[Article] Stormy in Seatown

[phazonmutant]

My first article for Card Kingdom is up! http://www.moxboardinghouse.com/stormy-seatown-legacy-invitational/

I talk about Storm and my 8-0 Legacy performance at the recent SCG Invi in Seattle. Check it out!

[Dragonslayer_90]

Miracles is traditionally considered to be Storm’s nemesis, though the matchup is not as bad as people think and is actually rather skill-intensive and interesting.

SO GLAD YOU SAID THAT. Too many people I've talked to imagine it being like "Herp derp counterbalance MIRACLES WINS!" even postboard. But I know these people just haven't actually played the MU since I've actually played it a good amount from both sides and its just like you said really. All and all I enjoyed reading about your thought process and getting some ANT tips. Good job!

[haganbmj]

Nice report, I'm glad you chose to focus on the mindset you have to approach each matchup with while sideboarding, that's a great topic that doesn't get a lot of attention.

[Aggro_zombies]

SO GLAD YOU SAID THAT. Too many people I've talked to imagine it being like "Herp derp counterbalance MIRACLES WINS!" even postboard. But I know these people just haven't actually played the MU since I've actually played it a good amount from both sides and its just like you said really. All and all I enjoyed reading about your thought process and getting some ANT tips. Good job!
To be fair, if you're a Counterbalance deck with a reasonable clock, you probably beat combo. They have to plow through your CB or else die to your beats.

Of course, Miracles doesn't have a reasonable clock.

[Megadeus]

Hello VClique/Meddling Mage naming Decay

[lordofthepit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5NweFWjAw

[ESG]

Congrats, dude. That's a great performance.


For a long time, the “stock list” as championed by Adam Prosak had 4 70478_1Preordains, no Grim Tutor, only six discard spells, and most heinous of all, 2 Gemstone Mines. Those are all wrong. Preordain is not actually a good card; you would rather be spending your mana on almost anything else. It serves to fill out the ideal ANT sequence of turn 1 cantrip, turn 2 either kill them or cantrip into discard, into turn 3 combo, but is worse than the other cantrips by a very noticeable margin. The easiest way to lose is to not draw any Infernal Tutors or have them Surgically Extracted, so drawing Grim Tutor is great (despite how bad the card is). Gemstone Mine Wastelands itself after a few uses and means you can’t play as many fetch lands or duals. The only good thing it does is enable more consistent access to the colors of your sideboard cards, but it’s only necessary if your sideboard cards are a bevy of different colors. Instead, my sideboard splash is very minimal and concentrated on green. There are no extraneous red cards like Lightning Bolt or Ignorant Bliss, only the very few green cards that provide a unique enough effect to go outside blue and black.

Amusingly, I think Prosak went X-0 tonight -- I imagine with Preordains and Gemstone Mines and Ignorant Bliss. Two Storm lords, two techniques.

[Plague Sliver]

"Seriously, you’re going to tell me that you don’t want to play with Black Lotus, Demonic Tutor, Yawgmoth’s Will, and Yawgmoth’s Bargain (Lion’s Eye Diamond, Infernal Tutor, Past in Flames, and Ad Nauseam, respectively) when people are messing around with creatures that produce incremental value?"

"I was trying to fight with or directly against the same tepid decks, when instead, I should just be playing a completely different game."

"Interacting on a different axis from how Magic games play out nowadays can give us a huge edge."

This is exactly why I love to storm. Great article.

[Zombie]

"Seriously, you’re going to tell me that you don’t want to play with Black Lotus, Demonic Tutor, Yawgmoth’s Will, and Yawgmoth’s Bargain (Lion’s Eye Diamond, Infernal Tutor, Past in Flames, and Ad Nauseam, respectively) when people are messing around with creatures that produce incremental value?"

"I was trying to fight with or directly against the same tepid decks, when instead, I should just be playing a completely different game."

"Interacting on a different axis from how Magic games play out nowadays can give us a huge edge."

This is exactly why I love to storm. Great article.

Is it okay if I like playing with Tinker, Ancestral, Demonic and Academy instead? ;_;

[dte]

Is it okay if I like playing with Tinker, Ancestral, Demonic and Academy instead? ;_;

Then you will have to play elves with :
Tinker ==> NO,
Ancestral ==> Glimpse,
Demonic ==> GSZ,
Academy ==> Gaea's Cradle.

Not that these replacements are all quite good and effective, but you have to play a bunch of crappy 1/1 around to make it work :)

[Zombie]

Then you will have to play elves with :
Tinker ==> NO,
Ancestral ==> Glimpse,
Demonic ==> GSZ,
Academy ==> Gaea's Cradle.

Not that these replacements are all quite good and effective, but you have to play a bunch of crappy 1/1 around to make it work :)

Ask people how much they like Wirewood Symbiote :P

[GoblinZ]

To be fair, if you're a Counterbalance deck with a reasonable clock, you probably beat combo. They have to plow through your CB or else die to your beats.

Of course, Miracles doesn't have a reasonable clock.

I even won a nearly unwinnable game when my opponent set up counter-top lock last night...

http://www.tcdecks.net/deck.php?id=15507&iddeck=115328 but this list seems really annoying...

[phazonmutant]

Thanks for the warm words, everyone :smile:

Haha fair, many legacy staples are similar to Vintage restricted cards.

I'm hoping to make this content a regular thing. I need to confirm with CardKingdom and get cracking on a new article!