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The deck pretty much sounds like legacy Stoneblade control to me. It's a good deck but not unbeatable if you play with a deck that is in the same category of power level and play better then he does.

A good deck against this kind of deck is Sneak and Show. My friend Top8'ed yesterday running this deck, here's his report:

http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?23747-A-griselbrand-in-Brussels&p=641119#post641119

I've played Stoneblade control and it has a really bad matchup against to Show and tell decks, both the hivemind version as well as the Sneak Attack variant.

GW Maverick is another deck that does pretty well against Stoneblade

http://www.mtgdecks.net/decks/view/30536

Are other legacy decks the other thing that will compare? I really didn't want to drop that much money on it TT

hum ya, if you want to have equal footing against one of the top decks of one of the least restricted formats...you're going to have to drop some major coin on it.

if this a casual match-up with a friend, just ask him not to play such a high caliber deck against your more limited resources. Or he could lend you one of his decks that's on a comparable level.

or he could agree to let you play with proxy cards.

I kind of figured that was the case. He's in the middle of making a few standard decks right now actually as not many like to play against the legacy with their modern/standard decks.

He's making a Delver deck which I'm sure will have alot of control, ponders, counters as well. He loves blue and white control. It really is frustrating that I almost feel I have to play the same colors to even get things going on my end.