Hello,
I have just come back from a 7-round/68-player Legacy tournament playing Combo Elves, but I did not have a good performance.
Here is the list I played (quite the same from my last post):
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3 Gaea's Cradle
6 Forest
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Heritage Druid
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Nettle Sentinel
2 Priest of Titania
4 Quirion Ranger
1 Regal Force
4 Wirewood Symbiote
1 Crop Rotation
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Green Sun's Zenith
2 Wooded Foothills
1 Pendelhaven
1 Dryad Arbor
2 Windswept Heath
3 Natural Order
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Progenitus
1 Fauna Shaman
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Joraga Warcaller
SB: 3 Thorn of Amethyst
SB: 2 Krosan Grip
SB: 1 Scavenging Ooze
SB: 2 Faerie Macabre
SB: 3 Pithing Needle
SB: 1 Viridian Shaman
SB: 2 Choke
SB: 1 Gaddock Teeg
R1) UW miracle
G1: Counterbalance + Sensei’s Divining Top locks me early. Sooner than I expected he Entreat the Angels for 3x, and beats me twice to death.
G2: I was able to get Gaddock Teeg on the battlefield, but he fastly casts Vedalken Shackles, steals Gaddock, and uses it to kill my few creatures. When he’s done abusing my Gaddock he bounces it with Karakas and casts Jace, The Mind Sculptor. He keeps controlling the game and attacking with 1x Angel, until I’m dead.
0 -2
R2) Zoo
G1: I keep a hand with 2x Lands, NO and some elves, because I may cast NO T3. He starts with Wild Nacatl. I play Llanowar Elves. He Chain Linghtnings it and attacks. I cast two other elfs. He Arc Trails them, cast another Nacatl and attacks. He keeps removing my elves until it’s too late to cast NO.
G2 and G3: I played some elves and when possible I NO for Craterhoof Behemoth on one game and for Progenitus on the other one, and they get the game for me.
2 -1
R3) UR Delver
G1: I am able to combo with Glimpse of Nature on T4-5, get plenty of mana, and GSZ for a killer Behemoth.
G2: A T1 Delver of Secrets constantly eats my life, backed up with Tarmogoyf. I got the “bounce-block” for Goyf, with Wirewood Symbiote + any elf, to hold it a little. He cannot flip his other Delver for some turns. Finally, when I’m at 3 life, I am able to NO>Behemoth and deals lethal damage.
2 – 0
R4) UW Miracle
G1: I play some elves, he Terminus and I had no gas to recover, as he was beating me up with 3x Angels.
G2: I play some elves to beat him fastly. He Supreme Verdict. I try to assemble some creatures again, but my hate gets countered and his Angels overcomes my board.
0 - 2
R5) Maverick
G1: I play some elves. He gets a Mother of Runes, a Scryb Ranger, and 2x Knight of the Relicary online. I cast NO> Progenitus. He activates KotR three times (2x Knights + 1 Scryb ability) and throws a bunch of Fetchlands+Lands on his GY. His 2x KotR gets 10/10 and attacks, both having Protection from Green (because Scryb Ranger is a spoiler of plans!), and killing me before my 2nd Progenitus attack.
G2: My initial elves starts taking down his life, until he gets a Ethersworn Canonist and slows me down. He then gets a Ulvenwald Tracker and starts killing my elves. I play a Viridian Shaman too kill his Canonist, but it gets Protection from Green – I forgot about Mother of Runes! When I draw and cast a Krosan Grip for his Canonist, many elves of mine were already killed by his tracker. I got a Scavenging Ooze to regain some life and feed from my dead elves. He gets Umezawa’s Jitte online and there are some turns of friction until he finally can trespass my defense with his Pro.Green equipped attackers.
0 – 2
R6) Belcher
G1: On T1, I play a Fetchland and a Llanowar Elves. He gets plenty of mana, Burning Wishes for his black tutor that gets him Goblin Charbelcher, and them activates it to do 20+ damage to me.
G2: I mull to oblivion and find no hate, until I mull down to 3 cards. I play this game just for not having something better to do. T1 I play a Fetchland and a Nettle Sentinel. He generates many mana and storm until he Empty The Warrens, creating 22 goblins. Yeah, this one was a very very "fun" match to play.
0 – 2
R7) Esper Stoneblade
G1: I keep a hand with NO. On T2-3 I GSZ for Priest of Titania, to prepare to NO having 2 extra mana to cast it (for if he has Spell Pierce). I then NO > Behemoth, having other 4 creatures to attack for lethal.
G2: He gets and early Stoneforge Mystic fetching Batterskull. I keep some pressure with my elves, but he plays Sword of Feast and Famine. Then Jitte joins the party. Soon, I can not deal any longer with three equipment in play.
G3: As soon as this game starts, the judge announces the 5-turns counting down. I start with Llanowar Elves. He plays a disCARDS spell and gets my Glimpse of Nature. I play other Elves and Symbiote. He plays a Stoneforge Mystic that fetches a Batterskull, and next turn plays Engineered Plague for elves, cleaning almost all my board. But he can’t win before the 5 turns ends.
1 - 1
My results: 2 - 4 - 1
My position: 50°
Some thoughts:
- I was not sure of playing Combo Elves on this tournament because of the popularity of UW Miracle. I hate that MU! I think I have never won a game against this! I’m not playing it right yet...
- I think that maybe this version with Natural Order + Progenitus also wasn’t the better one for the metagame.
- I was not completely happy with some MD slots (Joraga Warcaller, and maybe a Priest of Titania or a Quirion Ranger), but since I had not much time for testing, I played it anyway.
- I wanted to have one Viridian Shaman MD but couldn’t fit one in. Maybe if I had made the changes from above…
- I was not satisfied with the SB either. At least I wanted one more Ooze to get in place of one Pithing Needle.
Albeit some misplays and/or bad choices of mine may have bothered you, I thank you for the reading.
Sincerely,
- André
