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I see quite a few lists running Underground Sea's which is great and all but I do not have any.
What dual would you suggest in it's place, I'm not sure if the pain lands are better in this situation as opposed to the Ravnica shock lands. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Running rainbow lands (City of Brass, Gemstone Mine) really helps your sideboard options, and are about $100 cheaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wereodile
City of Brass (Duh!) good call thank you.
BreathWeapon mentioned Tireless Tribe and for some reason I just wanted to post my Dredge list on the Source and see if anyone plays a particular build. I basically run extended Dredge because I greatly dislike the inconsistencies of typical 12x land or less Dredge. I don't play this deck very much but I have taken this exact list to my local tournament twice and both times out of more than 20 people it has made it to a top 4 split. Here is Extended Dredge with 1x Legacy card:
1x Flame-Kin Zealot
2x Darkblast
2x Cephalid Sage
3x Dread Return
3x Ichorid
3x Cabal Therapy
3x Tireless Tribe
4x Golgari Grave-Troll
4x Putrid Imp
4x Bridge from Below
4x Stinkweed Imp
4x Breakthrough
4x Careful Study
4x Narcomoeba
1x Undiscovered Paradise
2x Tarnished Citadel
4x Cephalid Coliseum
4x Gemstone Mine
4x City of Brass
SB
1x Ray of Revalation
2x Ancient Grudge
4x Chalice of the Void
4x Pithing Needle
4x Chain of Vapor
I have found this list to be incredibly consistent ... well .... as much as a Dredge list can be I suppose. I have played typical Dredge before and my least favorite cards in the deck were LED and Deep Analysis. I always felt the deck sacrificed consistency for speed. This deck is very strong against hate and almost as fast. I have won numerous games after being Extirpated 2+ times just because I was able to cast spells. I am not advocating towards anyone to run this list but I am throwing it out there as another option for people to play who don't like the inconsistencies of 12 land or less Dredge. I am sure the one thing I am going to hear alot about is the fact that I only play 3x Ichorid and no Golgari Thug. Yes, I know, but the tournament I played at on wednesday out of 5 rounds I only killed with the combo (Flame-Kin) once. Every other game I played was won with Ichorid beats, 2/2 Zombies, and PImps.
As far as Tireless Tribe is concerned .... it has been amazing having this card. It can buy you so much time that it's ridiculous. I played against Zoo and it just stopped them cold, the Tribe blocks Goyf like a champ. But for those interested in Dredge (in particular a cheaper version of Dredge) certainly try this list it is a lot better than it seems.
yeah he did beat me pretty bad after i extirpated twice... i got bridge and grave troll and he rolled over me with narcomeba's.
sadface :(
The extended list is strong, but there's not point in playing the Extended list in Legacy, where you can actually add LED and beat other combo decks. I don't know about your meta, but in my meta the top8 usually consists of at least 4 combo decks. The mirror with LED's as well as TES will knock you silly, even with 4 Therapies (LED, by the way, greatly increases your chance of more early Therapies in your graveyard).
Have you had to play against combo during the two tournaments you mentioned?
Tireless Tribe just seems so.. pointless. The deck is a monster, why slow it down for consistency it already has in the hands of a solid pilot?
For me I can't play the original deck list. There is a simple explanation for this ... I am very unlucky and I need to play a deck that is consistent. Of the 2-3 times I ran the 12 land version the only times I really lost were when the deck killed itself. And this is no joke, I can not mull into a SB card + mana, there aren't enough lands for me. The deck seemed to be either devastating the opponent or sitting there with with its thumb up its ass and there was no in-between. The extended list has speed and consistency (sort of I did have to mull to 3 once so I could get a hand without 2x Narcomoebas and Dread Returns in it) so that is why I play it. True storm combo is non existent in my meta because it would be a bad plan to bring it. Most people play gaycounterbalance.dec or stifletrash.dec so running decks that thrive on storm into a meta where every other opponent you play against has counterbalance and stifle is not a good plan. But regardless of the Dredge decklist if you expect a lot of combo why would you even play this? Wouldn't you rather run Dragon Stompy or Stax or something like that?
Nah,
There were 4 Ichorid decks, 3 of them T8ed, together with 2 of the 4-5 TES. I was the only DS player (just missed T8).
It's not as bad as everyone suggests. Next time I'm just going to play Ichorid myself. It has a decent Storm MU, not great, but decent, but it's a hellovalot stronger against almost everything else than DS.
I have to echo this. Even with LED, you lose against Storm unless you have a very good opening hand, it happened to me in a Top 8.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pulp_Fiction
You can't play Magic with only 12 Lands, especially if you plan to cast spells without artifact acceleration. Even the Extended versions advocated to play more land, since hard-casting a Narcomoeba or Therapy is needed sometimes. This gets exacerbated after boarding, when you have to mull hands that contain the Chain or Needle, but no mana.
Cards you plan to cast:
4x Putrid Imp
4x Breakthrough
4x Careful Study
2x Tolarian Winds
1x Flame-Kin Zealot
1x Cephalid Sage
2x Dread Return
4x Ichorid
4x Cabal Therapy
4x Golgari Grave-Troll
4x Stinkweed Imp
2x Golgari Thug
4x Bridge from Below
4x Narcomoeba
4x Tarnished Citadel
4x Cephalid Coliseum
4x Gemstone Mine
4x City of Brass
As you can see, there are 14 cards you want to hard-cast, up to 18 with Therapy. Tolarian Winds may be questionable, but I really wanted more than 8 Draw-Spells. Being an instant is also a bonus and can kill an opponent out of nowhere.
I also like the 5c manabase, simply because it can't be stifled and opens up sideboard possibilities.
I think that having only 15 mana sources w/out might be more of a challenge then having 12 mana sources w/ Lion's Eye.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bongo
One of the the things I like about having the LED and Deep Analysis is the synergy. Second turn I find myself sometimes sacing the LED, poping Cephalid Coliseum, dredge, discard high dredgers and then doing Deep Analysis. Works quite nice if I have bad luck and dun mill high dredgers.
Second turn with Tolarian winds offers more draw power but if the hand or the graveyard unlucky does not have many dredgers, then you'll be stuck drawing (your list also has fewer discarding options). Maybe you'll decide to wait a couple of turns to see how things turn out before casting Tolarian Winds... . However I find that the more this deck waits, the lower the chances of winning.
What is your meta? I'm interested to know how long it takes for you to win against particular decks. With just 2 Tolarian Winds...it may be upped a bit for a more notable effect.
My meta is composed of mainly Thresh+Goblins, 2-3 Blechers, 1 Stax, and recently Imperial Painter (I hate the 1cc counter/kill-anything as well as the 1st turn Trinishphere postboard in that deck). I meet a mirror once in a while. Ok I'll have to admit I don't face Storm much, but the faster the better!
The Extended lists are almost just as fast as Legacy Dredge with a decent hand. My build (with Tireless Tribe) consistently kills around turns 2-4 and this is taking into account disruption from my opponent. I am not advocating that anyone needs to play basically extended Dredge however to the people who do run Dredge in Legacy I would strongly suggest that you at least put it together and test it out I am sure that the consistency of this build will impress!
@whitshadw8: Don't count LED as a manasource. LED can only cast things in the graveyard and activate lands! The reason I don't like LED in this deck is that it is phenomenal when you open up with Breakthrough on the stack blowing up LED pithching hand dredging the shit out of ur deck. This is why most people run the deck, the explosiveness. But I find that LED is way to situational. It is either amazing or awful and I found that around 40% of the time I had an LED in play I was wanting it to be PImp.
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Originally Posted by Pulp_Fiction
I'd like the emphasis this since the legacy lists are fast enough even with a mediocre hand. You can't compare the legacy lists to the extended ones, they are the same deck, but they're played in completely different formats. I never hard cast a Narcomoeba and rarely do it with a Therapy.
You're not playing the deck right if you think LED and Deep analysis are poor cards. Whenever I play this deck, I have to say that LED is probably the best card in the deck. It's one of the cards I love to see in my opening hand, it's broken with almost any card in the deck. Deep analysis isn't as good as LED, but that's why I play 2-3, being able to not fizzle isn't bad.
If I where to add more lands, I'd only go up to 13 or 14, there really isn't a need for more since you only need 1 most of the time.
Pulp Fiction already nicely said what I wanted to, so I just add this:
LED requires a DA or Coliseum in the same turn to be really effective.
With only 12 Lands it also gets really hard to activate Coliseum, which is one of your best cards when playing against disruption. Also, to activate Coliseum in the first turn with LED, you need to be on the draw.
Without DA or Coliseum, paying 3 life to discard my hand isn't that good. Especially if you have spells you wanted to cast in the first place like Breakthrough or Careful Study.
I also swapped 1 Thug with the 4th Citadel, so that brings me up to 16 lands. Really, the major difference between this deck and the "regular" Dredge builds is:
- 4 LED
+4 Tarnished Citadel
- 2 DA
+2 Tolarian Winds
On paper, this looks weaker, but believe me, the additional consistency you gain is worth it. Consistency is important, especially since your goldfish speed doesn't speed up that much with LED (but the mulligan rate goes up). After changing to my current version, I found that I needed to mulligan less.
I found that 2 lands in play is optimal, as it enables the following plays:
- activating Coliseum
- playing Breakthrough for 1 to keep another Breakthrough or dodge Chalice 1
- playing a Therapy and Study/Breakthrough in the same turn
- hardcasting Moeba or Thug to get to three creatures for Dread Return
- Another minor benefit of not running LED is that you won't be affected by Chalice for 0 from your opponent
For these reasons I think it's better to run more land in Dredge.
WTF. This is nonsense. People were putting in SW to make this better/faster and LESS dependent on lands, not upping lands, dropping LEDs and dropping dredge count, not to mention DA, all in the name of consistancy.
Street Wraith, not this junk. That's 4x extra *FREE* dredge enablers. I have NO problem with 11 lands, and you guys are upping it to 16? :confused:
Meh.
Anyway, if you need 2 lands, why not run a LftL or a Dakmor Salvage? That's a better remedy. Not shifting the entire list towards a slower goldfish.
--DC
Actually, LED is good with all of your cards since worst case scenario you take 3 for dumping your hand. It plays well with Breakthrough, coliseum (one of those lands you have such a hard on for) deep analysis, careful study, and not to mention just dumping your hand like I mentioned before.
@edgewalker: sorry, I phrased that wrong. What I meant to imply was that the Extended version is basically just as fast and a lot more consistent and I implicated badly that Legacy Dredge needed the "decent hand" to keep pace with the consistency of a more Extended build. And please don't count LED as a manasource because when you have an opening hand which consists of something like 5 non-land cards, 1x Chain of Vapor and 1x LED you are NOT casting the Chain of Vapor. Sorry if I have a "hard on" for Cephalid Colisseum since it gives me the opportunity to win the game and cast Careful Study or ... god forbid ... SB cards.
Bongo prefers Tolarian Winds and I prefer Tireless Tribe, in extended this is another debate but in the end either one is just as good however I have found that if Tolarian Winds resolves you will win around 90% of the time but in a deck that runs so few lands I prefer the stalling power of the Tribe.
@Dark_Cynic87: ..... who said anything about Street Wraith? Dakmor Salvage is terrible since it comes into play tapped and how do you plan on casting Loam?
edgewalker:
I also played with LED, it's just that you're very dependant on quite a few things going right. I know LED is good with Breakthrough and Careful Study, however you need a LAND to cast these in the first place, which is not that likely when running only 12 lands.
When you mulligan because you didn't have a land, the percentage of getting a Dredge card also goes down, which leads to greater inconsistencies.
Dark_Cynic87:
The goldfish isn't that much slower, I regularly kill between turn 2-4.
With LED this was more like turn 1 with a god hand, turn 2-4 when you get a good hand, but turn 3-7 when you don't draw the nuts or need to mulligan.
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Another point that I find really important:
With more lands, you're able to fight through hate a lot better post-board, which is where the match gets decided, you win game 1 most of the time anyway. Hard-casting Ray of Revelation has been game-saving, and that would be highly unlikely when you only run 11 or 12 lands.
It also sucked to have the Chain in hand for the Leyline (or the Needle for Crypt), but no mana to cast it. You don't want to throw those games away because of mana issues, make your opponent work for their win.
Yesterday I won three games turn 1 because of the LED smiling at me in my opening 7.
That beats TES.
Nuff Said
But I'll add:
With a LED in your opening 7, you need either a Land or a DA to go nuts. If you're on the draw, you can cast LED and activate the Coliseum on turn one, which is an insane play. You cannot do this with 2 lands.
Three games is obviously big enough of a sample size :rolleyes:
There are quite a few things that have to right for you to get that LED coliseum start:
1. Draw LED
2. Draw Coliseum
3. Be on the Draw
4. LED doesn't get countered (happens more than you like)
The more "if's" you have, the greater your inconsistencies are.
If you want to beat TES, I think Unmask is the way to go.
If I win three games against one of the more difficult matchups then that outright proves its use. I've played TES a million times and you have two options with Ichorid
1) Race them with LED
2) Wreck them with Therapies
Killing off one of those routes for more consistency (and slow the deck down to slugspeed) doesn't sound like a top8 strategy to me.
Also, LED puts Therapies into your graveyard faster than a deck without it.
Unmask is good in type 1, but we don't run Street Wraith and cannot support the card properly because we don't run enough black cards and/or can't miss them.
Also, the LED Coliseum start is just one of the options you have with LED. LED DA, LED Coliseum, LED Blue Card/Land are all good.
Even better, those hands are all infinitely better than 'Land, go, Land, go, Tolarian Winds - Daze.. gg'. I can assure you that Tolarian Winds will get countered a lot more than turn 1 LED.
I don't think the deck needs more consistency. It hits the Top8's all over the world by getting quick kills in with LED. An option might be to remove the DA/LED in game 2 to add sideboard nastyness (an idea that has been discarded by a lot), but don't you agree that it's absolutely necessary with Ichorid to win game 1, and winning game 1 is preferably done by going insane with your deck?
The long lasting games you play with Ichorid should be game 2 or 3, not 1.
With 1 mana open, LED + Study, or even better, Breakthrough can be gamebreaking when turn 1 Imp or Tribe just switch the "slow" dredge engine on, or postpone the discard//'blue card' winning plan one whole turn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mayk0l
LED makes Ichorid a bit less consistant ?! Bah ! Take more mulligans and turn your whining hands into winning ones !
There's no point babbling about your experiences with extended Dredge in an extended metagame if you haven't test over and over the Legacy list in the same extended metagame.
I've tried the Imp//Tribe list in Legacy. Ok, it's more consistant, I agree. But the lack of sheer speed of those list makes me lost more games than I was accustomed with the standard Legacy list.
It might be revelant in an particular metagame, but I really don't see which...
Like I said before, LED is nuts, it gets even better when you add DA, breakthrough, dredgers, careful study, or cephalid Coliseum... oh wait that's the entire deck!
A few things here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mayk0l
First off, with or without LED, you have 8 lands that can CAST Therapy before it hits the yard. This alone nullifies your argument for LED being useful to dump them, because now TES has to deal with you casting AND recasting them. I'd say it's well worth ditching a counter or taking a hit for that kind of power.
Second, check the lists that have been doing well recently, especially the one Anwar is piloting. It's got Unmasks, and he swears by the card. Many times it will remove a dredge spell, an Ichorid, or even Therapy. But it doesn't matter, because it doesn't whiff, where Therapy is typically just used to sac a creature (once it's hit the yard), and tends to be useless until it finds it's way there or you find a mana source. Those two factors tend to play pretty big to Unmask's inclusion.
Third (and part of second) my list I'm working on with a friend DOES include Street Wraith. We've come to the conclusion that Breakthrough tends to just suck. It's ONLY good with a land out, is always a must-counter, and nearly always comes with the same conclusion as LED: ditch the entire hand to pitch the select cards. Why not just do the same with Imp, AND have something to go along with it that's not an all-or-nothing play each game?
Street Wraith has been included over Breakthrough in my build for several reasons:
1- Ichorid recursions +4/Grave Troll size +4. Works really well, especially in games 2 and 3 where you rely on them because you've sided out the combo.
2- Doesn't require mana, and is instant speed. This is crucial. Dredging whenever is cool, especially in cases where you can't cast the Breakthrough, but have the LED up. It's also fun on the upkeep for being able to bring back Ichorid AND allow you to dredge, which will tend to surprise opponents who thought they were safe that turn.
*And there's gonna be a number of games where you can cycle this guy 2-3 times if you see them, because your life means nothing until you are dead. This, DA, lands and LED breaks into nothing seem to be a lot of life loss on paper, but I've yet to go to a game where it's ever been a risk. This version hasn't lost any speed that I've noticed, a half a turn at most.
3- Unmask inclusion. There's a number of black cards in the deck that can be tossed aside, but you tend not to want to. If you already are on an explosive start, he can be pitched so you don't have to.
4- Uncounterable. This is clutch here. Breakthrough is the biggest bomb in the deck, and ultimately tends to get hit way more often than LED by good players. While you aren't drawing 4 right away, you ARE going to draw that one, because chances are they won't waste a Stifle on this guy.
5- Games 2 and 3. I tend to leave him in. Most games I'm not going to side in all 15, and between LED, DA, and combo pieces, I've usually got my 11 spells covered. That means this guy can stick around, and I'll have better chances of drawing into my answers. It's not much, but playing a 56 card deck when you NEED to hit answers is better than a 60.
And yes, removing the combo pieces (this includes DA and LED in most cases) is the typical move for games 2 and 3. They are so hellbent on stopping you from explosive combos that usually nuking their answers and Ichorid beats is all you need.
I would suggest at least trying Street Wraith in testing. I'm still not sold on entirely cutting Breakthrough, but at the same time, we're not running Study either, so I may make room for that. I personally still think DA is the worst blue spell in the deck, because a majority of the time you just can't cast it. I'll be doing more testing on which spells to cut, and when the list is doing more of what I want it to (less killing itself randomly), I'll probably post it.
No.Quote:
If I win three games against one of the more difficult matchups then that outright proves its use.
Easier said than done. With each mulligan the chance you'll see relevant cards goes down. And the chance you don't have mana to cast your cards goes down.Quote:
LED makes Ichorid a bit less consistant ?! Bah ! Take more mulligans and turn your whining hands into winning ones !
I have tested both the Extended and the Legacy list, and I've made it to the Finals of a 100+ PTQ in Extended and in 2 Legacy Top 8.Quote:
There's no point babbling about your experiences with extended Dredge in an extended metagame if you haven't test over and over the Legacy list in the same extended metagame.
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The only matchup where you really need the speed from LED is against Storm. If a lot of Storm is played in your meta, Ichorid is the wrong choice anyway. Against pretty much every other deck, you have the edge in game 1. If you lose game 1, it's mostly because you kept bad hands (or your LED got countered).
More lands - less bad hands - better game 1.
The real key to win with Ichorid is the ability to deal with hate in sideboarded games. And it's more difficult to deal with hate if you can't cast your solutions.
Another minor benefit of running mana is that you can hard cast your critters when desperate and beat down anyway. This might seem like a bad joke, but Nikolaus Eigner almost beat down Mateusz Kopec in the finals of GP Vienna because he had enough lands to hard cast flying creatures and slowly grind the opponent down.
Cutting LED? Cutting Breakthrough? What?
LED is fundamental for the deck's speed, and for giving it mana and a discard outlet at the same time- something no other card can claim to do. It also does very well at baiting counters.
Breakthrough in this deck says: "Put the top 4-24 cards of your library, and your hand, into your graveyard". In this deck deck, that pretty much says you win this turn or the next. In the best case scenario, Street Wraith says "put the top 6 cards of your library into your graveyard."-Not nearly as good.
Keep both, and play 4 of both.
The thing is, you can't use that mana reliably with only 4 Coliseum and 2 DA to pump it into. Also, you need Threshold before you can pump that Coliseum, something which gets harder the more mulligans you take.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozymandias
If you have land, then you can use LED to bait counters, but that's a pretty big if. Most of the time I didn't want my LED to be countered, since it was the only discard outlet I could cast.
When your hand contains LED and some dredgers, but nothing else, then you don't have to cast that LED on turn one, especially when you know that your opponent could counter it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bongo
The same would be true if your hand had only one land some dredgers and a tireless tribe/Putrid Imp. If it gets countered its +1 timewalk compared to a countered LED.
When you have LED as your only discardoutlet, then you'll DDD most of the time until you find an opportunity to cast LED. Decks packing counters are usually slow enough that you can DDD until you can protect your LED with a Therapy to use it for that dredged Deep Analysis or that Cephald COliseum in your hand. And since you already have cards in your graveyard resolving that LED isn't critical, but it will give you a boost of 2-4 dredges.
What cards do you generally take out of the main when sideboarding, I know what to bring in and when, I just don't know what to take out?
That's hardly a true statement. Neither of these cards are fundamental when in games 2-3, meaning they are obviously not "auto-include x4".Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozymandias
LED is NOT fundamental for the deck's speed. It's ONLY fundamental for the first turn, and so many people have cut back the number of Dread Returns that even that is nearly impossible now. If you drop an LED, crack it and say "go" you have 7 cards in your graveyard, and can dredge on your draw.
If you have say Imp, Coliseum, and Rainbow land, you play Imp, discard Dredge card x + cards, get to threshold after your dredge activation, and activate Coliseum, you are FAR ahead in comparison. For starters, you didn't get a single spell countered, AND you still have cards in hand. This is crucial for games 2 and 3, where you NEED mana sources to cast your spells, especially when you can't dredge into some of them due to hate. More lands = better games 2 and 3, hands down.
As for Street Wraith, any single draw is good, it DOES NOT require you to discard your hand. Drawing multiple cards is explosive, but between Study and Coliseum that should be enough. Adding in Street Wraith not only gives instant speed dredge, but it also gave Ichorid comebacks a less painful route (face it, if you are stuck on Ichorid beats or sacrificing them to get to your combo kill, you really don't want to kill off dredge creatures in the middle of dredging). You really should only need to dredge 3 times in a single game to have options available for more dredge, or a good clock. Not to mention, he's going to give you more chances to see your answers in the second and third game, which Breakthrough cannot.
Personally I'm going to be working on variants of the Extended version. Adding in Street Wraith, taking out DA, LED and Breakthrough seems to give way more versatility, while not sacrificing more than a turn worth of speed at most. That's still pretty fast when your average kill turn is 3.
@Wallace: Post your decklist and SB and the people in here can show you the different routes to take when sideboarding w/ this deck. And when playing a deck like this there is no "right" way to SB you just kind of get comfortable with a match and take out the cards you feel are not relevant I am sure most people in here SB very different.
@DeathwingZERO: Quite Fucking True. Make sure you include Tireless Tribe in a few lists, I run 3x and they are amazing in this deck.
@DeathwingZero:
While I wouldn't go so far as cutting Breakthrough, your thought process is interesting (and you slay a lot of "sacred cows"). Please tell me how your testing works out.
With two lands in play, Breakthrough can act as a digging spell, so it's not completely useless.Quote:
Not to mention, he's (Street Wraith) going to give you more chances to see your answers in the second and third game, which Breakthrough cannot.
If you run Unmask in your build, I also suspect that your chances of resolving Breakthrough are higher, making it an attractive option again.
Finally!!! A discussion that does not revolve around what to sb
My playing experience has led me to conclude that LED and DA lessen consistency to the point that it no longer justifies the ability for a turn 1 kill
I propose to those who suggest unmask and street wraith to post actual decklists so they can be evaulated through testing rather than speculation.
Unmask can also be used as discard outet to allow turn 1 brokenness with breakthrough just in case no one noticed
Hi,
I played Ichorid in a Legacy tournement on Sunday in Mol, Belgium. I did terribly but that was completely due to my inexperience with the deck and the format: I haven't touched my cards in like 2 months. I tried to play the deck like the Type I version, with which I managed 3rd place in a Vintage tournement a while ago, but it doesn't work like that in Legacy... apparantly. :)
This post isn't meant to cry about my lowsy performance but to show that Ichorid did manage to top 8 at the site! Out of 58 people it managed a 6th place: Frederic Kleinen.
Go here for the list and the other top 8 lists: http://www.magicclubmol.be/files/results/20080720.php and click 'Top 8 Decklists'.
From my own experience, for what it's worth, I really wanted more draw and discard in my deck so I can totally agree with the 3 extra Careful Studies Frederic played. I also wasn't too impressed with LED to be honest... Again these observations come from one tournement experience, from the guy who made 48th. *hangs head in shame*
On a brighter note, the tournement rekindled my interest in the format considerably, so... next time!
Greetings,
Robrecht.
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I never said LED is a good way to dump them out of your hand (which it is btw), I was talking about getting more therapies in your graveyard faster, obviously LED enables faster dredging, which hits more therapies early, which is essential in beating Storm.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathwingZERO
The discussion was never about Therapy/Unmask. It was about the role of Unmask in beating storm.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathwingZERO
Which brings me to:
But you *do* think Ichorid should play Unmask to beat Storm?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bongo
Back to Therapy:
Saccing creatures is a nice bonus to Therapy, but I usually use it to erm.. beat combo? Beat answers? Once you dredge, you have X therapies knocking out a complete hand, beating combo or any answer to your gameplan like STP or whatnot.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathwingZERO
Street Wraith however, is a good option. It's viable in Type 1 but it's not really gotten off the ground in Legacy. I just like how Breakthrough dredges 4 times.
Yeah, Chalice costs 0, Leyline costs 0, and the other cards cost 1 mana. Ray and Grudge are castable off of LED even. So the only issue you'd have is one blue mana for Chain. If you can't make 1 Blue mana with 12 rainbow lands, then you're doing something wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bongo
It sounds like a silly plan to up your land count with 4 lands just for that extremely rare conclusion. More often than not you'll be stuck with too many lands in your hand an not enough business. And it's especially surprising that a guy who said I shouldn't add a nobrainer card like LED because it helps me beat TES three times in a row in a competitive setting, is now suggesting adding four lands because some dude beat another dude in a last ditch effort-strategy in one particular game.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathwingZERO
This doesn't make sense,Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathwingZERO
First off, adding more land makes breakthrough more powerful, removing them is stupid.
Second, if you want to use SWs ability as a dredge enabler, you're going to have to discard something first any way you look at it.
Third, LED IS fundamental to the deck's speed. LED gives options for fast dredging and fast kills starting turn one. You cannot win turn 1 with a Putrid Imp or Tireless Tribe, you can win with LED. Winning fast game 1 is pretty fundamental.
Fourth, why in your stories does the LED get countered but the Putrid Imp doesn't? If Imp gets countered in your example, you're just as far behind
Finally, in a situation like this, if you have a dredger and are playing against a deck that counters, DDD and win.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bongo
One of the problems with LED based Ichorid is that even tho its superior to non LED Ichorid in terms of explosiveness, that explosiveness is only relevant for racing aggro and racing combo. If Extended based Ichorid can defeat aggro thru attrition and defeat combo thru disruption then implenting a less commital game plan thru Putrid Imp and Tireless Tribe followed by Careful Study and Brainstorm is going to make the deck more consistent, but slower, and less vulnerable, but weaker against Tormods Crypt.
Its just a less coin flip dependent strategy, one that gives better winning chances in game 2 at the cost of some winning chances in game 1, but as long as that trade off isnt proportional, and as far as I can tell it isnt, then non LED Ichorid is going to have an advatnage over LED Ichorid against prepared opponents in survivability.
I apologize for the punctuation, my key board is on the fritz.
Is there any good non led-s lists?
Just look back in the thread a few pages. There are pleny of lists. The one I posted has never done worse than a top 8 out of 20+ people.
You know what, you're right, please stop playing LED and get other people not to play it either so I can steam roll you in the mirror.Quote:
Originally Posted by BreathWeapon
kthxbye
I'll 2nd that.Quote:
Originally Posted by edgewalker