Imposter provides a flexible game plan for many niche scenarios. Behind in cards? . Need creatures? . on deaths door? .
What doe this list struggle against?
This list struggles into air matchups( due to for mask and for ) and ( creature curve is too high to trade favorably into Enchantress) and ( more into this matchup later)
What is this list strong against?
This list is able to outvalue aggressive strategies provided you have a successful turn and blockers for the early game.
What is this list's gameplan?
The primary goal of this list is to in the early turns of the game so that we can play our powerful cards on a curve a head of our opponents. once we have 6- 8 mana we can change our mask to whatever suits the board state( e.g. if we are against , if we aren't at threat of losing mask and there's no in play, or if we still have to slow our opponent's clock down or need a site to flood for our .)
Against control lists like Mago we want to commit to the long game and force the Mago player to answer our threats one by one versus giving the Mago player 2 for 1s on our creatures via s, s, s, Etc.
Includes and Reasoning
Tech
This list is on 3 to suppress necromancer strategies and is a bit of a nonbo with
also for the necromancer matchups we play 1 , and 1 . These cards can swing games on their own
2 for 1s
We include ward creature cards that come at a good rate such as and (can sometimes get a win in with ring due to it's spellcaster trait).
We include: , , , , and . These creatures force trades that are usually favorable and often times turn the tides of the game.
Big Swingers
We have , , , and at the upper end of our curve to close out games
on the lower end of our curve we're running the best creatures we can for a 3 mana rate, , , and .
Engines
and are massive engines when they stay on the field.
, , and give us extra turns of defensive value (usually) when we need them most
Special cases
[[Lady of the lake] allows us to recur a toolbox or any mortal piece that answers the board state, as well as gives us recursion for control matchups.
s allow us to double up on Unique value engine cards such as lilith and baldassare, but can also serve as additional pudge butchers or copy an opponent's doom of dilmun. in the enchantress matchup they can animated auras if proven beneficial.
Removal
Our removal suite contains cards that get around ward such as , and
we carry 1 and 1 for pesky artifacts like or
and s serve as basic removal, along with the and in our collection.
