How to deal with Baral

Solonor

I have personally had luck using ajani to kill him if there is an opening. Also berserk and deathtouch can kill him. Hand control also works well if you are able to force a discard.

andrewvanmarle

Kambal, dilation, captured and authority of the consulate, scab clan are decent answers.

I hope we get more, to stifle the nerf calls

Ohboy

madwren wrote:

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andrewvanmarle wrote:

madwren wrote:

There's a difference between meta, and meta-warping, however.

Same with a lot of the previous cycling cards that have been fixed.

Semantics and subjective: When if a card changing and when is it warping the meta?

There are quite a few answers to baral ecpecially in the kaladesh block. And yes I wil add one of these to my 10th slot of my decks when playing a blue deck which I suspect may have baral in it.
My only problem with Baral isn't'Baral itself it's'actually Imprisoned in the moon. That card has always been too cheap, and Baral just shows how undercosted it is. In stead of nerfing Baral I'd'suggest upping the cost of Imprisoned to 4.

We've found something to agree on, in that Moon is probably too cheap. I was actually surprised it wasn't 5 when it came out, to put it on par with black.

I would still consider moon cheap at 6.

It's a blue removal that's more often than not better than an actual removal due to ai being incapable of replacing creatures.

morgue427

didnt realize about the rarity but it does seem to make sense, had ai burn my 5 mana zev a few times even though i had higher ramblers out at the same time.
so it seems lifelink, rarity, damage for the ai order of removal nice to know

bk1234

babar3355 wrote:

The point is that having to splash cards in every deck, any time you face a PW with access to blue, is totally game and meta warping. Not a good thing.

If you're building for anything that may come, like big Haste creatures you should already have these cards ready to go.

Sideboarding is an important part of MTG -- I don't see why it shouldn't be part of MTGPQ as well.

For me, it makes the game a bit less monotonous to switch my decks around according to color / opponent during QB and PVP events.