Tips for the Death and Taxes matchup? They have 4 maindeck Karakas and Thalia. Seems like an uphill battle for sure, but what can be sideboarded for it?
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Tips for the Death and Taxes matchup? They have 4 maindeck Karakas and Thalia. Seems like an uphill battle for sure, but what can be sideboarded for it?
Don't forget the maindeck phyrexian revokers which just get vial'd in in response to you casting sneak attack, or the mangara which can exile emrakul. The only times I have ever beat D&T seem to be when I am playing someone who is borrowing the deck and isn't all that familiar with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darksteel
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Originally Posted by Star|Scream
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Originally Posted by pavlaugh
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Originally Posted by teonsw
Deck lists were collected after Round 1 by the TO so no cheating done here they can deck check me if they wanted I wrote down the correct list. Some of the people who had byes even swapped their whole decks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemnear
Decklists are supposed to be collected before round 1 starts, your TO seems shady.Quote:
Originally Posted by blindspotxxx
Top 16 at SCG Milwaukee... I will post a report tomorrow (i hope). My losses were due to stupidty... I had never played this deck before today so I misplayed early but I learned quick.
Congratulations on top 16. Though it isn't like the deck is horribly difficult to pilot.
Just to clarify, a decklist includes a maindeck (60+ cards) AND a sideboard (either 0 or 15 cards, no other number is allowed). It should be collected before round 1 and at that moment, your list is definite, no more changes of any kind are allowed to your list or the actual deck or sideboard.Quote:
Originally Posted by dsck
You might want to update your local TO to that fact because otherwise, imagine how you would feel if next time, you play against somebody who scouted you, added 6+ cards in the SB to defeat and does so. based solely on an unfair advantage.
In essence, what happened (and was allwoed by the TO) is cheating and that's no fun.
Well that won't really be possible because after round 1 before pairings, decklists are collected. So you won't really know who you're fighting. But I do agree though that it gives unfair advantage to side boarding for the Meta. You can swap for the meta, but to a specific opponent not really. Anyway, I can tell them about it but I guess the intention was it was an incentive for those who got byes from previous small tournaments or maybe because they are undermanned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Just me
Moving on, Sneak Show has taken another SCG Trophy :) Too bad it lost to Death and Taxes at GP Strasbourg
Dnt looks tricky, Vendillion Clique is probably decent to nab tricks from their hand+ chump revokers, otherwise pyroclasm seems decent
So went to a local tournie and brought the good old sneaky peaky and made top 4 and split. One card that saved some games for me was world spine worm. Dear god he is a hoser and the fact he leaves 15 trample power behind is awesome. Saved me in at least 3 games as everyone and their grandmother was rocking karakas or lilies or edict abilitys. This guy stops almost all the hate and sneak attack makes him better. I highly recommend him as a one of in the main deck as he can just deals with threats that emrakul cannot answer like baleful strix liliana, etc. Tell me your opinion but i think think he is to good not to have in sneak and show. Also nobody expects him and many do not want to swords him as 15 life does not help their cause.
Report is still forthcoming. My day has been alot more busy then I would have guessed.
I don't say Wurm isn't great, but Emrakul and Griselbrand are the best creatures we have right now. I am absolutely happy with Emrakul and the threats about him I try to fight them with Stifle and Karakas.Quote:
Originally Posted by the ploeg
No i ran him as a ninth creature and the shuffle ability helped to when i needed to pitch a card. I ran the usual sweet of fatties plus 1 worm. tried it out and it paid off. now sideboard is what I need to figure out for next weekend. Any sudgestions with heavy goblins and stoneblade in my meta
Those both seem like super easy match ups. My stoneblade matches this weekend at SCG MKE were a breeze. I actually played a pro in my round 9 text feature match and never felt in trouble. Vendillion Clique is super handy in that match up.
Why is goblins a "super easy match up"? They have a pretty fast clock, they have Goblin Matron into Stingscourger and nowadays even Thalias in their sideboards to slow us down. Maybe even Pithing Needle to shut down Sneak Attack. I don't know, but I'm not smiling when I see I'm playing against goblins. I think it's a close match-up.Quote:
Originally Posted by nodahero
For Death & Taxes: if it becomes more popular in the future, maybe it's time again for Progenitus in our sideboards?
As you pointed out they have Matron for Stingscourger... AKA they have a singleton they either A) have to get silly lucky and draw or B) they have to draw a 4 of spend 3 to play (waste a lackey trigger) and then get Stingscourger into play. By that time if you are playing well and not drawing like ass you should be fine. Don't forget you also pack Force to counter the Stingscrouger.
Thalia is irritating but easily beaten with as much cheating as our deck permits. Just drop your petals into play ASAP and board in the Karakas if you play it and you should be okay. Don't forget being on the play is also going to help because you should win game 1 alot so even if you lose game 2, you have the play game 3.
just had a ton of main deck hate also got bad draws. Is their an answer we can run for cavern of souls or not really.
I had some thoughts I wanted to share with everyone after recently playing a sanctioned tournament at Xanadu Games in Maryland. I went 3-3 in a 32 man tournament. I managed to beat Lands, Jund, Ant, but lost to control matches, Bug, Esper-blade, and 4-color Rug.
In my tournament matches against control, I guess I should of side-boarded in Vendilion Clique because several times did Esper-blade player took cards out of my hand with his own Vendilion Clique. In a control match, it's possible that before I combo off, I should Clique him to see what he has in his hand.
I played Jace, the Mindsculptor in my list over Intuition and I learned that it was not a good idea because sometimes after you attack with Emrakul through Sneak Attack, you need a quick find to finish him off before your opponent draws a threat. This happened to me against my Bug match in which I annihilate his field and he plays a Deathrite Shaman 3 turns later while I have nothing in hand but counter spells that couldn't counter Deathrite Shaman. I had the same problem against the 4-color Rug deck. I needed a quick tutor to pick up creatures and use them to attack with. These creatures in these control decks are a problem if you let them resolve. In theory, you want them to resolve to save your counters for the counter war. I believe this is true? What are people's suggestions against control deck match-ups? How do you handle creatures that you let your opponent resolve?
I realize you don't need Stifle if you play Vendilion Clique in your sideboard.
Daze was great, but sometimes it couldn't of been better with Misdirection causing my opponent to Hymh himself.
Jace, the Mindsulptor was sub-optimal. He's not all that great in play.
Sensei's Divining top was a beast. I was able to catch extra counters in response to my opponent trying to disrupt me through Sensei's Divining top.
From your bug matchup it sounds more like bad luck then anything. How many cantrips did you run? In my current list i ran 10 with 2 tops included and I never had issues finding threats (I did not run any intuition).
In the list which I took to the tournament, I ran 4 Brainstorm, 4 Ponder, 2 Sensei's Divining top, 2 Jace, the Mindsculptor, and 2 Preordain. : / The list I run now has still 4 Brainstorm, 4 Ponder, 2 Preordain, 2 Sensei's Divining top, but with 2 Intuition.Quote:
Originally Posted by nodahero
Sensei's top is so amazing in control matches. It gives you so much advantage in filtering your draw on your draw step that you don't necessarily care what the other player has since you're getting all the best cards that are coming to the top one per turn. Toping every turn makes every draw feel so right. I recommend everyone to test it.