Five With Flores - How to Dismantle a Mind Sludge

Mind Sludge - It has been called the only reason to play Counterspells in the current Standard environment (there are actually two reasons... the other one is in our deck).

I am playing basic Swamp this weekend because of the "I have must-counter sorceries in my deck" factor. This is a pretty surprising couple of games with my current favorite Standard deck, Grixis Hits:

4 Gatekeeper of Malakir
2 Malakir Bloodwitch

2 Divination
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Spreading Seas

4 Blightning
2 Countersquall
4 Cruel Ultimatum
4 Sedraxis Specter
1 Terminate

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Dragonskull Summit
2 Drowned Catacomb
4 Island
4 Lavaclaw Reaches
2 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Swamp

sb:
2 Duress
2 Malakir Bloodwitch
1 Sorin Markov
4 Vampire Nighthawk
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Countersquall
3 Terminate

More awesome sauce at the blog:

http://fivewithflores.com/2010/05/how-to-dismantle-a-mind-sludge/

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[tyboar]

Why not play Jace before that Mind Sludge? Seems strange. Just wondering why.

Totally better without music, like, 100 times better. Now I don't have to mess around with my volume controls. Yay no music.

[fivewithflores]

@tyboar

When? Game One the Jace was topdecked post-Sludge; Game Two never had UU before the Sludge.

[nv88]

Less is more MJ

We loved your vids before the Music and you don't need to always be talking unless its needed

This is a vid that's a throwback to the vids that made us all Subscribe to you in the first place

[littlteapot]

His example game for the relevance of big discard spells in standard had both players getting terrible opening draws and just relying on the top of their decks?

[kevinkenny3]

Hiya! lol

[SethepDR]

Hi, maybe a dumb question, but how can I setup my mtgo interface like this? When I try to move the "card" frame it just overlays parts of the screen, but I can't add it to the sides or replace my opponents turn frame with it.

[bevonair]

the problem with the music in the last video was that it was repeated so often and when you stopped talking it became very loud.

[tyboar]

@fivewithflores

Rewatched it, now I understand. Obviously wasn't paying attention to your land.

Oh, instead of music, try for some typical Flores stories or whatever it is you do like back in the day when you with Randy doing the PTs.

[thewanderingrogue]

Great without music. Just ramble when you don't need to say much. It's funny.

[ElysForever]

videos are 10 times better with music and introduction

[DandyAndyRockner]

a kung fu punch sound would be cool during the fight step. what do u think?

[cruciald]

Really is better without music. So much easier to understand your play-by-play and explanations.