Play a deck you're comfortable playing. The biggest folly anybody can commit is showing up to an event with a deck they aren't familiar with.
Thank you for your advice. I feel fairly comfortable with all the aggro decks for the most part. I played Dos Rakis exclusively for about 3-4 months until I branched out a bit. I am certainly the most comfortable with the deck as far as playing with it goes. I just worry that its strengths will not match up that great against a control-lite metagame which I feel we are in. Dos Rakis best matchups are midrange and control but I don't see much control at all anymore so I feel it is a waste to have that as a good matchup.
This is hardly an accomplishment, but the best I have done since comiing back to magic was
21st at a 290 person TCG 5k Diamond Event a month or two ago. I played this rogue White Weenie deck that Craig Wescoe came up with. I threw the deck together the day before and had never played white at all before really.
Maybe this result tainted my view on it as it led me to believe I should go for the deck I feel is the best positioned, and rely on my instincts.
I also did feel pretty comfortable with Dos Rakis but this week of playtesting lowered my confidence a bit at a large event after often having mis-matching hands and feeling weak in some matchups.
I'm biased towards Dos Rakis, so I'd choose that over any deck X, but I can honestly say that if I was going to play a competitive event then Naya Blitz is the last deck I'd take.
It's too inconsistent and any draw besides "The Nutz" is very meh.
Naya's raw potential power impressed me too, but after playtesting against it a bit I'd never try and play it
competitively.
Thanks Redthirst. I am going to try Blitz tonight at FNM but after just a little testing, it is very hit or miss. Either amazing or kinda blah, especially with mana problems which do come easily.
Magic players are the worst at Competitive games because magic appeals to a broader audience. Wizards has data saying people go to GPs just to meet people and have fun, the pro points and cash are last on the list by far according to Aaron Forsythe.
As far as what I would play at a competitive even if I could play anything?
Gruul agro/Naya Blitz/Jund Midrange. Any of those three, I would be happy playing confident in my skill to crush the tournament. Jund's the most powerful, gruul and blitz are the most punishing with gruul being slightly more consistent and less powerful.
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See, I am in a bit of a MTG slump, my days of owning every FNM for months came to a halt this past 6 weeks. My theory
currently is that I know I am not the best player at the 5k. I just came back to MTG 6 months ago and there are A LOT of people better than me. I was thinking by having a deck with the naturally shortest games, I can remove the skill from the game the most and increase my chances of winning against better players.
You are certainly right about Gruul vs Blitz and trading consistency for speed. Generally, I think consistency is a lot more important but somehow Naya Blitz is putting up a lot of top8's recently.
The 21/20 land Gruul lists are pretty interesting too with a nice mix of power/speed and consistency at the same time.
Thank you for all the advice fellas, I still know I'll be up all damn night deciding haha
PS> is there an easier way to multi-quote on this site? Seems like I keep having to add the [/quote] in manually..
I love and respect you deeply, man, but sometimes you really do a remarkably believable impression of an elitist prick.
