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Originally Posted by Surfinbird
You're right,Lotus petals enables fast kills and improves ad nauseam...however my problem with Lotus Petal against miracles is that every time i draw one,it seems very poor;but i'll try your plan,and see how it works!
i also want to try a 4th decay over the krosan grip,because every time i used it was on counterbalance;so i prefer a lower mana cost...(and some very good/lucky player could leave a vendilion clique on top and counter your krosan grip)
When i side out acceleration against miracles, i hedge against RIP and my own Ad Nauseam by boarding out 1-2 Petals and Cabal Rits, depending on how much else I'm boarding out, you always want min. 2 of each, though, as Tutoring even a Petal can occaisionally be correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arguru
I 4-0'd last night's regular 30 person weekly with the same list as pre-banning. Oh huh. I guess Storm is still really good.
On a more serious note, have you guys noticed a difference in the matchups between pre-Cruise, Cruise, and post-Cruise Legacy? Obviously there are different decks represented in the different stages, but in aggregate do you think ANT's percentage against the field has changed between the three periods?
well I've attended only about 4 tournaments postban...Quote:
Originally Posted by phazonmutant
TC-Post TC theoretically speaking MUs are definitely worse due to Dig (which is much better than TC against Ant) and no UR and more Miracles in the meta...
PreTC-PostTC it's hard to tell depends what Dig replaced and I do not remember what the matches were like half year ago... In paper reality I'd say slightly worse in MUs but better in metagame (better UWx midrange, low on UBG - at least locally)
Anyone?Quote:
Originally Posted by KevinH
Krosan grip can destroy sensei's divining top. This way you can humiliate them if they have a fluster/fow/counterspell flotatimg on the top of their library.Quote:
Originally Posted by KevinH
I haven't got information about this Block, but the deck you are talking about is The Grinding Station, which plays múltiple copies of Tendrils, Past in flames and Empty the warrens to win via natural storm or double Tendrils usually.
You can find the answer to your question between page 63 and 66.Quote:
Originally Posted by KevinH
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Originally Posted by sawatarix
Whit Krosan Grip you can kill Top, and drastically reduce their card selection. If your plan is to assemble an unbeatable hand (generally whit 1 ToA) in a long game, then reduce their ability to manipulate their deck is the clear path to victory !Quote:
Originally Posted by sawatarix
Ah, I see - you're going after the top, not the CB. Does the small upside that gives you make it worth the extra mana?
I belive you wanted this - links to the blog in OPQuote:
Originally Posted by KevinH
The link in that thread leads to an empty page on my blog, but it will also show you newer posts below, most of which are about storm. I don't feel anything has changed really since the introduction of Abrupt Decay and Deathrite Shaman - in fact, I am still playing the same maindeck as late 2012. If you have any more questions after reading through the articles, feel free to private message me or post in this thread, although I don't always check here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloshthedark
In other news, I think I'm going back to maindeck Grinding Station again as there isn't enough Team America over here to punish it.
Hey guys, I've just gotten back into storm after about a year hiatus. I'm starting from the basics again, as I was running TNT (ANT w. Burning Wish package) but I find it to be really clunky, and not worth increasing my G1 matchup vs random hate cards. I've thrown / proxied together the basic deck in the primer, but I've got some preferred sideboard tech.
Does this sideboard look ok for use with the beginner's Main deck listed in the primer?
2x Massacre (Death and Taxes, Maverick, Stoneblade, MM decks)
3x Abrupt Decay (Counterbalance decks, Chalice Decks, Gaddock Teeg, etc)
2x Chain of Vapor (Teeg decks, Jund, Non-chalice hate permanents, Lands, Leyline)
2x SDT (Miracles, other Control Decks, any Counterbalance deck, Chalice / Trinisphere decks)
1x Empty the Warrens (Jund!, anything that could be running surgical or enough hate to make past in flames feel bad, sanctity decks)
3x Xantid Swarm (Miracles, SDT control decks, merfolk)
1x Surgical Extraction (Dredge, Mirror, Past in flames decks, miracles)
1x Flusterstorm (Stifle decks, Flusterstorm decks, Mirror, combo decks in general)
It looks solid.Quote:
Originally Posted by exallium
But be aware that the primer is not up to date and I assume that the beginner's list is a 4-Preordain-list which is worse that the one with one SDT main.
Yeah I cut one preordain for a top. Thanks for looking it over!
4 preordain is suboptimal unless you're in very specific metagame, you want to avoid cantrip-cantrip situations - Preordain into Preordain+Ponder, keep, draw Preordain , play Preordain, put 1 down draw Ponder is not how is Ant played imo, same with setup Ponder into Ponder+2 blanks is a shuffle not another Ponder... btw. 2 Gemstone mine 4 Preordain allstar on SCG again...Quote:
Originally Posted by CabalTherapy
Can't help it but SDT looks like a wasted slot to me... swapping Preordain for SDT feels like a cosmetic upgrade in 4 Preordain list even more so... play it main or don't play it at all
Thanks for the feedback guys I'll take a look at some more recent lists :)
What separates a good storm player vs a great storm player? I can usually do end with a winning record at our weekly tourneys. Then as soon as I take the deck to a larger tournament I always just brick on draws and never find tutors etc. etc. I could be doing something wrong here but I can't fix what I don't know is wrong. I understand that variance is a large part of the game, but what can I do to become that much better with the deck?
Hard to say who is good and great, there is no objective threshold ... bad beats happen, and Ant is often humiliated more than others (seen Julian beat Ant w trollish RG brew yeasterday just putting bad creatures into play, same with Jacob Wilson and his "Pirate" themed troll deck and I almost lost to few standard decks myself) just because deck does not deliver, might be more obvious because you just do "nothing", this should however happen very few times in overall and I find bigger tournaments where you identity is not known much better enviroment...Quote:
Originally Posted by Howishotgun
One would need to see you play to tell if you do something "wrong" and there would be plenty of views and arguments about that too... what makes a player better is dedication, experience, patience, feeling and selfcriticism for sure... some might be more important for Ant but these for sure make you a better player of any deck or in fact activity
I know I am asking a very broad question any sort of feedback is great. One main question i have been trying to figure out is the following situation. You have everything you need in hand except the tutor. You are on your last cantrip and using said cantrip you see cantrip junk junk. You have no fetches in play, do you try to shuffle or keep the cantrip? I have been trying out doing both ways in for said situation and find its usually 50/50 in both ways from personal experience.
how do you guys deal with stifle on the storm trigger?
Just think it throughQuote:
Originally Posted by Howishotgun
If you ponder and see blank blank ponder, you can either:
a) draw the ponder and keep the blanks on top, cast the ponder to see 2 blanks plus a new card, and you can then shuffle to see another new card, so you have 2 potential new cards to look at
b) just shuffle off the ponder to see 1 new card
So keeping the ponder lets you see more of your deck but it also costs you another blue mana.
If you ponder and see blank blank preordain then there wouldn't be much reason to not shuffle, because your preordain is just going to scry the 2 blanks to the bottom anyway. If you have a mana surplus then by putting the 2 blanks on the bottom and not shuffling them in you marginally increase the odds of your 1 mystery card being a tutor so in some situations it could be correct to do this.
There's no magic formula, just think about maximising the number of new cards you get to see vs how much mana you are going to need vs how quickly you need to go off.