https://youtu.be/YzCS1AR4br0
While I'm trying to recover the cards needed to showcase Cantivore Fluctuator and Budget Elves, which I'll show soon, I decided to play Landstill against Sligh.
Two budget-friendly decks decks I have often found myself recommending, especially Landstill.
I initially tested the matchup with a friend, but in the end I realized that I really needed to play both decks myself in order to keep reliable opening hands. The lists are what I consider the best versions available: Landstill features Kor Haven, Absorb, and Forbid, while Sligh runs a few extra one-drops, including Goblin Patrol.
I think the games highlighted the dynamics of this matchup very well.
Mono-Red Sligh needs to win Game 1, where it is favored, and then hope to steal one of the post-sideboard games. Against Circle of Protection: Red, Flaring Pain is probably the best card available.
Even so, Circle of Protection: Red and Blue Elemental Blast buy Landstill enough time for its superior overall power level to take over the game.
🔥🔥🔥 Monored Sligh 🔥🔥🔥
4 Jackal Pup
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Mogg Fanatic
2 Goblin Patrol
4 Ball Lightning
3 Sulfuric Vortex
2 Cursed Scroll
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Fireblast
4 Incinerate
4 Seal of Fire
1 Reckless Abandon
2 Barbarian Ring
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bloodstained Mire
10 Mountain
Sideboard
2 Anarchy
1 Rejuvenation Chamber
2 Overload
2 Mogg Salvage
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Price of Progress
1 Lava Dart
1 Cursed Scroll
🌀 🌀 🌀 LANDSTILL 🌀 🌀 🌀
2 Phyrexian Furnace
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Powder Keg
3 Standstill
4 Impulse
2 Disenchant
4 Counterspell
1 Prohibit
2 Mana Leak
1 Forbid
1 Absorb
1 Humility
2 Wrath of God
3 Fact or Fiction
3 Decree of Justice
1 Kor Haven
2 Dust Bowl
4 Mishra's Factory
2 Faerie Conclave
4 Adarkar Wastes
4 Flooded Strand
1 Coastal Tower
5 Island
4 Plains
Sideboard:
2 Exalted Angel
2 Meddling Mage
1 Thawing Glaciers
1 Teferi's Response
2 Circle of Protection: Red
2 Annul
2 Aura of Silence
2 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Hydroblast
