Talk:Decks/Rakdos Pirates OMD/@comment-34218051-20180213135424/@comment-88.98.210.50-20180213154818

Merfolk should be excellent with canonades, it just stops them in their tracks if you wait long enough. Usually you want to use lightning strike on the merfolk lords and canonade their overextended forces.

If you go second it can be a problem if they have a good hand, but hey, that's why merfolk is tier 1 right now.

Dinos are more problematic. Your canonade can get rid of all of their mana dorks that ramp them and poisoner can help deal with problematic dinos, but it's too close to comfort most of the time, it's not the best matchup. Merfolk and vamps as well as control are the main bread and butter for the deck