We go back to Temporal Mastery 'stalker beats
So I tried to stream a league. I went 5-0, but the stream was unfortunately super far behind and laggy.
Death and Taxes: 2-0
Lands: 2-1
Sneak and Show: 2-0
TES: 2-1
Tezzerator: 2-0
You can see the first 4.5 matches here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/249344691
I tried to stream the whole thing, but I guess at the time I hit "end broadcast" the stream was super far behind, cutting off the end of the TES match and the Tezz match.
Here was list: https://imgur.com/a/1TeV1
Streamed another couple of unexciting leagues. Went 1-3 in one losing to miracles, bug control, and uwr blade (blood moon g3). 2-3 in today's losing to bug control, grixis delver, and czech pile. The matchups were very close, with one game vs bug control being decided by a topdecked TNN to change the math in his favor on the last possible turn (otherwise I win with Tombstalker beats), grixis delver drawing TNN while I kept drawing lands, and Czech Pile just sort of playing around my soft countermagic.
I am thinking of adding better grind cards to my list. Liliana of the Veil has been underperforming for sure, so I am thinking of replacing her with some combination of Leovold/Liliana, the Last Hope.
Sounds like a lot of close matchups. Sometimes its just variance. I also came to the conclusion, that LOTV is underperforming at the moment. There are certainly situations where she shines, but LTLH seems to be better positioned against our bad matchups.
Im kinda reluctant to include her as a 2-off tho.
Today I played a small tournament with 17 players in my hometown, Bremen, Germany. It was the first legacy tournament if its kind and there were 15 proxys allowed to give modern and standard players more incentive. As a result of that, some of the players were kinda inexperienced, which made things a bit easier for me.
I tested 1 Leovold in my list as a proxy.
List:
1x Tombstalker
1x Leovold, Emissary of Trest
4x Tarmogoyf
4x Delver of Secrets
4x Deathrite Shaman
4x Force of Will
4x Daze
4x Brainstorm
2x Fatal Push
3x Abrupt Decay
1x Liliana of the Veil
3x Hymn to Tourach
1x Thoughtseize
4x Ponder
4x Wasteland
4x Underground Sea
2x Bayou
1x Tropical Island
4x Polluted Delta
4x Misty Rainforest
1x Verdant Catacombs
SB:
2x Golgari Charm
2x Flusterstorm
2x Surgical Extraction
2x Jace, the Mindsculptor
1x Sylvan Library
1x Fatal Push
1x Dismember
1x Life from the Loam
1x Thoughtseize
1x Hymn to Tourach
1x Toxic Deluge
I went to 3rd place with 3-2 Score.
Round 1: Bye
Round 2: 2-0 Storm (ANT)
Round 3: 2-1 Czech Pile
Round 4: 0-2 Ravager Stompy
Round 5: 1-2 Manaless Dredge
I made alot of mistakes (throwing away the match against Dredge, because I missed the opportunity to kill my own creature to remove bridges) and couldnt deal with Chalice against Stompy (my deck just wouldnt cooperate in this match). In the end I found that: I really want some form of graveyard hate, which removes the whole graveyard (Im thinking of 3 GY-Hate pieces overall). Leovold was awesome against Pile and mediocre against the rest (so propably a sideboard card for me in the future). I really want a LTLH. Really bad. This card is awesome against all the bad matchups we have.
And I learned, I really have to mulligan more aggressively. Not mulliganing correctly was responsible for many of my losses today.
DRS lives to fight another day
With regards to LotV vs LtLH, LH is great against bad matchups until you hit something like Lands which kinda invalidates her. Mind you, I dont think LotV particularly shines here either as they just make Marut Lage EOT.
I have been considering a 1/1 split but warey of drawing the wrong Liliana in a match - would rather consistency and maybe have 1 in the side.
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Yeah I agree. I am still back and forth. Lili of the Veil was responsible for my wins today against Depths, Moon Stompy, and Sneak and Show, so I guess it really depends which half of the metagame you face. I kind of like to just play Veil and a bunch of sweepers sideboard to deal with the X/1s, G Charm isn't bad vs Pile by any means either. I have cleared Strixes off of the board and used the regeneration mode against Push/Decay. Charm helps vs way more decks than I thought it would.
5-0'd another league.
Turbo Depths (Mengucci): 2-1
Moon Stompy: 2-1
Sneak and Show: 2-1
Death and Taxes: 2-1
BR Reanimator: 2-0 (seemed like he just drew REALLY badly)
List was the same, but I put a Painful Truths in my sideboard. Been liking it vs Miracles & the Baleful Strix bunch.
Yeah saw you running Charm in the side and wanted to give it a shot. Can cut my more narrow Dread of Night (regular DnT in my Meta) for it.
Between Charm and Deluge, Last Hope is less necessary in the main, might still keep one in the side cause it just wrecks some matchups.
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Painful truths is the truth (har har har).
Just wanted to say thanks for the streaming. I can never watch them live due to the time difference but it's nice to watch after work.
Edit: Against discard heavy decks like Turbo-Ape, I like bringing in the Painful Truths. There are so few relevant cards in the matchup and they take great delight in stripping them from your hand,so truths is good at pulling you back after you've been forced to mulligan to 3 and also undoing their work.
Went 3-2 today in a league.
UR Delver feat. Wasteland: 0-2
Grixis Delver: 1-2
UW Delver: 2-1
Affinity: 2-0
Dredge: 2-0
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/251901408
4-1 today.
Grixis Delver: 2-0
Dredge: 2-0
Grixis Delver: 2-0
UB Control: 2-1
RW Taxes: 0-2
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/252206128
Honestly I think i won the roll and opened with DRS every game I won. That might be all it boils down to. Board out forces and some number of hymns, Lili the last hope is pretty sweet. Sylvan library is also worth bringin in. Other than that my board had sweepers and edicts, those all come in + any 1 mana removal.
Hey guys, is there a Discord server for BUG Delver, if so can someone please link me :).
Cheers.
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