When the converge spell came to light, I thought it would give the deck a little more consistency, allowing you to essentially have more copies of Scapeshift and spend less time digging for it. But just isn’t the case anymore now that the environment has become so aggro/combo focused. Its mana base required a million shock lands and Valakuts, which was always a problem you could get around in a slower and more midrange format. Blue Scapeshiftīefore Bring to Light was printed, I was a huge Scapeshift Control aficionado, but as the format evolved, decks became faster and faster-and more importantly, a lot more consistent than Scapeshift. The closest thing you have to Storm, if you want to play something similar, is Ad Nauseam or Death’s Shadow Zoo. The speediness of the format might just kill you game 1, and then you have to deal with sideboard cards.Įvery time I’m thinking about bringing back Storm from my dusty closet, as I’m reaching to open the door, I can think of a million reasons to stop doing what I’m doing. You can’t capitalize on the fact that you’ll catch people off-guard game 1 and hope to dodge hate post-board. Of course, that’s true for most combo decks, but the problem with Storm is that it’s not even that fast. There are a ton of other cards that are annoying: Abrupt Decay, counterspells, and discard spells. Then Engineered Explosives deals with the Empty the Warrens plan while killing Pyromancer Ascension and Goblin Electromancer in a pinch.
Grafdigger’s Cage and Relic of Progenitus both turn off Past in Flames, which is your primary plan, not to mention every other graveyard hate card being played right now because of Dredge ( Rest in Peace, Ravenous Trap, etc). Unfortunately, there are a ton of other hate cards that people play that incidentally are great against you. It produced merely good results, and it was brought back when people tried to level metagames that cut down on Storm hate such as Ethersworn Canonist, Rule of Law, and Eidolon of Rhetoric. After losing Preordain and Ponder, then Seething Song, Storm never got better.