Sensei's Divining Top is horrendous in Lands. You can't afford to sink mana into it.
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Sensei's Divining Top is horrendous in Lands. You can't afford to sink mana into it.
Heading to a tournament in Tampa, will post results later today or tomorrow. Couldn't find a Vinecrasher to test but I've got prime time and a library in my board, kind of excited to see how they'll perform
Well that tournament could have gone better.
2-0 Death and Taxes, had grove and fire in both my openers, turns out that card is really good against them.
0-2 UW Countertop and got completely crushed. Game one was just an abysmal struggle until I scooped to Jace+counter top+ floating 2 drop and all my combo pieces in the yard. game two I keep a sketchy six and he wastes my only colored source and I don't draw another one for the rest of the game.
2-0 Belcher, game one he plays Empty the Warrens for 16 goblins, I rotate into tabernacle and waste his taiga. gg. game two he plays Belcher without the mana to activate, I grip it.
0-2 Death and Taxes, keep a sketchy hand, I'm able to get lage but I can't properly port him off white and lose to his clock. Game 2 I'm able to loop depths to keep up a threat but I can't draw punishing fire to deal with his mom & avenger.
After today I've got a few changes I'm gonna try, swapping out the MD ghost quarter for a Sejiri Steppe, and I'm changing my flex spot in the side for a Tower of the Magistrate
Steppe is all kinds of bad. Your better off running almost anything else. It etb tapped, off colour, does nothing when it does unless you have the witch and it's just a short cut to something we can do already with Ports, Fires and Wastelands.
It's beyond too narrow.
Yeah, Steppe is pretty bad. I've always enjoyed Tower of the Magistrate for trolling purposes, but I wouldn't dream of playing it in a serious event lol. Also, I enjoy Island of Wak-Wak more than a normal man should. Again for strict trolling purposes.
Steppe does seem really niche but there were so many points at that tournament where I had rotate in hand and if I could have rotated into Steppe I'd have the game. Tower is probably too cute tho, I was just kind of frustrated over losing to D&T and thought that card might be nice to have access too.
You will remember the moments a card saved you and forget the ones it was a dead draw over time sometimes. That is how Pet cards are born. If you look at the way the deck is built and how it works though you should just read your post up to the word "But" and then stop. Everything after than is just justification for a very truthful statement you yourself wrote. This card is going to make you cut something more useful from the deck and thus lose you more games than those few it would help you win. I council against its use.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dominic Pain
Also you won't remember the times it "wins" a game you would have won regardless. Often you won't even know with certainty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dice_Box
I also don't like the Steppe, since it is nearly useful only as a target for Crop Rotation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dominic Pain
Also, you mentioned previously you wanted to try the Primeval Titan. Did it perform well in some games?
You guys have done a good job of convincing me not to run Steppe. My salt levels last night were off the charts and now that I'm rested up I'm over my bad ideas. I didn't get a chance to bring in Prime, what matchups do you think he should go in for? I considered it against countertop but decided against it
I did forget to mention the highlight of my night though, game one countertop played two standstills against me. Needless to say I ended up drawing six cards.
Primeval Titan comes in against decks that have graveyard hate or can't deal with a 6/6. Shardless and delver decks can't deal with a 6/6. Miracles has graveyard hate. Death & Taxes has both graveyard hate and a hard time dealing with a 6/6 (4 plows and that's it). Titan is also the mirror breaker: The first person to resolve Primeval Titan will win the game (getting to 6 mana is the tricky part).Quote:
Originally Posted by Dominic Pain
Completely agree. I would also bring it in against Reanimator to have a creature to keep the pressure if the opponent loses a lot of life (Griselbrand, Reanimate) or to have an additional way to fetch for Karakas/Tabernacle.Quote:
Originally Posted by barcode
I love it against Reanimator, too! It blanks Show & Tell so long as Titan is in our hand (remember: the only threat that really matters is Tidespout Tyrant).Quote:
Originally Posted by Layalouhamesh
It can make Exhume awful.
Some pitfalls: If they reanimate it we have a hard time with mana denial plan.
It is for the same reason -- show & tell -- I like Titan against Sneak & Show. That puts the only "real" cards at Blood Moon and Sneak Attack.
Found an upside to boseiju + boil over choke. I rotated under countertop, he tops, fetches, tops, doesn't find a 1 drop, says "eh I don't think I actually care about it? I've got a needle on stage?" I rotate into boseiju and boil him and he scoops.
Don't think it can be accounted as an upside, he just didn't find a 1cmc-spell. Boul does suits our manadenial-plan better nowadays. Back when Omnitell was a thing Choke was the better card: combined with 3Ball it was deadly.
I am cutting Chokes for Primes. The amount of times I wanted a Choke over the amount of times I wanted to just win... Choke is not as strong as it was, I am happy to let it go.
Yes... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dice_Box
Next thing you'll be cutting Boseiju for Cavern of Souls. :)
Just got a set foil Boseiju in my Secret Santa so...Quote:
Originally Posted by barcode
Looking for (S preferred) Chinese Primeval Titans now... :p
(I might end up playing Modern Scapeshift again, to be honest)