To get away from Ari for a moment. i went 4-1 with a Junk Walker Fit yesterday. I was able to get Doubling Season/vraska kill. Twice.
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To get away from Ari for a moment. i went 4-1 with a Junk Walker Fit yesterday. I was able to get Doubling Season/vraska kill. Twice.
... I dont follow this forum much anymore... but list? LolQuote:
Originally Posted by jbone2016
Living the dream! Nice. What did your list look like?Quote:
Originally Posted by jbone2016
Also, hoping to some angry mountains on camera soon.
Lost to a very lucky sneak player. 5-2 :(
Bummer. :( Win the last to get some more cash!Quote:
Originally Posted by Arianrhod
Makes me sad... I havent seen a top 8 with a Nic Fit deck in awhile :/Quote:
Originally Posted by Arianrhod
4x Veteran ExplorerQuote:
Originally Posted by TheArchitect
1x Starved Rusalka
1x Scavenging Ooze
1x Eternal Witness
1x Thrun, the Last Troll
1x Thragtusk
1x Sigarda, Host of Herons
1x Baneslayer Angel
1x Sun Titan
3x Pernicious Deed
4x Cabal Therapy
4x Green Sun's Zenith
1x Diabolic Intent
1x Maelstrom Pulse
3x Sensei's Divining Top
2x Abrupt Decay
1x Thoughtseize
1x Doubling Season
1x Elspeth
1x Vraska
1x Liliana of the Veil
1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
1x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
1x Ajani Goldmane
3x Bayou
2x Savannah
1x Scrubland
3x Verdant Catacombs
3x Windswept Heath
1x Marsh Flats
3x Forest
3x Plains
2x Swamp
2x Phyrexian Tower
Sideboard
1x Humility
2x Leyline of Sanctity
2x Mindbreak Trap
1x Batterskull
3x Carpet of Flowers
1x Extirpate
1x Cranial Extraction
1x Memoricide
1x Surgical Extraction
1x Eternal Witness
1x Thoughtseize
Beat American Aggro, Lands (twice), and Death and Taxes. Lost to a Shardless BRUG deck. Lost top Countertop Helm in top 8.
Beat dredge. 6-2
Lost to reanimator due to a punt. Still finished 32nd for $100. Very close good games through the day....report will follow tomorrow.
Good job Arianrhod.
Someone was playing rector locally in Pittsburgh on Saturday. A source member?
Grats on the finish! Looking forward to the report, as always!Quote:
Originally Posted by Arianrhod
His name's Pat -- I think he's posted on here once or twice, but he basically does his own thing. He has a very different philosophy on the deck than I do, and we've had a number of discussions about whether Teeg belongs in the list, for example, and arrived at separate conclusions. From what I hear from my friend (Brian Coval), he has a propensity for making amusingly horrible plays, too -- but he also seems to top 8/top 4 down there fairly consistently, so hey, all's good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Star|Scream
Typing up my report now -- expect it in a few hours. I actually took some amount of notes for once in my life!
Yeah that's me and I do make some terrible plays from time to time, for example, in the finals against Brian on elves I had teeg down and decided to kill him with reccuring nightmare so that I could use my GSZ to find Sigarda and kill him faster. Little did I know he had his own Zenith and Natural Order in hand oops. Everything usually works out though and this week I went 3-0-1. What were you playing Starscream?
It also helps that in the last two weeks there were only two combo decks in the whole room (High Tide and OmniTell) and I havent had to play them.
Alright. So going into the event, I was playing the list in my sig with the following changes:
Main:
-1 Avenger of Zendikar
+1 Scapeshift
Side:
-1 Red Elemental Blast
-1 Damnation
-1 Bramblecrush
+1 Maelstrom Pulse
+1 Reverent Silence
+1 Haunting Echoes
I've already explained the rationale behind every change except one: trimming the 3rd REB in favor of the Haunting Echoes. My thought process therein was that I wanted an extra bomb for the Esper/Jund/BUG matchups, which have a tendency of lasting approximately forever. It was never meant to be Wished for -- it was an actual legit sideboard selection. The theory is you just board it in and then between Topping and just naturally drawing/thinning, you should hit it mid-late game by which point your opponent will have done a ton of things, and then you just lower the boom and exile 2/3 of their deck. I made this change upon hearing from friends on-site that there was a metric shitton of Jund in the Legacy Challenge. I was already expecting a meta of Esperblade, Maverick, Deathblade, Jund, and Shardless, with Show and Tell (both Sneak and Omni) and Elves being the leading two combo decks in an otherwise fair room. Echoes seemed like a decent choice going in.
I had to get up at the asscrack of dawn (530 AM) to grab a quick shower before hitting the road at 6. I quickly collected the other members of my car, and we were off. About 3.5 hours later, we arrived at the venue. The Baltimore Convention Center is definitely one of the better venues SCG likes to frequent, so props to them for that.
Round 1: Nate with Junk
My opponent opens with a land and ships back. Over the next few turns, he deploys a turn 2 Liliana courtesy of a Mox Diamond, but then proceeds to flood out while I Wish for a Pyro to kill my 2x Veteran Explorers, and then cast the Scapeshift in my hand for the kill.
Out: 1 Therapy
In: Haunting Echoes
Game two he once again makes a very fast Liliana (t2) and proceeds to start +1'ing her. He tries aggressively mana screwing me, with double Wasteland (one of which was Living Wish'ed for) and a Vindicate. I have an Explorer in play with like one land remaining, but no way to off it, and no hand. My opponent has like 2 or 3 lands and a Liliana, and no hand. I proceed to draw lands off the top, while he plays a Chalice@1 and otherwise also draws lands (and Mox Diamonds) off the top. At some point I draw a Therapy and discard it to Liliana, but as I have no hand, I decide that keeping the Explorer in play in case of a Liliana ult is a better line. A few turns later I draw Primeval Titan, with 4 lands in play. Hey lookit. I flashback my Therapy (which gets countered...whatever), and drop Titan. He's obviously going to -2 his Liliana to get rid of it, but I felt that getting the 2 lands out of my deck was worth trading in my Explorer. So yeah. He nukes my Titan, and then I rip Eternal Witness off the top -- which conveniently gets back a Scapeshift that had been discarded to Lily earlier in game. GG.
Round 2: Slade with Green Deadguy
I lead with Forest->Explorer. He leads with a Thoughtseize, and sees my shaky keep of no further lands, but approximately all of the business (including Thragtusk, Huntmaster, Burning Wish, Therapy, and some other good stuff). He takes the Wish. I naturally rip a black source for my Therapy, and Therapy him seeing Souls, Deathrite, Wate, Karakas, Marsh Flats, and a Jitte. The flashback takes the Jitte. We go back and forth for a while. I eventually just run him out of gas (even with an active Bob that he drew after my Therapy...zzzz....), and he dies to Thragtusk beats.
Out: 1 Therapy
In: Haunting Echoes
Game two I keep another silly hand, which, to be fair, I SHOULD have mulled. If it was on the play, sure, snapkeep. But on the draw, it was a mistake....I just got lucky and drew out of it. My hand was Bayou, Top, Therapy, Deed, Green Sun, (cards). He opens with Inquisition and takes my Top. I rip an Explorer, and opt to go for the Therapy first, as my deck runs more green sources than black sources (in case of Wasteland). I call Dark Confidant, and brick, seeing Elspeth, DRS, Jitte, Batterskull, Verdant, Karakas. He doesn't draw the Wasteland, and I'm in the game. He drops his Deathrite and ships back. I Explorer into flashback Therapy (taking Elspeth), and play my Deed. After some back and forth, I end up Deeding away his board of some Souls, the Deathrite, and the Jitte. He then taps out to play Batterskull on an empty field. I Wish for Pulse and nuke it. Huntmaster, Wolf, Eternal Witness, and a double-pumped Chameleon Colossus kill him in one shot from 23 to dead.
Round 3: Ross Merriam with Elves
This was a fake-feature match, and the only one I got all day because I'm not an SCG pro. As I saw the pairings, my mind was preparing for Elves. I can't even remember why I associated the name Ross Merriam with Elves, but I felt that he'd done very well at an SCG open or some such with the deck. I later researched and saw that he in fact has quite a string of SCG top 8s with Elves, including a 3/4 finish at the Invitational at Atlanta.
Game 1 I open a "race you" hand, with double Explorer, Therapy, Wish, and the lands to cast it all. He leads off with Verdant->Bayou->Deathrite. I here make my first serious misplay of the day: I don't follow my gut. Ignoring my gut which is SCREAMING Elves, I Therapy him calling Liliana of the Veil for some ungodly reason. Even if he was on Jund, my hand wasn't scared of a t2 Liliana because I could just race him. No idea what I was thinking. Anyway, I see a hand of Glimpse, NO, Nettle, Green Sun, Bayou, Misty. He makes some elves and passes back. I flashback the Therapy to take away the Glimpse, and play out Explorer #2. He Natural Orders out Hoof without playing any more elves, and smacks me with just the Hoof for 8. I chump with Explorer #2, and drop to 13. He then ships back. Now, I can't quite kill him yet, as he's at 19. I have 7 lands in play, and need him to either fetch to 18, or to draw another land to actually kill him. As such, I opt to play Thragtusk and pass, which I still feel is correct. I could have Wish->Pyro, but that would have only taken out like 3 elves and left me with a 5/5 and no board presence -- it also uses my only way of actually killing him. He ends up casting Natural Order #2 for Craterhoof #2, and swings for 29. Awkward.
As the game turned out, if I had Wish->Pyro, then I could have survived (he couldn't have Hoof #2'd me that turn). I would have dropped to 8 on the swing, then gone back to 13 post-Tusk and been able to trade with his Hoof. Then it would have just come down to which one of us drew better. I do still think that my line was correct in 75-80% of circumstances, though. I'll also note that if I'd stuck to my gut like I knew I should have, the blind Therapy would have hit Glimpse, and then the flashback would have hit both Natural Orders, which means I would have won the game easily.
I missed my board notes here. I know that I brought in Thoughtseize, Pulse, and the 3 Slaughter Games. Wish in this matchup is purely for Pyroclasm and/or Scapeshift. Period.
Game two is actually just insane, and takes forever. I don't even know how to best sum up the game, so I'll say that it revolved around two thing:
I'd Therapied him, and saw 3 lands and a Hoof. On the flashback I got rid of the Hoof. He blind rips Glimpse, and goes APESHIT. He has multiple Symbiotes, multiple Nettles + Heritage, multiple Visionaries, etc. What he DOESN'T have is Natural Orders (courtesy of Slaughter Games), OR a 2nd Craterhoof, which I knew he boarded out to bring in the Progenitus courtesy of said Slaughter Games. He realizes this about halfway through his combo turn, and proceeds to cast somewhere around 2/3 of his deck before stopping. I had no hand, with 6 lands in play. He had also discarded my Pryoclasm earlier in the game, as I had Wished for it t2 and he had the Thoughtseize.
He finally passes, and I say, "okay, let's see if my topdeck can match yours."
It's a fucking Green Sun's Zenith. Which gets me Eternal Witness, which gets my Pyroclasm, with exact mana, to wrath away literally 2/3 of his deck.
He obviously saves some stuff with Symbiotes, and I'm not in great shape, but fuck man, I'm still alive. We both realize over the next few turns that his out is to Zenith Progenitus (he'd boarded out his Birchlore, because grindy matchup not combo race matchup). I try to keep his board as small as I can with a Huntmaster flipping back and forth while looking for a Deed, a Scapeshift, a Wish, a 2nd Huntmaster, or a Slaughter Games. He draws the Progenitus a few times, and ends up having to Thoughtseize himself once to get it back in his deck. He also Glimpsed off a few times to get enough cards in his hand to move to discard to shuffle it back in. I hit a late Therapy, and call Green Sun, hitting 2. He draws the 3rd off the top and finally gets Progenitus out. Naturally I draw the lethal Slaughter Games that turn, now that it no longer matters. I still have 2 more turns to draw an out (Scapeshift or Wish would do it, and Top would help). Instead, I brick on back-to-back land draws.
Oh, and he ended the game at like 4 life after using Deathrites to eat creatures to barely stay alive while Huntmaster kept shocking him / swinging with Trample.
Absolutely insane match, and a ton of fun. Misplay #1 still sucks, but game 2 was so much fun that it kind of washed out the salt from that wound.
Round 4: Warren with Esperblade
Warren is a friend of mine from the Mythic Games crew, and we both knew going in exactly what was going to happen. I don't even really have much to say about this match....it went exactly as it's supposed to. We were also goofing off like crazy and probably being a huge distraction to the people on either side of us, because fuck it, we were having fun.
Oh, one cool trick that I did in game two here -- he had an active Jace, and an active Jitte with like 4 counters on it equipped to a Snapcaster. I had approximately infinite life after he'd Snap/Swords'd my Colossus and I pumped in response. I had a Top and a Sakura-Tribe in play, with junk on top of my deck. He decides that he wants to swing through next turn, so he pings off my Tribe-Elder. I have a Wish floating on top of my deck that I want to use to Scapeshift for the win, but I don't want the other two cards. I proceed to (holding priority) Activate Spin, Activate Tribe-Elder, Activate Draw off Top. This allows me to draw the Wish, then shuffle and get a land, then look at the top 3. I stack the top 3 (top) Deed -> Primeval -> Forest. As expected, he fateseals me and puts the Deed on the bottom. I then play Primeval, which gets Forced, and then he leaves the Forest on top. That Forest allows me to Scapeshift him for 36 next turn, which was necessary because his Jitte had 5 counters on it and could gain him 10 life. I felt pretty proud of that.
I don't recall my board. I know the REBs, Echoes, and I think two of the Slaughter Games came in. I know I boarded out at least one and probably two Explorers, and one Therapy. Don't recall the other two boards.
Round 5: Hao with Sneak Attack
I kept a spicy hand with Explorer, Huntmaster, and double Therapy -- but no black source. He spends the first few turns playing Volcanic Islands and cantripping, which immediately tells that he's either the old Burning Wish Omni or Sneak. I finally hit a black source and Therapy him, which he allows to resolve. I name Omniscience, which was a bad name because Show and Tell is in both decks. Slight misplay there, but it ended up not mattering. He had Intuition, Show, Emrakul, Force, Island, Pierce x2. I flashbacked the Therapy, which was met with a Force pitching Pierce. I then Therapied again, which resulted in him Intuitioning for Force x3, to then Force pithing Pierce #2. I then played Huntmaster and ate the wolf to make him get rid of his Show and Tell, leaving him with just Island + Emrakul. He doesn't get there in time before a pair of Huntmasters close the deal.
In: Reb x2, Slaughter x3
Out: Thragtusk x1, Huntmaster x1, Deed x3
Game two we DEMOLISH each others' decks. I kept a slightly slower hand that had Top, mana, and double Slaughter Games. He was obviously a more cautious player, and I figured that he would take some time to get himself set up / have protection. I'm just dead if he has Leyline (unless I can find a Wish to Reverent Silence), or if he goes like Tomb Petal Show. However, my read was correct, and sure enough, he spends the first two turns cantripping while I play lands and a Sakura-Tribe Elder. He plays a Sneak Attack on his turn 3, which finally resolves for me whether he's playing bad-Omni or Sneak. I trade in my Tribe Elder, which gets me 4 mana on my turn 3 to resolve Slaughter Games. I take away his Emrakuls, hitting one in his hand and showing me another Sneak, Breach, and Intuition. He Intuits for triple Griselbrand and Sneaks one out, which has me cackling inside because he doesn't realize that by getting triple Griselbrand, he's reducing his outs to 1 remaining Griselbrand + Show and Tell. He then proceeds to Surgical my Slaughter Games, which takes away my next-turn-win. We durdle for a few turns while he digs and I disrupt with Therapy as best I can / assemble pressure I eventually hit a Burning Wish, and plan to Wish for Reanimate to take one of his Griselbrands, but he Brainstorms into a Force of Will for it, and then Surgicals my Wishes, too! The game finally ends with him at 1 life after shuffling a Ponder and blind-drawing. He slumps ever so slightly in his chair, which clues me in that he drew the Griselbrand but can't Show it this turn because he only has 2 mana untapped, and thus doesn't have a Petal. I Therapy the Show (math dictated that Show was the smart name as he had all of his Shows left and only 1 Griselbrand in deck), and then flash it back with the obvious intention of hitting the Griselbrand, which has the desired result of forcing him to Sneak out the demon, which ended the game in my favor as he realized that he didn't have anything left.
Round 6: Andrew with Affinity
My opponent was being very, very cagey with his shuffling and was also absolutely stonefaced, which is a trait that I've noticed out of a lot of combo players, so I was pretty nervous going in. When he led off with Vault of Whispers, Memnite, Springleaf, Signal Pest, it was like a ray of sunshine peaking over the horizon. I had slain the Sneak and Show menace, and god rewarded me with a bye.
My notes are nonexistent, with one word scrawled hastily across the bottom of the page: "Deed." Such was the epitaph on his tombstone.
Round 7: Chas (2nd place finisher) with Sneak Attack
I apparently had too much fun with Affinity guy, and god now decided to instead punish me.
Game one I kept a odd hand of 5 lands, Explorer, Top. The only thing I knew about my opponent was that he had an Echoing Truth in his sideboard, because I'd happened to be talking to Ross at the end of the last round, who'd happened to be standing next to Chas while he was de-siding. Now, in my mind, when I see an Echoing Truth, I think that my opponent is probably playing BUG -- something like my landstill deck, maybe (which often has a Truth in the sideboard to deal with Blood Moons because 1-of Basic Island and 22 nonbasics). In those kind of matchups, Top and mana is your best friend. So when my opponent vomits out a Sneak Attack on turn two with double Lotus Petal (scared of Therapy, I think), I was immediately like OH SHIT.
I quickly changed my Topping, and found a Burning Wish to Slaughter out his Emrakuls. I saw that he had a Show and Tell and a Lotus Petal in his hand. I then Topped next turn into Eternal Witness, to Slaughter his Griselbrands, too.
My boarding was the same here.
Game two he opens the stone nuts, with t0 Leyline of Sanctity + t1 Show and Tell. I just scoop.
Game three he does not have Leyline, which means I actually get to play a game of Magic. I am also actually the saltiest about this game, and remain salty to this moment. I lead with Therapy, calling Show and Tell. I hit, and see the following hand:
Sneak
Breach
Griselbrand
Ponder
Brainstorm
Ancient Tomb
Yes, there is no colored mana there. Yes, I understand why he kept it (he was a HYPER aggressive Sneak player...complete opposite of my earlier opponent). Sneak and Show also doesn't run that much mana, and has 6-7 more colorless lands in the deck. So when he naturally drew a basic Island off the top of his deck, I was pretty irritated (it also turned on his Brainstorm, which made my flashback Therapy poor). Long story short, I eventually made a Huntmaster and went to 22, and applied what pressure I could. I couldn't find a Slaughter Games this time, and my opponent quickly Snuck out Griselbrand. He then proceeded to draw 14 cards, going 3, then cantripped twice, fetched to 2, and Brainstormed, Brainstormed AGAIN, and the Emrakul was the 3rd card down on the last cantrip. Petal->Sneak->22 you for exactsies.
This game still makes me furious. It also killed my top 8 hopes, by putting me to 5-2.
Round 8: Isaac with Dredge
My opponent leads with a Putrid Imp. Lovely. I quickly introduce him to how good Sakura-Tribe Elder is against his deck, poofing two Bridges as he passes priority when moving to mainphase 1. I unfortunately am a victim of irony, as my hand contained double Wish, double Huntmaster -- all of which got Therapied away. My topdecks did not keep in my game vs a pair of Ichorids and some Narcos.
I boarded in the two Slaughter Games, and the Haunting Echoes, because OH MY GOD I WANT TO DO THAT. I rationalize that Echoes is better as a chance to draw/top into in the main as opposed to costing 7.
Game two I have a hard "race you" hand, and kill him on I believe turn 3. Explorer is also hilarious against Dredge, because he's basically a 1-mana Moat.
Game three he mulled to 5, and even then had issues getting his engines going. He finally did get running off of an LED, but it was too little, too late. Chameleon Colossus smacked him down to 7, which led me to get a "style win," as I drew Burning Wish. I could have Wished for Scapeshift and just won. OR, I could go for the style kill, which I mean come on, when you get the chance to style kill, you go for it. So I wished for Reanimate, Reanimated his Angel of Despair, killed his Nacromoeba, and smacked him for 8 with Colossus.
Round 9: Seth with Reanimator
I was 13th on breakers going into this round, and my opponent wanted to play for the glory of getting his name in the top 16 decklists. I was annoyed (as I would have rather ID'd and been guaranteed top 32, whereas a loss [to 6-3] would likely knock me out.
Game one I open one of the most disgusting hands I have ever seen. It was Forest, Tower, Explorer, Explorer, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Wood Elves, Scapeshift. Snap-keep. He leads with basic Island, Lotus Petal. Fucking lovely. I drew a second Scapeshift for my turn. Oh yes, this is happening. I Tower my Explorer, play Wood Elves, play Tribe-Elder, play Explorer. EoT I trade up Tribe-Elder, while he just plays land and sits there. I proceed to eat my Explorer off Tower, and Scapeshift. He hardcasts a Force. I Scapeshift again, and this time, he dies.
Now, the downside is, I have no fucking idea what I'm playing. I've seen basic Swamps, basic Islands, Lotus Petals, a cantrip I think, and a Force of Will. For some reason, my frustrated and addled brain decides that he's probably on OmniTell or Sneak and Show splashing black for Thoughtseize.
Yeah, I don't know either.
No board notes, because fuck my life.
Game two I therapy him calling something horribly wrong, and see Force, Delta, Swamp, Ponder, Study, Exhume. He cantrips and passes back. I attempt Explorer, which he Forces (denying me both mana and the chance to flashback my Therapy). He Entombs, binning Iona, and then Exhumes it on his turn. He calls Green. He also Entombs again for some reason, and bins Griselbrand.
Now, here I make Epic Misplay #2, aka the Great Punt, aka FUCK. I flashback the Therapy and check for Force of Will, because he has 2 unknowns and I don't want to get dicked over with what I'm about to do. I brick, and see Show and Tell + Elesh Norn.
For some godforsaken reason, I decide to yolo and go ahead with my plan: I'm going to Burning Wish -> Reanimate his Griselbrand. He obviously Shows out Elesh (I Show Thragtusk), and then swings with his now substantially-larger-than-my-demon Iona. I chump, obv, and then I quickly die.
If I had been intelligent and actually thought things through, I would have grabbed Innocent Blood, getting rid of the Iona and freeing the rest of my hand. Then NEXT turn I could have used my second Burning Wish to Reanimate Iona (which I would've had the life for after Showing Thrag), naming black and completely shutting down his deck. DERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP.
Game three wasn't even a game. He opened the classic t1 Entomb t2 Griselbrand hand, and I summarily died.
Happily, I ended 32nd because my breakers were good, which was still good for $100 and 4 more invitational points, which brings me to 8 total on the year. I have 3 more SCG Opens this month coming up (both halves of Columbus, and the legacy half of Philly). Hopefully I can get a total of 8 points between those 3 events, and manage to qualify for the invitational at Somerset. Depending on how Columbus goes, I might even say screw Jupiter and go down to Philly on Saturday to lock up the Invitational (because even if I only get 2 points per open, which is the minimum, that's 8 points + my current 8 is 16, which you need 15 to qualify). Hopefully I can manage to at least top 32 at Columbus as well, though, which will lock it up without me needing to go to Jupiter.
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To conclude:
Punted g1 vs Elves, but that match likely would have been a draw anyway because game 2 took forever. Also, Ross would've been on the play in 3, and if I didn't get a good enough hand, that deck can be horrifically explosive, and I may have lost regardless.
Horrible luck (or godly luck for my opponent) vs Sneak #2. Sneak with Leyline of Sanctity is one of the absolute worst matchups for Scapewish, though, and getting that close in general was good.
Epic punts g2 vs Reanimator, which is the OTHER absolute worst matchup for Scapewish. This match ended up not even mattering, though, and while it would have been nice to get 10th place (where I would've finished on breakers had I won) and get my list published again, I can't be TOOOOOO broken up about it.
As for the deck....
Haunting Echoes was unnecessary. I never saw it once on the day, and even when I did get paired vs the grindy matchups, I think that adding the 3rd maindeck Scapeshift actually serves the function of increasing threat density without actually needing to have an extra bomb in the board.
Speaking of which, the 3rd maindeck Scapeshift is nonfoil, because I couldn't find a foil one when I wanted it a few weeks ago. This has the side effect of me knowing exactly when I draw that slot, which allows me to evaluate mentally whether I'm happier if it's Scapeshift vs when it was Avenger. Let's just say that had that slot been Avenger, I would have had a much, much worse day. That particular Scapeshift racked up a lot of kills.
I never saw a REB on the day. I'm not sure if that's a side effect of going down to 2 (although realistically trimming 1 copy shouldn't have had that much of an effect). I'm also unconvinced whether REB is even necessary anymore. Jace hasn't been an issue for me lately, and I mean yeah it's good to counter Show and Tells and/or blow up Omnisciences in response to Enter the Infinite, or whatever---but I'm not actually sure that REB is even a good choice at the moment. God that feels weird to say.
More thoughts later -- been typing for like 2 hours.
I was not at the tournament this week. I'll probably be at the next one. If I play Nic Fit it will be Scapewish.Quote:
Originally Posted by plogan
Excellent report, I enjoyed it. I have taken your Rector list to a few local tournaments and intend to try my hand at Scapewish at two more later this month. I wish you good luck getting to the invitational. It would be a pleasure to see Scapewish on the scg coverage again.
Here's my latest build:
1x Scavenging Ooze
2x bayou
4x Cabal Therapy
4x deathrite shaman
1x Dryad Arbor
3x Eladamri's Call
1x fierce empath
1x Forest
4x Green Sun's Zenith
4x liliana of the veil
4x living wish
4x pernicious deed
1x Phyrexian Tower
2x Plains
1x qasali pridemage
2x Savannah
2x sun titan
2x Swamp
1x Sylvan Safekeeper
4x thoughtseize
4x Verdant Catacombs
4x Veteran Explorer
1x wasteland
3x Windswept Heath
I'm not sure why anyone would ramp into anything but Sun Titan. It get even better with the new legendary rule because you can chain Lilianas.
I don't know if this has been talked about yet, but I was curious if faith fetters is worth playing with the new legendary rule change?
In a word: no. O-Ring becomes strictly better -- sucks that Ring gets Deeded away frequently and Decay'd, but at least it is also Sun Titan-able.Quote:
Originally Posted by CRich3
I was debating cutting fetters for the new mythic enchantment I'll probably test it in a tournament and if it doesn't go well oblivion ring it is!