Subject: Blue splash on POX
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:51:27 +-200
From: Johnathan Tsao <jt@icon.co.za>
To: "'Dan Elitzer'" <fkusumot@IX.NETCOM.COM>

I've also been playtesting Jay's deck and have come across numerous weaknesses.

1. Monocolor is not difficult to sideboard against
2. Burn is a pain
3. Control can be quite nasty

I've a tourney on Sunday and last night we had a mini tourney (10 of us) where 
I played Cursed/Pox splash red for incinerates for nasty dervishes. Big mistake, 
if anything, the deck needs more defence not offence. I had in mind to mix blue, 
but propa's didn't occur to me. Hydroblasts (sideboard) and vision charms did, 
though.

Johnathan Tsao's Cursepox

17 swamps
4 wastelands
1 stalking (two, bit much pox kills land)

4 curse scroll
3 steel golems
1 chimeric (too many dies with w orb)
4 pox
4 stupor
4 diab' edict
4 funeral charms
3 spinning darkness (life essential post pox)
3 dark rituals (mana screw is NOT an option)
3 choking sands (good with rituals against 5cg)
2 evincars Justice
1 vampiric tutor (used only in emergency)

Sideboard so far:

3 touchstone (orbs nasty)
3 phyrexian furnace (reanimate + hammer killer + lurgoyf belittler)
1 Nevinyrrals disk (High risk high return)
3 dread if night (someone suggested 2 glooms)
2 perish
3 ??? (against burn)

4 rootwater depths + 3 hyroblast sideboard?

Please help, tourney in 3 days, and I WANT to play pox.

Johnathan Tsao
South Africa