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Originally Posted by HokusSchmokus
I would love to read a report from him.
If he write someone, please post it here.
I could use google translate to read german :laugh:
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Originally Posted by HokusSchmokus
I would love to read a report from him.
If he write someone, please post it here.
I could use google translate to read german :laugh:
I'd also like a report (and SB choices explanation)... just watching few last rounds, I can tell he was really lucky as he played aggressively, maybe recklessly
I don't mean to decline his skills, I'm all happy he put storm on the top
That's one hell of a sideboard.
Ya it is, and as a new storm player im quite pleased because my current list is only 8 off of his 75, most being cage/IoK/grim.Quote:
That's one hell of a sideboard.
This isn't a deck for the timid. There is a time for exercising patience and setting things up properly, but there's many times where your chances get worse the longer you wait and you just have to go for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloshthedark
Dread of Night in the sideboard is awesome. Suck it, Thalia.
I did pretty terrible at the GP with a fairly similar list (3-1,2-1 trials. 5-3 GP, 6-3 side event). My Ad Nauseams were the worst ever but that might be explained by having 15 lands, 0 moxen. PiF was awkward at times as well. Made some mistakes from fatigue though, should have definately day-2'd in the GP and 7-2'd the SE.
Very nice to see ANT on top though. Now I just hope people don't start boarding loads again.
What is the sideboard plan and hate of choice against MUD? Man that deck is mean without countermagic protection. The non welder variety with cotv and 3 sphere main. I'm thinking hurkyls and shattering spree but maybe there's a better idea?
I recall a player here running Pulverize in the sideboard around a couple years ago. Not sure if it was ever cast, but seems effective.
well i know... but Ad Nauseam 0 floating against deck that can't ever kill you (Polzl G1) into making it possible, making Goblins against Lands? (how could ever a Lands player side out Tabernacle in first place...) and he was quite lucky in the finals G1 topdeck ftw even through epic misplay (probe before infernal->ToA after Pif hellbent no U floating), G3 2x Burning wish crappy keep, topdeck brainstorm into ritual+nausea... guess he was on a I can't lose whatever lucky streak, good for him, anyway he was a nice guyQuote:
Originally Posted by 'Nilla Pac
that's what I'm most interested in it wasn't good in my testing, grafdiggers cage - seriously? why? byes? matchups?
you don't need a MUD plan in vacuum, its to minor deck to care about and the match-up is Maverick-like dieroll, only your discard is better, I killed a guy keeping 2x CoV, Golem and drawing Trinisphere with discard and through on-board Golem btw. experiencing a kill through Thalia for the first time this week too =)
Grafdigger's cage makes sense since reanimator and dredge can be though matchups. Both extirpate and F. macabre are better against reanimator but do very little against dredge so it's understandable.
He made Goblins against Lands because he boarded out Past in Flames which he forgot. Either way, he could've won through Cabal Ritual after the first hit - the lands player was on four and had a Factory in play, he had Cabal Ritual to save five Goblins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloshthedark
For some reason I didn't see the quarterfinals match, so no idea what was going on there, but Polzl had a lot of discard, so going off asap makes sense I guess.
Casting Probe before Infernal Tutor was no thing, he had mana to cast every single spell, even Ad Nauseam. Plus he had his landdrop open.
Grafdigger's Cage was there against Dredge and Reanimator, both of which can be really tough.
ok, that match I knew only from coverage where situation described looks a bit silly...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona
you know discard doesn't matter when Polzl doesn't have graveyard interaction and by mana sources spent for Ad Nauseam (petal DR, DR/land/petal or something like that) it was harsh imho... G2 was much more interesting as Polzl extracted DR and was stuck on 1 land+top and kept blind flipping top to play Hymn to Tourach if he hit a land...
It was, he had ton of mana but not U, it was insane at first sight, then realizing he didn't play a land makes it just a slim chance of the few cantrips left, I can understand the excitement but definitely not a wise thing to do... in GP final...
I know, how is it better than extirpate? :really: Ok, totally screws dredge but is mediocre vs. Reanimator, shuts down PiF and has no other use... also lack of bounce is interesting... I mean it worked for him so fine, just weird choices from my point of view; eagerly awaiting a report
Hi
Im the lands player who happily lost to timo.
G2 when he made goblins:
The combo player should NEVER make goblins vs lands. Its just wrong, since lands survives them so easily. (tabernacle, EE2x, Bridge 2x, glacial chasm).
Knowing this, I took out both tabernacle and chasm. Otherwise the intuition I responded with would find: Loam, Tabernacle, chasm. => no death ty,sir.
That being said, with the Lands.dec version I played, i barely win 10 percen of the games, and was totally fine losing to Timo, who btw was a good sport. Only bad thing was losing my first game in the tournament in my first featurematch :)
In the grand scheme of things yes but locally one of my most common opponents runs MUD and its pretty brutal without the countermagic im accustomed to. Anyway nice job on the win through all that hate. Thalia kill is difficult too, in addition to everyone else who plays mav my wife also plays that deck so I have to face those bitches daily which is why I just started packing dread of night. Im convinced maverick is a female.Quote:
you don't need a MUD plan in vacuum, its to minor deck to care about and the match-up is Maverick-like dieroll, only your discard is better, I killed a guy keeping 2x CoV, Golem and drawing Trinisphere with discard and through on-board Golem btw. experiencing a kill through Thalia for the first time this week too =)
Never even heard of that card until now, seems iffy at best though since I only run 2 mountains total.Quote:
I recall a player here running Pulverize in the sideboard around a couple years ago. Not sure if it was ever cast, but seems effective.
You should run at least 3 mountains to make Pulverize work. The reason is that you want to burning wish for it and still be able to cast it if they wasteland your mountain used to cast BW.
Hi there,
here is a quick response of my friend Timo Schünemann, who won GP Ghent. I'll just quote him because he hasn't an account on the source yet:
"Greetings the source!
First of all: There will be a tournament report in english, I just have to find out which site wants it the most (might as well keep getting money for the win ).
What you need to know about me: This was my third GP and the first I day twoed. I played the deck in only one tournament before the weekend and that was with a very different sideboard. I playtested a bit and I'm usually the one who is forced to play storm if someone wants to test against it. That said, tournaments are very different from just fooling around on cockatrice. More on this and the two trials I played (one of which I won) in the report. The report will also contain more info on the sideboard and the other rounds. I will let you know when and where the report will be published.
Now to adress my mistakes.
First the Goblins against lands, which was probably my biggest screw-up of the tournament.
Here is what I thought: I can infernal for PIF and I might need more blue mana, so I crack my LEDs for red and blue respectively.
Here is what went wrong: PIF was in the board, because I board in the Iggy in matchups without countermagic. In addition to that screw-up it would have been incorrect to crack the LEDs for red and blue, even if I had been able to search for PIF, simply because I didn't need to cast any blue spells from the grave for more storm. Bottomline: Total screw-up.
Now the agressive Ad Nauseams in the quarterfinals: I think I made the right play by going for Ad Nauseam so early. Here is why: There is no downside to doing it. If it works, I just kill him on the spot. If it doesn't, I stop at 4 life and just pass the turn with an unbeatable hand against an empty board.
The totally unneccesary probe post PIF in the Finals: I should have tutored first (and did so the whole weekend), I just didn't think about it because I was so excited. That said: I had a bazillion mana in pool and a lotus petal in play, so there was basically no risk involved. Still: Tutoring first is strictly better."
Someone'll give him $50 for it. Why not?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarcomot
Here is my current list:
4 ponder
4 bs
4 dr
4 cabal rit
4 duress
2 thoughtseize
2 preordain
3 gitaxian probe
4 lotus petals
1 pif
1 ad naus
1 tendrils
3 burning wish
4 infernal tutor
4 leds
2 islands
2 u-sea
1 volc
1 swamp
3 scalding
4 polluted delta
1 badlands
1 bloodstained mire
sideboard
2 deathmarks
2 virtues ruins
3 extirpate
1 echoing truth
1 wipe away (was previously a second e truth but counterballance is coming back and its tough)
1 infest
1 pif
1 empty
1 tendrils
2 chain of vapor
i'm thinking about adding into the board
4 dread of nights
3 cages
1 iggy pop
dredge and reanimator are both very tough. as you can see these are ideas from gp ghent. right now i like the turn into board control by taking out all the discard and probes against g/w and killing their hate bears. the dread of nights are 1 cc which is nice.
the cages seem better against reanimator to me but i'm not sure.
Daze>>cage, cage>>pif and a decent Reanimator player should expect Extirpate and put some S&T in
pridemage>> dread of night Cannonist>>dread of night
and both thing cannot be flashbacked and have limited use... when you expect cannonist would you board Dread of Night in?
I won't even try to incorporate this tech unless Ghent winner states it performed extremely well in the GP
on the other side Iggy got some love from me after the tournament, it's not so bad as it seems
btw. don't play Pif SB and try 2 maindeck (...yeah it's more than good)
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any serious tech against CB Miracles aside pithing needle? the match-up is more than annoying as some paranoids have Flusterstorm/Meddeling mages SB
I've been running 2 Wipe Aways in my SB, they're quite good against a lot of things (Reanimator/S&T players will pass priority before drawing w/ Griselbrand, it's fine against Maverick, etc)...and it gives you outs to a resolve counterbalance. It's still an abysmal matchup, I think the best plan is to go balls-to-the walls aggressive against them and try to kill them before they land CB (even Pithing needle is pretty bad...they will just save their Brainstorms and keep a soft lock...which is good enough).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloshthedark
I've been boarding down to 14 land (I'm currently on 16 main), up to 3 Chrome Mox (from 0 main), and a 2nd Ad Nauseam, and then the two Wipe Aways...and it's still horrible, I think if you expect U/W miracles to be popular, you just have to play a different deck (unless they're on the plan w/o Counterbalances...then it's a fairly good matchup, you just play like they're any other slow control deck)