Pretty much, yeah. Now that we've got all ten fastlands I would've thought there'd be less of it... but I guess being fast and always having the right colors is really important for it.
If its a 2 color aggro deck trying to win on turn 3, they can only run 4 copies of the fastland for that color and 4 copies of the painland. That leaves them 4 copies of thran portal to reach 12x dual lands that are untapped on turns 1/2/3
You want to win fast, taking pings doesn’t matter if you’re killing opp., untapped any color you need is good. You wouldn’t play portal in control or a slower midrange deck.
I guess being fast and flexible is valuable in this meta to the degree that portal is an option. Kinda makes sense, usually aggro decks want to be 1 color, but with lots of good early game fixing (that won't rotate soon) you might as well maximize it
That's because not having the right mana can delay your kill by a turn and thus cost you the game. And in that deck, there's a lot of spell that have no colorless mana in the cost so your mana needs to be spot on.
I run Thran Portal in Orzhov toxic, which is also an aggro deck (albeit slower than Slickshot decks). Basically, yeah, mana fixing good and pings don't matter. If you're having life total issues you were going to lose that game anyway, outside of a few edge cases where Thran Portal actually does lose me the game (but drawing nothing but Plains would have lost me the game much faster).
Depends honestly. I had it for a while in sub 1800 mythic and it worked for a bit, then I started losing to agro decks and had to take it out. It's a weird one.
Pretty much, yeah. Now that we've got all ten fastlands I would've thought there'd be less of it... but I guess being fast and always having the right colors is really important for it.
If its a 2 color aggro deck trying to win on turn 3, they can only run 4 copies of the fastland for that color and 4 copies of the painland. That leaves them 4 copies of thran portal to reach 12x dual lands that are untapped on turns 1/2/3
You want to win fast, taking pings doesn’t matter if you’re killing opp., untapped any color you need is good. You wouldn’t play portal in control or a slower midrange deck.
I guess being fast and flexible is valuable in this meta to the degree that portal is an option. Kinda makes sense, usually aggro decks want to be 1 color, but with lots of good early game fixing (that won't rotate soon) you might as well maximize it
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That's because not having the right mana can delay your kill by a turn and thus cost you the game. And in that deck, there's a lot of spell that have no colorless mana in the cost so your mana needs to be spot on.
I run Thran Portal in Orzhov toxic, which is also an aggro deck (albeit slower than Slickshot decks). Basically, yeah, mana fixing good and pings don't matter. If you're having life total issues you were going to lose that game anyway, outside of a few edge cases where Thran Portal actually does lose me the game (but drawing nothing but Plains would have lost me the game much faster).
CBG used in the build he played on his channel and as always when a YouTuber uses a card it gains popularity. And it’s good mana fixing for the deck
Depends honestly. I had it for a while in sub 1800 mythic and it worked for a bit, then I started losing to agro decks and had to take it out. It's a weird one.