[DTW] Faerie Stompy

I'm going to a small Legacy tournament tomorrow afternoon (unknown meta), and planning on the following list:

//Mana
4 City of Traitors
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Chrome Mox
3 Seat of the Synod
6 Island

//Creatures
4 Sea Drake
4 Serendib Efreet
4 Cloud of Faeries
3 Trinket Mage
2 Solemn Simulcram

//Blue Non-Creatures
4 Force of Will
3 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Psionic Blast

//Artifacts
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Tormod's Crypt

//Sideboard
3 Misdirection
3 Binding Grasp
3 Energy Flux
3 Pithing Needle
3 Sea Sprite


The maindeck Crypt is there in place of the usual Needle to combat graveyard-based strategies (e.g., any Tier 1 deck other than Goblins/Affinity), as it can quickly be Maged up when needed and won't get eaten by Chalices. The SS are mostly untested, but from what I've seen of them, they've been Lay of the Land and Moat rolled into one (and trade with Piledrivers, giving me a non-Equipment out against it).

I'm not sure what to cut from the SB to make room for 2 more Crypts. I might go -1 Grasp, but Grasp is too useful against opposing aggro decks and can't easily be tutored for.

I took the list I posted earlier and took it to a small Legacy tournament (16 people), and went completely undefeated in matches/games. I accidentally brought too many cards (62, to be exact) so I cut one Island and one Cloud from what I had; in retrospect, this was a terrible move, but I wanted more testing with Jens and really wanted to keep the two in (so much for cards falling into hammerspace when you add then in).

Round one was against MBC with a white splash for StP and Disenchant, using Skull Collector and Ravenous Rats to achieve something of a soft-lock. Game one, I lead with Chalice, followed by Cloud-Jitte-Equip in turn two, followed by tremendous beatings. Game two, he Hymns away some of my gas and gets the combo out, but a Serendib with a Jitte (with Chalice eating any StPs) overwhelmed him.

Play of the day: In response to a Disenchant on the Jitte, I TfK with an empty hand. Top three cards: Force, MisD, Island, and not enough mana for a hardcast.

Round two was the old Legacy standby of Goblins. Game one, I lead with Chalice (eating his hand of 4 one-drops), followed by Serendib, who soons picks up a SoFaI and swings for the win after shooting some Goblins. Game two, he leads with Vial and wastes my nonbasics, but I manage to play a Serendib (who gets Pyrokinesised) and SoFaI - followed up by three Sea Sprites in five draws while I'm stuck on two land. SoFaI shoots some more goblins while doming for 3 each turn, and the other Sprites hold the fort against a rather impressive army.

Round three was against a rougish reanimator deck using the Kiki-Jiki/Hussar combo. Game one, he manafloods while I beat. Game two, his deck sputters out on him (mercifully for me, as I make some rather embarrasing errors), and I win a drawn-out battle after PsiBlasting a stolen Serendib and swinging with 2x Drake.

Round four, IGGy-Pop. Since we were guaranteed the two prizes for top 2 if we draw (as we would be the only 3-0 players), we ID and play a game for the hell of it. He couldn't combo out before I drop Chalices at 2 and 0, which killed his combo rather elegantly.

The top prize was a DCI foil Grim Lavamancer, which I let the other guy have, since I wanted the DCI foil Negator.

I learned something rather interesting today - your first play, once you hit 2U, determines whether you win or lose. I would hit 2U, and the next play or two pretty much determined the outcome (although, thankfully, whenever I made the wrong play my opponent would end up making one also). That's the turn when it seems like your role in the game is decided (besides your starting hand, of course); if you're the aggro deck, drop equipment/fliers, and if you're the control deck, drop a Mage/Chalice/PsiBlast.

As for changes, -2 SolemnS is certain. I was hoping that it would smooth out the deck's problems with colored mana, but in reality it felt like an overcosted creature.

What about weatherseed faeries in the Sea Sprite MD slot?

They fit the 3cc requirement, and make chalicing at 2 less painful,

and they swing for two flying, as opposed to the one of sea sprites, which could speed up resolving games and help to take out some pesky goblins that are x/2. They may be harder to drop turn one, but I am not banking on turn one sea sprites all the time anyway. Thoughts?

Weatherseed Faeries are a decent replacement for Sea Sprites. Beating and blocking for 2 are both significant. The reason I'm sticking with Sprites is because it gives us some semblance of a curve, and 90% of the time, I only care that it is pro-red. There are several draws where I reach 1U before 2U (Mox-island-island, Mox-island-city-Jitte, etc) and being able to lay a beater the turn before is significant, especially if it's followed by equipment.

The fact that it can be played around a Chalice @ 2 sounds logical, but is in fact a non isssue. If we are planning on laying a Chalice @2, against most decks we will lay a Chalice @1 followed by a Chalice @2. Then, the game will be over, even if we've drawn all our Sea Sprites. There are only a handful of decks that we want to lay a Chalice @2 as the first Chalice (two I can think of, Deadguy and Rifter). I have tested both these matches extensively, and can promise you that if your Chalice @2 sticks, you will win the game, even if you again draw all your Sea Sprites.

So basically, Sea Sprites + Chalice @2 = non issue.

Depends. Given a realistic chance, I'd drop a Chalice at 2 in a heartbeat since it nukes their Madness-outlets (another reason you might want to avoid Chalice at 1, Needle is nice in this MU), but if your hand is slow and you want to curve out, Chalice at 1 is certainly a potent play early on since they've got Stifles and Brainstorms and Careful Studys and Basking Rootwallas, which are all stopped by it. It's not AS good as Chalice at 2, but it's still potent.

Yeah, I tend to just drop it at 2 ASAP unless I have 2 in my opening hand and can drop them in successive turns and I might not even do that unless I had a Force in hand. The newer builds (modeled off Chang's list) don't even run Careful study, so Chalice @2 knocks them down to 4 1cc 1/1's that pump, 4 5cc 4/4 tramples, 2 4cc 2/2 flyers and no equipment to pump them. Note that this also prevents against Naturalizes out of the board.

Ack! My friends, I need some help.

1. U/G Madness is a frickin pain in my @ss right now. This match up is driving me insane! I'm not sure why, but that deck seems to ALWAYS have the answer to my threats, even a lot more so than Thresh. Their abundance of counters prevents me from resolving a Sea Drake, SoFI, Jitte, or Chalice at 2, and if I somehow manage to get a SoFI on anything small there is always an Arrogant Wurm with a Wonder in the GY just waiting. What do you guys side in against them? What am I doing wrong?! ARGGGGGG!!!

2. With a local tourney in 9 days, I'm trying to sure up my list in general. My largest debate has been with trying to balance TFK and Looter while somehow keeping Sea Sprite in the main. I've prety much decided on 2/2 TFK vs Looter split, and lots of testing has shown positive results to this set up, but that forces me to cut Sea Sprite. Of course, as Phantom warned, my Goblins MU has dropped much closer to 50/50, a place where I don't want it to be. My list currently is:

Creatures
4 Cloud of Faeries
2 Looter il-Kor
1 Phyrexian Marauder
4 Sea Drake
4 Serendib Efreet
1 Shoreline Ranger
3 Trinket Mage

Spells
4 Force of Will
3 Psionic Blast
2 Thirst for Knowledge

Artifacts
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Chrome Mox
1 Pithing Needle
4 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Umezawa's Jitte

Lands
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
6 Island
2 Seat of the Synod

Sideboard (15 cards)
2 Sea Sprite
3 Misdirection
3 Binding Grasp
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Pithing Needle
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Winter Orb

As you can see I have no sea sprites in main :-( and only 2 in the board. I figured that I could have 4 in the board to side in against Gobos game 2 and 3, but then wtf am I going to cut from the board!? All I know is that 2 TFK and 2 Looter really speed up my draws, which was something that I needed, so I seriously have no idea what to do. Everyone's insight is appreciated.

3. Some things learned from testing: 1 Shoreline Ranger and 1 Phyrexian Marauder have actually been quite nice. 2 Shoreline was to much IMO, but there were definately times I wanted it around, and over the past couple of days 1 has definately worked out. The Marauder is also a nice 1 of. You can always toss him to a looter or a TFK if you draw him at a random time, but a top decked trinket mage in the mid to late game and the Marauder is absolutely perfect.

I think that is about it. Sorry for the long, potentially annoying and whiny post. I just really need some help to figure out these things before my tourney.

Thanks,
Kronicler

First of all, congratulations to Eldariel, Phantom and the ones who helped developing this deck. I started playing mtg in 1994, and Legacy is my favourite format. I really fell in love with the deck, and have been playing it online for nearly 6 months. I was previously living in Shanghai where Legacy is completely non existent. I came back to France about 1 month ago, and brought it to a Legacy tournament last Saturday. I finished 7th, and was a bit disappointed by this result, though it was really the first time I tested it in a real tournament.

This is my List:

4 Serendib Efreets
4 Sea Drakes
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Trinket Mages
2 Sea Sprites

4 Chrome Mox
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Swords of Fire and Ice
4 Umezawa Jitte
1 Pithing Needle
4 Force of Will
4 Thirst for Knowledge

4 City of Traitors
4 Ancient Tombs
2 Seats of the Synod
2 Faerie conclaves
5 Islands

SB: 3 Binding Grasps
3 Misdirections
1 Sea Sprite
2 Tormod’s crypts
2 Pihing Needles
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Winter Orbs

No Psionics because I preferred to play the 4th Trinket Mage, Jitte and Thirst instead. I kept MD Sea Sprites and an additional in SB, because it really helps against Gob.

The tournament was in Paris, with about 47 players, and a metagame totally unknown for me.

Match 1: Random U/G deck, counters, blasts and trying to kill with Erratic Explosions, Kaboum and some big casting costs cards.

1) Chalice=1 1st turn, then chalice=2. I took 15 damages once with an Explosion, revealing the big Ravnica wurm. At one point, got a beater and killed him.

2) Chalice=1 1st turn, serendib turn 2, Jitte equip turn 3. This was shortly finished.

1 – 0

Match 2 : Zoo G/R/W with a skilled opponent

1) I lose the toss again. He starts with bird, Turn 2 Ascetic Troll, Turn 3 Rancor on troll, and Winter Orb (I believe he was more annoyed than me by the orb). I tried surviving with Sea Sprites with Jitte, and a Needle on Troll, but he eventually kills me with 2 Lightning bolts. No chalices, no forces.

2) I start Ancient tonb for chalice=1. As expected, he was really hurt (birds, kird Apes, Swords, Bolts, Rancor, …. ). It was unfortunately my only land. I played a Jitte Turn 2, then drew a city of traitors and played chalice=2. He couldn’t play anything, and started discarding. It took me 6 turns to draw a blue land. I played an efreet and swing for the win. I believe he didn’t play a single spell in this round.

3) Great opening hand : chalice turn 1, serendib turn 2, jitte turn 3. I won.
He will finish 3rd of the tournament, and I was his only loss of the day.

2 – 0

Match 3: Mono G Elf deck

1) She won the toss, and played a forest with a random Elf. Expecting her deck to be mono G, I started Tomb+Mox for sea drake. Then, another Sea drake on Turn 2 and Sword+equip on turn 3. Turn 4 kill.

Nothing to SB in.
2) chalice=1 turn 1. It hurted a lot once again. Fallowed by a Sea Drake, and Jitte.

3-0

Match 4 : U/G/R Threshold

1) No chalices, no forces for me. I took a lot of damages with tomb, he played a lot of counters. He damaged me with a Mongoose, and finished me with 2 Lightning Bolts.

He warned me he had trained a lot against Faerie Stompy(!), and has a great SB. I just SB 2 Tormod’s and a Sea sprite.

2) and 3) Were more or less the same : I never drew any chalices or mages, while he kept playing fetches, counters and cantrips He then started beating me with a mongoose. I wait for him to be tapped out with little cards in hand. I play a Sprite pro red, a Tormod’s and a Jitte. And swing for the win. He was very disappointed, and said he had needle in hand, but forgot to play it on tormod’s. Too bad.

4 – 0
We are only 2 people at 4 – 0.

Match 5: Gob R/w/u
This guy will finish 1st. He played blue for a few daze MD (!).
1) I never mulliganed in the previous matches. Had to mulligan here, him too. We both got a slow hand, except that I will never draw my 2nd land (or a mox).

2) I kept an average hand, I force a lackey. Another hit the table, my sprite is sworded. I believe I’m dead as he damages me with lackey, but his only goblin to drop was … another lackey ! I managed to get a Jitte on a serendib and swing for the win.

3) I forgot what my hand, but his was a perfect one: T1 Lackey, swords my sprites, plays a port, wastes me a land, puts a ringleader with lackey… I die.

4 – 1

Match 6 : Mono R Goblins

I’m a little annoyed to face Gob again, but I am supposed to have a somehow positive match-up against it. For some reasons, I had a very short night and was lacking sleep, it was okay all day long, but towards the end of the day, ie my last match, it was around 8 o clock, and I was feeling both hungry and sleepy. And played badly…

1) Again no chalice and I force a lackey. I play a Serendib Turn 2. He wastes my Conclave, and Pyrokenesis (!) on my Serendib. My next 4 draws are 2 cities of Traitors, 1 Ancient Tomb and a Mox. I die. Turbo land with 17 lands in deck is a little upsetting.

2) I start with City and Chalice=1. (I had enough lands to play city on Turn 1), Serendib on turn 2. He is of course annoyed by the chalice, drops a warchief on Turn 3, fallowed by a ringleader, revealing 1 Fanatic, 2 Incinerator, and 1 land. I play equip Jitte, and attack. I can’t explain why, but I didn’t kill the Warchief at end of my turn, what I should have done. I kill it during upkeep instead, what he answers by cycling 2 Incinerators, killing my Serendib. Of course, I don’t draw any other creatures, and gets overwhelmed…

4 – 2 (my opponent finishes 2nd).

I finished 7th, and win an Italian Dark booster(!). There was unfortunately no Top 8, and my 2 losses were against Goblins. I was especially angry against my self for the last round. I will get more sleep next time. The amazing thing was that the metagame was almost only aggro ( many gobs, W weenies, elf, even merfolks(!), … ). No solidarity, no Iggy Pop, 1 Life deck as the only “combo” deck I ever saw. Some burn deck, some pox deck, and a few Loam Controll… I had prepared against Goblins, maybe not enough.
After I came back, I removed 2 Faerie Conclaves, 1 seat of the Synod, and 1 Thirst for 4 basic Islands. Fed up to lose to Wastelands on blue sources, and manadeaths.

Sorry for the long post. As the Worlds are in Paris at the end of November, I thought a glimpse of the French Legacy metagame was relevant, as there will be a legacy side event.

Congrats on the finish Yamaelle! Don't be too discouraged about going down to Gobs. We are favored there, but the matchup is very loseable and it looks like you had some crappy luck (you got out early sprites against the white splash, but none against the Mono-Red).

There are several steps you can take in a Goblin heavy, mostly aggro meta. First, the Misdirections in the board are there to fight combo. I'd reccomend cutting them for some more pro:red flyers (Weatherseed Faeries).

Thanks for your interest in the deck and good luck in the future!

Against the Rwu Gobs (Rw in general), it's a safe bet to bring in Misdirection. They usually overload on stuff to bring in against us (once I had an opponent bring in 11 cards (4 StP, 4 Pyrokinesis, 1 Shattering Spree, 2 REBs) against me and he played with 3 MD Disenchants already. Needless to say, that hurt his main strategy quite a bit and me Misdirecting his Shattering Spree on his Vial from my something (might've been a Jitte or such) game 3 hurt even more). It's important to remember that against Rw Goblins, siding out Chalices on the draw is practically never safe as they tend to play StP and bring in some number of Elemental Blasts. I actually lost the second game in that MU (I won 2-1) only because I didn't draw a single Misdirection or FoW (since I coulda misdirected his StP/Pyrokinesis (as long as it only has a single target, Misdirecting it is a legal play) on his Lackey). Misdirection definately comes in here as they tend to play anywhere between 7 and 15 targeted spells and the most important part, their real hopes for winning this MU are their targeted spells. If they don't draw StPs, your Sea Sprites and Serendib Efreets are going to do a dandy job keeping them dead in ground. What you truly need is the tempo advantage here and a succesful Misdirection is just about a game.

Lately I haven't been so happy with TFK, so I looked around a bit. What do you guys think about mask of memory? Yes, I know, it's an artifact, but it just seems like card advantage on a stick.

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Originally Posted by Kronicler

Lately I haven't been so happy with TFK, so I looked around a bit. What do you guys think about mask of memory? Yes, I know, it's an artifact, but it just seems like card advantage on a stick.

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What about Looter il kor instead?

It is an additional beatere with evasion and he gives card selection without needing a creature to equip. The card selection should be as good as card advantage in the deck because you can get rid of multiples like Chrome Moxes, Jittes, Ancient Tombs, Cities etc. and it will find you Psi Blast, Big beaters or Equipment to finish the Job.

Actually for you Kronicler: Don´t play the Mask of Memory. It seems you´re already in a lack of creatures with your Faerie Stompy, because you are running Phyrexian Marauder as a fetchable creature. In your case: Looter Il-Kor >>> Mask Of Memory. I am pretty happy with my Faerie Stompy even it´s still the version i´m playing since March/April this year.

Everyone has said it, but I'll say it again, 'cuz I'm cool: Looter il-Kor. The reason for the existence of Thirst for Knowledge in the deck is to dig into your bomby creatures in a creature-light hand while discarding crap (honestly, that 5th piece of equipment in your hand is unnecessary), it lets the deck get by with a lower creature count than average. You don't really want to have Mask of Memory+1 critter hand, but Thirst for Knowledge+1 critter is very good in fact. Thirst has the additional benefit of being able to dig outside combat (like, when you want those Psionic Blasts against that stupid Glacial Chasm-lock, or those FoWs in the event of an emergency, or that Needle against that Pernicious F*cking Deed) and generate actual card advantage, so I guess the jury is still out.

Yes, actually I'm trying with 2 TfK and 2 Looters. But maybe I'll put all four because 80% of times or more you only have mana to pay for Thirst (and in you turn) and you don't have more mana to play the cards you draw... I prefer to attack with looter and If I draw something good I'll play it with all the mana open.

I have been playing 2 TFK and 2 Looter, but the fact that looter can't block simply infuriates me sometimes. BTW, I decided not to run Marauder, so here is my list atm:

Creatures
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Sea Drake
2 Sea Sprite
4 Serendib Efreet
1 Shoreline Ranger
3 Trinket Mage

Spells
4 Force of Will
2 Misdirection
2 Psionic Blast
2 Thirst for Knowledge

Artifacts
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Chrome Mox
1 Pithing Needle
4 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Umezawa's Jitte

Lands
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
6 Island
2 Seat of the Synod

Sideboard (15 cards)
2 Sea Sprite
2 Weatherseed Faeries
1 Misdirection
3 Binding Grasp
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Pithing Needle
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Winter Orb

I keep going back and forth between 2 Misdirection MD and 2 looter MD. Of course I could also just add a psi blast and a tfk in those 2 slots, or add a psi blast and a sea sprite / trinket mage. What do you guys think?

IMO at least 3 psionic blast is necessary. They are a vital part of the broken third or fourth turn win from this deck, and with two, that's much less likely to happen.

I had been running looters, but I put the sea sprites back in. I have TfK and 4 SoFI to dig for me. I'm still working on my SB, but I'm considering putting sea sprites MD and looter in the SB. Looter's card selection is good, but most of the time I'd rather have the pro-red. I can't count the number of times goblins have just run me over when I'm playing with looter.

Eldariel: How is the shoreline ranger treating you? He probably helps to fetch an island, but what about running two seat of the synods? I guess they are vulnerable to wasteland but other than the islandcycling the ranger seems a bit useless as a 3/4 flyer for 6.

I agree, Sea Sprite as long as Gobs stick around is a great card (and I think nowadays you need to bring Misdirection in against 'em since they run so many non-Goblin spells). Shoreline Ranger is good for imprinting if I have too many/too few lands, but I tend to agree that 1 is enough.

Sea Sprite and Looter, I'm currently running 3 of both, but meh, gotta work on the numbers (I don't have Psi Blasts in the build presently and I want them in, so...).

Hey, I've been following this thread and playing this deck for a while, and I love it. This is the (pretty standard) list I've been playing.

Creatures (19)
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Serendib Efreet
4 Sea Drake
1 Shoreline Ranger
4 Trinket Mage
2 Weatherseed Faeries
Artifacts (15)
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Chrome Mox
4 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Umezawa’s Jitte
Instants (10)
4 Force of Will
3 Psionic Blast
3 Thirst for Knowledge
Land (16)
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
5 Island
3 Seat of the Synod

Sideboard (15)
3 Binding Grasp
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Misdirection
2 Pithing Needle
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Weatherseed Faeries
3 Winter Orb


The fourth Trinket Mage is in there because that guy is nuts. So many of our matchups revolve around an early Chalice, and he sets that up, or fixes your mana in a pinch. Plus, after sideboard, he sets up Tormod's, Pithing, or the occasional E.Explosives (nobody seems to run Scroll anymore, it was in my main for a while but I replaced it with the Trinket). I cut the maindeck Pithing because I hated drawing it when I did and as FS is a deck that's usually the beatdown redundancy is a positive element. Plus, most lists always seem to be a bit short on creatures for my liking...the majority of this thead tinkers with the margins of creatures, lands, artifacts, and blue card counts, all of which always seem a bit short...Eldariel did such a good job with the initial list that radical changes have led nowhere. It seems to me that so much revolves around Chalice games 1-3 and Crypt/Needle Games 2-3 that the fourth Trinket Mage is real solid.

I agree with the one Shoreline for one Island move, and also didn't feel Marauder was quite good enough. The Shoreline does a good job of increasing the margins that everyone seems to report being a little low (creature and blue), and is rarely worse than an Island. The deck will lose games if it peters out, just like any other aggro deck, but it will lose if the game lasts too long anyways...the fourth Trinket may be bad late-game, but he increases your early-game odds.

I'm debating cutting the E.E. in the board for another pro-red guy, because I rarely find it doing all that much, but I think it keeps its slot, for now.

I run Weatherseeds in the Sea Sprite/random creature (il-Kor, etc) spot because it fits the deck's mana scheme better than Sea Sprite. While most decks rely on a conventional or altered mana curve of some kind, this deck has a fundemantally different way of setting up its mana. A lot of times, it plays like a two-color deck, with (U) as the first color and (2) as the second. Sometimes, you're able to play the Sea Sprite and not the Faeries, but I find that I'm able to play either most of the time, beacuse we always try to set up the 2U. As we all know, Chalice at two stops Sprite as well...while it's not that big of a deal for reasons already discussed (you should win if you have the Chalices anyways), I'd still rather minimize the 2-slot.

Everyone always goes to the Blasts when they need to make a cut for more creatures, but I defenetly like them in the deck and always have. I havn't tested Looter that much, but in the games I've played it wasn't a complete gamebreaker. Without the pro-Reds, however, our matchup against a lot of prevalent decks drops considerably. Weatherseed Faeries being a threat in non-red matchups is a positive for them over Sea Sprite, which is pretty useless without equipment, unless you need the one-two damage when the math is a little odd (often times, attacking with an odd power creature like Serendib will leave you just out of Blast range). Looter may dig, but Thirst does too, and there just isn't room for him in my decklist. If you're short on mana, he's great, but I can't see losing the combo-out-esque Blast element of the deck for him.

Finally, the 3rd Seat is there to make my math a bit easier with Thirsts...I love hitting extra Seats or Moxen. I ran four for a while because I didn't see as as many Wastelands as most people do, but there really isn't any reason to damage your early game with excess Wasteland vulnerability. Hence, I also cut the one Gemstone mine I was testing in an Island slot (because so many games can be won with a quick Chalice drop on the first turn, I thought it would randomly help out now and then...too many things have to allign for that to happen, though, and I'd never draw it. Plus, it doesn't fit the psudo-two-color mana "scheme" I was talking about earlier, and we already have 8-11 pitch cards). After upping my creature count, Conclaves were worse than Islands. I never felt the need to up the land count...between 21 effective sources, 4 Trinkets, and 3 Thirsts, the deck has ran smoothly for me. One of the best parts of Faerie Stompy is its ability to play around with those margins (creatures, blue card count, lannd, etc) and gel. It's a great deck, and legacy has defenetly become my favorite format since I started playing it.

Keep up the good work, guys.

I already came back from a 25-30 people tournament, and have to say, that this deck requires some luck element to not lose 3-4 matches thanks to its inestability. I lose 4 matches for not draw more threats and another for draw 8 lands and 3 moxes...

I think that I will quit the FoW's and add some more creatures, this way maybe I lose to if I did'nt draw lands, but never will lose for not draw more threats...

In one match, I have cloud with 2 SoFi and with a misdirection in hand. I only need to survive one more turn to win and if one of the 2 cards that I draw is blue I can counter his spell, but I draw none blue card and I lose!

In other I lose against some crapy 4 color rockish deck with blue (for 4 brainstorms and chill in side!!) because I draw the same creature count that opponen Stp...