Oh it's real.
I think you were asking if it was good. Of course it's not.
No, the One True List is the list in your heart.
Dude, stop with the truth, it's not at all convenient.
Chances are, Sea Stompy was (and is) probably more playable than most were ever giving it credit for. Chances are good nearly anything in a Stompy shell will win some number of games off the "broken" fact that your lands tap for . Soldiers, Dragons, Goblins, Eldrazi, shit, why not Pirates?
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Now that the hype is gone, I think its a good time to actually brew and not think of an absurd deck that will shift the legacy metagame, but instead something that can be playable. Of course the "real" list is just trolling, but the interactions are real, Siren's Ruse is a hell of a card.
Anyway, of course running Challice, Trinisphere, Chrome Mox and Sol Lands is a shell that kind of whatever else you put in it, it will have a lot of free wins against tier 1 decks. So saying this isn't playable is already very very wrong, it might not be opressive of course, but it is playable just by having these power cards on the deck. I would though, try to go a different direction, because going away from the obvious shell might get you somewhere better.
I'm trying to brew something new, might be with pirates or not xD, but I think people shouldn't just let go the idea if they think it can work.
So a few reps of a major card vendor and media source were able to make a troll attempt and manipulate the secondary market with just a few threads and unsubstantiated claims. That's cool.
Anyone have a good lead on fakes? Heard they're getting good with holo stamps now.
Would you like to get on the ground floor for Lost in the Woods futures? I already own plenty and the price can only go up! uP! UP!
I actually contacted dozens of Chinese fake card vendors, none of them had any batches of Rishadan Cutpurse for some reason.
Depends, when is the marketing scheme gonna go live? Do you have Julian, Bob? Maybe SaffronOlive to push the budget feel? Or we can go heavy with a champ like LSV or Reid Duke to really push the news. What vendor, ChannelFireball again? Switch it up with SCG?
Just gotta make sure no replays or speculative lists get out until we can sell a bunch of garbage.
The List. Do you know what The List is? It's the thousand playble decks of Legacy, a deck we agree to play over and over until we forget it's terrible.
But what do we have left, once we abandon the deck? Brewing? Random jank we can treat as virtual byes?
Brewing isn't a bye, it's a matchup. many try to find the next thing and scrub out, never to compete again. The netdeck breaks them. And some, are given the chance to pair up. They refuse, the cling to The List, or Doomsday, or Charbelcher. Illusions. Only a brew is real, the matchups are all there is.
Thrummingbird
Skyship Plunderer
Parallax Tide
Tangle Wire
The more I look into the idea, the more I like it. I'd really like to flesh this idea out, but I'm not to sure if this is still the right thread for it. With Tangle Wire thrown into the mix, the mana denial plan should suddenly gets alot more consistent, plus having the option of board control for those things that slipped through. "Tap two of my other things while you have to tap four" sounds like a devilish plan.
I actually don't use the parallax tide/hoodwink combo. Here's the list I am currently on:
4 Brigand
4 Footpad
4 Cutpurse
4 Force of Will
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Chart a Course
4 Siren's Ruse
3 Chrome Mox
2 Smuggler's Copter
2 Phantasmal Image
2 Hostage Taker
2 Trophy Mage
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Sword of F & I
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Polluted Delta
4 Wasteland
2 Saprazzan Skerry
2 Underground Sea
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Island
So far this has been the most successful for me. Hostage taker is nuts, and a great way to deal with resolved threats like Young Peezy. Also it feels hella good to take a Leovold and then cast it against an opponent with handful of cantrips. Trophy Mage acts as my blue Stoneforge Mystic and allows me to run 1 ofs in the sideboard while still being able to reliably hit them.
Hoodwink is old and busted, Skyship Plunderer/Thrummingbird + Parallax Tide/Tangle Wire are the new hotness.
This has been the best thread in ages, gents. Keep it up!
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I get the whole, "hey let's parallax tide," thing but why no one mentioning opposition and cavern harpy?
Opposition is rather obnoxious and doesn't rely on having 8 proliferate dorks (I'm fine with a welkin tern pirate but 2 mana for a 1/1 is just a bad deal as it won't trade with delver), and cavern harpy threatens a soft or even hard lock at any moment.
This stompy deck was not as good As Foretold.
That's fair, I'm more onto going mono-blue at this point anyway.
I still think opposition might have merit though. Unless parallax tide can work with just 1 proliferate enabler as I really don't think thrummingbird cuts it. Not being able to at least trade with delver is a big drawback.
After goldfishing a bit, the deck actually has another problem: The creature density isn't high enough between all those lockpieces.
19 lands only? Even with 3 Chrome Moxen, that land count is way too low for a Stompy deck.
From what I've seen on the Pirate Stompy stream linked earlier, I do like the CoW package that is fetchable with Trophy Mage. Wastelocking people can win quite a few games.
I'd still like to see some Ballistas in there. They seem too good to pass in a Stompy shell. I also do wonder about the Chart the Course copies. They all seemed to be win-more during the stream.
Have you considered Jace, the Mindsculptor? Aside from being good all-around, he can also bounce your pirates when necessary - which seems pretty nifty.
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