Get out. (J/K)
In all seriousness, the changes you are suggesting are sufficiently divergent from the Maverick archetype that discussing them here will be unproductive for you and a distraction for the thread. I suggest looking at the various Noble Bug lists floating around for this suggestion
Regarding your prior list, I see no reason to play it over Maverick, 4c Loam, or Turbo Depths. By cutting down on Thalia's and Mothers your % against combo will drop precipitously, despite the fact that CR can be a "gotcha" card. Furthermore, Maverick, Loam, and Depths can do a much better job of protecting a Marit Lage should one be produced.
Crop Rotation in Maverick can be powerful and worthy of inclusion, but not as an all in game plan.
I've used Deluge as a sideboard card before to some effect, but it's probably unwise to use it in the main. If you really feel that you need a maindeck sweeper (which shouldn't be the case, honestly), maybe move a Zealous Persecution from the side to the main. Likely a poor decision though.
Why do you think you need a maindeck sweeper in the first place?
I recently top 8d the legacy classic in ATL and people wanted my report so here it is
Legacy top 8 write up
Played in the legacy classic this weekend. Ran punishing maverick and ran really hot this weekend going 6-0-2, and then losing in top 8. Overall really loved the performance of the deck and enjoyed all the card choices. For a look at my decklist you can go to SCGs website. First write up ever and i dont remember everything so bare with me.
Round 1 Eldrazi stompy (2-1)
He opens up with ancient tomb into mimic and i know its going to be a rough road ahead as my hand is ill prepared for eldrazi as my mom does nothing and my p fire is quickly outclassed by tks. I get quickly beaten down and we move to game 2. Game 2 i start off strong by turn 1 fetch into drs, turn 2 waste him p fire his mimic and play a noble. He plays some redhapers but knight quickly holds down the fort with p fire back up. Get a jitte online and he concedes. Game 3 is a grind as he opens on double leyline of the void and turn 1 chalice. Luckly my hand has no 1 drops and i play a normal game of magic. He doesnt have an agressive stary because of all the hate peices that im able build a scary board with jitte and sofi from SFM. I pretty much have the game locked until he top decks all is dust, but i rip gideon off the top and restabalize for the win.
Out
3 mom
1 gaddock teeg
In
1 gideon
1 garruk
1 councils judgement
1 fiery justice
Round 2 Miracles
Game 1 was easy as i play turn 2 library and just bury him with card advantage and double p fire wittling his creatures and jaces down and avoiding terminus all game. Game 2 mom into canonist into teeg quickly beigins the beat down as he cant recover.
Round 3 Lands (Kevin King) 2-0
Knew he was on lands and so played accordingly. Opened up strong with DRS and scryb ranger to eat all his lands and power our a knight and quickly beat him down before he can assmemble mariat lage. Game 2 he warping wails my drs and pfires my ooze but cant deal with my knight. I have to plow the first mariat lage, but am able to blessed alliance the second one so i dont have to go through another 20 life and a 12/12 knight quickly cuts him down
Out
3 pfire
1 teeg
1 voice
In
1 blessed alliance
1 rec sage
2 crop rotation
1 bojuka bog
Round 4 Sneak and Show 2-0
I keep a solid hand of mom noble knight 2 fetches and waste. My opponent on the play goes island double lotus petal show and tell and im like great im gonna get crushed. He puts in grisslebrand and i put in knight. I top deck karakas and cant slam it faster to bounce. He pays 14 life and then grissle goes back to the hand. I swing for 2 and put him to 4. He draws, brainstorms, and then proceeds to discard. I get confused about him wiffing.on 14 cards but consider myself lucky. I play waste attack and after no blocks i waste my karakas for lethal. Game 2 i play super conservitivly always holding up reb. I draw a second one and feel really confidant. I sfm for batterskull and start the beat down. He plays Show and tell and i pyroblast it. He says sure and starts to put it in the yard, but then says he wants to respond, so we call a judge and she says since he said sure both spells are resolves. He gets angry and essentially scoops and shows his hand of double force sneak emrakul and petal. I didnt have the heart to show him my second blast, and double crop rotation to get karakas.
Out
3 pfire
1 voice
3 mom
1 noble
1 drs
In
1 pyroblast
1 reb
2 crop rotation
2 ethersworn canonist
1 teeg
1 rec sage
1 councils judgement
Round 5 UW stoneblade 2-1
Game 1 he gets TNN out quickly and equips.a jitte and ends me fast. Game 2 i choke him and then overwhelm him with guys and he cant recover with no blue lands. Game 3 i waste him and pfire all his guys and he ends up not being able to cast spells and scryb ranger with sofi takes the day.
Out
1 teeg
1 voice
2 plow
1 knight
1 ooze
In
1 blessed alliance
1 councils judgement
1 rec sage
1 reb
1 pyroblast
1 gideon
Round 6 grixis delver 2-1
Games 1 and 2 are uneventful as game 1 he has all the wastes and dazes and runs me over, and game 2 i have all the wastes and removal and run him over.
Game 3 is a slog as he has drs, lavamancer, TNN and angler.to my batterskull. He gets too overzealous thinking he had the win and swings with tnn. The lavamancers me and tries to drs me but there are no spells for him to eat. He gets frustrated as he passed the turn. I untap, equip sofi to batterskull, p fire his drs and swing for 6. He takes it. I shoot the lavamancer and draw. He swings again. I swing back and play drs. My life total is now out od reach and he ends up dying. Super lucky about the punt.
Out
1 teeg
1 pridemage
1 birds
In
1 reb
1 councils judgement
1 fiery justice
Final 2 rounds i double draw into top 8
Top 8 Miralces 0-2 (rematch)
Played the same guy as round 2. My deck does not fire properly and i flood out and get swarmed.by angels after being terminused 3 times. Game 2 is no better. He has all the wraths but i manage to get him to 2, but cant find a pfire due to jace and get ultimated out of the game
Out
1 pfire
4 plow
2 knight
1 noble
1 birds
In
1 teeg
1 choke
1 reb
1 pyroblast
2 canonist
1 garruk
1 gideon
1 rec sage
Overall had a lot of fun. Not running dd/ts was fine. No match up that i really wanted it in and it made my mana much easier to handle. Plateau was actually useful as double white for gideon and councils.judgement was neccesary a couple games. Voice over the 4th mom drew force.really quickly or have people slow down and play on their turn to remove him. SFM and batterskull overperformed all weekend and am glad i had them.
Grats on the finish!
I love the batter skull pick and wish I had the room right now.
I went with a Big Thalia list with 2 SFM and just went 3-0 in a small round robin. It was super competitive with all of the bug legacy players working on decks.
Round 1: BUG Control 2-1
He gets game 1 by going DRS, Strix + Push, Force into Jace in an empty board.
Games 2 and 3 were pretty similar with turn 2 stoneforge getting forced, moms getting pushed and then Thalia’s coming in to put in work. Both games I had 5 power worth of first strike goodness swinging past multiple baleful strixes. Karakas was involved to protect the girls from removal. Game 3 he had an active Jace against a SoFI for several turns as he drew into deathrites to block.
Round 2: Grixis Control 2-1
Game 1 I mull to 5 and get turn 2 hymned.... scoop
Game 2 was super fun with Deathrite vs Deathrite and a SoFI sealing the deal.
Game 3 was an auto concede on a resolved turn 3 Choke. Turn 1 was mom, pushed, turn 2 Thalia, forced.
Round 3: Aluren 2-1
Game 1 Mom shut down several cascades into removal(3 times) while Teeg stopped the Aluren from hitting play
Game 2 he ground me out with Strix damage and DRS
Game 3 he falls behind on the board and has to deluge a 4/4 knight + mom + Jitte, I untap and drop both Thalia’s and he scoops.
He list was super fun and I beat 3 baleful Strix decks in a row. Thalia did not get to disrupt and mana but a 3/2 first strike was huge all night. If I was lucky I would have had turn 2 Heretic several times but Hymn happened.
All in all, really happy with the list and am just fiddling with numbers... 1 or 2 QPM, 2 or 3 SFM... little choices.
"eggs... why'd it have to be eggs"
Mom-mom had to die because of the ground chemicals. http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10272003
Took feedback and went with this:
White Staples(11)
4 Mother of Runes
4 Thalia Guardian of Thraben
3 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
SFM Package(4)
2 SFM
1 Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
Green Staples(8)
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Knight of the Reliquary
GSZ Targets(6)
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Scryb Ranger
1 Ranumap Excavator
1 Dryad Arbor
Spells(8)
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
4 Swords to Plowshares
Lands(23)
3 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wasteland
2 Savannah
1 Bayou
1 Scrubland
2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Maze of Ith
1 Gaea’s Cradle
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Karakas
Sideboard
3 Thoughtsieze
2 Canonist/containment priest/damping sphere/Prelate
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Choke
2 Zealous Persecution
2 Blessed Alliance
Felt really good and was happy with Big Thalia all night.
Better?
"eggs... why'd it have to be eggs"
Just some background info, the event is called Gaming for Gains, ran by Matt N. Basically it's a large legacy tournament where entry is canned food or food donations to be given to the local food pantry/soup kitchen. It's a whole lot of fun and there's a ton of raffle prizes given out.
This is the list I ran with for the event:
Land (24)
1x Bayou
1x Dark Depths
1x Dryad Arbor
1x Forest
1x Horizon Canopy
1x Karakas
1x Plains
2x Savannah
1x Scrubland
1x Thespian's Stage
1x Tropical Island
4x Verdant Catacombs
4x Wasteland
4x Windswept Heath
Creature (24)
1x Birds of Paradise
3x Deathrite Shaman
1x Gaddock Teeg
4x Knight of the Reliquary
1x Leovold, Emissary of Trest
4x Mother of Runes
1x Noble Hierarch
1x Qasali Pridemage
1x Ramunap Excavator
1x Scavenging Ooze
1x Scryb Ranger
2x Stoneforge Mystic
3x Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Sorcery (4)
4x Green Sun's Zenith
Instant (5)
1x Abrupt Decay
4x Swords to Plowshares
Artifact (2)
1x Sword of Fire and Ice
1x Umezawa's Jitte
Enchantment (1)
1x Sylvan Library
Sideboard (15)
1x Abrupt Decay
1x Armageddon (Couldn't find my ravages)
2x Containment Priest
2x Ethersworn Canonist
1x Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
1x Reclamation Sage
2x Surgical Extraction
3x Thoughtseize
2x Zealous Persecution
Round 1 against Sean on U/B Reanimator
So the earliest memory I have when I was starting out in Legacy was Sean kicking my ass with a t1 Griselbrand and eventually an Iona. I made the call that he's probably on the same deck 3 years later. He keeps an opening hand with close to 3+ cantrips, but I a significant lack of action. I keep a hand of Thalia, QPM, 2x Fetchland, Karakas, GSZ, and Wasteland. No t1 play, but QPM on t2 with T3 Thalia with karakas protection are enough of a clock/disruption. He's stuck on two mana, eventually using a lotus petal to exhume a Grave Titan. An stupidly timely STP off the top takes care of that. He then reanimates my own KOTR which beats me to a tender 6 health. Eventually DRS nibbles his grave away and a Jitte kills my own Knight. He concedes to the GSZ for Leovold.
Board in: 2x Containment Priest, 3x Thoughtseize, 2x Surgical Extration
Board out: 2x Stoneforge, 2x Equipment, 1x Teeg, 1x Excavator, 1x Wasteland
Sean elects to go on the play, fetches a basic, Dark Ritual, Thoughtseize himself, exhumes Tidesprout tyrant after a mulligan to 6. I drop a plains and STPs it. Sean looks a bit glum. I end up with two DRS and a KOTR which is enough to carry me to victory after my Containment Priest gets forced.
2-0 (1-0 in matches)
Round 2 against Kaz on Elves
I've heard rumors that this is traditionally a horrible matchup, but sometimes you just have the nuts. After winning the die roll, I lead off on Bayou, GSZ for dryad arbor. (To beat the elf player you have to become the elf player). T2 I fetch up tropical island for the best elf in the MU, Leovold. He does some shennanigans with bouncing creatures and playing more DRS, but I eventually get a Jitte onto the big friend elf Leovold and he carries his way to the finish line
Board in: 2x Containment Priest, 2x Ethersworn Canonist, 2x Zealous Persecution,
Board out: 1x QPM, 2x Thalia, 3x Mother of Runes
Kaz also elects to go on the play, but my hand has the holy trio of Priest, Canonist, and Persecution. He Thoughtseizes away Persecution, but Canonist forces him to play fair. Eventually SOFI, Priest, and a very large Knight ends up removing all his permanents. Thank god Elves has the most aggressive two color manabase in legacy lol. He played a copy of the 4 mana 5/5 champion an elf, which seems really strong. Too bad her swords were turned to a plowshare.
4-0 (2-0 in matches)
Round 3 against Craig on 3 color Turbo Depths
Craigs list was splashing white for Solemnity and KOTR which I thought was really neat. However an early karakas combined with a t3 Knight stopped all the Turbo in his Depths. Dark depthsed him out of the game after killing two DRS.
Board in: 1x Abrupt Decay, 1x Reclamation Sage, 1x Armageddon, 2x Surgical Extraction
Board out: 4x Mother of Runes, 1x Leovold.
Game 2 he gets a lot scarier with both Library and Crucible of Worlds. Welp, turns out we're locked in for the long game. I nibble away at his health with an active DRS, and a Noble exalting a Ramunap Excavator. Excavator+Wasteland stop him from getting a fast depths after he decays my Knight. Eventually I slam Armageddon into his 5 lands and no creatures while sandbagging two fetches. He concedes to the Geddon.
6-0 (3-0 in matches)
Round 4 against Michael? on Grixis Delver
After skillfully winning the die roll, I resolve DRS into Thalia, into Knight, into Jitte to take out his Delver and DRS (he forced an early STP). I get the perfect game, where my opponent has no lands, no creatures, and 7 cards in hand.
Board in: 1x Abrupt Decay, 2x Zealous Persecution
Board out: 1x Ramunap Excavator, 1x Teeg, 1x QPM
Michael (I think) elects to go on the play and leads off with an early DRS, We trade removal spells for DRS, Delvers, and Mother of Runes. After the dust clears he's left with an Angler and two lands against a 3/3 Knight, 4 lands, and a dryad arbor. He gets me down to 3 with 4 cards in hand and I'm just praying that he has no bolt in his hard. He swings in with his big fish, but jokes on him, one of my lands was a grand theatrical performance, where I'm able to fetch up dark depths with Knight and attempt to create a 20/20 monster. Michael(still 50/50 on this name) freezes and goes in the tank for about 5 minutes before conceding. Sometimes a theatrical performance summoning a cthulu-like entity is good enough.
8-0 (4-0 in matches)
Round 5 against Devon? on Eldrazi
Eldrazi is traditionally a good-ish matchup for Maverick, but apparently I can't draw wastelands at all. He takes game one after winning the die roll, curving chalice into smasher, into jitte, into smasher, while I'm on 3 lands and a scavenging ooze. I'm rather sure there's nothing you can do about that.
Board in: 1x Armageddon, 1x Gideon Ally of Zendikar, 1x Reclamation Sage, 3x Thoughtseize, 1x Decay
Board out: 4x Mother of Runes, 3x Thalia
I end up going for a fast mana hands with active DRS and Noble into a Gideon. His Thought Knot Seer snatches my GSZ, and eventually rips smasher into smasher. I manage to stabalize with a key swords on his Oblivion Sower, while my Knight is holding a jitte. The only issue is that I'm at 3 life. I aggressively Thoughtseize to clear his all is dust, and end step use my DRS to drain him for two. BIG MISTAKE. He savagely rips Walking Ballista off the top and attempts to ping me to death. The combined might of Scryb Ranger, Deathrite Shaman, and Leovold drawing three cards can't get me out of this hold I dug for my self. I completely blanked on ballista being an out he could have and should of used my DRS to gain life instead.
8-2 (4-1 in matches)
Round 6 against Pat on Sneak and Show
Game 1 I keep the god hand of QPM, Thalia, Karakas, 2x Fetch, GSZ, Wasteland. Again, no t1 play, but I'm able to QPM on t2, Thalia on t3 with Karakas to keep her safe (or to stop any emrakuls), and wasteland to keep him at 2 mana sources. He eventually Shows and Tells in an emrakul, but Karakas sends her right back to Pat's hand. Leovold eventually comes down and he concedes to that.
Board in: 2x Containment Priest, 3x Thoughtseize, 1x Reclamation Sage, 2x Canonist
Board out: 2x Stoneforge Mystic, 2x Equipment, 4x Mother of Runes
Game two he's off to a mull to 6, 1 land hand with cantrips, and 2x Leyline of Sanctity. The only issue is that he's brainstorm locked and I have mana dorks to play. He digs his way to three mana and slaps down his science experiment of Emrakul. The only issue is that I have both mana and a KOTR to slap around his 15/15. Knight finds the Karakas, Karakas wins the game.
10-2 (5-1 in matches)
Round 7 against (honestly I don't remember his name so I'm just going to call him Cartman) on Steel Stompy.
He win the die roll and leads off with close to 5 spells on t1. I die on t3.
Board in: 1x Reclamation Sage, 1x Abrupt Decay, 2x Zealous Persecution
Board out: 4x Mother of Runes.
Game two is much more competitive, He has a chalice on 1, but I have a Marit Lage after chumping his 4/4 raveages with a bird. Jitte gets slapped on a Leovold and his able to do some damage to his board after I QPM the Spyglass naming it. I eventually kill off his flying Vault Skirge and ornithopter. Marit Lage is able to swing for victory. I think this is the first time I've used Marit Lage on defense.
Game three is much more of a stomp. Chalice on 1 combined with the new 4 mana Karn creates a lot of early pressure, especially combined with a Ravager. I'm stuck on two lands and 11 health after he swings. He sacks a ton of artifacts to ravager and swings for lethal. I scoop before I realize that by sacing his artifacts he makes his Karn tokens smaller. I was probably dead anyways, but he was very apologetic about it and I was kicking myself for not noticing that.
11-3 (5-2 in matches)
Turns out 5-2 is still good enough for 7th seed into top 8 (I had stupid good breakers)
Quarter Finals MU against Devon? on Eldrazi
In this rematch, he ends up getting a smasher into player, and slapping me with manlands till I die. Same board as last time. I end up going off with Kotr, Wastelands, and DRS. He concedes to Gideon being cast off of the third wasteland. Turns out gideon's pretty good against his board of Urborg+ Eldrazi Mimic. Game three was bit of mess. I mull down to 6 and keep a very loose hand of one land, two swords, two dorks, and a GSZ. He keeps an equally loose 7 with mimic, two lands, removal spells, and Matter Reshaper. STPs takes out two Reshapers, but Mimic beats me down to 8. I thoughtseize away a key Thought knot seer (ironic), and play 4/4 knight. Knight finds wastelands and wastelands are good against opponents on two mana.
13-4 (6-2 in matches)
Semifinals MU against Josh on Mono Red Stompy
In game one, he goes all in on the magus of the moon plan, but top deck Forest lets me cast Birds, Birds lets me cast Swords, DRS, and Knight get really big and he's stuck on mana. He eventually finds a bridge, but QPM off the top takes care of that.
Board in: 1x Armargeddon, 1x Abrupt Decay, 3x Thoughtseize
Board out: 2x Stoneforge, 2x Equipment (61 cards I know)
In game two, we both draw dead for about 6 turns, he had a spy glass naming wasteland, I have 4 wastelands out. Fiery Confluence keeps my board clear, but he ends up top decking Karn to win the game.
In game three, I navigate my way around his blood moons and chalices to the point where I think I'm in a good position. I thoughtseize him and see a hand of Bridge, Bridge, SSG. He's on two lands with a moon out so I make the hard read of not taking a bridge and taking the mana monkey instead. Big mistake, he draws basic mountain and slams bridge. the next turn he plays another bridge. Uh Oh. Sylvan Library Finds me a wealth of lands, but no action. He eventually emblems Koth to win the game.
14-6 (6-3 in matches)
This was enough for a 3rd place finish out of 65 players. Not so bad after all. Hit me up if you guys have any questions or want to criticize my formatting (it's atrocious) and thanks for reading!
With my list on the previous page what are your thoughts on these changes:
-1 abrupt decay
-1 crop rotation
-2 life from the loam
+3 mother of runes
+1 scryb ranger
I'd like to get 1 more mother in but not sure what would be best to cut (debating tracker but his clues are great when I remember the trigger).
Edit:
It was quite a weird maverick/nic fit build (using atraxa, gilded drake, etc). In the mirror match that showed me the power of mother of runes and scryb ranger.
"eggs... why'd it have to be eggs"
just found some time to write a little bit about GP Birmingham from last Weekend.
Mainboard:
2 Forrest
1 Plains
2 Savannah
2 Bayou
1 Scrubland
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Karakas
1 Gaeas Cradle
4 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath
3 Verdant Catacombs
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Noble Hierarch
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Mother of Runes
4 Thalia, GoT
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Scrybranger
2 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Scavinging Ooze
4 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Renegade Rallier
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Abrupt Decay
4 Green Suns Zenith
1 Umezawas Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sylvan Library
Sideboard:
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Zealous Persecution
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Containment Priest
2 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Thoughtseize
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Blessed Alliance
2 Choke
Games: 6/2 Day 1
1. U/R Delver 1:2 Loss
2. Grixis Delver 2:1 Win
3. Lands 2:1 Win
4. Grixis Delver 2:0 Win
5. Jeskai Stoneblade 1:2 Loss
6. Burn 2:0 Win
7. -no Show/bye- Win
8. Grixis Delver 2:0 Win
Games: 3/4 Day 2
9. Turbo Depths 1:2 Loss
10. Elves 0:2 Loss
11. ANT 2:1 Win
12. BR Reanimator 1:2 Loss
13. Nyx Fit 2:1 Win
14. Turbo Depths 2:1 Win
15. Red Prison 0:2 Loss
Overall 9:6
notes on matches:
Match 1: UR Delver - I had the win on board game 2 but throw it away due to my own greed and lost game 3 aswell...
Match 5: Jeskai Stoneblade i lost every game against TNN - didnt find ZP nor Deluge or Blessed Alliance...
Match 7: compensation for match 1
Match 9: Turbo Depths. he had always 2 needles either on Wasteland or on Karakas and at least 1-2 Safekeepers for his Marit Lage (that was too much to handle for me)
Match 10: Elves he had everything to overwhelm me with his doods (killed me game 2 after a ZP whiped 3/4 of his board...
Match 12: BR Reanimator hes on the Play and shows me Sire of Insanity turn 1 - Scoop - game 2 i won with Containment Priest and Surgical Extraction. game 3 he had Canceler and turn 2 Grisselbrand and Grave Titan.
Match 15: Red Prison Shows me Blood Moon Turn 1 on the Play - Scoop - Game two i have Basics but his army of double Rabble Master and Magus of the moon kills me asap.
notes on Maindeck:
straight Forward list - nothing special.
i tested tireless tracker and a voice of resurgance the day before the mainevent but i was not impressed by either of them so i cut them and add one of my 2 Abrupt Decays from SB to MB
then add blessed alliance to SB in that spot - good call!
notes sideboarding:
Abrupt Decay and Reclamation Sage were the most used SB Cards this Weekend.
least used SB Cards were Thoughtseize and Ethersworn Canonist (maybe i can change something here - additional Teeg instead of Canonist and maybe a PW (Giddeon))
Chokes were fine but not impressiv against the blue decks i played against (Grixis Delver)
Zealous Persecution was great!
Toxic was not necessary.
Blessed Alliance would be a great Card against my matchups but i didnt drew it.
Surcical Extraction was good.
Containment Priest did his Job against Reanimator
if you have any questions i will try to anwer them
thanks for reading
Skizz
-Thanks for the notes, all these TR are very helpful. Some questions:
Do you feel like we need containment priest? Powerful card, but limited application. Canonist is good but i can see having second teeg instead of her as you do. I always have to have Gideon myself, he's SUCH A HOUSE vs midrange and control.
Have you tried the Leo splash? I've liked playing him but I always go back and forth about whether or not we need him or if it's too greedy. Seems like you have probably messed with it if you've tested other things.
How was cradle without tracker? I feel like Tracker is always the best sink for that, but like you, I've been a bit unimpressed with tracker in maverick (though i love her in valuetown)
How was Rallier? another three drop i love but I'm too scared to play most of the time.
Thanks!
@Dreadnaught:
I love containment priest and think its worth 1 spot.
Its good against reanimator as well against dredge.
(I had a game against a dredge player at mkm rome where he cabal therapy blind for containment priest while there would be better cards in my hand (drs/gsz) next turn he played 2 silent gravestones and he told me that priest would be the only card that could beat him... i won either way...)
And there is show and tell sometimes.
When you can protect the priest with mother of runes its gg in these matchups.
I had a giddeon in sb before the mainevent but due to less expierience ive cut him again... but hes still one of my hot card to test more.
Indeed i tryed leo splash as well! It was good and i liked him. But the minimal downside of it is/was that we have to cut a basic forrest for tropical and at the nowadays meta with blood moons everywhere i want i little bit more chances to draw a basic in my opener... i think i will try him again at the next fnm's.
I use cradle for the big turns where you just flood the board with small cratures and equipment and go very far ahead.
Its just worth to play it when you have one around.
When renegade rallier first came out i played a lot with him and was not very impressed... some time later i gave him another chance and now i see him at a equal level to tracker.
Its just great when you can recour thalia,mother,drs,jitte,library,pridemage and all the other good silverbullets again.
I once played against a burn player where he kills 2 times my thalia.. then i got a 3rd from rallier and won because he spend too many resources on killing her.
I think that when i would not play rallier i would play 2nd pridemage in that spot.
Match 1: What do you mean? to many board?
Match 5: TNN -> lost is one of the greatest weekness of this deck
Match 9: That is pretty normal against combo
Match 10: That is pretty normal against combo
Match 12: 1 card scoop is one of the greatest weekness of this deck
Match 15: 1 card scoop is one of the greatest weekness of this deck
This is why this deck is not competitive, 1 card scoop, cannot slow down combo, cannot close the winning game.
Definitely we need to change something in the decklist.
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