Petrified Hamlet

posture right now Yeah, if you want to use a Wasteland, you often need to use it as soon as you can.

Petrified Hamlet is kind of changing the game.

And this is a card that's going to come up again later in the episode as well.

If you wait too long on that Wasteland and you tap it to cast your Baragoyf, it's possible your opponent just goes, Petrified Hamlet, now I'm going to protect my stuff.

Ugin is coming, deal with it.

Yep.

It might run him over and it might go the other way, but it's scrappy.

Eldrazi is... bigger, but it's still scrappy.

a lot of people prepared for...

That card, the Hamlet, Petrified Hamlet, I definitely underestimated that card.

Like, as someone that's been playing a lot of tempo, Force of Will, A Beauty Needle, Untap, Play Your Wasteland is like...

It's like, no.

I have Wanchitong.

I have Petrified Hamlet.

I just think all that stuff adds up to be a lot better.

So I've been doing really well with Blue-White Control.

I think Tron is really well positioned in part because it beats up on Cam, but it's also just very good in general.

Petrified Hamlet is big, so I'm going to keep working on that.

It's not clear to me which version is best.

I don't like the colorless version.

It's historically good against tempo.

It's worse against blue-black than it was against blue-red, though, and blue-black is definitely the tempo of choice.

But against these Tron decks, you can just punish them with Wasteland, and yes, I understand they have Petrified Hamlet.

I'm also playing the Tron deck.

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... on the stack, and the other is, uh, Petrified Hamlet, which stops Wasteland.

A- and, like, how is that fair? You're playing a big mana deck where I need to surgically, like, waste your damn, you know, ne- Planar Nexus-

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