![]() ![]() The third reason is that Aether Vial and its partner, Eladamri’s Call, are not good in every matchup. If you choose to tutor for a sideboard card instead of a combo piece and don’t manage to assemble the combo in a timely fashion, it’s possible to simply lose any advantage you might get from that hate card. Normally, this isn’t a huge deal for a toolbox deck because they can rely on the power of their main win condition (whether it be Knight of the Reliquary, Primeval Titan, Panglacial Wurm, or whatever else) to make up for a loss of tempo, but Kirin Combo is a synergistic deck without many innately good cards, and it’s fairly reliant on a two-card combo to win the game. The second reason is tangentially related to the first: fetching a silver bullet is slower than drawing it naturally. Modern decks are not so fragile most sideboard cards function as speed bumps in the best case, and any decently-crafted list will have outs and alternate plans that don’t get hosed by a single card. In fact, I’d say that it’s almost always correct to prioritize combo pieces over other creatures if you haven’t yet assembled the combo, even if you have a silver bullet that shuts down half of your opponent’s deck. With a two-card requirement and no redundancy, it’s very hard to justify fetching anything but a Celestial Kirin with Eladamri’s Call when you don’t have one in hand. The first, and most obvious, is that Kirin is a combo deck. “Did you forget your Panglacial Wurms? What do you mean, you’re not playing Yorion, Sky Nomad!?”Ĭertainly, that kind of all-in-one toolbox deck is a lot of fun and can be strong in especially diverse metagames, but in this case, I think it’s less optimal than the current plan for three big reasons. ![]() ![]() “Where are the spicy silver bullets?” you’re probably wondering. But even though Kirin Combo classifies as a toolbox deck, it doesn’t quite fit that brand. The first thing Magic players think of when they hear the word “toolbox” is a decklist longer than your average CVS receipt with a sideboard that’s filled to the brim with singletons. ![]()
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