I played Bug Nic Fit yesterday in Prague MKM series.
I got the list from user Testacular. You can watch his 5-0 run here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6s...SqGdnhM7SJcl9g
List:
http://mtgtop8.com/event?e=15748&d=296522&f=LE
I might disagree with some of his choices in the list or some plays he made during this streaming but what a great aproach in deckbuilding and really cool stream experience. Thank you!
Veteran Tracker BUG:
3 Veteran Explorer
3 Deathrite Shaman
3 Tireless Tracker
1 Eternal Witness
1 Leovold Emissary of Trest
1 Thragtusk
4 Baleful Strix
2 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Ponder
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Maelstorm Pulse
4 Brainstrom
2 Fatal Push
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Pernicious Deed
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Volrath's Stronghold
2 Island
2 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
2 Bayou
4 Polluted Delta
3 Verdant Catacombs
2 Misty Rainforest
60 cards
Sideboard:
3 Force of Will
2 Flusterstorm
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Thoughtseize
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Golgari Chamr
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Umezawa's Jitte
I was working on the list with Marco Montani. The meta is now very grindy, very greedy decks everywhere so nic fit seems like an obvious choice as we go bigger than anybody. The problem is cosistency - we all know that. So we tried a nic fit that goes big only a little but does it in every game.
The backbone of the deck - veteran combo empowered by ponders, storms, stirxes leads a us to tracker+fetch or jace. And its not like that we have nothing to ramp into - stronghold+strix; mana for the clues; doing more things in the same round... Its not Grave Titan or some dragon but good enough against all those greedy 4c (Czech pile) decks. Cool thing is that if we dont want to ramp oponent but we want to flashback therapy, strix is an ideal target for this.
Some cards seem a little bit random in term of numbers but it works very well – zenith gets one offs, deluge and deed have a similar function, same for targeted removal. Tar Pit helps to fight Jace; Stronghold gives us inevitability. Shamans cant remove Jace or Deed from graveyard so Witness can always get them.
Force of will is not a good card with all the hymns, Kolaghan's Commands around but against some decks its incredible. I like one off leyline of the Void. It totally fine to play it on T3. But having it in your opener is like another Force AND you can never draw multiples.
Changes I would make now – add Leovold for Tracker perhaps; Add Maelstorm Puls into the board to fight jace.
R1: UWR Blade
G1: I crushed him with Therapy and Jace. When I saw he doesent have white I didnt play Veteran and saced Strix.
G2: He had Jace – Pulse; Then I Thoughtseized him and saw double blast so I took it. Played Witness and instead of bringing back Pulse I got discard to push mine Jace. But he got his second Jace that was the game.
G3: Long and grindy. In the last extra round I had Tusk, double shaman and had jitte no creatures and exatcly one life. He conceded because he appriciated I was trying to win. I still owe him a beer.
1-0
R2: Czech Pile
G1: Discarded four cards with two Therapies on T3 and still lost the game. He drew like a god and a few turns later I Deluged his 3 creatures and played jace – his only card was obivously Spell Pierce! (he told me he plays 4 which is 3 to many at least <)
G2: Tracker into fetch, killed, another Tracker into fetch, killed, Pulse your Jace. Suddednly he had no card and I had 4 plus several Clues. He regretted he didnt conceded earlier.
G3: Therapy on draw naming Strix after he Pondered – double Strom, double Caster! The game was long and we got into time in which I had Stronghold and Wintess and he had no answer to this – he had jace, caster, K. Command. Probably better for him nothing definitive.
1-0-1
R3: Elves
My very nice oppononent from Sweden fogot he can fetch Arbors with Wooded Foothills…
I had tiple discard in both games and jitte after board.
2-0-1
R4: Czech Pile
G1+G3: He couldnt counter Tracker and the card it gave me was enough. Him on two nothing play – I just put shaman on the top with Stornghold – he killed it once Thanks to Sylvan but not the second time.
G2: He locked me out with T3 Leovold after discarding my removal. I had Strix, triple discard…
3-0-1
R5: Miracles
G1+G2: My oponent has everything. There was nothing I could do. When I played two Counterspell instead of two Ponders then it was a very decent matchup but when I only have 4 Therapies its not enough. In th first one he, on the draw, had Spell Snare; in the second he had counterspell T2 for my tracker and hen I casted Therapy on T4 naming Jace he had one off Gideon…
3-1-1
R6: ANT
G1: I thought I will kill him after hitting three cards with Therapy+flashback but turn before death he miraculously had it. If I had another Leovold I would kill him. (Therapied one copy I had)
G2: Leyline! Tapped out with Leovold he went for it – 20 dmg; I drew ten cards and fowed one copy – he scoped.
G3: Therapy hit Infernal and double Petal early. I had Flusterstorm, Fow, Extraction for his Infernals…
4-1-1
R7: Death and Taxes
G1: He started with Vial, double Wasteland. Three turns I only had Swamp. I almost wanted to scoop. Then I drew green souce, Veteran, Therapy, Strix. Jace next turn bounced his tapped mother (wanted to go past my strix putting me down to 3), tharapy this away. I evetualy got him into Wintess, Decay, Jace lock on one life. Yay!
G2: He only had two lands so didnt Therapy+Strix. Pulsed his Vial. Massacre during broad daylight.
5-1-1
R8: Grixis Delver
G1: He started with Probe, Therapy on my Brainstorm. I Therapy him naming Pyromancer. He showed me Bolt, Delver, Delver, Wasteland. Its hard to guess correctly when your oponent doesent play logicaly. I stabilized a one, jace put his nemesis on bottom. Then I had to brainstorm to get zenith for next turn Tusk. He drew bolt.
G2: Killed three creatures with Deluge including Angler and Nemesis. My shaman- he bolted and his second draw after Deluge he had Angler. Land. Go to 10. Veteran. Chump. Leovold. Chump. Ended up Push and Edict. He Had Pyromancer and Angler. I tried Push – Daze – token I died…
I was paired down and my oponent with two losses had no chance of making T8. He refused to continue saying its his first tournament and he wants to have fun. Fair enough.
5-2-1
R9: Bug Control
I am paired up against my friend who always plays his own brews – this time with Liliana, Wasteland, Leovold, Hymn, Sylvan Library. A really cool deck.
His deck doesent have much chance. He won the second because I was screwedn on lands and did nothing for the whole game. Last one I won easily.
6-2-1
25th out of 295. Prizes for 24 players. ;-)
The deck was fantastic. Give it a try!
