Tips and Tricks with the Top of the Hop
The problem, of course, is that Sensei’s Divining Top is in all of the best decks! It’s in the fake best deck (Tooth and Nail), the second best deck (Kuroda-style Red), and the actual best deck (UrzaTron Blue). No matter how good the players designing these decks, they all put the terrible Top in to make sure they don’t tap their mana efficiently so as to gain to much of an advantage over their fellows. As near as I can tell, the difference between horrible Tooth and Nail and the actually good and successful decks is the ability to get rid of the useless Sensei’s Divining Top so that you no longer have to look at it.
I learned a lot at U.S. Nationals this year. One thing that I already knew was merely confirmed: Tooth and Nail ain’t all that. I’ve always…
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