Four Dryad Arbor maindeck and probably 4 more green sources in the sideboard. To prevent scooping to Leyline I think the deck could borrow the strategy Vintage Dredge decks use. They give you 8 cards to fight it and really, once you have 3 or more cards in your graveyard, it's not that scary. I really think that with 4 Street Wraith and 4 Phantasmagorian, relic shouldn't be such a big problem. I've been thinking about the problem cards that everybody is talking about: Relic of Progenitus and Leyline of the void. I really think that the manaless strategy is strong.
That not only takes balls, but some serious skill. That isn't a fluke this guy knew what he was doing and he took a very interesting approach to this archetype, and one that actually uses the Discard Step to its advantage. Here's a guy who outlasted Force of Wills and everything in between with Nether Shadows and Gigapedes. I was rooting so hard for the Manaless Dredge player to win that whole event. Most people simply dismiss Dredge (Ichorid) as being a long-shot to play against in a big tournament, but legitimately fear the deck once they sit across from it because, frankly, it is just capable of explosive plays. What this particular deck did was it feasted upon those decks waiting at the higher tables that weren't ready or capable of handling it and frankly steamrolled its way to the title once it reached the Top Eight.
Control has gotten more prevalent as a result of this meta shift, and the fact is Blue decks sit and wait at the higher tables because of their consistency in beating decks that just can't keep up it's all redundant by now. People need to understand that the format has truly slowed down a full turn with the advent of Mental Misstep. I think the conversations being had about the deck folding to two cards is rather rhetorical, at best.
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