• Burn is a problem until you side in 2 Duress and 4 Hydroblast, a Prohibit, a Chainer's and a Mulldrifter and side out the removal that doesn't efficiently kill Thermal Alchemist, at which point you will win 90% of your post-board games. Game one if they draw too many creatures so you can use your removal, you'll probably survive long enough to beat them to death with 1/3s and 2/2s, countering Curses and Fireblasts and trying to setup Flicker + Mancer on a lifegain land. Use Recoils on opposing Mountains to deny them food for Fireblasts, or on their recurring damage sources to buy time.
  
• Stompy is a good matchup. Kill any 1 drop ASAP to delay them, try to have an answer available for Hunger of the Howlpack shenanigans, and Rancor is their best card by a mile so try to counter it (or prevent them from feeling safe to cast it into possible removal.) The Snuff Out can lead to some incredible blowouts if you can sneak it in when they try to Rancor a creature up. Side in the Wail, Zombies, Prohibit, Chainer's, Duresses and Mulldrifter, take out the Recoil, Horror, Reaping, Flicker, Mancer and some number of Brainstorms plus a land - Brainstorm isn't great when all your cards are great.
  
• RDW is a shittier version of Stompy without Rancor. If you kill their first turn play, you will most likely win by playing a bunch more removal and 1/3s. Side in the Blasts, Prohibit, Edict and Mulldrifter, take out the Recoil, Horror, Snuff Out, Reaping, Flicker, Soul Manipulation and a Brainstorm on the play/Ash Barrens on the draw.
  
• Various Kor Skyfisher decks are simple enough. You play Mulldrifter which is much better than a Glint Hawk. Survive long enough and you will outcard them. If you haven't Recoiled a Journey to Nowhere that's exiled an Archaeomancer or Mulldrifter, it feels really good. Try to avoid letting them have enough creatures to make Rally the Peasants a threat - if they cast Battle Screech and they have just a Thraben Inspector in play, go ahead and kill the 1/2 so they can't immediately flash the Screech back. Side in the Mulldrifter, Wail, Prohibit, Duresses, Annuls (their deck doesn't function without a 2-drop artifact, Duress and Annul both give you options to delay them for a long time by eliminating their 2-drop) and possibly some number of Hydroblasts if you've seen Kuldotha Rebirths (they can counter opposing Pyroblasts, but that alone isn't enough) and take out Snuff Out, some Edicts, and some other removal/Brainstorms. They will almost certainly have Relic of Progenitus, but Relic is awful - if they just keep it in play, you can exile your Ash Barrens/removal/other spells and keep your creatures, and eventually just build up to a point where you can cast Archaeomancer to force them to crack it, and then Reaping back a bunch of creatures to close the game out. Relic is terrible. Disfigure basically only killing Glint Hawk and not killing Kor Skyfisher is awkward, Ghastly Demise kind of gets owned by Relic but is otherwise great, Tragic Slip requires some works, and Edicts are pretty bad if they kill an Inspector or a token. Recoil is absurdly good because they have bouncelands, tokens and Journeys, while also being just an adequate way to buy time by hitting a Kor Skyfisher.
  
• Delver is an actual good matchup, and that's the reason why I really like this deck. You can kill all their early garbage creatures to stop them from enacting their game plan, you have a bunch of 1/3s to block any Ninjas that do slip through, and Mulldrifter is great. Side in the Wail, Prohibit, Geist, Mulldrifter, Edict and possibly Duresses if you can play around Spellstutter Sprite (or if they're not playing the Faerie package), take out Recoil, Horror, Flicker and some number of Brainstorms + a land on the draw. If they have Relic, take out Ghastly Demise and Reaping.
  
• The various Black and Blue control decks are all good matchups. Try to force through your creatures, especially Mulldrifters, and try to setup a good Reaping before they find a Bojuka Bog.
  
• Affinity is tough game one if they have early 4/4s plus the Atog combo. If they never draw an Atog until you have counter mana up, you can kill all their creatures and eventually hold up removal + Counterspell and they can't go for the Atog. After sideboard put in all four Hydroblasts, the Duresses, the Edict, the Mulldrifter and the Annuls (which kind of suck, but they're mostly for Tron and the Skyfisher matches, and Annuling literally any artifact early game slows Affinity down a lot) and take out the Recoil, Horror, Flicker, Reaping, Teachings, Disfigures and a Brainstorm and an Ash Barrens. Your goal is to kill every creature they play and eventually start resolving Mulldrifters. Duress is to take early artifacts, take away Pyroblasts so you can resolve stuff, or just know whether you need to worry about getting Atog comboed. If they play a Relic game 2, take out the Mancer and Ghastly Demise for the land and Brainstorm on the play, or two Disfigures on the draw.
  
• Tron is unwinnable, they just have more counters than you and more mana than you and cast more Mulldrifters than you.
  
• Elves is a joke matchup. Kill their Priest if it's turn 2, kill their Timberwatch/Huntmaster/Vanguard in that order (those are the only actual threats in the deck) and use your Edicts as early as possible, since killing a mana elf and slowing them down is much better than killing a Sylvan Ranger. Distant Melody could be a threat, except you most likely can just kill so many creatures that it will draw between 0 and 3 cards.
  
• Bogles is an easy matchup if they don't have the perfect draw, and a close matchup if they do. If they cannot find a Bogle, White Mana, an Armor/Mask, a source of trample, AND Edict protection, you will eventually kill all their stuff. If they have a 6/4 Trample first strike on turn 2 with a Young Wolf or a token in play, well whatever. Bring in the Wail to sweep up their dorky 1/1s so your Edicts can take over.
  
• UR Fiend is a much easier matchup. Kill everything they play, bring in the Edict and the Hydroblasts and you will have much more removal than they have creatures in their deck.
  
• UW Tireless Tribe/Inside Out combo is a good matchup, assuming you don't get turn 2ed on the play and assuming you draw the removal that matters. That deck is basically garbage if they don't have an early Tribe, but there's not much you can do if they just play a Tireless Tribe on turn 1 and you only have Disfigures available as removal. The version with Delver is much worse against you than the version with Squadron Hawk, but either of those cards are terrible against your removal suite and don't exactly protect them from Edicts since you can just kill their Delvers/Hawks, though it does suck getting 4-for-1ed by Squadron Hawk.
  
• White Weenie is a terrible deck, don't play it, but since people want to play their White Weenies, you have an easy matchup at least. Don't let them have enough creatures in play where a Rally the Peasants would be a problem, keep the field clear so you can Edict Guardian of the Guildpacts (or just take 2 a turn and if they try to Gift of Orzhova it, own them with Recoil) and eventually you'll be able to resolve Mulldrifters.
  

• Burn is extremely hard to lose post-sideboard, and if you find a lifegain land or the Lone Missionary game one you can setup a Flicker combo and win. Snapping the opposing Thermal Alchemist can lead to some really explosive plays in the early game as well.
  
• You will win all opposing control mirrors. With the Familiar you get to get a massive mana advantage, you have enough dorky creatures that Edicts don't do anything, you can just run your Oracles and Mulldrifters into counters and eventually Teachings for Reaping and then the game's over. Gigadrowse post-board enables you to play a long game where you just make land drops, play your card draw when needed, and eventually build up 5-6 blue mana to tap your opponent's mana out at the end of turn, untap and play a bunch of Familiars, and card-draw creatures all at once. This is kind of why I don't want to play the first UB Control list - the Familiar game plan simply beats control.
  
• Stonehorn Dignitary makes a mockery of most of the creature-combo decks. What is White Weenie going to do when you play out a Stonehorn Dignitary? Journey to Nowhere it? Oh hey here's a Dinrova Horror, thanks for playing. Siding into four Dignitaries really enables some messed up games. Affinity can be a problem, since if you're just stopping their combat they can still Atog+Fling you, and that's where the Hydroblasts come in. It turns out if the Atog can never attack, you can just hold up Hydroblast and they have to commit pretty hard, at which point you can Hydroblast their Fling, and if they have an answer you can Snap something to untap some mana and Teachings for another Blast. It's pretty messed up.
  
• Delver is a tough matchup, I believe. I've only faced it once, and had some laughably bad draws, but you don't have any removal to make them stumble, and their Lightning Bolts and Skreds actually matter. 420Dragon had two COP:Blues, which might need to go back into the board.
  
• UW Tribe/Inside Out is silly. If you survive until turn 4, you're going to win. If you get turn 2ed, well there ain't anything you can do about that. If they don't find a Tribe before you have a Familiar in play they're probably going to lose. Post-board you get to play Strands and Dignitaries and Dispels to ensure you'll win if they don't play a turn 1 or 2 Tribe, but if they have the Tribe + Circular Logic + Inside Out you're dead, move onto the next match.
  

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