It's fine to post hypothetical situations, but making them up as you go is pretty meh.Originally Posted by lebron jim
I mean, what deck are they using? What creature is on the board? What's their hand size? How many turns in are you? What's your life total? Once you tell us all these then maybe there is an out.
I took first place on my FNM last week
This was my list
cantrips:
4 brainstorm
4 ponder
Tutors:
4 burning wish
4 infernal tutor
2 mystical tutor
Mana Accel
2 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Dark ritual
4 Rite of flame
4 Lion's Eye Diamond
3 Chrome Mox
4 Lotus petal
Protection:
4 Orim's Chant
4 Duress
Land:
4 city of brass
4 gemstone mine
2 Glimmervoid
1 Undiscovered paradise
Win
1 Ad Nauseam
1 Tendrills of Agony
Sideboard
2 Ill-gotten Gains
1 Diminishing returns
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Solemn Offering
1 Shattering Spree
1 Hurkyll's recall
1 Unmask
1 Deathmark
1 Empty the warrens
1 tendrills of agony
4 Pyroblast
Round 1 was against Mono R burn, i dont remember much, besides that i won both games t1
Round 2 was against UGW ThreshThreshThreshThreshThresh with Hierarchs.
G1
he started with a t1 Hierarch, i with a t1 land
he played a second hierarch and a third.
I played a land followed by chant and went ritual, ritual LED, Tutor into Nauseam
G2
he played a first turn hierarch and i played a land.
t2 he played a Goyf , i played a land and duress took away his daze and left him with a fow and a second daze as his only blue card
he attacked, i took 4.
I played a land cast chant wich he fowed and went Led, Led, petal, tutor into Nauseam
Round 3
I played against goblins.
G1 I needed a second mana source to cast the nauseam in my hand, but never found it the whole game, he went lacky into Siege gang, thoughsteize (main) and piley.
G2 I went T1 Spirit guide, Led, Led, petal, Rite, Burning Wish into Empty the Warrens, he could not keep up.
G3 he played a t1 lacky again and i pondered into a mystical.
t1 atack, warchief and cast piley
i played my second land.
he attacked, i took 8
Brainstorm @ eot to get third land.
played land, chant with kicker in his upkeep, eot mystical into AD Nauseam.
Drew Neuseam, cast ritual and petal play nauseam @ 10, i got 3 rites, 2 rituals, 2 leds, some land a ponder/brainstorm or 2 and finaly a burning wish.
@ I was really lucky and should not have won this game, i should have cast the petal and chanted him earlier.
Round 4
Against Zoo
G1, T1 Duress, took away his helix and went for the throath next turn
G2 , T1 double ritual, Led and Infernal into Win
Round 5
BUG ThreshThreshThreshThreshThresh with counter top
G1, he went t1 Top, i went duress, he fowed with a daze
T2 CB
I went petal, he flipped a brainstorm and i cast Wish, resolves into Solemn Offering
he went t3 confidant
I Cast Offering, he revealed a land after topping and it was gone.
he cast a t4 Goyf and attacked for 2.
I cast Chant, he brainstorm and fowd it with a ponder.
i went ritual, rite Nauseam into win
G2 he cast top
i played a land.
he played confidant
i played land, chant, wich got a force and the force got a pyroblast, letting my petal, 2 Leds, SSG and burning wish resolve into Dminishing returns, i cast Mox, imprint brainstorm and cast Mystical for Nauseam
he took his turn, attacked and cast goyf.
i took my turn and chanted his ass, and cast the nauseam with a ritual and won.
I admit it was risky, but it worked out really wel:)
I did not like having the second IGG in the side and he is going to replace a Infernal in the maindeck.
And i can't believe how lucky i was in some rounds.
If there is such a thing as too much power, I have not discovered it.” —Volrath
Founding father of Team Moosebite, the team that really bites.
I wish I was posting a hypothetical. This was against faeries w/ countertop and they always seemed to have a handful of counters. I had baited out his counters when I finally can go off I cast a chant which gets hit with a MisD they'd topdecked. I know Misdirection is not a common card and probally not worth playing around....I'm just saying.
Last edited by Jim Higginbottom; 09-30-2009 at 12:36 PM.
Why would you ever want a 2nd igg main deck?
As you can see, i play 2 side.
Boarding 1 in against aggro decks, i feared that SSG, Ad nauseam, Tendrills and IGG would cost me to much life, but after some more testing this week i found the damage neglectable and wil put 1 main again.
If there is such a thing as too much power, I have not discovered it.” —Volrath
Founding father of Team Moosebite, the team that really bites.
Sorry, I didn't realize there were 0 main.
What you're saying is you're making a conscious decision to change your deck because of one bad player? Sounds awesome.
On an unrelated note. I'm still looking to add 2 Deathmark to the sideboard. The slots I'm looking at are...
Shattering Spree (2)
Hurkyl's
Krosan Grip
Echoing Truth
Infernal Tutor
Infernal Tutor is definitely leaving. I'm just unsure about the others.
I'd cut a Spree since Deathmark will hit Canonist too.
Same. But personally I'd play only one Deathmark, since you can bring in Hurkyl's and a Spree, and leave another Spree and the sb Deathmark to hit Canonist. While I'd board a Truth and leave Deathmark and Grapeshot as MM/Teeg Wish solutions.
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It's just that the 'Cuse metagame is full of Gaddeck Teegs. Do you think Wizards would make the sideboard 16 cards for me?
Me too
Who cares if she was dead, we did her anyway...
As my meta and lebron's one is infested with strange Faeries decks who play Misdirection, so your meta is filled with scrubs playing Gaddock teeg MD, ehehehe, deal with it !
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As Piceli said...you have to build your deck around your metagame. There isn't going to be one "correct" list. I get away with only 1 deathmark but I also play 3 mystical tutors and can therefore side it in...if I was running 2 mysticals I might have to keep deathmark as a wish target or run 2.
I'm wondering if it isn't better to run 3 ponder and 4 infernal tutors rather than 4 ponder and 3 tutors. I'm going to test both.
Actually I think it would make more sense for him to cut hurkyl's recall over a spree.
I don't know if what your saying is correct at all. I think when building your deck, you have to decide on meta game calls based on the tournament size. If it's going to be a Grand Prix style tournament, I would certainly change your sideboard/main deck accordingly.
But, if it's a smaller, local tournament you can again adjust your maindeck/sideboard as needed. Especially if you have a good idea of what people will be playing.
Who cares if she was dead, we did her anyway...
Just out of curiosity...did you not notice that you said you do not think what I'm saying is correct right before you repeated my position?
Last edited by Jim Higginbottom; 10-02-2009 at 09:04 AM.
Wow, I was so stoned when I wrote that, and I thought it said something different.
Success!
Who cares if she was dead, we did her anyway...
Now for something a little less stupid,
I've decided to cut Krosan Grip from the sideboard for the second Deathmark. I realize this makes the Counter/top match-up slightly harder. But those decks are a dying breed currently. Now I have to get a japanese foil Hurkyl's...
How has the 4 BW/3 IT/2 Mystical package been working for you?
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