Dies to Removal

dpaine88

at 1 land 5 I guess you keep but the way you phrased it made it sound like it was a mull to 6.

"when I kept a shaky hand with only 1 land after a mull "

dpaine88

Don't keep 1 landers bro....this is not the deck for that.

dpaine88

Yep thats the deck he played against, Tokens are extremely good against Jeskai and Nate didnt draw any B-Light for the Obelisk of Urd

dpaine88

Oh man....I really want to play this....is the deck good though or did it just look good because people had totally dismissed aggro when sideboard/testing.

dpaine88

It was basically Strasky's list. I wanted to be as proactive as possible to beat Junk, which I did win all 4 rounds I played it.

dpaine88

So here is my report for the SCG Open. About 450-500 people, 10 rounds of Swiss. Went 8-2 for 18th place and got $100 which is better than nothing. Ran this list [deck] 4 Mystic Monastery 3 Mountain 3 Flooded Strand 3 Temple of Triumph 3 Battlefield Forge 3 Shivan Reef 2 Island 2 Temple of Epiphany ...

dpaine88

Rwcrapsy and me straight killed at the SCG Open.

We both had rough starts, me at 1-1 and him at 1-2 but didnt let that stop us.

I finished 8-2 and he finished up 7-3 losing in the final round.

Tournament report for me soon to follow.

Ran Straskys list.

dpaine88

My approach to building decks. 1. Check whether Young Pyromancer is format legal. 2. If not, move formats until it is. 3. Begin the herculean task of coupling YP with instants and Sorceries. While the synergy is small, I suspect that I may be onto something. Burn just aint the same without you bro...

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Ok I think we are going a little overboard on the whole rabble sucks thing. ITS A META CALL. I am going to be running Gryff tomorrow at the SCG Open because my area has a hard-on for green. I also went ahead and looked at SCG States for every State touching mine and also mine(Massachusetts). The top...

dpaine88

Thinking of cutting 1 Banishing Light(or 1 Dragon) and also cut 1 Phoenix for 2 Dig through Time.

In Staskys list that is.

dpaine88

Ugh man so torn between the Sperling list and Strasky list....

so much pressure to make the right choice with the Open in two days...

dpaine88

Nullify main seems like a beating on your mana. Strasky is the man. Major props for him to helping us on reddit. Love his teams idea to cut the card draw and just put actual threats. It is hard to do nothing that effects the board and tap out for a turn in the midgame unless you are both in topdeck ...

dpaine88

I personally love Stratskys UWR list with a creature heavy approach with 4 Seeker, 4 Mantis, 4 Gryff, 3 Phoenix , 2 Dragon.

0 Dig through time.

dpaine88

yeah any hand with 2 of those is a mulligan and they suck as your first 3-4 draws.

dpaine88

I'm kinda back on the Jeskai train too...I'm trying not to be arrogant here but I have lost maybe 2-3 matches in the past 6 weeks and it is making it really really hard to decide what to run at SCG Worcester. Would be much easier if something stood out. Had success with multiple Boros and UWR lists....

dpaine88

Yeah I saw some decks running Stroke main.

Its not horrible but pretty crappy in the mirror.

dpaine88

Reprisal didn't kill Courser, but we played reprisal over glare last season. Reprisal was 2 mana instead of 3, making it better at killing the big threats last season (poly k and demon). This season, there is no threat that is back breaking that doesn't contain white, which is why glare is better t...

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Like I said, for this event I copied Brad's list spur of the moment, thats what he was running. I've been doing tournaments like a madman but its all really just testing for SCG Worcester this weekend. Though there is an arguement for Instant speed Pillar that hits Courser while Glare doesn't hit Co...

dpaine88

You know, Pillar would be awesome. I should have been running that.

Against my friend in top8 I got my Chained/B-Light/Suspension field all destroyed by Utter End, Unravel the Aether and a Banishing light.

Felt really bad mid combat.

dpaine88

Yet another top8 again today. Store was running a GPT since it was a holiday. Small event, 6 rounds n like 40-50 people. Decided to give Brad's list a shot but dont think I sideboarded well with it with the whole control sideboard. The maindeck was basically what I was running but Hordling Outburst ...

dpaine88

He is a little tough but tapping out for him and attacking gives you a huge window to resolve a lot of burn and get your attacks in.

dpaine88

I like Rabble main and you can swap him with Firedancer post board.

dpaine88

damnit this DP thing keeps messing me up...keep thinking you are reffering to me by my initials like a lot of people do lol

Suspension field was just cause 99% of banishing light targets are big green guys and courser and it hits both for one less mana.

dpaine88

[deck] 4x Lightning Strike 4x Magma Jet 4x Searing Blood 4x Stoke the Flames 4x Chained to the Rocks 2x Chandra, Pyromaster 1x Deflecting Palm 3x Arc Lightning 4x Seeker of the Way 4x Goblin Rabblemaster 4x Monastery Swiftspear 4x Temple of Triumph 1x Wind-scarred crag 4x Battlefield Forge 11x Mount...

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Yep....what he said. Split the finals at states to get the mat cause I'm not going to NJ. 7 rounds, like 68 people? Played the following decks G/b devotion -- Win Jeskai "Tempo"--- Win Jeskia "Tempo"-- Win Jeskai Control--- Win Mardu midrange-- loss RUG Monsters-- win Draw into t...

dpaine88

I am always only playing for my next tournament.

That happens to be the Mass SCG States.

I frequent the location it is at a lot and at the TCG States at the same location last weekend had the following metagame: 7 courser decks and 1 mono red one drop deck.

dpaine88

I think I am back to Jeskai...

My meta is just so heavy green and Mantis Rider is 100x better than Swiftspear in that matchup.

dpaine88

So doing damage to your opponent instead of yourself doesnt put you any closer to winning??

You act like its just a fog effect. It can do a lot of damage for 2 mana.

dpaine88

The chance of getting both of the card you run 2 of in your opening hand is pretty slim.. I've gone rounds and rounds without ever seeing 2-of's in my deck once let alone both in the same opening hand. I would argue its better when you are behind than ahead. If you are ahead your opponent might not ...

dpaine88

Seeker is strong, no doubt, but I would never presume to call that card as good as YP$. Not in a million years Its not even close to as good in a vacuum. YP$ sees play in older formats where seeker never will. However, it does have a lot going for it in a meta dominated by big green creatures, cour...

dpaine88

Man, Chained to the Rocks is fuckin awesome now with little enchantment removal and most other removal costing around 3-4.

Also, Searing Blood is awesome with all these dorks running around.

Seeker is the Way is an amazing two drop. Certainly on par with YP$

dpaine88

Cut what for Firedrinker??

dpaine88

Why cant we discuss both here???

dpaine88

I'd say no to Firedrinker until more control decks pop up. Also, control seems to be an excellenet matchup. Only reason it was bad before was Rev. Without Rev they cant really pull ahead and it gives you many turns to topdeck burn spells and kill them. Aside from Resolute Archangel, fuck that card. ...

dpaine88

Yeah sorry I was wrong, there is differences in the deck.

Didnt even notice that one had 24 land and 0 rabblemaster.

I'm running 22 land and 4 rabble obviously.

I made some changes to the TCG decks and then realized I was left with Zems exact deck lol

dpaine88

Most lists I saw are running 22 land.

Also, I found Chandra to be great in this deck since you have more early guys and more prowess.

dpaine88

Been playing past 4 hours and still have not dropped a game with Boros Burn, on cockatrice mind you.

So much more consistant than Jeskai omg..

dpaine88

Holy shit....straight raping on Cockatrice with the Boros Burn version. Not one competitive game yet. Swiftspear and Searing Blood is the real deal. Chained feels so much better now with lack of enchantment removal,counting for prowess(where it didnt for YP$) and also costing 1 mana in a world of ex...

dpaine88

The mana is obviously way better, but no flying creatures, and forced to run Palm and Blood.

dpaine88

Here is also Zem's list from his CFB article. [deck] Lands 4 x Battlefield Forge 4 x Temple of Triumph 1 x Wind-Scarred Crag 11 x Mountain 2 x Plains Creatures 4 x Goblin Rabblemaster 4 x Monastery Swiftspear 4 x Seeker of the Way Noncreature Spells 3 x Arc Lightning 4 x Chained to the Rocks 2 x Cha...

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