bond lands or shock lands, allowing multicolor decks to play a bit faster. Decks at this…

…do is blast opponents, but if you need to shock the system by clearing the board, you know it’s…

…3 flier for 2UU, it does die to a Shock … or a Smother). On the subject of levelers and Smother…

…x Dive Down 1 x Maximize Velocity 4 x Shock 4 x Chart a Course 3 x Radical Idea 3…

…play mono-Black with a splash of Red for Shock and Skirk Marauder. In round 5 we rolled over our…

…This deck can also splash red for removal such as Glacial Ray and Sudden Shock. The Faerie deck also has…

…It’s like a… uh… creature Shock! Yeah. Or like Brute Force … wait, it’s nothing like Brute Force. It…

…Let’s say your opponent’s at fifteen from some Shock -lands and an Electrolyze, and you’re at four…

…the Green Spirit can hinder death by Glacial Ray, Shock, Hideous Laughter, Umezawa’s Jitte, Echoing Decay, and Sword of…

…I don’t want to leave uncracked fetch lands lying around because I want to thin my deck of shock…

…The mana doesn’t have to be fetch- and shock-heavy, as you have no double white spells to cast…

…His eyes got wide, he sputtered in shock, and he grinned as his game just got a little harder. “Like…

…The only cards that really stick out are the two Shock, which just look odd in comparison to the other…

…like Master Warcraft, Kawabata's version can fetch only Shock, Lightning Helix, and Char, with Disenchant out of the board…

…You can grab Shock lands, the cycling lands, the Triome three color lands, all are getable from this, and that…

*Graven Cairns | Illustration by Adam Paquette* Blah blah blah fetch lands, blah blah blah shock lands. We all know they…

…in Modern! Start by combining a Triome and a Shock Land to play Scion of Draco on turn two. Then…

…Creativity plays 11 fetch lands and five shock lands, so the mana base is already doing a lot of the…

…Nearly all of the lands in Esper either Shock you or come into play tapped, and that leaves you at…

…It’s Consistent While Standard may be full of Ravnica shock lands and M10 duals, there’s still a price…

…Uro even offsets the pain of a heavy fetch-shock manabase. The cost comes because your mana is now something…

…acts as a decent blocker while also dodging both Shock and Cry of the Carnarium. Overall, the only downside between…

…Searing Blood replaces Shock, which functions similarly with greater potential upside. Otherwise, the deck is pretty familiar. The lack of…

…The combination of the “fetch lands” of Zendikar and the shock lands" of the Ravnica block which have the basic…

…and Magus of the Moat, Steel Hellkite, and Sudden Shock (for Phyrexian Revoker) might be considerations, too. Brian Kelly built…

…This deck isn’t trying to burn anyone out – I don’t have Shock or Lightning Strike – as this is…

…of Magic Erik Lauer to include such spells as Shock. Aaron's only response? A cryptic call-back from Boat…

…And note that it doesn't say “basic,” so if you're playing with *Ravnica* “shock lands” such as Godless…

…I am going crazy and everybody I know is asking me questions and I am in shock and I receive…

…If you don’t need to hit something with a slightly more expensive Spell Pierce or Shock, then a slightly…

…Having a full set of shock lands and buddy lands means that the mana is very good for a three…

…Devotion lists in the Top 8 is almost a shock to the system. If we go a little deeper into…