My Fish Wear Hot Pants -or- Playing In A Field With More Combos Than The Junk Food Aisle

There is no room for budget deck builds in a full-proxy metagame, and any deck that cannot stop combo madness quickly just plain fails. With such a unique (some would say skewed) environment, I quickly ruled out Keeper for its weakness against Long, as well as Spoils Mask, Long, Dragon and Madness as decks that just weren’t going to be fun to play with. Knowing I would be facing many workshop decks, and more importantly, Long.dec, I chose to run U/R Fish, a deck holding great versatility in the sideboard and with enough counters to slow combo down. More importantly, it could support Null Rod, which would prove incredible in the troubled times to come.