Dies to Removal

Or spurned.

We need Scralty to come to level us out(insult us endlessly).

Khaos will officially be lodging with me and my crew for fun and shenanigans in Vegas.

board into Ojutai control.

It's basically the mono-red devotion deck I had built with a different(probably better) top end and rabble over ire shaman. The sideboard is mostly good and what I was fairly sure I was going to move my deck to.

While I like fanatic of mogis a lot, I think switching to aschloud and regent is a good change as it lowers the curve and I'd give the list somewhat a stamp of approval(somewhat cause I'm sure there's a better board plan then swiftspears).

Ask and ye shall receive.

The Kincey is benevolent.

Well, if you're playing sully's list, Sperling and Maher think it's very favorable for the UB deck postboard.

Me and Z thought that was slightly ambitious when we where watching it live on Sunday.

Atarka red vs. Shota UB control: REALLY CLOSE MATCHUP. Thinking of adding vault breaker to the board as it's overall probably the best plan against them and digs you too much needed gas(the games will go reasonably long in postboard games).

Sideboards interesting because a lot of the cards you can have in your board overlap matchups reasonably well and with the overall powerlevel of some of your cards/burn spells being so high, you don't lose much going down on board slots in many matchups.

Like against abzan agro, regardless of what your sideboard cards are, the matchup is basically play around dash by having some amount of dash threats in your deck, get some % points from there manabase, win easily if they don't draw multiple rhinos. Roast is great, but even if you don't have it in your deck, the matchup doesn't change THAT much(though roast is the 1 card I'd probably never touch along with at least 1 heelcutter).

Goddamn daredevil is good.

I'm black 100% of the time.

how is atarka red and mono red different decks? why do people get so hung up on names

So the name doesn't matter at all. They're both basically mono-red.

The atarka version is MUCH better though.

Me and Josh where talking about it on facebook. The green splash in addition to 'just' raw power, you're lategame is so much better because you can actually burn your opponent out much more often after they stabilize. Command and become immense simply let you beat people with your leftovers. Instead of just having randomly goblins that equate to a mere wild slash, they suddenly become stoke the flames on top of the lightning bolt you throw at them. Siege rhino's are less potent because they don't give burst lifegain. Hell, I've atarka'd a radiant fountain.

That and become immense is a card that's very hard to play around.

WWLPMUFD?

What would LP's made up friends do?

So you're just a figment of my imagination?

One thing worth noting is the control matchup got a lot worse now that they have an edict and can make proactive plays with dragons.

On the flip side, the matchup vs. big abzan gets a lot better with the big sideboard plan and having access to surrak which rumbles well.

Relevant: http://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/pro ... he-numbers

Normally I'd say Nelson's results are inflated by him being the best standard player, but at least one of his teammates also went 8-2 which is good endorsement.

A friend of mine finished in the finals of the same GPT that I played in and he said he thought there where too many surraks in the deck, but overall, the list was very good.

Really, just pick one of the good decks that your most comfortable with and jam.

[deck]1 Frenzied Goblin
1 Lightning Berseker
3 Zurgo Bellstriker
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Foundry Street Denizen
4 Goblin Rabblemaster

2 Hordeling Outburst
4 Dragon Fodder

1 Become Immense
4 Lightning Strike
4 Wild Slash
4 Stoke the Flames
4 Atarka's Command

1 Forest
1 Temple of Abandon
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Mana Confluence
10 Mountain

4 Roast
1 Hall of Triumph
1 Goblin Heelcutter
4 Searing Blood
1 Magmatic Chasm
1 Harness by Force
1 Collateral Damage
2 Eidolon of the Great Revel[/deck]

If you want to shit on the competition, just play atarka red agro.

Atarka's command is retard strong.

RETARD STRONG.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Atarka's command is a low down, dirty, contempt worthy, unfair magic card.

4th at PPTQ yesterday. Top 4 was me, 2 buddies and we all lost to the guy from China. I was the only guy in top 4 not on abzan agro and I honestly probably win the tourney if I wasn't sleep deprived and making out of character conservative plays.

My matches where like, R1, abzan manifest brew, 2-4 abzan agro(2-1, Game loss in round 4 cause something bizarre happened with my decklists), and beat UB control round 5 before ID'ing. Beat atarka command red in top 8 before falling to the abzan menance.

I don't think abzan agro was the best deck, but all the best players minus myself where playing it.

If there where I PPTQ today, I'd play atarka red because I was teaching some people how to play red decks between rounds(he had the deck and like it) and I was doing ABSURD THINGS. Like swing for lethal with 4 attackers into your 2 blockers with you at 13 life.

If we're going there, I built the winning PT deck when atarka's command was spoiled(but it's rdw and I'd have done as much regardless).

My foil dragonlord Atarka more then tripled in price.

Playing red at this particular PT would be insanely bad.

Foot, meet mouth.

Was hopping someone would put down Rand or Lews Therin as there favorite dragon in their players profile.

I'm a nerd.

Up for some hearthstone? I wanna try out this spectator mode thing as well

I don't play MUCH hearthstone anymore, but add me. Lauphiette1556. No idea where the # goes.

I fell asleep after during Cuneo's first match and now get to rewatch the PT.

On the upside, friend Andrew finished 18th in his first PT.

It is ironic that I'm high on the deck now after giving Z grief about it for so long.

Heroic was(imo) horrible before cause it couldn't beat competent opponents but center soul, temur battle rage, and center soul collectively make both bant and jeskai decks viable cause the decks actually do things now besides make big creatures and draw cards.

Purp, since you're gonna ask me, I'm locked into Jeskai Heroic for all events this weekend.

anyone got an idea of what was in the GW deck from the PT?

Looks interesting enough to add to the gauntlet.

Who cares if you hyped a card during spoilers... Surely you don't need that Internet validation.

Mono red most represented but not in features, likely due to those players being terrible at draft or not testing in a team environment. Although Chapin did lose to mono red.

this is roughly half of lp's non-name drop posts. if you took that away from him, he would only have deck lists and name drop posts to make. is that something you'd really want to do to him?

VALIDATE ME

He basically grabs tasigur, puts it facedown, the card touched his hand, as he's putting cards on bottom of library, opponent reminds Pat that he has to reveal it.

Was like, the second time it happened in the match btw, but this time, it actually touched his hand.

To be fair, this is what the ruling should be.

You can feel Chapin relapsing to his gangster days.

"Oh you don't have the ability to downgrade? Downgrade this mothafucka!"

To Chapin and his opponents credit, they are working the verbal play impressively.

Shit happens.

Happened to LSV too with elves once upon a time.

^literally just yelled that

I've got a foil and 3 reg.

Fine, unexciting.

All the rabblemaster/boon satyr gr decks are much less good then the courser/atarka/4 draconic roar builds.