I would get that hand, the only difference is that I would be playing against Sneak&Show, not elves.
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I would get that hand, the only difference is that I would be playing against Sneak&Show, not elves.
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Bad beats. Just another reason for you to come out to Eternal Weekend in the US. I'm sure we can get you some power to play with if needed... or you could just play Elves!
Lol julian. I made 5-3 drop without any bye. And I think I killed your aggro loam "seismic assault" at round 2. Was a fuck*ng nightmare. :laugh:
Lost versus painter, mirror match and storm (0-2 in approximatively 10 min. Hilarious with 7 seven discards post side)
Best play of the day : kill a junk depths hexmage with tabernacle on the board.
We have two french elves players day two. Leo Shulof (finalist of the bom annecy 2013) and Maxime Mangenot.
Good luck to them.
After a few games against LED/Flayer Dredge on Friday, I feel Julian's SB guide recommends way too few discard spells on the play. 3-4 sounds more proper.
1 Elves in top 16 at GP Paris :
60 cards
2 Bayou
2 Dryad Arbor
2 Forest
4 Gaea's Cradle
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Tropical Island
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wooded Foothills
20 lands
1 Birchlore Rangers
2 Craterhoof Behemoth
4 Deathrite Shaman
1 Elvish Mystic
4 Elvish Visionary
3 Heritage Druid
3 Nettle Sentinel
4 Quirion Ranger
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Viridian Shaman
4 Wirewood Symbiote
29 creatures
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Green Sun's Zenith
3 Natural Order
11 other spells
Sideboard
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Natural Order
2 Pithing Needle
1 Progenitus
3 Swan Song
4 Thoughtseize
Swan song better than any other discard ?
Was really cool to meet you IRL. Does the story time involve something like a 20/20? I want to hear it again ^^Quote:
Originally Posted by Julian23
I did not do well at the GP but had a nice discussion with a friend (who finished 34th though he didn't want to play at first and was there to play for fun). It is about the mirror match, and we talked a bit with Julian about it.
Usually in the mirror people side out some number of visionaries/symbiot because the game is probably not going to be really grindy, the aim is to kill on turn 3.
However, my friend told me he feels the symbiot/visionary combo is really good, because of all the discard (6-7 in general) people bring in in the mirror. Both post-board games we discarded each other's hand from our business spells, and ended up with a bunch of 1/1s, playing from the top of our deck. The first one to topdeck craterhoof/GSZ/NO wins in this situation, and BFF team helps a lot in this regard.
(For the record he naturally topdecked craterhoof twice ^^).
This strategy seemed legit to me, before I lost again to the mirror in the last round: turn two kill without cradle (double glimpse chain) game 1, and turn 3 glimpse chain g2, while I mulliganned to 5. Keeping Symbiot/Visionaries would have done me no good here, so I'm really not sure.
Thoughts?
Hello everyone,
I would like to share my thoughts about the deck after GP Paris. I do this for 2 reasons. First, I had an awesome time playing it. Secondly, I want to contribute to this topic, in order to make this deck even better.
Before starting, I would like to thank Julian! We never met, but I played Elves because of your victory at BoM, and more precisely, because you wrote this awesome article about the deck, including a lot of sideboard techniques, etc... which was insanely nice for someone like me, who likes to play competitively, but does not have enough time for testing. Btw, I printed all your SB techs 1 day before the trials and added few extra notes. This turned out to be great when I started to be tired (I would advise everyone to do the same).
I played a GPT on Friday with the following list:
Main deck of Julian at BoM
+ 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Taiga
The sideboard was:
1 Natural Order
2 Cabal Therapy
1 Thoughtseize
1 Null Rod
2 Swan Song
1 Progenitus
3 Decay
1 Ooze
2 Meekstone
1 Needle
I thought that the chance of having Ruric in hand, while needing it, without a deathrite shaman, a birchlore or a GSZ was very small. I cut the two traps because I bet I would not face Belcher, Ooops all spells or TES, but I was sure I would face Nemesis, Tarmogoyfs or Delvers (therefore 2 Meekstone felt very good). However, by cutting the traps, I felt less good about facing Ad nauseam and decided to swap a Needle for a Null Rod (which does a little bit better in the matchup). The swan song replace 1 Cabal and 1 Seize. The main reason for this choice is that discard does not do anything against top decks (and cards hidden with brainstorm)... top deck Natural Order against Elves, top deck Show and Tell, a hidden Terminus etc... I'll come back to this a bit later.
During the GPT, I faced:
Jund 2-0
Affinity 2-0
D&T 2-0
UWR Delver 2-0
Show & Tell 1-2
Few notes:
Against Jund, I won game 1 very easily for my first match IRL with the deck. A turn 3-4 kill via Natural Order. I boarded in exactly as Julian proposed, but I blindly put the third Decay. It turned out to be a very good choice since my opponent had a Cage on turn 1. I would advise to do so... because that's almost the only card which can “kill” us.
The Affinity player kept a slow hand and got killed on my third turn (Natural Order). A turn 2 Null Rod from my side made him concede game 2. For the anecdote, the guy was running Serum powder, and resolved the ability before I could say that I mulligan or not (which actually influenced the keeping of my hand). We asked a Judge, and I should have said if I mulligan or not before. We both did not know though....
D&T was a formality.
UWR Delver died in game one (to a hardcasted Ruric) and did not find his hate in the second game, while I had Meekstone for Delver and Nemesis.
I faced Show & Tell in the final to obtain 2 byes (I had zero and really wanted to avoid the strange deck you can meet during the first rounds...). However, I know the match would be very difficult. Show and tell on his second turn (he won the roll) proved me right. I mulligan to 5 on game 2 to find my hate. Fortunately he does not find a 3rd land very fast. I cabal him and he decide that he should not counter. I name Force of Will, which he had and see a sneak attack and a swan song. I flashback my cabal directly to make him play the song. I am about to kill him in beatdown mode, when he topdeck pyroclasm to survice, but I have my swan song! In the third game, he play Sneak attack fastly with a Force of will for my swan song (if I remember correctly). No byes for me... Still, my opponent and his crew were great german guys from Berlin (it was really nice to meet and play against you, thanks to you, I enjoyed my GP a lot on saturday).
Before the GP, I am very satisfied with the deck for a first training. I like the Meekstone and the Swan songs which acted as I wanted. I am a bit afraid of Grim lavamancer (-1 needle), but decide that I should manage with the decays, deathrite and Ooze. However, the game against Show and Tell made me realize that I value Cabal much more than Thoughseize (against combo) so I decide to play this for the GP:
Elves' songs:
Main deck of Julian at BoM
+ 1 Tropical Island
- 1 Taiga
The sideboard was:
1 Natural Order
3 Cabal Therapy
1 Null Rod
2 Swan Song
1 Progenitus
3 Decay
1 Ooze
2 Meekstone
1 Needle
With this, I face:
MUD 2-1 (1/0)
Dredge 2-1 (2/0)
MUD 2-0 (3/0)
Ad Nauseam 1-2 (3/1)
D&T 2-1 (4/1)
Jund 2-0 (5/1)
URg 0-2 (5/2) (maybe this match is swaped with the previous one)
UGR Delver 1-2 (5/3) drop...
Few notes:
Even though I won my 3 first matches, the byes would have really helped to keep being concentrated... it was insanely tough at the end of the day.
For the first match, I lose the roll and my opponent does a turn 1 trinisphere with grim monolith and ancient tomb. I will never come back. During the second game, I decay a metal worker to slow him down and put in play a progenitus quite fastly. For the third game, he does a turn 1 metal worker, followed by a turn 2 Staff of nim... he draws 4 lands in a row and I top deck Viridan shaman which makes the game with symbiote and Null rod.
Dredge win easily game 1. He does a very big missplay on game 2, when he cabals me, see my hand (containing a swan song) and does not flashback his second cabal to remove it... instead he plays dreadreturn which I counter and win from there. He mulligan to 5 in game 3 and I lock him with deathrite shaman and quirion.
The 2nd MUD in 3 rounds! My opponent does slower departure than his colleague in both games. Nothing special to say about this, except that the matchup seems easier than I thought.
My fourth game is... how to say, the WORST match of my whole GP. And it is not because I played badly. It is because my opponent was the most unsportive person I met in my whole (humble) MTG career of about 15 years... First, the guy does count my cards twice, then call the judge when I take my notes out of my bag, because, according to him there were to many pages (between game 1 and 2). But this it not finished... I do a turn 3 kill with Behemoth. During his turns, he plays 2 probes and a ponder (maybe another cantrip), and says during the beginning of my third turn “I should have found a wasteland for the bayou” or something like this, while it's obvious from his lands and the spells he played that he is on Storm. I decide to answer that playing a wasteland in this kind of deck was very strange... and try to keep calm, not to have my day shadowed by 1 single person. In game 2, the only thing I remember is that my opponent, after fetching, makes me cut, then takes his deck (I thought it was to make a better stack out of the cards) and slightly tilt his deck to see the last card... I am still angry at myself for not calling a judge... I just wanted to keep cool, but I should have done something... I mulliganed to 5 and did not find hate anyway. He kills me on his third turn. Last game, I mulligan to 5 to find my hate (I ship back a hand of 6 with Null rod, but I decide that I can have better). I open a good 5: DRS, Bayou, Cabal, Fetch, Swan Song. I do not remember well but I think the game goes like this: turn 1 DRS from me, he plays probe, duress and remove my cabal. I draw a Heritage, plays it with the mana of the bayou and put a windswept heath into play. My opponent says “and I guess this is the end of your turn”, I did not pay attention (also because I am a bit angry about the whole match) and pass the turn without using the Druid to flashback cabal (I would have said infernal tutor which he had). He remove my song (I think) and kills me. Once he won, he looks at me and say “I am the last GP winner”. At first I do not understand what the guy says and makes him repeat. He shows me his signed gaming mat from GP Brisbane and tells me “I am Justin Robb”. I excuse myself for not knowing him and tell him, joking, that he does not know me either. I wished him good luck... dunno why I still did this. All in all, this match is still a good experience, because I know what to do next time I meet someone like this. I am no GP winner, but I prefer 10 times winning no GP than cheating and misbehaving for winning one.
To compensate, the organizers of the GP gave me a D&T and a Jund, which were piloted by very nice opponents. Nothing special to say about these matches, except that they were easy wins because of the matchups.
Finally, I played against Tempo thresh twice. The first version was a bit special with 2 lavamancer main deck and only tarmogoyf as green cards. He found both of the lavamancers in game 1 and 2, while I could only find 1 decay. My last opponent was having a more “classic” UGr delver version but found 3 force of will and 3 brainstorm in game 1, lost game 2 (nothing special), and found 2 Rough / Tumble and 2 Force in game 3. My sideboard strategy differed a lot from what is proposed by Julian in his article though. On a french website, I read that boarding out Natural Order was the way to go since it runs into Force, Daze, Pierce, Flusterstorm... so I followed this strategy twice. It was also my strategy against UWR Delver in the GPT match. I sidebaorded as follow:
-3 Natural Order
-1 Behemoth
-1 Ruric
-1 Viridian
(-1 Nettle)
+ 3 Decay
+ 2 Meekstone
+ 1 Ooze
(+ 1 Needle)
Thinking back, I think the strategy is not good. While Meekstones are awesome and MUST be countered (if not the opponent can hardly win), the density of threats is not high enough and few Force of Will here and there can ruin the match... I will definitely try to board the Cabal in if I have the opportunity to test more (it looks really good to make the Natural Order go through, to find Ruric and remove the Submerge while locking the game).
Luckily, I avoided to face Miracle and could to see the effect of Swan Song in this matchup. But I am convinced that the card is extremely good against them, as well as against Elves, S&T and Ad Nauseam. I'll probably try to keep playing them.
The deck was a total blast to play, extremely powerful. I am sure I could have done D2 with a bit of training prior to the GP. I'll gladly bring it to other events.
Thanks for reading,
TW.
:cool: Great end to a fantastic weekend! :cool:
I placed 1st in the 150(?) player Legacy Sideevent on day2; won about 400€ in dual lands! *High Five everybody*
R1: Deathblade, 2-0
R2: Punishing Jund, 2-0
R3: Manaless Dredge, 2-0
R4: UWr Delver, 2-0
R5: UBg ANT, 2-0 (Timo Schünemann)
R6: Dragon Stompy, 2-1
Wanted to draw the 6th round but my opponent was kinda grumpy and told me "No. I'm 100% sure I will win this match." ... *slowclap* :wink:
But guys really, I had the most amazing time ever. On day2 I actually signed the entire Elf deck of another awesome French guy *blushes*. Also lots of people saying they are actually watching my stream a lot and enjoy my writing. Honestly, you guys just rock so hard and really let me know why I love and enjoy this game so much!
Love this community. So much :-)
Dragon stompy actually got to the finals? lol
Very snazzy, Julian. Congrats on the victory.
Do you need my address so you know where to send those? ;)
Congrats on the side event win.
@julian knab who is your deck list?????
lol @ grumpy dragon stompy guy.
he was 5-0 with DRAGON STOMPY, what is there to be grumpy about.. LOL... too funny, wish I coulda seen that one play out. 100% lol...
This is what I registered to the main event. Due to the abundance of Sneak and Show and very little Storm, I cut the 2nd Mindbreak Trap for another Discard spell which seemed like a very solid decision. For the Big Legacy Sideevent on Sunday, I decided to drop the last Trap as well as 1 Therapy in favor of 1 Null Rod and 1 Choke.Quote:
Originally Posted by gato con botas
2 Bayou
2 Dryad Arbor
2 Forest
4 Gaea's Cradle
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Windswept Heath
1 Taiga
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Quirion Ranger
3 Heritage Druid
2 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Birchlore Rangers
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Viridian Shaman
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Green Sun's Zenith
3 Natural Order
I feel the maindeck is pretty close what I would dare to call a probably ideal configuration. The change of -1 Nettle Sentinel to go to 60 cards is something I contemplated myself and could probably see myself doing, but right now I'm sticking with my 61.
4 Cabal Therpay (3 in the sideevent; +1 Choke instead)
3 Thoughtseize
1 Mindbreak Trap (1 Null Rod in the Sideevent
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Pithing Needle
1 Progenitus
1 Natural Order
The sideboard felt very solid overall and I also liked the changes I made for the sideevent. If you cut back on general combo hate, just make sure to maintain at least 3-4 copies of Cabal Therapy. Therapy is also a very helpful card in playing around -1/-1 effects; not directly by naming Charm/Persecution but also by trading a creature that would otherwise die to one of those cards for something useful - with the intention to always maintain a strong board that on the other hand only loses a single creature (usually Symbiote) to -1/-1 effects.
Another incredibly interesting tech against that is actually Bounty of the Hunt. Sorry to the cool guy that I am borrowing this idea from as I even asked him for his name to give him credit, as I can't exactly remember it right now (plz chime in). The "allure" of Bounty is being able to Symbiote any Elf to your hand and play it out of nowhere. Right now I have a feeling that it might still not be good enough to maintain an actual sideboard slot - but that's the exact reason I will be testing it on my stream later this week!
Signing out from our apartment in Paris, see you on Wednesday and/or Thursday!
Hi everybody, this is a short report of GPT (Thursday 2014-02-14, 5-0) and GP day one (Friday 2014-02-15, 6(4)-3).
Please forgive my mistakes, I translated this report from the one I made in French, and if I'm not good when I write directly in English, it's worst when I translate from French because I often do some kind of «*word-by-word translation*».
Please do not hesitate to tell me if you see some of these, or even things which are not really mistakes but which could have been said in a less awkward way, I would like to improve my English as much as my magic plays:).
Here is my list:
MD 60
4 Deathrite shaman
4 Quirion ranger
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Elvish visionary
4 Green sun zenith
4 Gaea's cradle
4 Glimpse of nature
4 nettle sentinel
4 heritage druid
4 Natural order
3 misty rainforest
3 Windswept Heath
3 Wooded Foothills
2 Forest
2 Bayou
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Dryad arbor
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Regal force
1 Birchlore ranger
1 Viridian shaman
1 Fyndhorn elves
SB 15
1 Gaddock Teeg (-1 for the GP)
1 Wilt-Leaf Liege
1 Ruric Thar, the unbowed
1 Progenitus
2 Cabal Therapy
2 Thoughtseize
1 Meekstone
1 Pithing Needle
4 Abrupt decay
1 Null Rod (+1 for the GP)
About the list itself*:
If I would change anything on this list, it would be -1 Meekstone +1 Cabal Therapy (and I keep the Teeg, 1 Null Rod is enough).
I never missed the second Behemoth and went to fetch the Regal force often enough in situations were Behemoth was not enough :) . I liked the 4 NO MD most probably because I frequently was able to NO into Regal for value.
I do missed a second arbor sometimes but was more often unpleased to see the lone copy in my hand, so I think I will stick on one MD. Maybe one SB instead of the additional therapy, but I'm not sure).
I have been very pleased by the Liege, I regularly board it in and GSZed it quite often. Never regretted to draw it.
I liked the Rod/Needle and Cabal/thoughtseize splits too.
Trial, 2014-02-14
R1, Denis, a nice German guy with D&T
A nice opponent and a good MU, what else?
G1, Glimpse combo FTW.
+4 Decay +1 Proge +1 Needle +1 Null Rod
-1 Regal -1 Glimpse -1 Visio -1 DRS -1 Nettle -1 Heritage druid -1 Ooze,
G2, I died under spirit of the labirynth + mother + aven + canoniste
G3, progenitus
1-0
R2, Niccolò, Italian with EsperDeathBlade
As nice as the first opponent, and good MU too..
G1, NO into Behemeoth early enough get there.
+1 Rod +1 Progenitus +4 Decay + 1Needle +1 Wilt-Leaf Liege
- 3 Heritage -1 Glimpse -2 Nettle -1 Regal -1 Scavenging Ooze
G2 He seize me and choose Nettle over Glimpse*?? Glimpse FTW.
2-0
R3, Thoal (German) with D&T
R1 remake. Nice guy too, but I will stop repeating it because almost everybody theat I met was indeed a nice guy, with only one exception...
G1, He had a fast board but NO => Regal into Glimpse FTW T4.
Boarding, cf R1
G2 I lose under a bunch of hatebears.
G3, Progenitus T2
Semi, Ante from Croatia with UWR patriot.
G1, He started and fetched batterskull with sfm T2. I'm quite happy but it turns out that on the end of my turn 3, SFM activation => batterskull, T4 jitte, jitte equip batterskull and swing, jitte kills quirion then arbor. Eventually I started a very lucky glimpse, topdecking 2 GSZ in a row (target symbiot to return quirion), ending in NO=> regal (craterhoof behemoth wasn't lethal against his 23 life + 10 defense (2 from SFM, 4+4 from batterskull). Regal gave me everything to continue the Glimpse chain into a lethal craterhoof.
+4 Decay +1 Proge +1 Needle +1 Null Rod
-1 Regal -1 Glimpse -2 Nettle -2 Heritage -1 Ooze,
G2, Visio-symbiot and Decays will make the game, killing jitte and delvers.
Finale, Timo (German) with Punishing Fire Jund
G1, T2 a P. fire paid with grove. I thought «*ouch*!*» and decided to start a glimpse for value which turned out to give me enough elves and a NO for a next turn kill.
I side in progenitus and liege vs viridian and regal.
G2, he mulls to 4.
===> 2 Byes :) (and 10 boosters)
GP main event
Same list -1 Gaddock (mistake!) +1 Rod SB
R1 & R2, byes
R3 Remko, from Netherlands BUG Shardless
Good MU, but the only opponent that I won't qualify as «*nice*».
G1 I lost, can't remember how.
I side in Wilt Leaf Liege and progenitus vs Regal and Viridian
G2 I win with GSZ => Wilt-Leaf and aggro. I had both GSZ and NO for lethal in hand but choose the first option as the fow-proof one, keeping the NO just in case.*
Between G2 and G3 I lost a misty rainforest (I always make 6 piles of ten and/or 5 of 12 to count my cards during shuffling process. So I know that I started the G2 with 60. I was never able to find it and was quite unhappy to have to rebuy one while I had a spare Windswept Heath.
G3, NO=> Progenitus.
3-0
If someone found a misty in a black sleeve, please tell me:)
R4, Philip, Austrian with Miracle
I understood today that he is Einherjer on this forum and that he performed really well. He was very nice during the game too.
I almost didn't write everything neither remember the plays. I will lose 2-0 quite easily.
I just remember a little of the small talk, while after G1 when I say that he's my most feared MU, he answer that I have a chance if I run Julian's list and that he's not my worst MU, there is belcher too. I answered that with belcher we can hope to race empty / have needle/discards get there, and that anyway there is almost no belcher.
My null Rod will make my agony way longer in G2 (he will put two engineered explosives in play. He has boarded in disenchant for Needle). The game have still ended in maybe 20 min.
3-1
Marek from Slovakia with …. Belcher!
G1, Belcher T1, no lands remaining in the library.
He plays with the 4 B. wish, 4 belcher, 3 empty and Street Wraiths. I asked why the wraiths, if it doesn't make mulligan decisions harder and he told me that he has been playing the decks for years, finishing 20th in GP Amsterdam with the same list. He said that they could be helpful to find a second kill too.
I know remember as a prophetic talk the previous round with me saying that there is almost no belcher. Untrue!
G2, needle T1 for me, 12 goblins for him.
And my boasting about racing gobs appears to be wrong to (on his T2 he haded a ESG on the board).
3-2
As a mental note, next tournament I will be talking only about good Mus during games:)
Marco, from Croatia BUG delver
G1 He puts me down to 2 with 2 flipped delvers against my three 1/1 board and empty hand, while he is at 16. Topdeck … NO, behemoth and attack for 16!
G2, Glimpse T2.
4-2
Robert, Austrian with painter.
We play the toss with two six-sided dices, he roll 9. I do 9 too and he makes 3. I'm quite happy but I succeed to have the double one! It turns out to matter, as he opened the G1 with T1 Bloodmoon! I didn't have a basic forest and won't draw one either.
Monstrous SB with everything but Meekstone, Liege and ruric in!
G2, T2 Null rod while he has two artifact lands into play. I will beat him with aggro beatdown.
G3, He started with a grindstone but draw a ratchet bomb just after. He will have to use it on one as an answer to the behemoth CIP trigger, and I will finish easily with beatdown. (I had 2 decay as a back-up and anyway if he succeed to mull me I have progenitus and two cabals to buy three attack phases.
I feel the MU is almost unloosable (4 decay + proge + cabal + needle/rod post-board!) and will be quite happy if Lejay's performance give him as much followers as his Omniclash build.
5-2
Jori from Finland with BUG delver.
G1, I loose the toss, mull to 6 while he starts with verdant catacombs into U Sea into delver. I'm thinking that's a bad omen for the game but a very good one for the match. The first part turns to be true quite quickly when Tombstalker joined the board on his side.
+1 progenitus +4 decay + 1 liege +1 meekstone
-1 regal -1 viridian shaman -3 heritage -1 glimpse -1 quirion ranger
No souvenirs from G2&3. I only remember that I won one with a quick liege and that I decay at least three delvers.
6-2
who, day 2*is possible!
Adriano, Portuguese with Omni show
G1, combo T2 (He made it, not me* :) )
G2 I open a perfect hand: Fetch, cabal + Seize, 3 elves and GSZ. Before my turn he put three Leylines into play! I thought that my discards will be useless but at least he has a pseudo mull to four and he made a mistake (he should have keep at least one to get value from BS*: I understand that putting 2 into play protect him against harmonic/quasali/viridian zealot followed by discard but the third is useless here. Eventually he won turn 3 with only S&T, omni, enter the infinite. And I start missing my gaddock, he would have force him to find one wish for Eledamri's call, which would probably give me enough time to win.
The guy was still very nice.
I'm out for day 2, I finish 253 among 1579.
Thanks for reading me and for future replies concerning my plays/list/English :)
Alright then, I will join in and share my GP results as well. :smile:
Since I already had 2 Byes from a GPT, I didn´t play in any grinder on Friday. Day 1 on Saturday started quite well with me going up to 6-1 after round 7. Unfortunately, I lost the following 2 rounds, thus not making it to day 2... sad story.
The MUs I faced:
R1: Bye
R2: Bye
R3: Enchantress 2-0
R4: UWR Delver 0-2
R5: Merfolk 2-0
R6: Esper Stoneblade 2-0
R7: BUG Fit 2-1
R8: OmniShow 0-2
R9: BUG Delver 1-2
The 2nd game vs. Omnishow I kept a hand with Cabal Therapy, Natural Order, Deathrite Shaman, Quirion Ranger, 2 Fetchlands + random card I do not remember. I´m on the play and lead with fetch=> DRS, to set up for a turn 3 NO into Ruric Thar (possible T2 if I draw Cradle). My opponent plays Island and passes. I draw something irrelevant for my turn and play Fetchland and Cabal Therapy, to which my opponent responds with Brainstorm. I assume if he has S&T he will put it on top, so I name FoW to either resolve NO next turn or rip other combopieces out of his hand if needed via flashback therapy this turn. My opponent reveals Ponder, Omniscience and lands (no Ancient Tomb or City of Traitors so he cannot go off next turn). I just fetch, play Quirion and pass. During his turn, he plays fetchland and Ponder, then passes back. EOT I exile his BS (18). I draw another dude for my turn, attack with Ranger (17), make 4 mana, then flashback Therapy for FoW again and he reveals S&T, Omniscience, Gifts Ungiven and the lands I already have seen. So I proceed to NO into Ruric Thar which resolves. Now, on his turn he Show and Tells into Omniscience (11), drops a Jace(!) (5)to bounce Ruric and proceeds to win from there via Gifts Loop...
After the game, I wondered if it had been better to lead directly with Therapy (would have called BS) and wait a turn to drop the Shaman. I thought about that line of play when I opened my hand and decided it would be better to lead with acceleration bc there is no way my opponent could win on turn one. In retrospective it would have been the better line, since my opponent did have 2 S&T alongside the Brainstorm...
I am still not sure about this. I talked to a good friend after the Match and he told me he would have made the same decision. What line of play would you have chosen and why?
Just to come up with a new idea, what about Edric, Spymaster of Trest as a one of in lists already splashing blue for swan song ?
It would be a nice alternative way to refill your hand when all you have is a bunch of dudes on the battlefield, instead of assembling the best friend team. I know he isn't needed, but i think he wouldn't be worse than an ezuri or a lord. (or maybe i just want to give him a shot since he's banned in 1vs1 commander)
I was your opponent! Congratulation for the win (espacially one of them, that was an herculean task)Quote:
Originally Posted by Julian23
Your dudes are 1/1. When you start attacking with them, you run the risk of not having any dudes anymore after 2 turns or so.
And when you have enough dudes for it to be relevant, Ezuri would probably be an insta-win (if you can't get your Hoof).
One of the great things about the BFF-team is that it keeps your fragile little dudes nice and safe and away from the combat zone.