This might be a stupid question, but why do most Sneak attack decks run 2 city of traitors and 3 ancient tombs? Instead of 4 tombs and one city?
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This might be a stupid question, but why do most Sneak attack decks run 2 city of traitors and 3 ancient tombs? Instead of 4 tombs and one city?
Some care more about the life loss.Quote:
Originally Posted by teonsw
I personally like the 4 Tomb / 1 City approach since I absolutely despise those opening with City of Traitors.
I could see a 4-1 build preferable for your meta especially if you're playing a few sensei's divining top; at least then your 1-sol-land hand + SDT would give you a 58%/69% chance of getting a blue land (assuming 13 blue lands) for turn 2, respectively on the play or draw (if I'm reading my calculator correctly). In that situation, it's almost always better for your 1-sol-land to be city.
I've liked the 3-2 build personally. IMO, having 1 city is almost always preferable to 1 tomb if you have another island/fetch in your opening hand due to the life loss from tomb. The life can add up quickly against turn one delver / goblin guide. I would almost certainly mulligan a 1-sol-land hand (regardless of which sol land) unless I have the unlikely nut draw (S&T, fatty, petal, force, blue card, sol land). On the other hand, if you're playing top, then keeping a 1-sol-land hand can be a decent option, and that option is significantly better (and perhaps only acceptable) if the sol land is ancient tomb.
do you have problems with karakas? Just curious because I'm using stifles for a variety of things and I noticed you don't like them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koby
Let's see here, played Sneak/Show at my local tourney last night. Well, sort of, long story, so I'll try to sum it up. :tongue:
My LGS was holding it's weekly Sunday night Legacy event, only this time the prizes were a Tundra, Bayou & a Force of Will for top 3. Possible other prizes dependant on number of players. With basically no advertising (I didn't even know about this until two hours before the start time & I'm a some what regular) I was not surprised when only 8 players showed up. So prizes for just top 3, here we go.
My List -
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Force of Will
2 Daze
2 Spell Pierce
2 Stifle
1 Misdirection
4 Lotus Petal
4 Sneak Attack
4 Show and Tell
2 Intuition
4 Emrakul, The Aeons Torn
4 Griselbrand
3 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
3 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Moutain
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Polluted Delta
SB
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Surgical Extraction
3 Pyroclasm
2 Echoing Truth
2 Misdirection
3 Flusterstorm
Ok, now to the report, or what there is of it. :rolleyes: Let me start by saying that I was told this would be a 4 round tournament. Ok, cool, here we go.
Round 1 vs "Dude I Don't Know & Can't Remember His Name" playing Junk (I think, it was W/U/B) -
Game 1:
As my usual, I lose the die roll and he's on the play. He goes turn 1 Inquisition Of Kosilek and strips my hand a bit. I'm ok with that, until he follows it up with more discard, lays a Stoneforge Mystic into a Batterskull and there really isn't much I can do in this one.
Game 2:
I get a huge start and go turn two Sneak Attack without mana to use it, but am holding the nuts for next turn. This one was quick and easy, just the way I like em. I will note, I did get to sneak in Griselbrand, then Stifle the delayed trigger, which in my opinion is pretty damn awesome! Was it pivotal? Probably not. But it was bad ass!
Game 3:
He comes out with discard, then follows up with dual Tidehollow Scullers and by this time my hand is shredded. He sails to victory.
0-1 (1-2 games)
Round 2 vs Dave playing Manaless Dredge -
Game 1:
I actually won the die roll! Having seen Dave playing Manaless in previous weeks, I put him on the play. He actually mulligans, making me think I've chosen wrong. He then keeps his 6, reveals Chancellor of the Annex and the starts his turn. Well, he passes his turn. I get to buy a littel time knowing that he Time Walked me twice basically with the mulligan. So I can derp a bit, pay two for my Brainstorm and off we go. I had the nuts and went off turn 3.
Game 2:
He puts me on the play, opens with Leyline of Sanctity, making my double Tormod's Crypt hand look less good, but what ever. I knew I sided in Echoing Truth so I'll find it eventually. I proceed to dig for my bounce, but in the mean time I put together a very nice Sneak Attack into Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, which forced him to sac that Leyline. At the best time, I popped Crypt #1. He never recovered before I found another critter to haste at him.
1-1 (2-0 games, 3-2 overall)
At this point everything changed. There were 3 guys still undefeated. They all got together and chose to ID and talked the tournament coordinator into stopping the tournament there, locking them in the top 3. If the tournament had gome the 4 rounds as advertised I was still in contention for 3rd, maybe even 2nd. Now I was locked out after only 2 rounds. So I was now pissed and didn't really care. I told my round 3 opponent (Feline playing Geddon-Stax) I was going home. Feline talked me into playing, but I really didn't give a shit at this point and kept very questionable hands, didn't bother sideboarding at all and did things like Intuition at one point for 3 Lotus Pedals just because I could. I mean, I did need the mana to set up the Sneak Attack and use it all on the same turn. Ultimately I just didn't care. This round was really a joke and we were in essence playing for last. I went home rather angry, feeling cheated and will be taking some time off from that store for a bit. Oh, and I guess I should apologize to Feline for not really playing. You're a good player and deserve a real game and I didn't give you one. I was mad and just goofed off the whole match. Sorry.
A few observations on the list. I loved the MD Stifle. Originally my plan had been to use it for Karakas because Maverik is a thing. But it also had corner uses elsewhere too, like keeping my critters around. Yay Stifle! At times Misdirection seemed pointless. You can always Misdirection a Cabal Therapy back to it's caster like I did to the Dredge player. But to what point? In the end you lose two cards, as did they. So did you really accomplish anything outside of keeping your hand a secret or maybe, possibly protecting the card they name, if you had it? I don't know, it didn't seem that great. Well, in the case fo the Therapy back to the Dredge player it was great because it psudo-Time Walked me since it messed up his hand count. So I guess it may have actually been a s really solid play. Occasionally I do that without knowing it. :cool:
Nice mini-report, sorry to hear that they didn't fully play out the tournament considering there was only 8 people.
Misdirection can do some sweet random things. (ive misdirected ancestral visions, sinkholes,vindicates on my sneak attack, burn spells, and obviously as a counter to other counters)
I love it in our archetype.
You're fine Tim, once it's over it's over and I can understand that, also seeing you push Show and Tell, I would love to see you rock that at the SCG open in the area next month, that is a deck on the up right now and it's doing good, though you probably know that since you follow the metagame enough. ^.^
Question:
Are you all boarding in Leyline of Sanctity against BUG and Esper decks that run both countermagic and discard? If so, what are you taking out? I am just wondering if the Leylines are brought in against strictly non-blue discard decks or if you always bring them in when you see Thoughtseize game 1 regardless of whether or not the opponent also plays countermagic.
I don't board Leyline. I don't like how it forces you to mull to it. I hadn't run into enough non-blue discard decks to make it worth while. I had hoped Misdirection could fill in there, not sure it does though.
Hello All,
Here is the tourney report for SCG Indianapolis. I made Top 16. The 16 can be found here:
http://sales.starcitygames.com//deck...card_name%5B4%
And the Deck List can be found here: http://sales.starcitygames.com//deck...p?DeckID=53940
The deck is so much fun! It ran well for me most of the day. Here are the rounds in brief, it was a long day so apologies if I mess up any names. I'l try to include sb commentary at the end as well. The deck doesn't sideboard that gracefully.
First off a shout out to another Nelson, Brad Nelson. Brad and I see each other at the occasional player meeting, we sit down, he suggests we battle while everyone is getting organized and of course I comply. We're both on Sneak Show! I get destroyed after forcing a Sneak Attack into play with nothing to sneak, but I feel good, Brad is a much better player than I am and if he chose to play Sneak-Show today and I chose to play Sneak-Show than I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY ANTICIPATED THE META!!!!
Kind of.
Round 1: My friend and playtest partner Craig. Sucks to drive six hours and then play someone you know, but oh well. Craig is one Nic Fit and I am on Sneak Show and we both know it.
2-0 without any theatrics or surprises. I felt bad for Craig, he told me going on that all he was worried about was Show and Tell decks and I think he faced four in six rounds. Show and tell was everywhere at this event and even with RUG increasing in frequency it's still not the right time to play Nic Fit.
Round 2: I face Aaron on stoneblade, I don't remember a lot here, both games were over pretty quickly. He told me that he was on a more aggressive, less control driven design of the deck, and unfortunately he drew a combo deck.
Round 3: I think his name was Ben on RUG. I had pretty strong draws in both games and I think he got stuck with aggro draws instead of control draws. G1 I had no counter back up with a SnT in hand and one Pondered on the top of my library and just cast it and he looked at his hand for a minute and then said, yes. Why bait when you can just win. Game 2 involved a counter war that I cam out on top of. I think it was Emrakul in both times.
Round 4: This was a crazy round. I played a nice guy named Geo on Manaless dredge. Game 1 I do an early SnT and put down Emrakul and he puts down Griselbrand. I totally could have conceded right there, but passed the turn. I knew we couldn't go to time and I was sickly fascinated with how bad this was going to be. My fascination only increased as he Phantasmagorianed two trolls into the yard after dredging six to start the turn. I believe he hit Grisel for the max 6,6,6,6,5,5,5. Then he raped my hand and DR on Flayer, do 4 to you, DR on Troll, do 46 to you. That was higher than my life total. Game 2 in come the 4 cages and I hit one early and ground out a win on Sneak Attack. G3 was ridiculous. I have a turn 1 cage and he dredges and misses and I Ponder/Brainstorm shuffle pass, we completely stall out and he begins Dryad Arbor BEATDOWN! I was killed by a thragtusk token at GP Denver, and I was having flashbacks, like are you fucking KIDDING ME! He beats me to 4 life after a second Arbor comes online and then I ponder into a Sneak Attack, I've shuffled all my extra lands away, so I have to hit Tomb to cast it(2 life) and then crack a fetch(1 life) to go along with a Petal to sneak in Grisly+Emraku for the win Great round, nice guy, total nail biter.
Round 5: I find myself in the number 1 chair of an SCG major. I have never had that happen before, I think 11th was the highest until today. I sit across from a guy named Kurtis(?) on Pox. Very nice guy who immediately tells me I better not be on Sneak Show, I smile and say of course not, who would play that pile? I'm quickly proved a liar after I SnT in Griselbrand. Then we're on to g2, while we're talking about g2 I tell him that I love Pox, but don't play it because Lilli's ultimate is not a legit win con, he tells me, sure, but it's still a pretty good ultimate. G2 he rapes my hand, rapes it some more, throws down Lilli and +1's her for several turns then ultimates Lilli and I concede. I'm sorry Lilli, your ultimate is fine by me. G3 I am on the play and he mulls to five digging for a good disruption hand, with t1 Spell pierce online I'm able to control through until I can combo off.
Round 6: Feature match against Dan Neeley. I'm nervous as I've never had a feature match before. I figure he is on 12 Post when I see the Vesuva, when he slams down a maindeck Pithing Needle on sneak attack, I am now aware that he has metagamed this mu better than I have. I SnT in Griselbrand and he puts in Primeval Titan grabbing two lands one of which starts with K. I'm not nervous anymore, I am just fucked. I make him kill me as I want to see some cards and I am not worried about time. G2: I sideboard terrible bringing in Pyroblast because I think he has FOW or something for me. I get to see two copies of it too as he Needles Sneak Attack and slams Kozilek down on me. He made one risky play G2 by Crop Rotating his second land drop and all I had was a Pyroblast for it, that was not the right card for that particular play. Dan is a great player and he top 8's the event, CONGRATS DAN N! He was very well prepared for the event and it showed.
Round 7: Feature and Camera match. This was against Eric Rill on RUG. I'd never been on camera before which was cool, but also a little nerve wracking. I play around stifle for a few turns and try to go off with FOW back up and run into double daze, ACK! He has a flipped delver and good pressure and I can't reassemble in time. Then for some reaosn I think that that was G2 and that it's al over, so I to shake his hand. He looks at me like I am crazy, but extends his hand right when I realize we have a game yest to play and I kind of pul my hand back. MOST AWKWARD HANDSHAKE EVAR!!! And on camera, which I am totally blaming for that. G2 is rinse repeat of game one except that he starts with goose, but has one more counter for me to go through. Ces la vie. After my demise we chat a little bt and he shows me teh Cooperationn tek in his RUG board, to funny:) very nice guy who top 8ed the event taking second, CONGRATS ERIC R!
Round 8: Sam on BUG/Delver TA.. We've played once before several months ago when Maverick was still a deck. He was on TA then and I was on Mav. This was a pretty frustrating round for Sam, as I got the opposite luck of the previous round. I think my G1 7 was: Emrakul, SnT, Island, Fow, MisD, Fow, Ponder on the draw and I draw a Sol land. G2 wasn't as bad, but it went about the same way. Nice guy and a familiar face, we wished each other luck for the last round. It's a good deck for TA to play against, but I had stone cold nut draws in both games.
Round 9: Andrew on Stoneblade. G1: I had strong hands and he couldn't find enough counter magic in time. G2 He did and he beat me to death with a batterskull. G3 I was on the play with a decent hand for control, but no pieces and it just developed really well. He had two IOK that game and both bricked against Sneak Attack/Fow hands. And that was that.
I ended 7-2 and was the highest 21 pointer in 11th, both guys at 8/9 had 22 as well as the sixth-eighth seeds. So no chance on a top eight, but a very satisfying finish over all. Congrats to Star City for running a great event and my hats off to each of my opponents, I had 9 rounds of class act guys and you don't always get that.
The general sideboard plans that I used for the day were as follows: Vs RUG/BUG/Stoneblade -2 PreOrdain, -1 Emrakul, -1 Grisel, -1 Spell Pierce, -1 Petal +3 Pyro, +3 Fluster. I cut 2 PreOrdain and 2 Petal for 4 Cage for Dredge. For Pox I think I just cut 2 Preordain for 2 Fluster for HD. I didn't sideboard a card in the Nic Fit series. For the 12 Post MU I completely fucked the sideboard up.
Thoughts for the next event: I am going to swap two Preordain for 2 Intuition and test it. I wanted a tutor a few times and sometimes got flooded out with cantrips. I've gone back and forth on this before and I don't have an answer that satisfies me. With RUG back and Stifle real again, I love the 20 land 4 petal mana base. I think you can side out one basic island vs miracles in this config as an extra bonus. For the board I am cutting Pyro as the blue count is just too goddamn delicate to make it really any good IMHO. I want Needle or something in there that interacts with Karakas, but not just Karakas.
So that's that, thanks for reading and Go Sneak Show!
Defector
Tom Nelson
Just a quickie that might have been answered already but I seem to be inable to handle Humility if it comes down. Is there any way I can handle it profitably? It is just super awkward if they have it in hand or even on board.
How do you handle it?
Cheers
You need some kind of bounce, I run 2 wipe away and one e truth in the board. Its not a common card even people that run it usually only run one copy, so you can just try to duck it, but bounce is our only real heads on answer. Hope that helps.
Congrats on the great finish! Your sideboard is different from the one you were testing a month ago (boseiju x3 fluster x3 blood moon x3 grafdiggers x3 e truth x3). It looks like Pyroblast essentially replaced your Boseijus. What made you go with the former over the latter, and do you think you'll try Boseiju again?
I understand cutting Blood Moon. It seems like that's only an "I win" card when you're also playing Terminus / Supreme Verdict.
Do you like the 4x Grafdiggers? I'm considering a mix of cages and relics/crypts and can't decide.
Thanks for the report!
Congrats on your finish. My list is very close to yours. I do run the 2 Intuition instead of your 2 Ponder and I think they work good. When you want them, you realyl want them, and they work. Plus, I often have no trouble siding them out, which makes room for stuff to come in very easily. For what it's worth, to help on your decision. :wink:
Thanks for the congrats:) I think the Intuition is legit, so far in testing I am happy with it and I want to try out the broken side of the broken/consistent argument for a little while.
@Pavlaugh: As for the sideboard decisions this was my logic on Boseiju. Not being able to make the Sneak Attack uncounterable combined with the rebirth of RUG made me cut it. If something were to change that made the best Show and Tell an Omni version where the combo is all in on resolving Show and Tell then I think Boseiju becomes much more viable. Ironically, my first loss on the day was to 12 Post and even though I believe Blood Moon isn't correct right now, I really I wish I had it:) Ces la vie. On Grafdiggers I love, love love it! It stops dredge, impedes elves, impedes storm/PIF and is very strong vs Tin Fins/Reani. It's got amazing versatility in the meta right now and is more of an anti combo card than just straight GY hate. I'm all in on 4.
cheers defector
Went to a 72 man (7 rounds) tourney this past weekend and finished top 4. I had an undefeated run on my way to top 8 (5-0-2) and 10-0 in games. Here’s my list:
4 emrakul
4 griselbrand
4 brainstorm
4 ponder
4 force of will
4 show and tell
4 sneak attack
4 lotus petal
3 spell pierce
2 misdirection
2 intuition
1 flusterstorm
1 preordain
4 scalding tarn
4 misty rainforest
3 ancient tomb
2 city of traitors
2 island
1 mountain
3 volcanic island
4 leyline of sanctity
3 defense grid
1 red elemental blast
1 pyroblast
2 wipe away
2 pyroclasm
2 through the breach
I’ve been running this maindeck for the past 3 tournaments and felt very comfortable with it. The deck runs very smoothly and I barely mulligan with it. The only flex slots are the 1 preordain and the 1 flusterstorm. I’m thinking of cutting the one preordain for a sensei divining top. For grindier games especially the mirror, it’s all about hand sculpting and with top and fetchlands, it obviously does a great job at that.
Here’s a brief report:
Round 1: RUG (2-0)
I did not want to face RUG so early in the tournament as I fear RUG the most of all decks.
G1 he had the turn 1 delver. Turn 2 flip, played a second delver, so I figure I’m in big trouble. Luckily my hand had the show and tell and emrakul and one counter backup. Few turns later I went for it, he forced, I forced back, I put in emrakul. So the board was emrakul vs. double delvers. On his turn before combat, he picks up emrakul and reads and asks me if he can still block despite emrakul having protection from coloured spells. I said of course, delvers are permanents, not spells. Obviously he has the stifle at the ready for the annihilator trigger. He passed the turn. My hand was just show and tell at this point. He has a grip full of cards. My turn I attack with emrakul, he stifles the trigger, blocks with delver. His turn, he attacks with the delver, drops me to 4, passes. I figure if he has another stifle, he can take the 15, stifle the trigger, attack back and bolt me for the win. If that's his line, there's nothing I can do. I drew for my turn, griselbrand. I swung with emmy, he stifles, takes 15. I show and telled grizzy. Apparently he only had a bolt in hand and one red source which would have got me down to 1 but a timely grizzy foiled that plan to block his delver preventing him from getting there.
G2 He mulls to 6 and starts off the game with double wasteland while I was aggressively fetching basics. I played a turn 2 defense grid. Show and telled emrakul few turns later.
Round 2: RW Goblins (feat. Thalia + disenchants) (2-0)
G1 He turn 1 lackeys and starts dropping siege-gang then a piledriver. I show and telled emrakul early and he had no matron or stingcourger.
G2 I kept a reasonable hand of sneak attack, some lands, some cantrips. He turn 1 vials, then turn 2 thalia which I forced. I sculpt for a little bit until I see an emrakul. I tapped out to play a sneak attack and passed. Big mistake. I now left sneak attack open to hate like a pithing needle or something. I was thinking about just passing the turn and play sneak attack with mana open to sneak in emrakul next turn. I guess I got a little impatient. My hand was misdirection and intuition. On his turn he disenchants my sneak attack, I was like why did I play sneak this turn? Then I looked at my misdirection and intuition in my hand again and smiled. I misdirected the disenchant to kill his aether vial and he looked very surprised. I snuck in emmy and cantripped into another emmy few turns later.
Note: I didn’t take the show and tells out and bring in through the breach. In hindsight, that’s probably what I should of done since goblins have angel of despairs and other come into play trigger permanents against show and tell decks now. He did reveal his angels and thalias afterwards.
Round 3: RUG (2-0)
Again? I thought RUG was on the decline because of BUG and Jund. I guess not.
G1 I had two show and tells and emrakul in my hand. I went for the first show and tell and he double dazed. I went for the second turn after, and it’s good. He stifled one annihilator trigger but later succumbed to spaghetti.
G2 Don’t really remember as I didn’t take any notes whole tournament. I think I snuck in a griselbrand then went to town eventually.
Round 4: Reanimator (with show and tells and goryo’s vengeance but not tin fins) (2-0)
G1 I forced his turn 1 careful study. I show and telled turn 2, we both dropped grizzy. He show and telled the next turn, I put emmy and he has grizzy. He draws 14 hoping to somehow dump emmy in yard to reanimate it or triple lotus petal into another show and tell. He couldn’t find anything.
G2 He plays turn 2 thoughtseize and I had the option of piercing, forcing or misdirecting. I misdirected and thought, wait, he’s reanimator, he wants to discard, what am I doing? But then I thought, wouldn’t he just thoughtseize himself if he wants to discard? So I justified my play wasn’t bad. I see his hand, nothing scary for at least a while. My hand was also pretty slow until I found an emrakul and through the breach. On my turn, I have six mana and I cast through the breach leaving one mana for spell pierce backup. He has five mana open. From his thoughtseize, I knew he had: 1 animate dead, 1 dark ritual, 1 force of will. He decided to play dark ritual hoping that I will let resolve then force with 2 open to pay for pierce in case I had pierce. I just pierced the ritual and 15’d him for exactsies.
Round 5: All Spells (2-0)
My opponent was a known competent high tide player. Recently, he’s been playing different decks though, so I thought he might try a non-high tide deck.
G1 I kept a hand of pierce, force, pierce, ponder, and lands. He probes me and I knew he was playing a combo deck which my hand was very good at fighting. He tries to non-threshold a cabal ritual some turns later which a pierced. He later ramped to 4 black and cast Undercity informer which I just forced and he scooped.
G2 He kept his 7. This means I have to mull to force, right? I mulled all the way down to 3 and it was land land pierce. I figure if he can turn 1 me, this ain’t gonna get there. I tried my luck with 2. It was mountain and pierce. I kept. He turn 1 probes me twice, then passes. So no turn 1?? I mulled all that for nothing? He kept a hand that couldn’t turn 1? We were both on top deck mode and he end of turn discarded double bridges and manages to cast a narcomoeba which he used to flashback cabal therapy naming force of will (whiff) to produce two 2/2 zombies. I was on top deck mode but did not miss land drops. I eventually played sneak attack, spaghetti’ed him, then dug deeper and found grizzy.
Round 6 & 7 (ID) I drew round 6 and my friends urged me to play out the last round to dreamcrush my opponent and also have the higher standing so I can play in top 8. They also have a better chance of making it in if I crush my round 7. My opponent in round 7 played a very gruelling and tight round 6 and was very happy to win so he can draw the next round. I chose to play and he looked very upset. We went to game 3 and one of my buddies said he just lost so it didn’t really matter if I drew with him or not. I offered the draw because I didn’t want anyone to hold a grudge against me in the future.
Top 8 Quarters
Round 8: Sneak and Show (2-1)
I really don’t like to play the mirror but knew it was inevitable as there were a large number of us playing this deck in the tourney.
G1 We both make land drops and cantripped almost every turn. He decided to go play sneak attack. I countered, he allowed. He has no counter backup? Next turn I play sneak attack and snuck in grizzy and emmy. He showed his hand of all lands and said he couldn’t cantrip into anything.
G2 He cantrips more than me. We play land go for a little bit. He pulls the trigger first with sneak attack, I countered. Next turn he plays another sneak attack, I counter again, he counters back, and wins. I lose in short order.
G3 I was stuck with triple ancient tomb and one lotus petal and one volcanic island for the longest time. I didn’t want to cast my sneak because I wanted to have 2 colored mana open for double counters in case. After I drew another sneak, I decided to cast it. I just wanted to bait out counters, as I had another one in hand. He countered and I didn’t bother to counter fight. Next turn he casts sneak attack, I forced, he forced, I REB’ed his force, he brainstormed into nothing, then passed the turn with his sneak attack successfully countered by me. He had 2 cards in hand at this point. I went for it and cast through the breach for emrakul annihilating his board and bringing him to 1. I cast sneak attack later and grizzy snuck in.
Top 4 Semis
Round 9: BUG Midrange
This was the opponent that I so kindly drew with in round 7. This was a terrible matchup for me as he had hand disruption, counters, lillies, and jace main deck. In retrospect, I guess I should of tried to knock him out of top 8 contention to avoid the possibility of playing him in the top eight. Whatever…
G1 I cast show and tell about turn 3 and he brainstormed into no counters but played lilly the next turn and made me lose my spaghetti.
G2 See game one.
I didn’t see a single griselbrand both games when it would’ve mattered most. I really should of mulled to leyline as he cast about 6 thoughtseize in the span of both games.
So I ended up losing in the semi’s which I thought wasn’t too shabby at all for a 72 person tournament going undefeated to top eight. I admit I did make some loose keeps and some questionable plays. Hopefully I can take down the whole shebang next time.
Brand new to legacy (and obviously to Sneak/Show), but I have read through the thread to try to educate myself.
If we have Pithing Needle in the board and we're facing Maverick g2/g3, what's the best Needle target?
- Karakas - it screws up Show and Tell; it requires an extra activation of Sneak Attack
- Knight of the Reliquary - it grows as they dig out Wastelands and fetches, and it can tutor for Karakas
- Wasteland - even if we fetch for basics, sometimes we draw into duals or sol lands that can get wasted
I had initially thought the play was Karakas, as it basically shuts off half our combo (though Griselbrand can still draw cards in response)... but Knight becomes their biggest beater while keeping us off duals and sol lands...
Similarly those are potential Stifle targets post-board... but because Stifle is instant-speed, we can at least make an informed assessment at that moment (instead of preemptively like with Needle).
I think the best target is Karakas. It's the only way Maverick can meaningfully interact with us outside of Thalia and Teeg. Knight can be huge, but more often then not you should be able to combo out before they attack you 3+ times with a 3 drop.Quote:
Originally Posted by alphanumeric
Defense Grid is such a stomping against RUG. I obviously drew pretty poorly, but Grid just kept me from interacting... Definitely cemented my thinking that it would be the nut high against RUG.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunday Funday
Congrats on the top 4! Regarding this round 1 game 1 sequence... couldn't you have blocked the lone attacking delver with Emrakul?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunday Funday
Thanks for the congrats! Thanks for pointing that out. I need to edit that :)Quote:
Originally Posted by alphanumeric