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I scrubbed out of small tourney playing classic junk and have came to a golden rule...
Green sun's zenith is an easy button but you sacrifice your ability to play Hymn to Tourach(unless we can mix em both)
Playing the classic Junk list gives you an edge against combo, but you lose your easy button.
I scrubbed out of small tourney playing classic junk and have came to a golden rule...
Green sun's zenith is an easy button but you sacrifice your ability to play Hymn to Tourach (unless we can mix em both)
Playing the classic Junk list gives you an edge against combo, but you lose your easy button.
If an early relic of progenitus is back breaking, you're clearly doing something wrong. Grave hate aginst our deck is weak. The only time it would be wise to bring it in would be if you have completely dead cards in your deck. When playing goblins, the more goblins you sideboard out to bring in cards like relic, the weaker your own strategy gets! Crazy enough goblin decks rely on.... goblins! Crazy concept I know. Honestly the only thing that a good goblins play should be bringing into this matchup is some K-grips to fight off plague. It would be even better if it was nature's claim, but i'm pretty sure nobody plays that card.
You really think fetching basics makes you more vulnerable to vindicate? If they're vindicating your basic lands then you're not in a very good position anyways.
The Rock
A Legacy Magic deck, by Travis Hilderbrand
13th place at a StarCityGames.com Legacy Open tournament in Nashville, Tennessee, United States on 2010-10-17
As reported at http://www.starcitygames.com
Maindeck:
2 Bayou
4 Dark Confidant
1 Forest
1 Horizon Canopy
4 Hymn to Tourach
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Karakas
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Marsh Flats
1 Maze of Ith
3 Mox Diamond
2 Pernicious Deed
1 Plains
3 Scrubland
3 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Swamp
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Thoughtseize
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Vindicate
4 Wasteland
Maindeck:
4 Bayou
4 Carnophage
4 Dark Confidant
4 Dark Ritual
4 Diabolic Edict
2 Forest
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Hypnotic Specter
4 Phyrexian Negator
4 Sarcomancy
2 Sinkhole
4 Swamp
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Thoughtseize
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
Sideboard:
2 Engineered Explosives
3 Engineered Plague
3 Krosan Grip
4 Relic of Progenitus
3 Snuff Out
Sideboard:
2 Engineered Explosives
3 Engineered Plague
3 Krosan Grip
4 Relic of Progenitus
3 Snuff Out
I haven't had much trouble against Team America. We have more threats than they have removal and more removal than they have threats. Mox Diamonds win you the mana war. Just don't walk into a Stifle if you can help it. If you stick a creature, they are under a whole lot of threat, especially Dark Confidant.
I went 4 - 4 at Memphis with my rock list. I haven't played Magic in over a year so I am not complaining at all. This was my 2nd time ever playing Legacy as well. Anyways I had a great time, and am typing up a report. I've been busy with work and traveling this week so that's why the delay.
I went 4 - 4 in Memphis with my Rock list. I am not complaining at all as I haven't played Magic in over a year, and this was only my 2nd time playing Legacy. I've been working long hours and traveling this week, but I've started to type up my summary of matches. I'll post it this weekend. I learned a whole heck of a lot and look forward to another chance to play this deck again.
TA is still disadvantaged even with the printing of Go for the Throat. Previous to that, the Snuff Outs were dead vs. the card TA most wanted to kill - Bob. TA against Rock is an uphill battle, and in the end Rock wins the attrition battle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arsenal
Rock wins most attrition battles, hence why it's so good. sdematt, I think you would agree :)
I hate how the forums are screwing up. You guys should check back regularly though, as we should continue making posts.
-Matt
Glad Forum is back to normal. Now I'm just curious as to why New Horizon's is still a DTB and yet The Rock isn't . . . I think the forums went down b/c it's need an overhaul/update.
doublepost. database error.
Not quite back to normal. I just tried to post and got a database error. Then I tried going to the last page of a thread and got redirected to the page before that. Though I'm glad post numbers and times are updated. Got another one just now. Fail...
Has anyone with the traditional-ish build tested against the High Tide deck? How do we do? What do we need to watch out for?
Rock is timespirals worst matchup. It is the deck they want to see least. All of the discard + extirpate makes their life very hard. If you extirpate high tide they can not win. gogo cloud of faeries beatdown!!!!
Not sure if you guys are willing to answer this, but I had a question about playing against rock. If your opponent were able to lock you out of one color, which color hurts most. I doubt it's white, but I'm torn on the other 2. Stopping green eliminates your beaters, black gets confidant, vindicate, discard. A confidant or KotR already in play kinda makes it moot, but I'm leaning towards black hurting most. What do you guys think, if you're willing to open up :P
@TheShaun -- I think it comes down to what deck you are playing. What deck are you running? Also, for reference:
White:
Swords
Vindicate
Knight of the Reliquary
Elspeth
Pridemage
Black:
Confidant
Deed
Vindicate
(Pulse?)
Thoughtseize
Hymn
Green:
Dudes.
In general, choose black, stop the swords, win the game. There are only 3 cards in the deck not black. (swords goyf knight). However, they may be the relevant cards you need to stop so take that into account.
Right, it definitely can change based on the game state. I'm feeling that cutting black early on would be amazing, with green being stronger late game. Biggest problem with leaving green and white is that KotR can just go grab black on his own.
I am guessing he means Iona. Good luck trying to destroy all the black mana as most sources are black.
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Originally Posted by rexftw