The owner of this deck hasn't added a sideboard, they probably should...
Start typing a card name and use the auto-complete feature to quickly select the card you're trying to add. Enter a quantity and add that card to your sideboard!
Submit a list of cards below to bulk import them all into your sideboard. Post one card per line using a format like "4x Birds of Paradise" or "1 Blaze", you can even enter just the card name by itself like "Wrath of God" for single cards.
This was the 60 I wound up sticking with the longest for Shardless BUG, it's not optimal, and it's not my cup of tea even after tweaking it.
This deck has been viewed 1,398 times.
I won't say this is bad, because it isn't...in fact it's quite good. However, I see why you don't like this at the same time. It just doesn't feel right. It hardly feels like control =/
Permalink
To be quite honest I feel ridiculous playing this thing, even though I do so love playing Cabal Therapy after cascading into a Probe. That play was kind of awesome to pull off. It's kind of got a similar vibe as Fish or Jund, it's not bad, it's not that great honestly, and it's not fun for me to play :|
WOOOPS double-post!
not a huge fan of shardless agent. your a big fan of bloodghast though, eh? haha
How can you not like Bloodghast?
Shardless Agent is only decent because it can dodge some removal, and has a body to swing with to be honest. I once considered Ardent Plea in a ThopterTop build, but then realized it was only good for cascading into things, since the single point of exalted was nothing. And would have decided against it anyway since Cascade interacts poorly with Daze...Bloodghast however is one of my favorite creatures ever printed, the thing is BEAUTIFUL! It was one of the reasons I enjoyed Jericho during Mental Misstep's reign of terror, and it's been a consistently welcome part to a lot of my designs with black in them. I want to get a playset of them altered to look like Zoidberg, and get each one signed for a random quote from him.
bloodghast is decent, and shardless agent isn't terrible. I agree that him having a body is incredibly relevant.The shardless agent bug deck as a whole however, has never impressed me. Your putting out some little dudes t2-3, maybe using deathrite to ramp in a shardless agent or liliana t2, while other players are beating you with storm, dropping and emrakul or, reanimating something crazy, or dropping a delver t1 and goyf t2 with a hand-full of counterspells, etc.i dont know, this deck just doesn't feel powerful enough for legacy. sure shardless cascading into ancestral vision is a cool play, but when thats the most broken thing your deck does, its just not for me.also.. this deck is only running 15 blue spells, including FoW. Now i once ran a few deck with only 21 blue sources and everyone flamed me for not having enough blue sources. with 21 in the deck i juust got by. often pitching force to force. 15 just doesn't seem even close to enough. honestly most of the shardless bug decks i see are running 2 or less Fow maindeck, and keep them in the side.i noticed you dropped brainstorm in favor of more discard spells, and gitaxian probe. which is interesting, and gives your build more disruption, which i really think it wants(considering, in my personal experiences playing against this deck, it almost always folds to combo, unless they have the nuts), but takes away blue sources for FoW at the same time. also, no jace?The one thing i can say Shardless bug has going for it, is card advantage. Hymn, Cabal therapy, Liliana, ancestral vision, shardless agent, bloodghast, baleful strix all provide some sort of card advantage, and thats pretty cool
That second section of that comment? That's exactly what the problem with this deck is. It's not focused enough in any one aspect, it's trying to do too many things with Shardless, things that can be done better with a Tarmogoyf and being able to play Daze generally.The deck really isn't worth trying at a tournament in my opinion, it's good, but so is Zombardment, and I'm not nearly ballsy enough to try that since I KNOW there's going to be a decent showing of Storm, hyper-aggressors, and Reanimator.I'm not really supporting FoW that much, because this deck hardly even manages to do anything with its four lonely counters when they're fully supported. Hell, if I recall, the debut lists only played two or three copies of FoW.Brainstorm is great in a vast myriad of control decks, but this is not one of them. This thing gains more of its power from being able to eat your hand than it does from having one playset of counters. If I ever was ballsy enough to try this jank at a tournament, I'd probably run two Mindbreak Traps in place of FoW actually, and have a flexslot for whatever the local meta is at the tournament area.This deck ha beautiful CA, but as a cost for it, it has horrible topdecks. The most welcome thing to see as my draw is Bloodghast, or a Shardless. And that's kind of crap in my opinion.