Also, the Stax variant got changed to Angel Stax. Burning Bridge, 0-2 Threshold, and more and more burn/goblin variants keep showing up each week. Also, there is a new deck one of which is unfamiliar to the format around here: Fires of Yavimiah which took 1st last week.Originally Posted by vanele
UR Dreadstill creator and BRx WGD Combo Pioneer
Our local meta is the epitome of randomness. I see Survival Madness, WW, MonoBlack aggro-control, elves, goblins, etc...I never know what to expect. I even saw an Orzhov deck make top 4 once...
That's scary for any meta. T2 Orzhov making top 4...
UR Dreadstill creator and BRx WGD Combo Pioneer
I am my own meta :(
So what do you look like?
Well, we'll have 8-24 players showing up with different lists, here are the ones I remember.
Duluth, MN
Deck's that I notice showing up consistantly:
1 Vial Gobblins
1 UGR Thresh
1 Raffinity
1-3 R/G sligh/grow (dryad sligh)
1 Time Vault-Fusilade (not the Stacks version)
1-2 G/B Gamekeeper
1 250 (250's pretty popular here, and this guy has only one deck.)
Decks that tend to fluctuate in and out
0-2 Aluren
0-1 Rifter
0-1 Illusions-Donate
0-1 Life
0-2 Scepter Chant
0-2 Landstill
0-1 Spring Tide
0-1 Sex Rector (Pattern)
0-1 2 land belcher (myself, thankyouverymuch)
0-3 Psychatog (various versions)
0-3 Black Aggro Control (sometimes w/green)
0-2 Budget affinity (non-ravager)
Some people play the same aggro deck every week, but the better players tend to fluctuate between decks. GY hate is very minimal.
Overall we seem to have a very small, extremely diverse meta.
Last edited by Caleb; 04-07-2006 at 08:00 PM.
@Lego_Army_Man:
Look at my pitucre, that's what I look like :).
In my area we only have some kids playing Standard and Extended. There is almost no Legacy going on over here. I make all my decks according to the Legacy bannedlist, even my casual decks. Sometimes I lend a couple of my decks to lokal kids so I can at least play Legacy irl. Other than that I only play on MWS.
The Legacydecks I own (so are my meta):
- Solidarity (1 proxied Reset, very hard to get over here)
- Enchantress
- Angel Stompy (old version with moxen and Tithe)
- Elves (staff of domination version)
- 12 Land Stompy
- Mono Blue Control
- The Jacky Storm
Ewww, weird meta.
RayD3 has an extra Reset, ask him if he wants to trade it. 12 Land Stompy should become 9 Lands, because it's better that way. TJS should become Nausea. Just my bad opinions.
You are right. I must change The Jacky Storm in either Naussea or Iggy Pop, I just build it because I wanted to test it and already had all the cards for it. Could you (or someone else) PM me a list of 9 land stompy? I'm very cusious at a list.
As for the picture: I know, it was taken very early in class :)
Fresno, California / The Bullpen (1 Person)
1 Vial Goblins
>_>
This is what I get for playing at a shop whose population is 4/5's Yu-Gi-Oh players. The other 19/20 is filled with Standard format Magic players. The 1/20 I neglected to mention is the Legacy fanbase A.K.A. me.
>_<
Last night we had U/W Prison, 4cGro, LoamTog, a UGW Aggro control mess, Nausea, and someonewhose deck I didn't catch, but was likely terrible.
I don't think Austin has a metagame anymore.
Funniest "metagame" ever. I played in NH this week while I was home for break. Called up a bunch of friends and we got a janky tournament together.
ATS. Basically the original list that hasn't been played since 2000.
Flame Rift Burn.
Nether Void. Lots of disruption and Dark Ritual --> Nether Void.
Solidarity (me).
Life splash green.
Beacon of Creation combo.
Elves with Concordant Crossroads.
"Combo" Goblins? He was playing Brightstone Ritual, and I saw him do some sick things with it, so I don't know what else to call this.
R/G Fling.dec
5/3 a la Roop's list.
Two others I didn't see.
This was a pretty large turnout, all considered. We had some Dartmouth kids and a couple kids from VT. Anyway, we cut to a top 8 of Myself with Solidarity, Life splash Green, Elves, and Combo Goblins.
Luckily, Life beat Elves in the semis, because I'm not sure I like the Elves match. They're an aggro deck than can just "go off" a bit too fast for me. I beat Combo Goblins in the semis by Remanding/Forcing Ringleader, and then game 2 I Evacuated to buy me a couple of turns. He didn't get very great draws, so it wasn't tough. That left Solidarity versus Life in the finals, which is a funny matchup, to say the least. He didn't play the black version, so I didn't even have to worry about him winning at instant speed or any of that shiz. He comboed out both games and I just waited for him to play his win condition before comboing out myself.
Now, I mention that Elves was playing Concordant Crossroads because one match he got paired against the Nether Void deck, and I just think that's funny
There was an 8 person tourney last Saturday in Springfield, IL at the Springfield Game Store that had the following decks:
Burn
Burn
Sui-Black
Hatred.dec
Goblins (mono-red)
U/W/b Control (might have been scepter-chant, but ran no basics and was secretive so I didn't find out)
Flame Vault Stasis Stax
Iggy Pop with MD Leylines
BZK! - Storm Boards
Been there, tried that, still casting Doomsday.
Drawing my deck for 0 mana since 2013.
I would just like to give an updated list of decks that are seen here in Syracuse, mostly on a weekly basis.
Vial Goblins (1)
Vial Affinity (1-2)
Gro (3-5)
Solidarity (1-2)
R/W Rifter (1-2)
Faerie Stompy (1)
Deadguy Ale (1)
Angel Stompy (1)
RGSA (1-2)
Turboland (1-2)
Stax (1-2)
Mono Green Beats (1)
Garv.dec (1-2)
Randoms (3-4)
Lately it seems like Goblins has died down in numbers, almost no one plays it anymore here. I believe we have a good mix with Grow seeming to be the most popular and played deck in the area.
~Shriek~
Ok, so I played old-school Legacy last night at CoD. In my four rounds, I played (using Solidarity) against Tog, Random B/G/W Control Cards.dec, Enchantress, and Full English Breakfast.
The top three ended up Tog, Solidarity, Full English Breakfast with Tog being 4-0 and Solidarity (3-1) having beat F.E.B. 2-0 in rounds.
10 People played with the following
Tog
Solidarity (me)
Full English Breakfast
RGSA
Affinity
B/G/W Control (not dirt)
Rifter
Angel Stompy
Enchantress
1 Uknown Deck utilizing U/B (I think)
It was fun playing something that isn't Stax for a change, but I think I pulled out all 7 games I ended up winning by whoring myself to the gods of topdeck. Hopefully we return to our regularly scheduled meta of goblins, threshold, rifter, and stax next week, but that remains to be seen.
BZK! - Storm Boards
Been there, tried that, still casting Doomsday.
Drawing my deck for 0 mana since 2013.
This is stuff that tends to show up weekly or almost weekly in South Florida:
Goblins
Goblins
Goblins
Various incarnations of aggro/burn
Landstill
Welder Survival
Deadguy Ale (also monoblack versions)
Dirt
Solidarity High Tide
Threshold
Reanimator
WW (not Angel Stompy)
Salvager/Gamekeeper
Random stuff
I moved down to Maryland for the summer and I found this little store in Northern Virginia and the meta is full of scrubs. It was like stompy, fairy stompy, angel stompy, iggy pop stompy, thresh stompy, solidarity stompy, and well just about every other crappy stompy deck a scrub would play. I would have won the tournement too except for the fact they were all such n00bs. Guess I'll have to school them for the rest of the summer.
So you lost because everyone else was such a noob? Hehe, I've always loved this argument. There's a reason so many people play stompy decks out there, and that's cause they're fairly consistently good across the board. Just because someone plays the deck doesn't make them a noob. But anyways, on to the meta around me:
Worchester (That's Entertainment w/ many WPI kids gone):
3-4 Quick combo (iggy, belcher...)
2-3 Gro
2-3 Sligh/burn
2-3 Solidarity
1-2 Enchantress
1-2 Homebrew
1-2 Elves!
0-1 Angel Stompy (me)
0-1 Gobbo
Top 4 last time: UGR thresh, Sligh/burn, Angel Stompy, Homebrew.
First time coming back here in a while, will edit when I know more about the exact meta and what consistently places.
Abington (Battleground Games):
2-3 Adapted T2 Stompy
2-3 Gro
1-2 Psychatog
1-2 Gobbo
1 Rifter
0-1 Solidarity/Spring Tide
0-1 Angel Stompy (me)
Typical Top 4: Goblin, Angel Stompy, Gro, Random Other
Myself, one of the thresh players and the gobbo player consistently make T4 there, with the gobbo player apparently being number 7 in MA in legacy (Robby). The last spot typically is somewhat divided.
EDIT: Yeah, apparently I'm not very good with the sarcasm on here. Pie on my face I guess :-P. Oh well. Anyways, I have actually heard the complaint "I didn't do well because everyone was playing random decks/playing like a noob" before. That just doesn't hold in my book. It's not just about beating the current meta, it's about being consistent across the field, and being able to deal with the unexpected. But anyways, sorry bout the misread, think i missed the pop and solidarity stompy the first time through somehow. They really need a sarcasm face on here...
Last edited by tivadar; 06-07-2006 at 04:18 PM.
Lol, I was being Sarcastic. Nova has some very good players and a well developed meta game.
Come on, Solidarity stompy. How could anyone take me seriously.
SSSHHH!!!!!!!!!! your ruining my secret tech for the deck!!!
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