Today 5 0
List main deck
4 cloudpost
4 glimmerpost
4 ancient tomb
4 city
3 vesuva
2 eye of ugin
2 eldrazi temple
2 thespian
4 Grim monolith
4 chalice
4 Voltaic key
3 trinisphere
2 dynamo
2 basalt
1 Hedron Archive
4 ugin
4 Seer
2 ulamog
2 wurmcoil
1 kozilek butcher
1 kozilek new
1 ballista
Side
4 leyline
4 ensnaring bridge
4 warping wail
3 Helm
W vs tes, sneak and show, 4c (wasteland main deck), lands, rw taxes
Yesterday another one 5 0 in league.
@Caprino: Could you list your match-ups?
Has anyone tried the new Karn yet ? Sounds like a nice drawing machine + alternative wincon in an heavy artifact build with Key, mana rocks, Chalice and Spyglass.
I've tried it in a few leagues and a challenge on MODO. I lost every game in which I cast him. Not all of that is Karn's fault, but it's been pretty underwhelming. The Construct generation ability is mostly irrelevant for our gameplan of ramping into big bombs, and the "card draw" ability is just too damn slow because you get the worst card on the first activation and you have to wait a turn just to get the "good" card.
I've come to the conclusion that it's a SB card at best, if that. I'm going to keep it in the SB where I had the Coercive Portals to board in vs. Miracles and Jund-type decks.
- 'Pathy' on MTGO
- Eastern PA player
Thanks for your insight MGB. It's just what I was afraid of.
This weekend, I played in a 40-men tournament and lost the "win and in" against a Big Eldrazi deck powered by this Karn (and I lost the dice roll, which is crucial here). My opponent, a really nice guy, almost convinced me about this card as a must have.
After posting here, I tested a bit yesterday and yes, not that convincing. I found it pretty slow for what we are trying to do. Maybe, it's way better in a MUD shell.
Back to testing Karn as a 2-of MD in place of the 4th Trinisphere and the 2nd Basalt Monolith.
- 'Pathy' on MTGO
- Eastern PA player
Well I just Top-4ed the latest Legacy Challenge with the following list:
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/1095589#online
That link is from last week's Challenge in which I went 3-3 but the decklist I used to Top-4 this Challenge is identical to that list.
I lost only to ANT Storm combo in the Swiss (he had Turn 1 kill in 2 games of out of 3 essentially) and I lost to Clashed's weird Grixis Dack Fayden brew in the Top-4 (I made mistakes losing too much life in G1 when I could have fetched Emrakul and won, and I stupidly used the -2 ability of Karn in G2 and he played Dack to steal my constructs.)
The deck was pretty explosive and potent this time around and I'm reminded by how awesome Voltaic Key can be because it won me a lot of games with the explosiveness of Monolith + Key into stuff.
- 'Pathy' on MTGO
- Eastern PA player
I got super sick and can't play anymore so you guys better keep posting and playing need to hear how you all are doing!
It's not as good as I had hoped or wanted it to be, because in some matchups it just doesn't impact the board enough, but overall it's probably better than the 2nd Basalt Monolith and the 4th Trinisphere, which is what I swapped out to make room for 2 Karn MD. I probably wouldn't play more than 2 Karn MD, though. It's not strong enough to warrant more than 2 copies in the MD. I like him quite a bit more against grindy slower decks like Miracles or B/G Control.
- 'Pathy' on MTGO
- Eastern PA player
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