Originally Posted by
Codename55
Hello everyone, I'm a european Magic player and I've been playing Legacy for about 3 months now so I'm pretty much still a newb. :) I'm very much into Magic and doing lots of research hoping to get better at the game and I've been reading this thread a long time now, so I thought I'd make my first post here.
I've been playing GW Maverick for most of my 3 months of Legacy and I just love this deck. I'm going to attend GP Ghent and there was a trial yesterday that I participated in, I wrote a small report of it and thought I'd post it here. I like reading other people's reports here so maybe someone would like to read mine. :)
My list:
Main deck
Creatures
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Mother of Runes
3 Noble Hierarch
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Fauna Shaman
2 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Scryb Ranger
1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Dryad Arbor
Creatures total [28]
Artifacts
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sword of Light and Shadow
Artifacts total [2]
Spells
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Green Sun's Zenith
Spells total [8]
Lands
4 Savannah
4 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath
2 Horizon Canopy
2 Forest
1 Karakas
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Plains
Lands total [22]
Deck total [60]
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Sideboard
2 Enlightened Tutor
2 Choke
2 Krosan Grip
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Warmth
1 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Serenity
1 Maze of Ith
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
Sideboard total [15]
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The report:
1 Hive Mind
Game 1: Fast Show and Tell into a Hive Mind, then some pacts, no interaction on my part.
Game 2: Long and grindy game, I have Thalia to slow him down, unfortunately he just plays lots of lands, kills Thalia and hardcasts Hive Mind for game.
0-2
2 BUG Control
Game 1: I get a fast Mom, Knight, Mindcensor etc. He sweeps with a Pernicious Deed but I just play more guys and win easily.
Game 2: I start with a Horizon Canopy and Noble Hierarch, Canopy gets waste'd. Next turn I fetch a dual land because I didn't think he could
have more wastes but he does and I get manascrewed (I just played bad here, because I am inexperienced).
Game 3: I get a fast Mom, Revoker naming Deed and Thalia, beat him to around 10. Couple of Innocent Bloods and Edicts later I have nothing,
but I top deck decently and win with a Knight.
2-1
3 RUG Tempo
Game 1: Thalia gets countered, Knight resolves. I StP his Delver and Goyf can't race the Knight, even though it was close (I win with 4 life and he has a Bolt).
Game 2: I kept a 4- land hand because I expected Stifles and had a Thalia. My fetch gets Stifled, there's a fast Delver on the board followed by
a Goyf and Mongoose. I get beaten hard but play a Mystic, fetch Jitte, get a Knight and basically win the game because of Jitte.
I was damn lucky he didn't see any of his boarded cards, this was again very close.
2-0
4 MUD Artifacts
Game 1: I start with a Wasteland and after using it, he is stuck on 1 land for too long. Knight takes the game.
Game 2: Second turn Wurmcoil Engine. I sided in a Maze of Ith so the game is stuck for a while. Soon there is a Blightsteel Colossus on the field
and eventually there's Lightning Greaves too so I chump block for a turn, then realize I have no outs because of shroud and scoop.
Game 3: Again I start with a Wasteland. He plays Revoker naming Knight. I play a Knight, fortunately I have lots of fetches and the Waste I used
earlier so Knight just beats for couple of turns for an uneventful game.
2-1
5 Storm - ID
1-1
Top 8:
1 Storm
Game 1: The same storm player I ID'd with for top8. I play a very quick Thalia, follow with some exalted manadorks for a quick clock and a Zenith into
Gaddock Teeg. He scoops.
Game 2: He plays a first turn Empty the Warrens and gets 10 goblins before I have a chance to even play a land.
Game 3: Again, quick Thalia, this time with Mom for protection and I also get an Ethersworn Canonist. He struggles for a while but finds no answers and
scoops.
2-1
2 Hive Mind
Game 1: Again with the Hive Mind, again the game is over really quick because Thalia gets Force of Willed and he plays a third turn Show and Tell for game.
Game 2: This time he isn't quite so lucky. I manage to stick some hatebears including Thalia and Mindcensor, he can't answer.
Game 3: I think his luck turned, he mulliganed to 6 and basically played "land - go" for couple of turns so I got Mom and something in the field, then respond
to his Intuition with a Mindcensor. Later he sweeped the board and because I didn't read the card, I let him kill Mom for free by giving Mindcensor the prot -
unnecessary because of flying, ah well. He doesn't draw anything relevant and I get a Sword and kill him with equipped Mindcensor.
2-1
3 Sneaky Show
Game 1: Second turn Show and Tell into a Griselbrand. I Show a Revoker and name Griselbrand. StP to Griselbrand gets Force'd, but I have another StP. Revoker becomes
exalted and beats for a couple of turns, unfortunately I draw nothing that is both relevant and fast, and he draws Sneak Attack, followed by Intuition into
3 Emrakuls, so I have a single Fauna Shaman on the field vs. his empty hand and Sneak Attack. He top decks Emrakul for game.
Game 2: I play a land, Noble Hierarch, pass. He plays Ancient Tomb, Lotus Petal, Show and Tell into Emrakul (I showed Choke), pass. I draw a Horizon Canopy, use it
to draw hoping to see Karakas but there's a fetch and I scoop. In retrospect I might have wanted to mulligate that 7, there was Thalia, Choke and a Manadork but
nothing else relevant, if there was a Knight I'd have probably won that match.
0-2
Since I lost the final I ended up 2nd place. No byes for GP Ghent but at least I got a bit of cash. :)
I'm very proud and happy for getting 2nd place, considering I haven't been playing for that long. I want to thank all people in this thread because I am absolutely sure that if I hadn't been reading here my list wouldn't be nearly as good. So thanks guys. :)
