Arcane Teachings – Grand Prix: Vancouver Postmortem
Wednesday, February 27th – Going into the tournament, I suspected that the metagame was changing in a way that was bad for actual Counterbalance decks. The card Counterbalance itself is best against the mirror and against midrange decks that actually give you time to set up a lock, and quite bad against decks that are very fast, play spells that cost tons of mana that you can’t use Counterbalance to stop, or both.
One might say that Vancouver didn’t go very well for me. Here’s what I played: Gaddock Teeg replaced Global Ruin because none of the big mana...…
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