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    Congratz pal. Boarded out the 3rd Mox pretty often, hu?
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    Re: Storming to Tales of Adventure (12/7/2013) - 3rd Place

    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bryant Cook View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Bryant Cook View Post
    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemnear View Post
    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
    If not the 3rd Chrome Mox, what else would you cut?

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    If not the 3rd Chrome Mox, what else would you cut?
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemnear View Post
    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.
    What protection spell would you cut? I imagine it would weaken our game against Islands. Meaning, we would have to dedicate more sideboard space effectively doing the same thing we're doing now with the Tropical Island considering blue is everywhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bryant Cook View Post
    What protection spell would you cut? I imagine it would weaken our game against Islands. Meaning, we would have to dedicate more sideboard space effectively doing the same thing we're doing now with the Tropical Island considering blue is everywhere.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Bryant Cook View Post
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lemnear View Post
    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
    The deck is mostly mana as it is, I'd rather not cut another protection spell for more mana.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tammit67 View Post
    I just got a stern look and shake of the head. I must be lucky
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    All you do is cast gitaxian probe and your opponents concede, it's not fair.

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    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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