Yeah, good job indeed ! It's about time to introduce Maverick to the American metagame.
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How did you loose against Canadian Threshold?
I've been playing canadian for loooong time, and GW was, by far, my worst match up.
Anyway, congrats for your top8 (:
haha, i wanna know what happened in ur game vs Canadia.
U won vs ANT and Reanimator (can be easy but can be REALLY hard)
Gratz! I think ill run ur list this week on a champ.
Hummm, why no Mindcensor? dont u think it help a lot vs Storm deck?
Congrats on your finish, dude! Too bad about that loss to Canadian since I always felt like that matchup is pretty good for us.
Delver of secrets is a motherfucker. I lost game 3 like this: opening hand wasteland x2, maze of ith, karakas, cradle, sfm, and ooze. I think I drew Sofi in the middle too. On the deciding turn my board was scryb ranger, ooze, wastex2, cradle, savannah. I topdecked jitte and equiped vs fresh goyf and 2 delvers flipped. I was at 3 life.
I think punishing fires mavs is better against can thresh than stock GW, but overall its weaker versus my metagame. Also might want a second scryb ranger.
Group brainstorming: what are good ways to deal with flyers in maverick? (Delver, tombstalker, flying reanimator targets, serra avenger, clique, various faeries, etc)
I think 1 Engineered Explosives might be useful, as well against Dredge too.
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Second Scryb could be fine? Play Mindcensors again, I guess?
Heh, just brainstorming but a 1-of Thornweald Archer? That guy is hilarious against Tombstalkers.
The answers I can think of:
Broad:
Split with Birds and Hierarch
Another Ranger
Thornweald Archer
Narrow:
Corrosive Gale
Plummet
Leaf Arrow
Raking Canopy
Soaring Seacliff
As an answer to annoying dudes I added a total of 4 Path to Exiles to my 75.
During GP Amsterdam 7 seemed insufficient.
What also helps is not forgetting to add Goyfs to your 75. At least one, but preferably two. They are better beaters than Delvers so you can win the race with them, and they are a lot easier to cast or Zenith up than Knights, which is important against Tempo Thresh.
I top 16'd Jupiter Game's tournament with Maverick this past weekend with a similar list to rukcus (unfortunately I audibled to the deck the night before and my sideboard was terrible).
This was the main I played:
4 Windswept Heath
2 Verdant Catacombs
1 Misty Rainforest
4 Savannah
2 Horizon Canopy
2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Karakas
1 Maze of Ith
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Wasteland
3 Noble Hierarch
1 Bird of Paradise
4 Mother of Runes
4 Knight of the Reliquary
3 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Qasali Pridmage
2 Scavaging Ooze
1 Scryb Ranger
1 Eternal Witness
1 Terravore
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sword of Light and Shadow
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Sylvan Library
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
I lost two win-and-in rounds in a row , but I basically came to these same conclusions:
I also missed the threat Batterskull presents a little bit. Light and Shadow was pretty meh most of the day and will likely be cut or moved to the board. The one-of Elspeth was excellent, single-handedly winning at least four games throughout the tournament.
Rounds went down like this:
U/W Stoneforge w/Spellstutter - Win 2-0
Deadguy - Win 2-0
R/B Bob/Lilliana of the Veil - Win 2-1
RUG Tempo - Lose 0-2
FaeBlade - Win 2-0
UR Delver Burn - Lose 0-2
Reanimator - Lose 1-2
I was in ninth and the Reanimator player was in tenth heading into the last round.
Our match was a tight battle that left me wishing I had some Surgical's in my board as Bog and Ooze were too slow. A timely Angel of Despair on my Karakas lost me game 3 and ended my top 8 hopes.
I'd probably be looking to play something like this next time:
4 Windswept Heath
2 Verdant Catacombs
1 Misty Rainforest
4 Savannah
2 Horizon Canopy
2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Karakas
1 Maze of Ith
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Wasteland
3 Noble Hierarch
1 Bird of Paradise
4 Mother of Runes
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Qasali Pridmage
1 Scavaging Ooze
2 Scryb Ranger
1 Eternal Witness
1 Terravore
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Batterskull
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Sylvan Library
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
Sideboard:
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Gaddock Teeg
2 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Choke
1 Bojuka Bog
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Life from the Loam
1 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Stoney Silence
1 Enlightened Tutor
I think Ooze is just fine over Goyf though. Especially with the Snapcaster variants gaining popularity in the US, Ooze gets even better and beats Goyf (assuming you get to untap with it or cast it with some open G).
I would never cut Ooze, just play both.
just out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on playing baneslayer as a 1 of to fight of those flyers?
As a 1-of nongreen creature seems unreliable. If going that route I think Mystic Enforcer would probably be better since you could at least tutor it against Tombstalker. Though I think just running more removal or Scrybs/Avens/Mirrans to carry equipment are both superior strategies to miser 4+cc guys.
If you want finisher, play Rafiq of the Many or Terravore...
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Decks that I care about:
Steel Stompy
UWx Landstill
Dreadstalker
DDFT (10% practice)
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play 1 of Daybreak ranger and a plateau/taiga.
can also play lavamancers in the sb to break the mirror wide open
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Hey guys, i think ill play this list
Maindeck
1 Batterskull
1 Sword of Fire and ice
1 umezawas jitte
1 eternal Witness
4 KotR
4 Mother of runes
3 noble Hierarch
1 birds of paradise
3 qasali pridemage
1 scavenging ooze
2 scryb ranger
3 stoneforge mystic
2 sylvan library
4 swords to plowshares
1 gaddock
1 thrun
4 GSZ
2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Horizon canopy
4 Savannah
4 wasteland
4 windswept heath
1 dryad arbor
1 gaea`s cradle
1 karakas
1 bojuka bog
1 maze of ith
there are 58 cards.
What should i use?
2 Mirran crusaders? (i love this card)
1 Elspeth + 1 Loam
2 Aven Mindcensor?
Ill probably face Merfolk, Zoo, Goblins, Canadian and Gw.
Some Storm too -.-
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