Trinket Mage is good again ;D

Last season trinket mage lost a very close friend, I’m talking of course of sensei’s, and the poor mage couldn’t make it to competitive play.

This Season however brings trinket mage not new friends but enemies, enemies that can bring the Mage back to competitive. Don’t believe me? The top 8 of Pro tour Austin, congratulations to Brian Kibler, is made of 4 zoo, 2 dredges, 1 Hypergenesis and 1 dark depths combo. Trinket mage can pick the right answer to all of these decks!

Against zoo you have:
1- Good old explosives.
2- Chalice of the void ( maybe it’s to slow but chalice for 1 or 2 can really make zoo suffer)
3- Relic or crypt for the punishing fire tech

Against dredge you get:
1- Crypt or Relic( I prefer crypt , it costs 0 and doesn’t make goyf a 0/1)
Against Hypergenesis:
1- Chalice for 0, no more Hypergenesis
2- Aether Spellbomb may be handy…..
Against dark depths you have the following tools:
1- Pithing Needle ( naming Vampire Hexmage)
2- Aether Spellbomb , bye bye 20/20 indestructible with fly

So the perfect toolbox would be something like:
- Xx Engineered Explosives (normally 2 or 3)

- 1 Crypt, dredge is going to see play and so it’s the punishing fire tech

- 1 Chalice, to give an edge game 1 against Hyper, keeping in mind that the list that made top 8 had Susher on Sideboard.

- 1 Aether Spellbomb to stop the 20/20 legendary and a part of Genesis.

- 1 Executioner’s Capsule, if you are playing black

- 1 Academy Ruins

Now I sure hope to see some control decks with Trinket Mage making top 8s, hopefully some NTT Trinkets: D
Until Next Time,
Theptkid
P.s:
Aether Spellbomb to stop dark depths or Genesis is a Noob Thought Tech (NTT) and it Rocks!!!!