Last edited by Bryant Cook; 11-06-2020 at 09:08 AM.
Congratz pal. Boarded out the 3rd Mox pretty often, hu?
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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.
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 :/
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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.
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The only slot I could CONSIDER for a cut is a single protection slot, as we can still burn some Wishes (pun intended) for getting protection out of the Sideboard in matchups which are grindier. Just a radical idea ... don't give too much about it as I have not even done the math for 7-vs.-6-protection-spells.
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Hey Bryant, congrats and nice meeting you. I'm your painter player. I don't agree with the commentators view that the burning wish g1 was a bait because I would lose my painter and subsequently die the next turn so thanks for mentioning that in your report.
I'm also surprised the only joke was the one 'cooking in the kitchen' haha but either way nice job.
Yes, blue is everywhere, but you mentioned that you even board the Tropical against the non-blue matchups for a Silence which got me thinking: "What if we had more resources to agressively cantrip/wish into/for protection in matchups that require this, while not having the protection spells bricking our hand in matchups in which speed matters?"
It's not that were not already running 4 "protection" spells in the sideboard atm. I'm just throwing ideas around, pal
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Congratz Bryant... Really nice to see T.E.S on top, even in harder times!
I think we can`t go under 7 real disruption spells, because it might couldn`t be enough against counter heavy decks like RUG. I`ve played a long time with 4 Discard + 4 Silence and 3 Probes, until Lemnar had encouraged me to do the change, but it still happens, that I wish the Probe would be a real discard spell, instead. So 7 disruption spells seems to be the correct number for me.
All you do is cast gitaxian probe and your opponents concede, it's not fair.
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.
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