Dies to Removal

I'm saying that for purely selfish reasons but it is still true.

Zomg RDW is busted this season.

Went 2-1 with this list:

[deck]Zero Hour Red[/deck]

Played against ???Control(W), Grixis Control(L-g3), Esper Control(W)

Found myself boarding out the fodders and outbursts for more burn and regents.
First player realized too late that Citadel Siege does not answer Thundergent Damn liferam is a pain in the ass.
Grixis control was close, couldn't close out the final 5 which lead to stablization.
Esper was just pressure as much as possible, and then G2 go for as much value as possible before he got going on 5 mana. Did lucksack a bit with him not hitting any of his SB tech.

Went into the night without any research so was doing a lot of analysis on the fly. Athersnap(or whatever the blue tempo bounce is) can throw a wrench in the works when in top decking mode. Had brakes slammed by the white exile effect. And those rams! Thinking that Lightning Berserker might make the list just to power thru those durdles.

Based on how I performed tonight and what I saw, Sledgehammer may be a solid bet. RG Monsters/Midrange put up multiple results as well.

My wife was watching a show called See No Evil on ID (Investigative Discovery), and there was a story about a MTG related murder. They did a pretty hilarious job of making MTG seem like the seedy underbelly of the fantasy gaming world. At one point, one of their "experts" says that she thinks the most expensive card in the game is called "Black Widdow". If anyone is interested it was season 2 episode 3.

Hey Khaos almost made as much as that clown

I'm getting there. 67% reached!

I don't have the patience to find the link.

http://www.gofundme.com/pj2jg0

any cool or confirmed good standard decks from this weekend yet? I'd do my own research but im on Iowa shitternet and can't watch streams

Made it through to the final of the modern league; my opponent will be on Tron

What list are you playing Z?

Pretty stock Splinter Twin, I think my list is a bit worse than what is in vogue on mtgo right now but it was submitted for the top 8 three weeks ago:

[deck]UR Twin[/deck]
Creatures
3 Deceiver Exarch
3 Pestermite
4 Snapcaster Mage
2 Vendilion Clique

Spells
2 Cryptic Command
2 Electrolyze
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Logic Knot
4 Remand
4 Serum Visions
2 Spell Snare
4 Splinter Twin

Lands
1 Breeding Pool
1 Desolate Lighthouse
3 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Steam Vents
4 Sulfur Falls
2 Tectonic Edge

Sideboard
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Batterskull
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Dispel
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Grim Lavamancer
1 Keranos, God of Storms
3 Molten Rain
1 Negate
2 Threads of Disloyalty
[/deck]

I think the stick list (md Dispel and Lavamancers, sb Sowers) is a pretty good improvement even if the ideas were the same.

The sub Disdainful Stroke was because of the composition of the top 8; would not take into a regular event.

Dat molten rain though.

@Jamie: I missed the standard portion of the invitational, but I believe Reid 4-0'd standard with some sidis deck using both sidisi's and Tom Ross boss slighed the shit out of people.

In my testing/experience, Jeskai tokens with secure the wastes, dragon fodder, and narset is busted. BIG breakthrough was realizing that encase in ice breaks the abzan agro matchup quite favorably in my favor.

The mono-black deck owen posted is decent. Deck is dookie vs. red agro and jeskai, but if there's any worthwhile takeaway, it's that pitiless horde is one of the premier cards of the set. That, and it's the deck that most cleanly incorporates thoughtseize and duress which is a tried and true recipe for success.

I was taking some weeks off because there were no events until dtk was released but now I'm ready to get back in testing.
How is that bant tempo deck doing? That one looks fun to play regardless of viability.

Haven't touched it in a while, was pinning down all versions of mono-red.

We are apparently killing TSG from the Magic community with our strongarm tactics.

http://www.gofundme.com/ln65sk

He looks like a robber and a rapist

amidoingthisrite?

Frankly all I got from this fundgate was that people were being dicks on the Internet

+3 perception

I've got this all Internet shindig figured out Man.

Self important dicks to an Internet friend.
But yeah basically that.

I'm happy for Todd Anderson making Top 8 of the Invitational.

There, I said it.

but he's so consistently unlikable

but he's so consistently unlikable

I'm rooting for him.

Soorani's Esper list:

[deck]
Creatures (4)

2 Dragonlord Ojutai
2 Silumgar, the Drifting Death
Planeswalkers (3)

3 Narset Transcendent
Lands (26)

4 Island
2 Swamp
1 Caves of Koilos
4 Polluted Delta
2 Radiant Fountain
4 Temple of Deceit
4 Temple of Enlightenment
4 Temple of Silence
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Spells (27)

3 Anticipate
4 Dig Through Time
4 Dissolve
4 Hero's Downfall
4 Silumgar's Scorn
3 Ultimate Price
2 Utter End
3 Crux of Fate
Sideboard

1 Pearl Lake Ancient
1 Stratus Dancer
4 Encase in Ice
1 Virulent Plague
2 Negate
1 Ojutai's Command
1 Dragonlord Silumgar
4 Drown in Sorrow[/deck]

Looks fun, no idea if it's optimal yet. I want to play Siliumgar and Ojutai, and this list does. So there's that.

-1 Virulent Plague -1 Stratus Dancer +2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang, and I'm in there like swimwear. I'll probably add Anticipate and Dragonlord Silumgar (sideboard) to my U/B deck first before I test esper though.

glad i bought my dragonlord ojutais on thursday

DTK card count for 7-1 or better decks at the standard portion of the invitational:

16 Dromoka's Command
14 Duress
13 Roast
12 Anticipate
11 Dragon Fodder
10 Zurgo Bellstriker
9 Lightning Berserker
9 Ultimate Price
6 Dragonlord Ojutai
5 Surge of Righteousness
4 Atarka's Command
4 Deathmist Raptor
4 Ojutai's Command
4 Self-Inflicted Wound
4 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
4 Silumgar's Scorn
3 Anafenza, Kin Tree Spirit
3 Dragonlord Silumgar
2 Foul-Tongue Invocation
2 Narset, Trascendant
0 Icefall Regent
0 Sarkhan Unbroken
0 Thunderbreak Regent

but he's so consistently unlikable

I'm rooting for him.

I trust your judgment of character.

He's still a dirty Bama fan.

I find it hilarious that so many people love him in chat and HATE Jeff Hoogland. It's a strange dynamic.

I saw that too.

Is the Col. still our admin? I have a friend from work who wants to post up a cool artifact brew, but he's IP banned. Dropping a quick note here while he installs Tor. <_<

IP plz and I'll whitelist.

Also In b4 Kait's burn about the number of DTR admins and the numbet of frontpage articles volunteers.

Nice narsets.

This gw deck is an abomination of all that is holy.

Mastery was a mistake, that's for sure

Mastery of the Unseen turned $20 into $200.

Twitch chat

SCG strategy: host an invitational to showcase SCG stars, put two CFB members into finals.

Does CFB have good players? Can't tell.

Nuwen, I've whitelisted the IP you sent me

I had mastery of the unseen at fate reforged prerelease and it was absurd there .... i supposed that it could have been decent in standard, but i didn't imagine it would have become such a monstrosity. Good for me that i also have an ugin's fate promo.

Nuwen, I've whitelisted the IP you sent me

<3

Nuwen, will I be seeing you in vegas again this year?

SCG strategy: host an invitational to showcase SCG stars, put two CFB members into finals.

I've seen a CFB shirt on SCG's cameras more weekends than not. And you almost always see people sporting shirts of their local stores. I think Ross Merriam usually wears an Ice Imports shirt, which is his local in CT (it has a few locations I think). I think it's kinda cool that SCG doesn't seem to care about that. They just want their tournaments to have success, and Jacob Wilson and Reid Duke being in the finals of their event is huge name recognition in this game.

I suppose you could also argue that they're so large they have nothing to care about when it comes to that. But I don't know much about the relative market saturation of CFB and SCG.