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…This battle is a little closer since Delver often wants to keep hands consisting of one land, Ponder, and Delver…

…Like every other deck that plays Ponder, this is a deck that wants to cast Ponder on turn 1. Since…

…At the time I really hated Ponder (whereas now I only kind of hate Ponder). I argued that the card…

…What about card filtering? Oh, blue can chip in with Ponder and Forbidden Alchemy. By expanding the color spectrum of…

…Say you are playing Probe, Ponder, and Preordain, and you could always open with these cards: Island Scalding Tarn Ponder…

…3 Moorland Haunt Spells (24) - 4 Mana Leak - 4 Ponder - 4 Sword of War and Peace - 4 Gitaxian Probe - 4…

…4 Ponder, 4 Think Twice, 2 Blue Sun's Zenith. Many people do not like Ponder since they saw what…

…Phantasmal Image 1 Dungeon Geists 4 Gitaxian Probe 4 Ponder 4 Thought Scour 3 Vapor Snag 2 Mana Leak 1…

…4 Brainstorm 4 Daze 4 Force of Will 4 Ponder 4 Spell Pierce Red (9) 4 Lightning Bolt 2 Grim…

…1 Hex - 1 Izzet Signet - 1 Rakdos Signet - 1 Ponder - 1 Call the Skybreaker - 1 Chain Reaction - 1 Preordain - 1…

…1 Lightning Greaves - 1 Thoughtcast - 1 Mind Stone - 1 Ponder - 1 Negate - 1 Swiftfoot Boots - 1 Swan Song - 1 Clone…

…OverviewColorCostRarity 60 Cards Blue (12) 4 Muddle the Mixture 4 Thoughtcast 4 Ponder Black (9) 3 Executioner's Capsule 4…

…There’s no real mana redundancy for Heartless Summoning outside of the Solemn Simulacrums, but he does play Ponder to…

…They often have to keep a hand of one land + Ponder and will sometimes miss with their eighteen land deck…

…Daze - 2 Berserk - 4 Invigorate - 1 Crop Rotation - 1 Ponder - 2 Spell Pierce - 4 Vines of Vastwood - 1 Green Sun…

…The biggest temptation is to add Thought Scour and Ponder —they help find Burning Vengeance and combo wonderfully together, and…

…I have been hurt in a lot of games by having an opening hand with Ponder and only Arid Mesa…

…Now it’s time to dig with Ponder and hope to find some more Moxen to get out of this…

…Sky Summoner 4 Gitaxian Probe 3 Mana Leak 4 Ponder 3 Vapor Snag 3 Mental Misstep 2 Phantasmal Image 2…

…I could have gone further down the rabbit hole and played a miser’s Ponder or Path to Exile as…

…Sulfur Falls Evolving Wilds Grafdigger's Cage Zealous Conscripts Ponder Gut Shot My opponent played a turn 1 Avacyn’s…

…Oakgnarl Warrior, Ponder, Heal the Scars, Shields of Velis Vel, Rebellion of the Flamekin, Captivating Glance Pick: Ponder Pack 26…

…First, Ponder is much better in this deck than in most decks in the format because I can usually keep…

…This means we have three to four slots left, depending on whether we add Ponder or not. These cards could…

…Snapcaster Mage 4 Gitaxian Probe 4 Mana Leak 4 Ponder 4 Thought Scour 4 Vapor Snag 1 Dissipate 2 Mental…

…Lion's Eye Diamond Cabal Therapy Ponder Preordain Ponder Duress Scalding Tarn Tendrils of Agony Infernal Tutor Carpet of Flowers…

…of Secrets 3 True-Name Nemesis 4 Brainstorm 4 Ponder 4 Daze 4 Force of Will 4 Spell Pierce 3…

…An active Ascension is almost always game over in combination with something as simple as a Preordain or a Ponder…

…to Plowshares - 1 Sword of Fire and Ice - 1 Ponder - 2 Thoughtseize - 1 Spell Pierce - 1 Batterskull Sideboard - 1 Force…

…My opponent cast Ponder, chose to shuffle, played Seachrome Coast, and cast another Ponder. I drew Sphere of the Suns…

…The most important part of Ponder is the ability to stabilize the manabase, which has been streamlined to an extreme…

…My graveyard has a Captured Sunlight and a Ponder. It is my pre-combat main phase, and I cast a…

…When it comes down to it, we're looking at either Ponder, Delver of Secrets, or Snapcaster Mage. Despite the…

…It will be worse thanks to the rotation of Ponder, but still powerful in a small Standard. Restoration Angel - The…

…I’ve been trying out Preordain over Ponder and I’ve been pretty satisfied with it in practice and in…

…It is often right to delay Ponder until turn 5 when your hand already supports turn 2 through 4. If…

…Island, Glacial Fortress, Delver of Secrets, Ponder, Ponder, Runechanter’s Pike, and Gitaxian Probe. You already have the best first…

…Super low land count tempo decks with a ton of fetchlands are still better served by Ponder, since you often…

…The big divergence in the list above from many others is Ponder over Preordain. I started by running Preordain, as…

…card slots, I realized a couple of things: - The Ponder/Probe/Snag/Snapcaster package is the reason Delver decks win…

…2 Archive Trap, 1 Time Warp, 1 Ponder, 1 Font of Mythos Your deck doesn’t change much after board…

…After blue combo decks terrorized the first Modern Pro Tour in Philadelphia, Preordain and Ponder went to broken jail for…

…Brainstorm Force of Will Counterbalance Sensei’s Divining Top Ponder (often better than Brainstorm!) Tarmogoyf / large defensive early-game creature…

…Are the Force of Will and Ponder that would be going better than the opponent getting three free cards next…

…Ponder is also a card that gets better when it’s playing next to Daze, as you can Ponder into…

…Fact or Fiction 1 Gifts Ungiven 1 Brainstorm 1 Ponder 1 Merchant Scroll 4 Force of Will 4 Mana Drain…

…Now provided you draw an Island, Ponder helps this land-light deck play like a 24-land deck, but in…

…Whether it's finding Atlas/Rites early game or keeping up your fog count later on, Ponder is a great…

…Meditate 4 Merchant Scroll 2 Pact of Negation 4 Ponder 2 Preordain 4 Time Spiral 4 Turnabout 1 Brain Freeze…

…The ability to recast a Cloudshift or Ponder is very strong, but I would agree that he underperforms in this…