Weekly 3CB: #11 (entries close 12/14/07)

[SpatulaOfTheAges]

Only one entry this time?

1. Illissius - Black Scavenger of Rage
Black Lotus
Anurid Scavenger
Misguided Rage

DL -1

2. Sacearuse -
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Wheel of Torture
Mishra's Workshop

DD - 3

3. georgjorge - Biggest thing in the history of #3CB
Leveler
Black Lotus
City of Traitors

WL - 6

4. Giles - Not Karoo: Coming back in to action
Black Lotus
Dust Bowl
Lavaborn Muse

WW - 12

5. etrigan - Longest Type Line Ever
Black Lotus
Shizuko, Caller of Autumn
Naturalize

WW - 18

7. Tao - 666666
Black Lotus
Channel
Crush of Wurms

WW - 24

8. tyrcho - mangara karakas

Mangara of Corondor
Karakas
Aether Vial

LL - 24

9. GreenOne - ETWins
Conjurer's Bauble
Black Lotus
Empty the Warrens

WW - 30

10. Maveric78f - The ninth deck
Mishra's Workshop
Wheel of Torture
Chimeric Idol

WW - 36

[Bovinious]

7. Tao - 666666
Black Lotus
Channel
Crush of Wurms

WW - 29

I LOL'D, can this deck even do ANYTHING???

[GreenOne]

I's the first time i do tht thing, so please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

1. Illissius - Black Scavenger of Rage
Black Lotus
Anurid Scavenger
Misguided Rage

LL - 0

2. Sacearuse -
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Wheel of Torture
Mishra's Workshop

DD - 2

3. georgjorge - Biggest thing in the history of #3CB
Leveler
Black Lotus
City of Traitors

WW - 8

4. Giles - Not Karoo: Coming back in to action
Black Lotus
Dust Bowl
Lavaborn Muse

WW - 14

5. etrigan - Longest Type Line Ever
Black Lotus
Shizuko, Caller of Autumn
Naturalize

WW - 20

6. SpatulaOfTheAges - I Hate Workshop
Black Lotus
Black Lotus
Rakdos the Defiler

LL - 20

7. Tao - 666666
Black Lotus
Channel
Crush of Wurms

WW - 26

8. tyrcho - mangara karakas
Mangara of Corondor
Karakas
Aether Vial

WW - 32

10. Maveric78f - The ninth deck
Mishra's Workshop
Wheel of Torture
Chimeric Idol

WW - 38

[Illissius]

Alright, here's my own results:

1. Black Scavenger of Rage
Black Lotus
Anurid Scavenger
Misguided Rage

01. N/A
02. 2-2
03. 0-6
04. 6-0
05. 6-0
06. 4-1
07. 6-0
08. 4-1
09. 6-0
10. 3-3

Total: 37

I think I just barely squeak a win against the EtW deck. It goes like this:

- Warrens deck makes 8 tokens
- Scavenger deck makes Scavenger
- Warrens swings, gets through for 7 (13), loses a token (7 left)
- Scavenger gets back the Lotus, and Rages a token (6 left)
- Warrens swings, gets through for 5 (8), loses a token (5 left)
- Scavenger gets back the Lotus
- Warrens swings, gets through for 4 (4), loses a token (4 left)
- Scavenger gets back the Rage, Rages a token (3 left)
- Warrens swings, gets through for 2 (2), loses a token (2 left)
- Scavenger gets back the Lotus
- Warrens swings, gets through for 1 (1), loses a token (1 left)
- Scavenger gets back the Rage, Rages the last token, starts swinging

If Warrens sits back instead of attacking, then Scavenger just recurs the Rage and grinds the army down anyways.

I see that only two people have calculated their results, and a grand total of zero have added it to the wiki. This is not encouraging.

[tyrcho]

8. tyrcho - mangara karakas
Mangara of Corondor
Karakas
Aether Vial
total 33

1. Illissius - Black Scavenger of Rage
Black Lotus
Anurid Scavenger
Misguided Rage
DL

2. Sacearuse -
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Wheel of Torture
Mishra's Workshop
WW

3. georgjorge - Biggest thing in the history of #3CB
Leveler
Black Lotus
City of Traitors
LL

4. Giles - Not Karoo: Coming back in to action
Black Lotus
Dust Bowl
Lavaborn Muse
WW

5. etrigan - Longest Type Line Ever
Black Lotus
Shizuko, Caller of Autumn
Naturalize
DD
(if he plays shizuko I unsummon it with karakas, if I play vial he naturalizes it, so we both stay doing nothing).

6. SpatulaOfTheAges - I Hate Workshop
Black Lotus
Black Lotus
Rakdos the Defiler
WW

7. Tao - 666666
Black Lotus
Channel
Crush of Wurms
WW

9. GreenOne - ETWins
Conjurer's Bauble
Black Lotus
Empty the Warrens
LL

10. Maveric78f - The ninth deck
Mishra's Workshop
Wheel of Torture
Chimeric Idol
WW
(if he starts :
1. he plays workshop and wheel, 17. I play karakas and vial
2. he plays idol, 14. 1 counter
3. attacks for 3. 8, 2 counters
4 attacks for 3. 2, 3 counters
5 attacks. I vial mangara, block and then target idol and return mangara to my hand. I stay at 2 forever, removes all his permanents from the game, and beats with managara.

[Tao]

10. Maveric78f - The ninth deck
Mishra's Workshop
Wheel of Torture
Chimeric Idol
WW
(if he starts :
1. he plays workshop and wheel, 17. I play karakas and vial
2. he plays idol, 14. 1 counter
3. attacks for 3. 8, 2 counters
4 attacks for 3. 2, 3 counters
5 attacks. I vial mangara, block and then target idol and return mangara to my hand. I stay at 2 forever, removes all his permanents from the game, and beats with managara.

if he starts:

1: he plays workshop, idol (wheel would not do any damage because you still have 3 cards); you play karakas vial
2: attack, wheel, 15 life; 1st counter in upk
3: attack, wheel, 10 life, 2nd counter in upk
4: attack, wheel, 5 life, 3rd counter in upk
5 attack, you have to vial mangara to stay alive but you can't use his ability yet because he is summoning sick
chump and bounce with karakas will make you lose against wheel in a few turns and not chumping will make you lose in your next upkeep

so it is a loss on the draw; on the play you are able to win on 2 life

4. Giles - Not Karoo: Coming back in to action
Black Lotus
Dust Bowl
Lavaborn Muse
WW

This is a LL.

On the draw he is clearly too fast. On the play you get into the same situation like against the Workshop.dec. You have to chump to stay alive and then you lose against her rack.

[Wallace]

So I see that I get a draw against everyone but deck #8:

8. tyrcho - mangara karakas
Mangara of Corondor
Karakas
Aether Vial

Does anyone want to explain how this works? I still think I win if he plays anything and draw if he doesn't.

2. Sacearuse -
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Wheel of Torture
Mishra's Workshop

[etrigan]

I believe he can Mangara-Karakas you with the Tabernacle trigger on the stack.

Results!

1. LL - 0
2. WW - 6 (I use my uber techy Shizuko, Caller of Autumn to pay for Tabernacle upkeeps and Naturalize your Wheel.)
3. WW - 12
4. LL - 12
5. Smash.
6. LL - 12
7. DD - 14
8. DD - 16
9. LL - 16
10. LL - 16

What ever happened to all the Tabernacle and Energy Field decks I was supposed to beat up on? Next week.

[Tao]

7. WW - 18

You can't beat me. If you play Shizuko I'll Crush of Wurrms you :p

So it is DD

[etrigan]

Heh. Noted.

[georgjorge]

3. Lotus / Workshop / Leveler

1. WW
2. WW
3. --
4. WW
5. LL
6. WL
7. WW
8. WW
9. LL
10.WW


...for 39 points, taking the lead - not that it means much, with people being so close together. Go Leveler Go (although I had hoped for more Tabernacles). A great round, with some pretty original decks showing up. Also: The Warrens deck would have at least 6 points more (I think) if he had used Leonin Squire instead of Bauble for that extra 2/2.

[GreenOne]

Also: The Warrens deck would have at least 6 points more (I think) if he had used Leonin Squire instead of Bauble for that extra 2/2.

Yeah, i thought about that too... after PMing the deck it should have caused 2 less DMG from manaburn too. Well, props anyway at me for bringing a storm spell to 3CB.

Team STORM FTW!

[tyrcho]

if he starts:

1: he plays workshop, idol (wheel would not do any damage because you still have 3 cards); you play karakas vial
2: attack, wheel, 15 life; 1st counter in upk
3: attack, wheel, 10 life, 2nd counter in upk
4: attack, wheel, 5 life, 3rd counter in upk
5 attack, you have to vial mangara to stay alive but you can't use his ability yet because he is summoning sick
chump and bounce with karakas will make you lose against wheel in a few turns and not chumping will make you lose in your next upkeep

so it is a loss on the draw; on the play you are able to win on 2 life



This is a LL.

On the draw he is clearly too fast. On the play you get into the same situation like against the Workshop.dec. You have to chump to stay alive and then you lose against her rack.

OK, my mistake, I was a bit optimistic and not doing all the math or forgetting summoning sickness on Mangara.

Fixed in the wiki.

[georgjorge]

Having filled in the missing entries in the Wiki myself, here are the results...

1. georgjorge (Deck 3 - City of Traitors / Lotus / Leveler)
39 points

2. GreenOne (Deck 9 - Empty the Warrens / Lotus / Conjurer's Bauble)
38 points

3. Illisius (Deck 1 - Anurid Scavenger / Lotus / Misguided Rage)
37 points


Go Lotus decks Go ! The top 3 decks only separated by two points, and none of them have been played on The Source #3CB before. Great results !

As to Leveler, his size DOES matter sometimes, allowing to race a Rakdos or Energy Field on the play for example. But I was wrong - he wasn't the biggest thing, as someone played Dreadnought in a previous round (but it didn't do well thanks to Tabernacle, I think).

[Illissius]

Thanks a lot!