Dragon Stompy Final Hand Answer

Hand 10: (on the play)

» Keep or Mulligan?

BR Reanimator

Pre-board

Hand 1: (on the play)

» Keep or Mulligan?

Hand 2: (on the draw)

» Keep or Mulligan?

Mulligan I wouldn’t blame those unfamiliar for the deck for wanting to keep this, but this should be a mulligan. This hand just doesn’t do anything to progress your own game-plan while not interacting with the opponent. It also doesn’t play through Chancellor of the Annex very well. This hand is just far too slow to be considered a keep.

Hand 3: (on the play)

» Keep or Mulligan?

Keep Hands that are heavy with discard spells are fine. BR Reanimator is somewhat fragile and can be stalled into a longer game with hands like this, which will likely buy enough time in order to win.

Hand 4: (on the draw)

» Keep or Mulligan?

Keep A bit risky as you need to draw an initial mana source, for them not to have a discard spell, a Chancellor of the Annex, or for them to just win… but I don’t think you can expect much better from a five card hand.

Hand 5: (on the play)

» Keep or Mulligan?

Keep While not exactly ideal, I don’t mind keeping hands like this. Especially pre-board where you still have Ponder. Playing out your hands allows you to beat Griselbrand into a bunch of discard spells or even Sire of Insanity. You have about twenty cards in your deck that are “hits” or provide another opportunity to hit, which I think is good enough.

Post-board

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Hand 6: (on the draw)

» Keep or Mulligan?

Mulligan This hand is essentially the same as hand two, except we’ve turned our cantrips into bounce spells. While bounce spells are nice for dealing with Chancellor of the Annex in play, they do do enough to justify keeping such a slow hand.

Hand 7: (on the play)

» Keep or Mulligan?

Keep I know a lot of newer players get nervous about casting a blind Cabal Therapy, but you have to get over it and will learn to keep hands like this. I would keep this as a seven card hand as well, you’re really just a Lion’s Eye Diamond away from winning AND have disruption. I would likely name Reanimate as it’s the fastest reanimation spell and we need to buy ourselves some time to draw into Lion’s Eye Diamond.

Hand 8: (on the draw)

» Keep or Mulligan?

Mulligan I hate the “I don’t go below five cards” mantra that players seem to think is cool. If the hand doesn’t play Magic, you need to send it back.

Hand 9: (on the play)

» Keep or Mulligan?

Mulligan So… this hand straight loses to Chancellor of the Annex and even if they don’t have it, loses to not finding a business spell AND mana off of the Brainstorm. These are tall asks, I would quickly send this back.

Hand 10: (on the draw)

» Keep or Mulligan?