TheBirdMan
12-15-2008, 06:10 PM
This deck was made by Colin (Di) of team epic.
The Epic Elf Survival:
4 survival of the fittest
4 llanowar elves
4 fyndhorn elves
4 priest of titania
4 sylvan messengers
4 imperious perfect
3 wrens run vanquisher
1 thornweld archers
2 mirror entity
1 masticore
1 Anger
1 squee, goblin nabob
1 wood elves
3 elvish champion
1 viridian zealot
3 wire wood symbiote
2 quiron rangers
4 wooded foothills
4 windswept heaths
4 taiga
2 savannah
3 forest
s.b.
4 krosan grip
1 caller of the claw
2 gaddock teeg
3 orim's chant
1 thorn of amethyst
3 xantid swarm (These should be thorns)
1 magus of the moon
Basic plan for the deck is to either get the combo with Priest + Symbiote + Mirror entity for infinite mana/dmg or the other 80% of the time you dont get/resolve survival massive beats with 7 champions.
The Matchups:
Round 1:Brian playing Extended Affinity + L petals
G1: He drops an early chalice @ 1 which I manage to have Zealot in hand for. He gets way to many lands and estabishes a ravager but I swing for 60 turn 5 not realizing after I could have gone infinite
SB:+4 Krosan Grip -3 Elvish Champion, -1 Symbiote
G2: He gets the opposite and gets mana screwed, I turn 3 krosan grip one of his two lands and then try to go off without survival I fizzle with 14 floating so I deal 7 dmg to his remaining ornithopter with masticore and swing ftw next turn.
1-0
Round 2:Dan UG(b?) thresh
G1: I swarm him early with elves and finish by resolving a elvish champion.
SB: +3 Xantid Swarm +1 Thorn -1 Wood elves, -1 Symbiote, -1 Masticore, -1 Imperious Perfect
G2: This game by far I made so many play mistakes and shouldn't have won. I got down to 2 life. One notable play error was not swinging with swarm and playing wren's run vanquisher into spell snare. The list could continue I believe I resolved a Sylvan Messenger and was able to rally a comeback after killing 2 of 3 threshed gooses.
2-0
Round 3: Jesse (Mad Zur) playing UGB(w?) thresh
Game 1: I get a great start, he gets counterbalance out and I get him to 1 life before he stablilizes. I then had to wait a few turns to get the extra creature to swing in which seemed to be the scenario for a bunch of games that day.
SB:+1 Magus of the moon, +4 K grip, -1 Symbiote, - 1 Imperious Perfect, -1 Wrens-Run vanquisher, -1 Wood Elves -1 Masticore?
G2: He gets counterbalance out turn 2 and I somehow resolve survival turn 2 as well which was a great start. He flips a fow later with 3 cards in hand and I get him to fow a messenger or something. End of his turn i survival for Magus. My turn I get the fetchland off of counterbalance and get magus to resolve which locks all his duals as mountains. Which ironically I tried to swing with forestwalkers, which didnt work out well. But he was locked out so I swung for lethal the following turn.
3-0
Round 4: Jesse (Unreg) Playing T.E.S? (Ad nauseum angels grace)
G1:
As always I go llanowar elf pass and he wins turn 2 in my face.
SB: +3 Chant, +1 Thorn, +2 Teeg, -3 Wren-run vanquisher, -1 Archer, -1 Wood elves, -1 Elvish Champion
G2:
I get the best possible starting hand but decide to mull since I could win turn 3 but thats a lot of time for him and no sb piece for me. I mull to 5 and settle on a decent hand with survival. He mulls to 6 with I belive a no land hand and I put enough pressure for him to have to go off like turn 5 and he puts his only mb tendrils under chrome mox which causes him to fizzle :smile:.
G3:
I rip the absolute nuts, 2 Teeg and 1 chant plus 3 land and something. He goes turn 1 duress taking chant and my first draw is another chant! I go turn 2 Teeg and continue to beat face with a white source always open.
4-0
Round 5: Matt playing affinity
I thought this would be a draw but I got paired down and play it out.
Game one:
I get early survival and go off turn 4.
SB: +4 K grip -3 Elvish Champion, -1 Symbiote
G2: I play 3 elves turn 2 and he drops turn 3 e plague from which I dont recover.
G3: Turn 1 elf, turn two I k grip his only black mana source and he only draws darksteel citadel and I just win with massive elf beats.
5-0
Round 6: ID
5-0-1
Top 8:
Round 1:Alix (Obfuscate Freely) UGbw Landstill
G1: This plays just like game 1 against his brother. I got Alix to 1 life and eventually get in there with elvish champion.
SB: +4 K grip, -1 Wood Elves, -1 Symbiote, -1 Wrens run, -1 Masticore.
G2: He gets counterbalance, top, eplague and deed out. Deeds for 2 drops another counterbalance and it spirals down hill from here.
G3: See G2 but add in 2nd E plague and k grip gets countered by CB @3 :frown:.
This deck has run great even tho I make infinite play errors when I play it including the 1-2 drop and 4-0 side event win at TMLO the current tournament record for this deck is 10-3-1 which is too bad for its first two events.
(Also its 4-0 against affinity)
A funny side note from TMLO I beat dreadstill in the finals of the side event because he droped standstill, swung with dreadnought and I blocked with wrens-run vanquisher and killed dreadnought :tongue:
Props:
Eli for another great event.
Krosan Grip for hitting lands.
Colin for giving me this unposted list.
The Virginia guys for driving 5-6 hours to come.
Slops:
Me, for going the wrong way adding an hour to my drive and causing round 1 pairings to change twice.
Rsaunder for playing landstill and going to time multiple times.
Everyone who didnt come
The Epic Elf Survival:
4 survival of the fittest
4 llanowar elves
4 fyndhorn elves
4 priest of titania
4 sylvan messengers
4 imperious perfect
3 wrens run vanquisher
1 thornweld archers
2 mirror entity
1 masticore
1 Anger
1 squee, goblin nabob
1 wood elves
3 elvish champion
1 viridian zealot
3 wire wood symbiote
2 quiron rangers
4 wooded foothills
4 windswept heaths
4 taiga
2 savannah
3 forest
s.b.
4 krosan grip
1 caller of the claw
2 gaddock teeg
3 orim's chant
1 thorn of amethyst
3 xantid swarm (These should be thorns)
1 magus of the moon
Basic plan for the deck is to either get the combo with Priest + Symbiote + Mirror entity for infinite mana/dmg or the other 80% of the time you dont get/resolve survival massive beats with 7 champions.
The Matchups:
Round 1:Brian playing Extended Affinity + L petals
G1: He drops an early chalice @ 1 which I manage to have Zealot in hand for. He gets way to many lands and estabishes a ravager but I swing for 60 turn 5 not realizing after I could have gone infinite
SB:+4 Krosan Grip -3 Elvish Champion, -1 Symbiote
G2: He gets the opposite and gets mana screwed, I turn 3 krosan grip one of his two lands and then try to go off without survival I fizzle with 14 floating so I deal 7 dmg to his remaining ornithopter with masticore and swing ftw next turn.
1-0
Round 2:Dan UG(b?) thresh
G1: I swarm him early with elves and finish by resolving a elvish champion.
SB: +3 Xantid Swarm +1 Thorn -1 Wood elves, -1 Symbiote, -1 Masticore, -1 Imperious Perfect
G2: This game by far I made so many play mistakes and shouldn't have won. I got down to 2 life. One notable play error was not swinging with swarm and playing wren's run vanquisher into spell snare. The list could continue I believe I resolved a Sylvan Messenger and was able to rally a comeback after killing 2 of 3 threshed gooses.
2-0
Round 3: Jesse (Mad Zur) playing UGB(w?) thresh
Game 1: I get a great start, he gets counterbalance out and I get him to 1 life before he stablilizes. I then had to wait a few turns to get the extra creature to swing in which seemed to be the scenario for a bunch of games that day.
SB:+1 Magus of the moon, +4 K grip, -1 Symbiote, - 1 Imperious Perfect, -1 Wrens-Run vanquisher, -1 Wood Elves -1 Masticore?
G2: He gets counterbalance out turn 2 and I somehow resolve survival turn 2 as well which was a great start. He flips a fow later with 3 cards in hand and I get him to fow a messenger or something. End of his turn i survival for Magus. My turn I get the fetchland off of counterbalance and get magus to resolve which locks all his duals as mountains. Which ironically I tried to swing with forestwalkers, which didnt work out well. But he was locked out so I swung for lethal the following turn.
3-0
Round 4: Jesse (Unreg) Playing T.E.S? (Ad nauseum angels grace)
G1:
As always I go llanowar elf pass and he wins turn 2 in my face.
SB: +3 Chant, +1 Thorn, +2 Teeg, -3 Wren-run vanquisher, -1 Archer, -1 Wood elves, -1 Elvish Champion
G2:
I get the best possible starting hand but decide to mull since I could win turn 3 but thats a lot of time for him and no sb piece for me. I mull to 5 and settle on a decent hand with survival. He mulls to 6 with I belive a no land hand and I put enough pressure for him to have to go off like turn 5 and he puts his only mb tendrils under chrome mox which causes him to fizzle :smile:.
G3:
I rip the absolute nuts, 2 Teeg and 1 chant plus 3 land and something. He goes turn 1 duress taking chant and my first draw is another chant! I go turn 2 Teeg and continue to beat face with a white source always open.
4-0
Round 5: Matt playing affinity
I thought this would be a draw but I got paired down and play it out.
Game one:
I get early survival and go off turn 4.
SB: +4 K grip -3 Elvish Champion, -1 Symbiote
G2: I play 3 elves turn 2 and he drops turn 3 e plague from which I dont recover.
G3: Turn 1 elf, turn two I k grip his only black mana source and he only draws darksteel citadel and I just win with massive elf beats.
5-0
Round 6: ID
5-0-1
Top 8:
Round 1:Alix (Obfuscate Freely) UGbw Landstill
G1: This plays just like game 1 against his brother. I got Alix to 1 life and eventually get in there with elvish champion.
SB: +4 K grip, -1 Wood Elves, -1 Symbiote, -1 Wrens run, -1 Masticore.
G2: He gets counterbalance, top, eplague and deed out. Deeds for 2 drops another counterbalance and it spirals down hill from here.
G3: See G2 but add in 2nd E plague and k grip gets countered by CB @3 :frown:.
This deck has run great even tho I make infinite play errors when I play it including the 1-2 drop and 4-0 side event win at TMLO the current tournament record for this deck is 10-3-1 which is too bad for its first two events.
(Also its 4-0 against affinity)
A funny side note from TMLO I beat dreadstill in the finals of the side event because he droped standstill, swung with dreadnought and I blocked with wrens-run vanquisher and killed dreadnought :tongue:
Props:
Eli for another great event.
Krosan Grip for hitting lands.
Colin for giving me this unposted list.
The Virginia guys for driving 5-6 hours to come.
Slops:
Me, for going the wrong way adding an hour to my drive and causing round 1 pairings to change twice.
Rsaunder for playing landstill and going to time multiple times.
Everyone who didnt come