Just placed in 1st with Reanimator at Jupiter Games monthly NELC.
I posted a tournament report on the source as well as some changes I plan on making. Check it out
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Just placed in 1st with Reanimator at Jupiter Games monthly NELC.
I posted a tournament report on the source as well as some changes I plan on making. Check it out
Took second at an 8 man local tourney yesterday with Reanimator.
List:
// Creatures: 7
4x Griselbrand
1x Iona
1x Tidespout
1x Elesh Norn
// Spells: 35
4x Force of Will
3x Daze
4x Thoughtseize
4x Brainstorm
2x Ponder
4x Careful Study
4x Entomb
4x Reanimate
4x Exhume
2x Animate Dead
18x Lands including a Karakas
// Sideboard:
2x Flusterstorm
2x Spell Pierce
2x Echoing Truth
2x Chain of Vapor
1x Pithing Needle
2x Wasteland
1x Nihil Spellbomb
1x Blazing Archon
1x Inkwell Leviathan
1x Jin Gitaxian
Round 1: Burn by Lyon- 2-0
Game one: I think I get griselbrand online and start to hit him and the lifegain is too much. He correctly tries to kill the Griselbrand with a Chain Lightning and a Fireblast, but I find the daze for the fireblast and have just enough health to survive another turn and get the lifelink going.
SB: -1 Thoughtseize, +1 Jin Gitaxian.
Game two: Iona on turn 2.
Round 2: Scapeshift Nic Fit by Devin- 2-0
Game one: I keep a somewhat sketchy hand, he cabal therapies and I let it resolve, he whiffs. He casts a second therapy, and I force it. I brainstorm and put Exhume, Griselbrand on top of my library, keeping new cards in hand just in case he drops a creature or two. On my turn I draw the exhume, cast entomb, flip the griselbrand into the yard and exhume it. Griselbrand takes the game over.
SB: -3 Daze, +2 Chain of Vapor, +1 Pithing Needle.
Game two: He drops a leyline turn 0, I look at my hand of Entomb, 3x Exhume, Ponder, 2x land. Shit. I pray he doesn't therapy on exhume, he plays a land and passes. I ponder on my turn, not what I need on top, shuffle up and draw the Chain of Vapor. I draw something, play a land, pass the turn. He Green Sun's on his turn for a scavenging ooze, I bounce Leyline at the end of his turn and entomb for griselbrand. Untap, exhume. He somehow slips a pretty big board out of Huntsman / Ooze / Vet / Token to my Griselbrand. I end up not being able to race him somehow, the ooze ate my other creatures and he's threatening about 10 damage a turn and I'm already very low. I don't actually remember how I got into this position, I just know that I ended up being low on life and the game sort of dragged on. Eventually, he only had one green open and I was able to careful study an elesh norn and a tidespout tyrant in the yard. I exhume again, he eats Elesh, I get Tidespout. I thoughtseize to bounce the now large Ooze, and then force it on his main phase to bounce his huntsman and I take the win on the swingback next turn.
Round 3: Deathblade by Rich- 1-2
Game one: I push through a Griselbrand and take it in short order.
Game two: I keep a super cantrip heavy hand with a reanimate effect, all I need to do is find a creature with 2 brainstorms, a ponder, and a careful study. A key mistake where I don't shuffle with my first ponder leads to a poor brainstorm, which leads to really inefficient use of my cantrips. I know what I needed, and I ignored finding it. I read a post earlier on the source on how to properly play Ponder, and I really ignored their advice and lost because of it. I end up never finding a creature, and die because I opted to keep redundant effects instead of finding exactly what I needed.
Game three: I mull to 5 and have everything that I need. I entomb in response to his discard. He forces, I daze it, he forces again, I lose my entomb and my reanimate effect. He had the god-hand to stop me, and there was no way I could come back. In two turns he snap backs inquisition and takes my reanimate I rip off the top. =(.
We play another game for fun, and I have the god-hand back, so I'm not that upset about it, it can sometimes just happen.
I end up 2-1 to take second for some packs.
With the new Legendary changes, Reanimator can no longer rely on Karakas to protect its own creatures. Therefore, I have created a new list that I will be running.
MD:
4 Griselbrand
1 Iona
1 Elesh Norn
1 Tidespout
4 Entomb
4 Careful Study
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Force of Will
2 Thoughtseize
2 Pithing Needle
2 Show and Tell
4 Exhume
4 Reanimate
1 Animate Dead
4 U.Sea
2 Island
1 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
4 Lotus Petal
SB:
2 Flusterstorm
2 Spell Pierce
2 Pithing Needle
2 Thoughtseize
2 Echoing Truth
2 Show and Tell
2 Vendillion Clique
1 Angel of Despair
Upon further consideration, the sideboard will be adjusted as such:
-1 Thoughtseize
-1 Pithing Needle
+2 Karakas
The addition of Karakas in the sideboard is two fold: it provides additional lands to hardcast fatties in control matchups, adds mana to play around soft countermagic from RUG, etc, and it also is disruption against other Show and Tell decks.
At no point does reanimator really want four needles or four thoughtseize. Three of each is sufficient.
4 Grisel
1 Iona
1 Elesh
1 Angel of Desp
4 Reanimate
4 Exhume
1 Animate Dead
4 Careful Study
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Entomb
2 Show and Tell
4 Force of Will
4 Thoughtseize
4 U.Sea
2 Island
1 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
4 Lotus Petal
SB:
3 Pithing Needle
2 Echoing Truth
2 Karakas
2 Show and Tell
2 Flusterstorm
1 Spell Pierce
2 Vendillion Clique
1 Tidespout Tyrant
That series of posts was a little confusing, however, I happened to cave and traded off 2x Tropical Islands (I need to focus on one deck haha) for Show and Tells and Lotus Petals (3x SnT, 4x Petals). I put together the maindeck list you won NELC with and I have to say, with Lotus Petals, Show and Tell feels a lot better, the whole deck in general felt a lot better.
The only difference was that I was running 2x ponder, +1 thoughtseize +1 land over your list, I put everything together from memory and couldn't for the life of me figure out how you fit the last 2 ponders into the deck haha. So I just ran it as is and it felt great, but I'm definitely going to be putting the other ponders into the list and testing from there. I think your most recent sideboard is solid, I would probably, however, run the singleton Karakas maindeck as a good maindeckable answer to some SnT decks and instead of running Karakas in the board, run Wastelands. They still tap for mana, they deal with Karakas, they deal with Maze of Ith, they seem like a better slot after the legend rule.
Overall I definitely have to say, the maindeck just feels super solid and will feel even more solid when I get the extra ponders in there, Ponder rocks.
so karakas now is used solely as to bounce opposing legendaries?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kich867
seems like a smaller use to me
maybe we can improvise
It's still wildly powerful against SnT based decks, but in general I'm just running Wastelands over it when the legend rule happens. Wastelands kill Karakas and Maze of Ith, and both of those would be real annoying to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by jcsy
I ran Karakas as a stifle-proof Waste against opposing Karakas, with the added bonus of being good against SnT decks.
With the new ruling, the main purpose is removed, and the narrow application just doesn't warrant a spot in the 75.
Wasteland solves all the problems that Karakas did, and against SnT, I try and assembly Tidespout & cantrips as quickly as possible if I am unable to just outright counter the Show itself.
Update June-2nd-2013 noted & added to list.
11th place of 298 players, SCG Baltimore, June 2nd
http://sales.starcitygames.com//deck...p?DeckID=56340
Creatures (7)
1 Tidespout Tyrant
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
4 Griselbrand
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
Lands (15)
2 Island
2 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
4 Underground Sea
Spells (38)
4 Lotus Petal
1 Animate Dead
4 Brainstorm
4 Entomb
4 Force of Will
4 Careful Study
4 Exhume
4 Ponder
4 Reanimate
2 Show and Tell
3 Thoughtseize
~Sideboard:
2 Pithing Needle
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Terastodon
1 Echoing Truth
2 Flusterstorm
1 Repeal
2 Spell Pierce
1 Wipe Away
2 Show and Tell
1 City of Traitors
This one is pushing the more traditional Lotus Petal version, there are no Daze, as it seems it's been going back and forth between Daze -or- Lotus Petal since the Lotus Petal version has hit. This one also has 2 main / 2 side Show and Tell which has been seen more as of late. Also note the land count is 15
Ben Green Top 32ed and I top 64ed the event with Reanimator as well.
Oh dam nice! Reanimator isn't going anywhere anytime soon, hate, screw the hate! DRShaman isn't fast enough. ^^
Deathrite isn't actually that annoying, most notably with Show an Tell as your Plan B. It IS annoying, but not so much that the deck is unplayable given that Esper Deathblade gives you YEARS to find any action in most games. It's unfortunate that one of my two losses on the day was to that (the other was to Chris Pikula on RUG), but it felt more like a function of my drawing all air until late both games than anything else. You may want a few cards for Shaman, but Needle and Repeal cover them pretty admirably and are more flexible than something like, say, Ground Seal (Which I was considering to fight DRS/Noxious Revival/etc... but leave Exhume turned on).Quote:
Originally Posted by feline
For anyone wondering, my Karakas was missing on availability, but I also didn't miss it. Tidespout fights big dumb idiots quite well, Terastadon handled enemy Karakii in a fine manner, and Iona on Blue was all I ever wanted to do against other show and tell decks anyway (especially Omniclash which cannot actually beat that). Worth noting is I did mulligan a few times for colors despite replacing Karakas with an on-color basic, which leads me to believe running Karakas, while powerful, might also be shooting yourself in the foot due to The Fear.
Daze vs. Petal
Daze seems like a stronger sideboard choice than the mana-fueled counters like Spell Pierce (which was awkward and didn't get sided in often) against the aggressive disruption decks like RUG Delver that typically can put a Big Stuff deck like this on the back foot. Lotus Petals as a 4 of are incredible in the main deck, as most of the time you just want to do really awfully unfair things as soon as possible anymore. If you don't, their DRS comes online, or SnT->ETI happens, etc..
Petals in this deck feel kind of like running Moxes when no one else is, and it's fantastic.
-SZ
Ok, this has really intrigued me. I would never have considered this deck without extensive counters and disruption. I goldfished this deck and it is FAST!, and very consistant. Obviously no protection after that though.Quote:
Originally Posted by rodgon666
How come there has been NO discussion regarding this post. I think it merrits some consideration.
Because every other list is fast, consistent, and has extensive counters and/or disruption. The lack of protection and super awful creature/card choices is enough to not play it against any real deck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ish
I can see this reasoning. I tried the non counter list and it was just too fragile to survive in a diverse meta.
Cool to see Reanimator surge to DtB again. I've always loved the deck but am a little surprised in this heavy Deathrite Shaman meta it is doing so well.
DRS is heavily played, but it's Not just a DRS meta. There are a lot of good match ups for the deck. I feel Lotus Petal versions are the way to go not just against turn 1 DRS. Added value against mirrors, or other fast combo. Though Reanimator is one of the fastest decks anyway, it doesn't lose as much from daze as it gains on Petal, currently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ish
If it's around it demands hate.
Can I post in this thread regarding my BR reanimate list or is there another thread for that?
We got second, guys!
Also, DRS is completely beatable. It's good, but can be Thoughtseized or Force of Will'd or Needled or ignored with Show and Tell just like most cards we have to watch out for. If it comes to it, you can bin two guys with Study and Exhume.
Hardly the death knell for graveyard strategies.
I'm excited to see Reanimator back in the DtB section, also. The deck really is a big bottle of hot sauce.
Now to figure out the "Murder Maverick" fat guy. So far, looking like Sphinx of the Steel Wind might be coming back soon to a necromancer near you.
Grats on that 2nd place, there was also a Reanimator that got 15th place, time for an update to the main post to add some names!!!
Update June-24th-2013 noted & added to list.
SCG Philadelphia, 220 players:
2nd place - Seth Zulinski http://sales.starcitygames.com//deck...p?DeckID=56757
15th place - Gil Medeiros http://sales.starcitygames.com//deck...p?DeckID=56766
-edit- Actually Seth's name was on here last time too, so it's actually, adding 1 name, & keeping the previous, grats on the double top 16+ placing, in a row!
I agree that the effect seems good, but I'd still go with Jin as it draws you cards which is absurdly good. I still keep one singleton Jin in the 75 as it's just such a beating for combo decks. Especially preboard most Decks cant handle him all to well... My creatures are: 3 Griselbrand, 1 Jin-Gitaxias, 1 Tidespout Tyrant, 1 Iona, Shield of Emeria, 1 Blazing Archon. My metagame consists of various stuff, mostly Sneak&Show, control builds and some random stuff. The idea is to race aggro with Griselbrand, handle combo with him, Jin and Iona and use Tidespout Tyrant to beat Karakas. The sideboard only packs an Inkwell Leviathan for control matchups and is interchanged with the Jin to have two non-legendaries and still remain the blue count for FoW. It's also a lot better at racing.Quote:
Originally Posted by elof
I like Gil's combination of Petals and Daze alot. Seeing as to how one of the greatest strengths of reanimating Griselbrand is being able to draw in response to a threat and find an answer, more counters to dig for is quite nice, especially if we can retain the petals for explosiveness. I'm running a similar build
Sorcery (18)
4x Careful Study
4x Exhume
4x Ponder
4x Reanimate
2x Thoughtseize
Instant (15)
4x Brainstorm
3x Daze
4x Entomb
4x Force of Will
Creature (7)
1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
3x Griselbrand
1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
1x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1x Tidespout Tyrant
Enchantment (1)
1x Animate Dead
Land (15)
1x Island
4x Misty Rainforest
4x Polluted Delta
2x Swamp
4x Underground Sea
Artifact (4)
4x Lotus Petal
Although I do like -3 Daze, +2 Show and Tell, +1 Thoughtseize alot as well.
Still can't figure out if I want to run Jin Gitaxias in my main deck yet.
Personally I wouldn't. Griselbrand has completely made this guy obsolete in the "draw bunches of cards" category, and the odds of a 5/4 living through both your turn and theirs is currently....I don't have a number. But low. Really, really low.Quote:
Originally Posted by roflwaffles
He seems good against combo, but sometimes you CAN brick on force in your top 7. Griselbrand's on demand draw lets you use your proactive pieces like Thoughtseize and/or any Duress you run, or go deep again if you whiff on Force in your first iteration. Typically all I ever want against storm and the like is Griselbrand and Iona in orders that vary game to game. Jin is a one man KO if he sticks, but the window to (do something/murder your face in) he leaves them is actually larger than something like Griselbrand or Iona would give them.
that list seems familiar,
anyways grats on the finish.
Been ages for me since I last checked the forum, can't remember if this has been DTB for long or not.
I'm a fan of lotus petals in reanimate, give the burst of speed the deck needed ever since entomb got unbanned.
First: Thanks Feline for the primer! It's about time this got modernized:) I am resleeving this beast for some local testing as it was one of my favorite decks all time. Question about the sideboard. Has the two City of Traitors in the board become obsolete? These new versions seem more in on SnT than ever before, why not the Cities? I run 16 land main and 4 petals in my build and just came off a SnT binge where I really liked the sol lands. Thanks in advance!
defector
Show and Tell is easily the worst way of cheating a big dumb idiot into play that's available to you, since the other guy gets to play too and you don't get to pick and choose which monster to get. Sol lands help with SnT, but a) they don't really cast anything else and b) we aren't any more "on SnT" than previously. Deathrite really isn't that bad. Promise.Quote:
Originally Posted by defector
That said, there's probably a UB Sol Land build that could main 4 SnT and run powerful things like Intuition and/or Buried Alive ala Sneak and Show. What the rest of the deck might look like from there, dunno.
Just a couple questions guys:
What are your guys' thoughts on running a Sphinx of the Steel Wind in place of the fourth Griselbrand? Sphinx is definitely a weaker first reanimation target but he seems like one of the stronger ones to resolve after Griselbrand gets into play, especially with vigilance and lifelink protecting your life total.
Is Tidespout Tyrant considered universally stronger than Angel of Despair in the "dealing with permanents" business?
Has anyone tried Sheoldred, Whispering One in the SB so we don't lose to Show and Tell -> Emrakul or is that too narrow of a use to include?
If you need help after sticking a Griselbrand, you're probably against Maverick, in which case you're probably dead. Even in the event something happens to Big G, I'd rather just have another one than a Sphinx. Tried him in the board lately and found the card just never did anything I wanted it to do or couldn't already do better.Quote:
Originally Posted by roflwaffles
Tyrant does work, often giving me game against some of the fringe decks and cards like 12 Post and Ensnaring Bridge. Angel can handle a first bridge, but can't stop 12 post, can't render opposing big dumb idiots like Emrakul useless by holding Brainstorms, and is generally a Tidespout that only gets to activate once since the difference between "in hand" and "destroyed" is next to negligible - if it isn't in play, it doesn't matter. Tidespout is also your slim, SLIM game one hope against Maverick, which boils down to "make a tidespout, hope they don't have swords, bounce Maze of Ith a lot".
Personally, I'd rather have Tidespout or Angel against Show and Tell -> Emrakul decks, as for whatever reason they treat us like the mirror and usually never actually cast Show and Tell, instead falling back on Sneak Attack and Through the Breach. Sheoldred helps in neither of these cases. I find fighting their red half with Pithing Needle, Blue Elemental Blast, and Flusterstorms for their Flusterstorms typically works better than fighting the Show and Tell they never cast unless they're just on the stone cold nuts.
If anyone's interested, I also have a brief experiential kind of thing about SCGPHilly here: http://ecmclassics.com/?p=746. I plan on going deeper into the deck sometime this week, though most of this thread probably knows a lot of what I'm going to find and flesh out.
Hope this helps, waffles!
Thanks for the quick reply! It somehow escaped my head that Tyrant and Angel can deal with Emrakul lol (I just got back into the game after not playing seriously since 2004).
Wouldn't Sphinx be quite effective vs Maverick? Protection from green handles their big threats like Knight of the Reliquary while not being beaten by Karakas. Then again, I suppose Maze of Ith and Mother of Runes + Scryb Ranger/Aven Mindcensor handles him well as well. If Sphinx isn't worth it then I think Seth's list is the optimal list right now.
Overall the deck feels incredible, 10x stronger than it was when I piloted it 10 years ago with Putrid Imps + Akroma/Verdant Force/Spirit of the Night lol.
They usually have between 4-5 StP effects on top of all that, is the problem. I mean, you can have first turn Sphinx in play to beat Deathrite, Force to beat Swords, and then they're still going to get you with Maze. If I'm going the "please god dont have StP" or "I have force of will" route, Tyrant is a turn slower in terms of killing them, but more effective as you can usually keep them from doing absolutely anything until they can resolve a Swords to Plowshares. I'm working on this matchup currently, as its abominable for me so far, but even here Sphinx doesn't do much since he's not Pro:White.Quote:
Originally Posted by roflwaffles
Hi to all, I'm planning to play this deck in a small tournament tomorrow. The last time that I cast an entomb mental misstep was still legal so I'm asking for your advice since I don't have time for testing ^_^
The starting list is basically Worldslayer's with a few changes
4 lotus petal
3 griselbrand
1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
1 iona, shield of emeria
1 tidespout tyrant
1 elesh norn, grand cenobite
1 animate dead
4 entomb
4 brainstorm
4 force of will
4 underground sea
2 island
2 swamp
4 polluted delta
3 misty rainforest
4 reanimate
4 exhume
4 careful study
2 thoughtseize
4 ponder
1 personal tutor
2 show and tell
Sideboard
2 Pithing Needle
1 Inkwell Leviathan
or
Empyrial Archangel
1 blazing archon
1 terastodon
2 Flusterstorm
2 Misdirection
1 echoing truth
1 Wipe Away
2 Crippling Fatigue
2 Show and Tell
A few goldfishes have convinced me that 15 lands are enough and that petals fits well in because they give the deck the speed it needs (remember that the creatures you put into play lose value over time) and have a nice interaction with tidespout.
However I'm kinda clueless to how sideboarding because I have difficulties in finding what to side out: can you give me some advice on how to sideboard against the most common decks?
Another thing that bothers me is the maverick matchup because it has all the tools to hinder our plan: grave hate, 1cc exile removal, enchantment/artifact removal and some lists even discard, and on top of that they have a clock too. Maybe Empyrial Archangel can be of use since it doesn't die to removal nor to maze of ith and stops their aggro, but the matchup feel tough.
About sideboarding. Just ask. I think I've played nearly every possible match-up more than once and have had my share of high finishes. Also you got an entire board to help out.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingtk3
Just ask about specific match-ups. Because otherwise there's going to be a massive wall of text. Tbh I don't rrally like your sideboard. But I'll explain when I am not on my phone and gone from my work.
kingtk3, Griselbrand > Jin-Gitaxias so I'd recommend it as 4-of. +14 at instant speed is good against combo, or are you expecting alot of GriselB mirror?
To those SBing 2x Crippling Fatigue nowadays, how is it better than Chain of Vapor as a catch-all and Submerge?
Thank you for your interest. As I've said it's almost 2 years since I've played reanimator so the side may be "off target". How do your side look like?Quote:
Originally Posted by practical joke
I'm interested in how to side against Canadian RUG, Maverick (with deathrite) and stoneblade, but more in general I would like to know how many cards this deck can afford to side out before diluting the strategy too much.
Thank you again for your help!
I agree that Griselbrand is better the Jin, but there may be cases in which it's not possible to pay life for draw cards, though it may be a fringe case. Chain of vapor and Submerge are better cards than crippling fatigue, but the latter can be tutored with entomb and kills thalia and deathrite.Quote:
Originally Posted by death
The Fatigues were in there specifically for older iterations of Esper Deathblade, as it basically removed any and all pressure or board position they could muster and gave you almost limitless time to do something relevant. With their recent change in focus to Geist of St. Traft, it's a card I'd run at most one of. Currently I'm not planning on playing any at Worcester.Quote:
Originally Posted by death
Please stop playing Elesh Norn, she's seriously bad. Play Iona naming Blue instead, we all know Blue is the best color in the game.
Sincerely, Elves.
wut...Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombie
I can't remember ever casting elesh norn against elves, seemed to be overkill.
On another note, decent sideboards cards for petal reanimate lists:
Nature's claim,
Divert,
generic GY hate,
Chain of vapor,
echoing truth,
abrupt decay,
xantid swarm,
spell pierce,
more generic discard,
more silver bullets.
I'm not saying these are all the cards that are good for the deck, but I rather avoid Show and Tells added in my sideboard due to the 3 mana cost, I'd rather rely on the maincards and the speed of the deck while bursting through hate. I've never been really affraid of gy hate in general.
I'm not saying it's a bad sideboard card, I just prefer NOT to play it.
I'm also quite oldschool with my favorite creatures though, but that could be because I haven't played this deck on a tournament for quite a few years. I still have had a lot of practise with the deck and a lot matches played. just not on tournaments, which I've skipped a lot, but slowly going to pick up on those as well.
Hahaha, I'll have to remember :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zombie
I've played in my lgs a couple of days ago, there were 20 people. My list was this with empyrial archangel in side.
Here's a mini report:
Round 1 vs Death and Taxes:
G1 - griselbrand on turn 1 with petal + study + reanimate. He didn't find an out in time.
G2 - Griselbrand on turn 2 follwed by needle on karakas, needle on mangara and elesh norn.
Side -1 Jin +1 empyrial
1 - 0
Round 2 vs jund
G1 - jin on turn 2 with counter for the spell he'll play on his turn.
G2 - Gris on turn 2 but he plays liliana on the following turn and already has a goyf in play. I risk drawing 7 cards looking for a fow, didn't find any and goyf kiils me.
G3 - Griselbrand on turn 2 via show and tell
Side -1 reanimate, -1 animate dead, -1 carfeul study, -2 duress, +2 show and tell, +3 pithing needle (for deathrite)
2 - 0
Round 3 vs elves
G1 - griselbrand on turn 2, too fast for him as I already have some disruption
G2 - not knowing his list (he didn't play deathrite nor bayou before) I side only the crippling fatigues. He plays deathrite on turn 1 and ooze on turn 2. I manage to kiil the ooze but didn't find anymore action before he kills me slowly.
G3 - Here I make 2 BIG errors. First of all I fetch Griselbrand with entomb while I should have choose Elesh or Iona since he had only a deathrite in play and there was a needle naming it. Second when I exhume Griselbrand I pass the turn while I should have immediately draw 7 cards since I had S&T in hand. I lost because next turn he plays glimpse and in my 7 there wasn't fow but Iona... lesson learned
Side -1 reanimate, -1 animate dead, -1 carfeul study, -2 duress, -1 Jin, +2 show and tell, +3 pithing needle (for deathrite), +1 blazing archon
2 - 1
Round 4 vs high tide
G1 - My first 7 where fow, 2 lands, entomb and 3 cantrips. This game was very long, my entomb gets double countered and I played a total of 8 cantrips (reshuffling after each brainstorm) without finding any action. I concede after the second spiral.
G2 - first turn carefull discarding jin, second turn duress + reanimate with counter backup.
G3 - I entomb at the end of his second turn and he counters. In my main I play a second entomb which he tries to counter but I have misdirection for backup. I fetch Iona and reanimate her.
Side -1 tidespout, -1 elesh, -2 show and tell, +2 misdirection, +2 flusterstorm
3 - 1
Round 5 vs UWr tempo
ID
3 - 1 - 1
Top 8
Quarterfinals vs WBg rockstyle
G1 - I exhum Jin on second turn while he has a confidant in play. On his turn he tries to stp Jin but I have Fow. Griselbrand follows two turns after.
G2 - I have a God hand: petal, underground sea, reanimate, entomb, fow, ponder, needle. He thoughtseize me on turn 1 but I fow; on my turn I draw a land and play entomb -> iona the reanimate her naming white. On his second turn He didn't play anything and on my turn I play needle blind-naming liliana.
Side -1 reanimate, -1 animate dead, -1 carfeul study, -2 duress, +2 show and tell, +3 pithing needle
Semifinals vs Jund
G1 - He win the roll and play first turn deathrite. On my turn I play duress: he has liliana, deathrite, 2 hymns and a land. I discard liliana and make a consideration on how hymn is terrible against reanimator since it put creatures in the grave speeding my clock. He seems to agree since he plays the second shaman leaving G open. In my second turn I play land, petal, S&T -> griselbrand :tongue:
G2 - I didn't find action soon and at some point he has 3 shaman and 2 confidant in play and a surgical in hand. I have in play a needle naming shaman and I'm at 6 with griselbrand and elesh in the grave; I brainstorm seeing an exhume and play it. He wisely choose to remove elesh so I get griselbrand in play. On his turn he reveals broodbraid elf and something else, putting him at 13. The elf reveals a thoughtseize and he doesn't attack. I attack, now I'm at 13 and he's at 6. On his turn he reveals liliana and pulse. I was very lucky this time :smile:
Side -1 reanimate, -1 animate dead, -1 carfeul study, -2 duress, +2 show and tell, +3 pithing needle
Finals vs Waterfall (a friend of mine playing my deck)
We split and go home with a fow and an altered jace
The deck felt strong and my loss against elves was my mistake. I echo Worldslayer's words: deathrite it's not a big problem and we have tools in side to fight it. The side worked except for the crippling fatigues which were too slow, I maybe replace them with massacre or some other bounce and a counter.