Pyrostatic Pillar against New Level Blue?

FiReBLT · Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 173

I know it might sound really stupid, but could pyrostatic pillar potentially be a good sidboard card for U control?

A lot of the cards used in the deck are typically cheap, and are used to counter key burn spells, and the pillar would turn all of these spells into mini shocks.

I realise that the red player would also take a lot of damage through his/her own spells, but as the aggressive player, this could possibly be worth it?

What do you guys thinks?

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Delicious · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 566

i play RDW/Burn in Ext and can't choose between the two

i run the pillar in both builds and i have seen a difference.

if you burn the straight burn version, pillar usually hurts you more because of sheer amount of spells you need to play

if you run the aggro with creatures, pillar is a great asset. with creatures staying on the board longer, their spells are more hurtful.

so it just depends on what side you play

dark_myth44 · Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 55

- pillar is used in red decks on the sideboard for combo decks not main because it kills you.
- its been used for ages so please do not try take credit for the idea

Acid_Christ · Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 571

MaksG7 · Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 13

pillar>elfball

dark_myth44 · Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 55

- it does good against combo and maybe control but not aggro= half the meta
- elfball = combo pretty much

pw709 · Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 30

I don't think Pillar is actually that good against Elf ball. I played with burn last night in an MTGO 4 man and faced Elf ball round 2. I sided in Pillar and never even got to cast it.

I can't play it turn 2 as then I will do 10+ damage to myself and crappy elves will just attack me. The problem is that it's hard to judge when the elf deck will "go off" as a single Glimpse or Chord of Calling out of nowhere is often enough.

FiReBLT · Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 173

dark_myth44 · Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 55

yes it does have potential. depends what type of deck you are playing.

trueeevil · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 242

No one plays MUC anymore.

dark_myth44 · Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 55

thedstylez · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 7

if by MUC you mean Next level blue then i mean if you are playing a more RDW type of deck, then there are possibilities for the card