Beating lantern

Ieatfood7 · September 15, 2015, 10:53:49 PM

ok. So my list wins through creature combat. It is slow aggro with the ability to grind out games.

I think I'm too slow to sneak in under Lantern Control's {ensnaring bridge} and most of my answers, they have answers to

Ancient grudge-regenerate or recur artifacts.
Mill them out - put artifacts back on library
Retrace/flashback spells - main board GY hate

I am UBRG. What should I do to win through an ensnaring bridge, where I am unlikely to be allowed to draw my artifact removal and where if I do, they can counteract it?

Spencer Addington · September 15, 2015, 11:15:34 PM

#{ancientgrudge}
It doesn't matter if the mill it.

Kaalia with haste · September 16, 2015, 12:07:01 AM

Best piece of hate is stony silence. The one color you're not in lol

griffin131 · September 16, 2015, 07:58:51 AM

Basically late game Afro is going to have no game against Lantern. Even if you splash {W} for {Stony Silence} they can hide behind a bridge until they find something to remove it.

Unless your sideboard can transform you into something faster, there isn't much to do besides 4 {Ancient Grudge}.

MommaB · September 16, 2015, 08:28:54 AM

Quote from: griffin131 on September 16, 2015, 07:58:51 AM
Basically late game Afro is going to have no game against Lantern. Even if you splash {W} for {Stony Silence} they can hide behind a bridge until they find something to remove it.

Unless your sideboard can transform you into something faster, there isn't much to do besides 4 {Ancient Grudge}.

Them Afros have been going down hill ever since the sixties lol

griffin131 · September 16, 2015, 10:32:47 AM

... Agro. Stupid autocorrect

Ieatfood7 · September 17, 2015, 01:06:57 PM

Yeah. I'm debating between trying for an alternate win (milling them or direct damage)

I'm also toying with anchient grudge (great, but they can recur everything if they have time) Shatterstorm/hurkeyals recall (if I get it in opener or they can't mill it or I get it off a "draw 2" spell, then I can build an army and swing in one big turn.

Ieatfood7 · September 17, 2015, 01:54:00 PM

I wasn't running any GY hate, since the only GY decks that scare me are reanimators and discard works almost as good there.

Maybe this is the time for it. I dunno. Seems like if I have time to start hitting their GY with ooze, they already have the bridge lock down by then.

particle · September 17, 2015, 08:57:31 PM

Quote from: Ieatfood7 on September 17, 2015, 01:06:57 PM
Yeah. I'm debating between trying for an alternate win (milling them or direct damage)

I'm also toying with anchient grudge (great, but they can recur everything if they have time) Shatterstorm/hurkeyals recall (if I get it in opener or they can't mill it or I get it off a "draw 2" spell, then I can build an army and swing in one big turn.

{hurkyll's recall} seems quite good eot, then swing for lethal.