I have faced 3sphere as well as chalice at larger tourneys and scg. I have yet to actually use the echoing truth in the sideboard but it will remain anyways.
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I have faced 3sphere as well as chalice at larger tourneys and scg. I have yet to actually use the echoing truth in the sideboard but it will remain anyways.
Well wish me luck---barring some unforseen events I am going to run Bryants 75 more or less. I may adjust the sideboard count a little bit such as a chain of vapor over deathmark for a little more flexibility and to open up mana on the combo turn.
Last year, I was paired against Stax round one of an SCG Open. You must be lucky because I sure as hell know they're monsters under my fucking bed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Final Fortune
I'm not saying it can't happen, but when you compare the number of decks playing hate bears as opposed to the number of decks playing Chalice of the Void, their share of the metagame is quite small. You have to play the numbers IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaNDoMxGeSTuReS
Chalice may be less likely to show up, but it is more dangerous and comes down quicker. Chalice at one and zero can show up on turn 1. Hatebears come down turn two and sometimes turn three. TES can quite often win before that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Final Fortune
Players are starting to wise up that chalice is a card to play again, mostly because of the hurt it gives canadian thresh.
Oddly enough, I have Chalice played at 0 against me far more often than at 1.
Played T.E.S for the first time ever in a tournament this weekend. I set my sails to Helsinki and packed my Necronomicon with me. I checked in to the tournament with my friend who was also playing combo, his own Dream Halls build. I hadn't slept that good the night before tournament and didn't eat very well, my stomach made it's point and just as the first round was about to start, my stomach started to hurt really much. Looked like this would turn out to become a fun tournament. Tournament had approximately ~30+ players.
Round 1, Mikko with Solidarity.
I remember duressing him, his hand consisted of snapcaster, turnabout and 3 lands. My hand wasn't that good and he killed me few turns later when I tried to silence him. I realized that I have to save my silences in the next games so that I can play them during his combo.
Second game, I start my combo with chant, he starts comboing off and I facepalm, I forgot already my gameplan for the second game. He does his thing and I'm left with no library, he then says that chant resolves and I can continue. I play LED, some mana and burning wish for tendrils, he wants 3rd game.
The third game was so bad play from me that I would rather just say that I won, even though I played like a idiot in front of everyone. :rolleyes: Game went pretty much just like game 2, but this time he just brainfreezed me for ~40 and left me a little library. I silence, get some fast mana, play burning wish and get past in flames.
When he brainfreezed me, I had put those 40 cards next to my graveyard, not my graveyard. This resulted in me sweating like a pig, trying to combo off with 1 ponder, 1 dark ritual, 1 rite of flame when next to me I would have had 40 cards to use. Instead I try to combo out with these few cards and say out loud "I am so going to fuck this up / fizzle" and everyone had a good laugh. I played my only ponder to find infernal tutor or burning wish for win. 3 top cards are blanks. No help there. I shuffle my minismal library without giving it a second thought. My opponent shuffles my deck and I draw a card.
Burning wish, go get Tendrils of Agony. My opponent looks at everyone looking at our game and has this "are you fucking kidding me?" -look on his face. A guy called Sebastian asks me, "hey, what's this pile over here?" I say that it's the pile that he brainfreezed, then I thought about what I said and smiled. Said something along the lines that luck is the best friend of a beginner.
1-0-0
Round 2, Heikki with Esper Blade
I have a turn 1 kill hand, he starts the game and plays thoughtseize. Now my hand is pretty bad and I just can't find a tutor effect. In the next game I had a lot of discard in my hand, and so did he. In the end neither of us has any hand, he plays a batterskull and I just don't get the combo pieces.
1-1-0
Round 3, Markus with UR Burn
Game 1 he burns me a couple of times and gets me to 9, I past in flames combo him out. Game 2 he leads off with goblin guide. I take my free misty rainforest, draw a card and then proceed to win the game, we had little argument about how much life did I have left, but in the end it didn't matter.
2-1-0
Round 4, Ahti with Dream Halls
I've playtested a lot with Ahti since we're friends and this was first tournament for us with our new decks. I knew I had the upper hand in the first game, but sideboard games were in his favor.
Game 1 I have a pretty good combo hand, all I would need is protection. I find the protection that I needed and kill him in front of audience. I knew he would bring in leyline of sanctitys so I brought in echoing truth, inqusition of kozileks and boarded out ponder, infernal, chrome mox, 1 orim's chant. I'm still a bit lost with what to side in this matchup.
In the next game my hand is dark ritual, land or two, ad nauseam, lotus petal and silence. I don't play my lotus petal and it could have costed me the game. He plays show and tell, puts down dream halls. He plays intuition (to find conflux I presume!) and in response to that I play Ad Nauseam discarding inqusition of kozilek or dark ritual. He thinks what to do and exiles ADN with mindbreak trap, discarding the only card left in his hand. Here I should have had the Petal in play to silence him after playing the Show and Tell, then I would have proceeded to play Ad Nauseam on my own turn around Mindbreak Trap.
He's left with only one card in his hand which is conflux, I draw tutor or ad nauseam and he's out of the game.
3-1-0
Round 5, Sebastian with RUG Tempo
I talked to him about how he's done, 3-0-1 so far and he agreed to draw with me if I wanted to. I did some fast calculating and I wasn't sure would I make it to the top 8 if I drawed with him. I came a long way to play, so I decided to play.
In the first game I duress or inqusition him, his hand consists only of lands and ponders/brainstorms. I feel a bit bad for not knowing what he has in his hand after a turn or two of cantripping. Even though, I think he made a slight mistake. He looked way too anxious when cantripping and after the last cantrip he slammed his hand gently on the table which I found to be a clear tell about no counterspells. My turn, with no protection, go for it. He had nothing and I take the game.
Games 2 and 3 didn't go that well. In the both games I kept land light hands and he stifled/wasted them all away.
3-2-0
Waiting for the results and... the both players that beat me were in the top 8 and at least one of the players that I had beat was in the top 8. I was also in the top 8!
Sami with Death & Taxes
In the first game I make 10 goblins on turn one. They get there. Game 2 he mulligans, plays a plains and weathered wayfarer. On my turn I ad nauseam and kill him.
In the top 4 I faced Sebastian again.
I won the first game after going to 2. He wins the second game by destroying my lands and in game 3 he destroys the only land I have. I draw more than 10 cards looking for a land, but I just draw crap. I'm out of the tournament and I'm really happy for doing this good besides all the epic bad plays I made.
I won a good amount of store credit, with them I bought Small World board game and left some on my account so the next tournament will be "free" to play. :)
Thanks for reading. Do you guys keep mana light hands against RUG, or should I have mulliganed to find more lands in my opening hand?
That's fairly common fwiw, I think they're afraid if they hold it back for a turn that you'll just kill them outright for it. Also most of the decks that SB Chalice usually don't have any way to play it for 1 on the first turn, mostly Goblins seems pretty bullish on Chalice after getting Caverns to cheat thru' it vs RUG so that only leaves Sneak Attack as the only deck that could outright screw us with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by thefringthing
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Top 4'd Jupiter. Three matches on camera, also the answer to player of the year.
Congrats Bryant. Anything you would change with the IoKs or otherwise?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryant Cook
Congrats there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bryant Cook
I can't see due to reflex the last card on Eli's hand on G3.
He had 2x Pierce, 2xFoW, Daze, Emrakul and SnT (this last one is the one I can't see)?
If that's the hand, don't you think that taking SnT woudn be better?
Thanks.
Well my name is Bryant. It's literally on the post above yours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tammit67
The only slot I would change is Infest. Maverick's numbers have gone down a bit and with two Deathmark I haven't found myself wanting it.
It's Ponder.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScatmanX
Excellent report, Bryant. I enjoy studying your games.
I'm interested in feedback on a sideboard plan for my LGS, which has no Maverick players. The changes (from the sideboard in the opening post) are -2 Deathmark, -1 Infest, +1 Chain of Vapor, +1 Revoke Existence, +1 Silent Departure. My LGS has a lot of Burn, Show and Tell decks (and other fatty-based strategies), and Delver (mostly the blue-red version). I should note that at a mox tournament or GP, I'd run the stock sideboard.
Pyroblast.Quote:
Originally Posted by thefringthing
I dislike all three cards added.Quote:
Originally Posted by thefringthing
Chain is alright I suppose.
Revoke Existence? Just play Hull Breach if you plan on wasting sideboard space.
Silent Departure. Useless now due to Gristle brand, they won't be fetching Iona nearly as much.
I think you are better off running Pyro's again if that's the case. However, at this point the sideboard is now crammed with protection.
The Revoke Existence is intended to be for Pyrostatic Pillar; I thought of Hull Breach but it seemed too difficult to cast. Pyroblast is a good suggestion but I agree that with Inquisitions and Pyroblasts those slots will be overloaded. Maybe I'll just get real "creative" and run some basics in the sideboard or something weird like that.
Why can't you just Duress/Inquisition/Echoing Truth their pillar?Quote:
Originally Posted by thefringthing
Not always going to have disruption or bounce in time. I've had a few near-misses going off through Pillar, but it tends to leave you very vulnerable to burn. (It's one thing to have 12 goblins and another to have 12 goblins and two life.)
Your opponent has an active pillar.Quote:
Originally Posted by thefringthing
You cast Burning Wish. Ow. Take 2.
You cast Revoke Existence. Ow. Take 2.
And that's if you don't need Rite of Flame or some other odd fast mana to cast wish. And if that's not the case, and you have the lands to cast everything -- you're going to get priced out of the game anyway.
It's not reasonable to side for Pyrostatic Pillar. Make them discard it or kill them before they play it. Drawing a Chain of Vapor or Echoing Truth is just the worst.