[Deck] The Rock

Get bent, hippie.

Not sure if serious.

I'm always serious when it comes to Canada.

Youre just jelly :p

I'm British, and I know parents shouldn't pick favourites, but Canada still calls at christmas, so I'm on his side.

Were there any Friday trials?

-Matt

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Originally Posted by sdematt

Youre just jelly :p

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Little known fact:
I'm actually composed entirely of meat.

Lol, all our debates were irrelevant, I drew the shortest of straws, and lost to burn three times in a row.
So yea, that's the least fun I've ever had, and the worst I've ever done, at a tournament.

:/ The End

Oh my God I'm so sorry. :(

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Originally Posted by Jain_Mor

Lol, all our debates were irrelevant, I drew the shortest of straws, and lost to burn three times in a row.
So yea, that's the least fun I've ever had, and the worst I've ever done, at a tournament.

:/ The End

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Wow. That is completely miserable. I would probably immediately sell all of my cards and buy heroine to cope

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Originally Posted by Megadeus

Wow. That is completely miserable. I would probably immediately sell all of my cards and buy heroine to cope

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That happens, but don't get discouraged. That's a pretty big anomaly.

-Matt

On the plus side, you're in fukken Japan and can just go out and live it up.

https://www.wizards.com/sideboard/ar...ok01%5C897fm1c

"[04:11] (fante7) what the hell is Dan Bock on?
[04:12] (Tarren) Fante, a sightseeing tour of Tokyo at this point I'd say."

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Originally Posted by Megadeus

Wow. That is completely miserable. I would probably immediately sell all of my cards and buy heroine to cope

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Or a few nights with a set of twins. https://40.media.tumblr.com/4dd27783...pe9fo2_500.jpg

That's really unfortunate to see burn 3x in a row. The best draws don't even help too much (unless you can t1 IoK, turn 2 drop a threat they need to remove, t3 liliana + force discard). Scooze somewhere in the mix doesn't even help too much. Kruphix could have possibly bought time.

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Originally Posted by Warden

Or a few nights with a set of twins. https://40.media.tumblr.com/4dd27783...pe9fo2_500.jpg

That's really unfortunate to see burn 3x in a row. The best draws don't even help too much (unless you can t1 IoK, turn 2 drop a threat they need to remove, t3 liliana + force discard). Scooze somewhere in the mix doesn't even help too much. Kruphix could have possibly bought time.

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I feel unless your opponent shits the bed and doesn't bolt SFM or something before Skull comes down, or you don't run 2-3 Timely in the board, it's very hard. I mean, sometimes you have to take your lumps. I mean, you wouldn't have liked to have seen three of any bad matchup, to be frank. What did the meta look like overall?

-Matt

Let us know what your final list was before you descend into the debauchery of Japan.

-Matt

Haha, I live in Japan, and it's not as crazy as the movies :P

Here's what I registered:

4 Verd Catacombs
2 Windswept Heath
3 Marsh flats
1 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Plains
2 Bayou
1 Savanah
2 Scrubland
2 Treetop
4 Wasteland
23

4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Goyf
4 Bob
3 SFM
1 Jitte
1 SoFaI
1 BSK

4 Thoughtsieze
2 IoK
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Library
2 Liliana
1 Council's Judgment
37
60

2 Surgical
2 Needle
2 containment priest
2 canonist
2 Thalia
2 Teeg
2 Toxic Deluge
1 deed

Metagame wise, 60% burn 20% delver 20% merfolk.

Oh, you meant the actual metagame?
I have no idea haha, but I did hear of a lot of burn (I guess I should have expected that from a GP where people might just upgrade from modern) but also lots of delver.

Not sure if this is something that's taken off in the west, but with the delve cards printed (thanks wizards) grixis delver is popular, with tasigur and angler (that zombie fish 5/5) thing. They play pyro TNN (thanks wizards) as well.
So now we have RUG delver, BUG delver, Grixis and UWR running around.. That's a lot of delver variants. They also all play dig, except rug.

Tbh I would have probably been better off playing nic fit with rhino. So I guess that's what I'll play from here on (though no major tournaments to look forward to). That said I nearly won the GPT, facing a variety of decks (losing to Grixis delver) so the rock can't be that bad.

I guess it fundamentally doesn't have any nut draws, so I don't know. I'll stop rambling from my disillusioned state haha

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Haha, I live in Japan, and it's not as crazy as the movies :P

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Metagame wise, 60% burn 20% delver 20% merfolk.

Oh, you meant the actual metagame?
I have no idea haha, but I did hear of a lot of burn (I guess I should have expected that from a GP where people might just upgrade from modern) but also lots of delver.

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This deck is not a good choice if you expect a lot of Burn, but if you run an Enlightened Tutor sideboard, that opens up Circle of Protection: Red as a possibility. Just in case you want to get some revenge.

I also like Timely Reinforcements in builds that are heavy on Sylvan Library or Thoughtseize.

I honestly have no idea what the metagame was, and I don't think I was going to expect more burn than a normal big event. I new there was a chance I would play it once, but it's also easily possible not to play it either. I was expecting g to play it 3 times.

So I do t think burn is really ever going to impact people's deck choices.

Don't know if you've seen the top 8, but it's 32 brainstorm ;)

Isn't Japan famous for being big on burn? I would've considered Kitchen Finks or Obstinate Baloth in the 75 if I were going to Kyoto.