Dies to Removal

[deck]
Creatures
4 Bloodstained Champion
4 Tormented Hero
4 War-Name Aspirant
4 Chief of the Edge
4 Goblin Rabblemaster
4 Butcher of the Horde
2 Stormbreath Dragon

Spells
3 Hero's Downfall
2 Crackling Doom
3 Mardu Charm

Planeswalkers
2 Sorin, Solemn Visitor

Lands
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Caves of Koilos
4 Battefield Forge
3 Mana Confluence
2 Nomad Outpost
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Swamp
2 Mountain
1 Plains
[/deck]

Still contemplating on the manabase and Sorin's slot. He has been good in testing.

"I've gotten in the habit of using Twitter for information that is on the abomination that is the Wizards website"

Finkel on WOTC. Also, why I use twitter.

http://youtu.be/_fV1Zoeb6Yk

http://youtu.be/_fV1Zoeb6Yk

Do you do this often? You seem to be naturally good at this sort of stuff.

Interview was good, I dislike the overlay design, you need to put Pip to work!

Was the GP really your first paper event?

http://youtu.be/_fV1Zoeb6Yk

Do you do this often? You seem to be naturally good at this sort of stuff.

Thanks!

I actually felt really uncomfortable ~ I don't like how little eye contact I made or how much fidgeting I was doing; I kept looking down to the floor rather than at camera or at sam too [/quote:
1wu82ozq]

I noticed that off the bat, but the positioning of the chairs and camera doesn't help. If the chairs were angled toward one another it would promote eye contact with the interviewer while still being able to address the camera. See Channel Fireball on Youtube for examples.

http://youtu.be/_fV1Zoeb6Yk

Do you do this often? You seem to be naturally good at this sort of stuff.

Thanks!

I actually felt really uncomfortable ~ I don't like how little eye contact I made or how much fidgeting I was doing; I kept looking down to the floor rather than at camera or at sam too [/quote:
3ennfhxk]

Your tone of voice was normal, your intonation was good and clear and what you had to say was interesting so I didn't really pay attention to any of that. I'm generally used to interviews with mtg players being extremely awkward to watch so this was a breather for me (see: almost any SCG interview). I think it's normal for you to show these little signs of nervousness tbh.

http://youtu.be/_fV1Zoeb6Yk

Do you do this often? You seem to be naturally good at this sort of stuff.

Thanks!

I actually felt really uncomfortable ~ I don't like how little eye contact I made or how much fidgeting I was doing; I kept looking down to the floor rather than at camera or at sam too [/quote:
vkg084y2]

I don't think it was noticable. You looked very relaxed to me. It was a good interview. The only thing that bothered me was the chair placements, they should have been angled a bit towards each other. Now it looked a bit awkward, like you both didn't know where to look, at each other (and then turn your head) or at the camera (looks like you're talking by yourself).

Thats where a lot of us are but it's pretty clunky. I also think it's a mistake to no play a couple Tymaret / raiders spoils. We should probably make a thread for developing that archetype.

Look at the color of cards you're trying to curve into and figure out if that's reality or not.

Make adjustments from there.

I'm also not saying that it ISN'T reality, but you do need to figure that out. It'll mostly be a function of the speed of the format and how
your deck interacts with caryatid/courser.

I've yet to see a good gauntlet so I'll hold on commenting on how the deck might interact with the future meta. With regards to the two problematic cards, at least those things are covered (good removal, evasion).

Someone posted this on reddit, but this should be a good guideline for decks in KTK standard.

1. Can it deal with Courser of Kruphix?
2. Can it deal with T3 Rabblemaster? Mono-Black Aggro?
3. Can it deal with Stormbreath Dragon?
4. Draw 7, take out the most important card. Can you still win with that hand? (Thoughtseize)
5. Does it have a plan against Elspeth or Nissa?

I can put up a bunch of my level 1- level 2 decks if people want decks to start with for the first week.

Your base gauntlet should be:

Mono R RabbleBurn
Mono Black Aggro feat. Boon of Erobos x 3, eight fetchlands and 2 Murderous Cut
BUG Midrange from my Sultai Charm article; needs work, but if you cannot beat the bad version of the list...well...geez