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Can we shift the discussion away from Pox, and back to NJ Meta? We all know a deck like pox can't win a 15 round event ;)
Had the tournament been last week, i think UR Delver would have dominated. However, I think a lot of people are hopping on board to the midrange control build rudy brikzsa piloted to a first place finish, and are cooling off UR delver (the obvious boogeyman in the game right now).
EDIT: If i was competent with storm or reanimator, i would play those decks in a heartbeat. miracles as always seems like a solid choice. BUG seems to be a bad call since there is likely to be a lot of budget burn and psuedo burn (UR Delver). I actually somewhat expect someone to take the tourney by storm with a classic rug delver list. stifle and daze and wasteland, oh my!
the lesson from rudy brikzsa is that lifegain works against UR Delver. Skull, firewalker, and baneslayer, that's my take-away. Also, some people play UR Delver for budget reasons. If you have FoW, Volcs, and few fetches, you play UR Delvers. If you only have fetches, you play Burn. In a field of thousands, that's something for you to take into account. You can't just sleeve up storm or miracles unless you've put your time/repetitions into it.
Most of the ur delver deck is modern legal. So it would make sense if someone who only recently got into Modern started asking around to borrow a few volcs and FoWs. Boom, about $100 in cards, borrow some volcs and FoWs, and then you have a shot of q'ing for the PT in a Legacy GP
Shouldn't rule out people using burn or insert linear deck of choice because it’s straightforward to play and they don’t play legacy often. Not everyone makes decisions because of budget reasons.
For the Northwest, that linear non-Burn deck is commonly Reanimator. Over the past year, I've played against a lot of new Legacy players on that deck. The deck is straightforward and the power level is extremely high.
My guess would be that the most popular/populous deck at this GP will be UR Delver, and if I was going, I would make absolutely sure I had a good matchup against it.
Well never 2 times without a 3 time like we say in France, I'll answer to you here as well. You will probably appreciate this video from about 28:12 to 29:00.
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I am not sure if that's necessary to say it but that saying made me think a lot about sylvan plug since consistency is the advantage green chalice gets.
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You very likely can build it without spending any money, just out of what you already have.
An example with my (very large) list in a visual form
I was quite surprised to see 0 Liliana of the Veil in the top 16. Effect of the new Delve meta or just happenstance?
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On a different note, what are we to make of this: Grixis Control? Odd to say the least that got to ~13-2. I guess he just outplayed people?
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Looks short on win conditions to me, in the sense of going over the top of things. Also, Dack has yet to really thrill me in Legacy, although, with the amount of Stoneforges running around he was probably pretty good. Just not something I was expecting to see get 13 wins. Of course, BTM10's point is probably about right, with YP and cantrips you might not need much else to win.
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