Storming to Tales of Adventure (12/7/2013) - 3rd Place

[Bryant Cook]

https://theepicstorm.com/tales-of-ad...013-3rd-place/

[Lemnear]

Congratz pal. Boarded out the 3rd Mox pretty often, hu?

[vercadium]

I've only read about half of it so far, but great report - some things in particular have provided a lot for me to consider about how I play the deck.

[Bryant Cook]

Congratz pal. Boarded out the 3rd Mox pretty often, hu?

It's really dependent on the match-up, blue based decks the Tropical Island adds some consistency during the tougher games. Against Non-Island decks Tropical Island is much better than Silence. It's mostly just adding consistency during each match where the deck has it's weakest slot in that match-up.

[Lemnear]

It's really dependent on the match-up, blue based decks the Tropical Island adds some consistency during the tougher games. Against Non-Island decks Tropical Island is much better than Silence. It's mostly just adding consistency during each match where the deck has it's weakest slot in that match-up.

Especially in regards to the current hype around TNN and expectable even more blue decks in the metagame, I still want to get the "additional conistency" into the mainboard, rather than boarding it in against basically anything from S&T to blue midrange to tempo to non-blue decks like Death and Taxes.

This one kinda reminds me of the sideboard Therapy for maindeck Duress Boarding topic, we had during november where I felt like we're wasting SB space :/

[Bryant Cook]

You're failing to realize how important the third Chrome Mox is to have game one and against non-blue decks. I can't physically force anyone to play my list, but I certainly know what I'm doing with mine. The additional speed against Death and Taxes is crucial.

[Lemnear]

You're failing to realize how important the third Chrome Mox is to have game one and against non-blue decks. I can't physically force anyone to play my list, but I certainly know what I'm doing with mine. The additional speed against Death and Taxes is crucial.

You get me wrong. I'm not talking about the Mox in particular even if I played only 2 in the past, as a tribute to my local metagame which was heavy on tempo-archtypes. I'm rather pondering about squeezing another manasource in without cutting another

[Jay_Gatz]

You're failing to realize how important the third Chrome Mox is to have game one and against non-blue decks. I can't physically force anyone to play my list, but I certainly know what I'm doing with mine. The additional speed against Death and Taxes is crucial.

I recall a threat of a slap if I played ANT again at some point

[Jay_Gatz]

All you do is cast gitaxian probe and your opponents concede, it's not fair.

[lordofthepit]

Well done yet again.

Great job explaining why you changed your decklist. Those players most familiar with one deck know best how to adapt it to respond to shifting metagame pressures.