Dazed
03-08-2010, 09:50 PM
Amazed with the paradoxical consistency of a toolbox deck like Imperial Painter, I´m now willing to try something different from that straitforward Eva Green style that characterized me. I guess I should assamble something flexible, something that may switch its tactical planning in order to face combo, aggro and control in a succesfull way.
By now, I am designing a deck that looks orthodox on its card choices but weird on the way it plays. I mean, it is not countertop, it is not bug thresh, it is not dreadstill. It does not look like something that I have seen before (maybe I have not done a well research through the site...).
Here is the list:
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Dark Confidant
3 Trinket Mage
2 Phyrexian Dreadnought
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Pithing Needle
2 Engeenered Explosives
2 Sensei´s Divining Top
3 Counterbalance
3 Diabolic Edict
4 Force of Will
3 Daze
4 Brainstorm
4 Stifle
1 Trickbind
4 Underground Sea
3 Tropical Island
4 Polluted Delta
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
Sideboard:
3 Krosan Grip
1 Reilc of Progenitus
2 Yilhid Jailer
3 Engeneerd Plague
3 Hydroblast
1 Diabolic Edict
2 Thoughtseize
I opt for Diabolic Edict over Smother because of the possible boom of reanimator after Madrid and the now allways present progenitus.
I love the interaction between SDT and Counterbalance/ Confidant. The Card Advantage that you get is simply unfair.
While running three colors you are still able ( just like Canadian) to atack the opposing manabase via Stifle/ Wasteland (what severely hurts the countertop control). The posibility of getting an early 12/12 drop against zoo increases the possibilities in your aggro match up (if you protect it from path to exile) and the heavy menace of Counterbalance and maindecked resopses to the storm gives you a high resistence against Ad Nauseam.
The maindecked pithing needle is of pesky threats like Quasali and the Relic is to slow down Loam, Ichorid and now Reanimator.
But I`m still not sure. Maybe I am forcing too much what the deck is supposed to do. What do you think?
By now, I am designing a deck that looks orthodox on its card choices but weird on the way it plays. I mean, it is not countertop, it is not bug thresh, it is not dreadstill. It does not look like something that I have seen before (maybe I have not done a well research through the site...).
Here is the list:
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Dark Confidant
3 Trinket Mage
2 Phyrexian Dreadnought
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Pithing Needle
2 Engeenered Explosives
2 Sensei´s Divining Top
3 Counterbalance
3 Diabolic Edict
4 Force of Will
3 Daze
4 Brainstorm
4 Stifle
1 Trickbind
4 Underground Sea
3 Tropical Island
4 Polluted Delta
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
Sideboard:
3 Krosan Grip
1 Reilc of Progenitus
2 Yilhid Jailer
3 Engeneerd Plague
3 Hydroblast
1 Diabolic Edict
2 Thoughtseize
I opt for Diabolic Edict over Smother because of the possible boom of reanimator after Madrid and the now allways present progenitus.
I love the interaction between SDT and Counterbalance/ Confidant. The Card Advantage that you get is simply unfair.
While running three colors you are still able ( just like Canadian) to atack the opposing manabase via Stifle/ Wasteland (what severely hurts the countertop control). The posibility of getting an early 12/12 drop against zoo increases the possibilities in your aggro match up (if you protect it from path to exile) and the heavy menace of Counterbalance and maindecked resopses to the storm gives you a high resistence against Ad Nauseam.
The maindecked pithing needle is of pesky threats like Quasali and the Relic is to slow down Loam, Ichorid and now Reanimator.
But I`m still not sure. Maybe I am forcing too much what the deck is supposed to do. What do you think?