[Article] Worlds: The Home Strech

[TrialByFire]

http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/article/15125.html

By: Sean McKeown


Pretty good read, some results from the Thursday Legacy Side events, and a pretty decent deck it looks like.

Best quote ever by the way:


"...by playing Wild Mongrel, previously the best creature ever printed costing 1G before they made that silly Blue card, Tarmogoyf."
LOLZ

[Lukas Preuss]

It was actually quite well written, but somehow, McKeown seems to assume that Goblins is still THE deck to beat in the Legacy format. Nowadays, Goblins is a solid choice, but by far not the best deck in the format. I don't think Goblins will dominate Worlds by number or performance.

But Threads of Disloyalty is one of the cards I might play in my Threshold maindeck, if I was going there... :)

[APriestOfGix]

Well he is right, Goyf got misprinted it was supposed to cost 1U.

However they felt bad that Blue had EVERYTHING broken, and changed the templet as a joke to 1G trying to give green a good creature.

Then they forgot to change it back to 1U and it accidentally got printed as 1G, giving Green it's first "broken" card EVER!

I mean it fits all of blues color wheel abilities:

Enjoys you playing cantrips (a blue thing).
Hinders your opponents from winning.
Wins you the game.
Is AMAZINGLY broken!

[Phantom]

Very well written, but his reasoning for not playing Goyf seems extremely faulty to me (it's their graveyard too). And ditto on the him overestimating Goblins. I'd like to see what the UG Survival list is like too.

Anyway, an interesting read.

[Versus]

That's who I played in Round 7. We were both 4-2 and that Survival/Rootwalla/Cradle engine he mentions just kicked the shit out me. Game 2 he had me at 10 life while he was at 6. I Mangara'd his Cradle and was forced to block Arashi, the Sky Asunder with an Avenger while taking 9 from 3 Rootwallas. If only I had Karakas I could have bounced his Legend, but I didn't. He outplayed me every step.

[TrialByFire]

It seems like a really good deck, though I do agree that Goyf needs to be in there somewhere. Especially with Survival to win the 'Who has more Goyfs' fight.