Me: silkster: Savage Summoning, Meddling Mage, Atraxa, Praetors' Voice, Abrupt Decay
1. Asthereal (TO): Meddling Mage, Dovin's Veto, Counterflux, Death's Shadow
Savage Meddling Mage stops your Meddling Mage, and Decay kills Shadow.
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2. Wrath of Pie: Ancient Tomb, Loxodon Smiter, Loxodon Smiter, Bloodline Keeper
Meddling Mage stops Bloodline Keeper, Decay trades with a Smiter, and Atraxa either trades with a Smiter or races a Smiter.
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3. RoosterCocoa: High Market, Nether Spirit, Counterflux, Spell Queller
Upkeep Atraxa goes the distance. For a moment I was worried about stack tricks with sacking the Queller before its ETB resolves, but High Market can't both make mana and sack, and I can cast spells before you can play High Market anyway.
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4. PJim: Savage Summoning, Meddling Mage, Electrodominance, Wheel of Fate
If you let me get to my main phase, Atraxa wins. So you need to pick a fight first. Meddling Mage either names Abrupt Decay or dies to Abrupt Decay, and I can respond to Electrodominance with Savage Atraxa.
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5. GoblinSmashmaster: Leyline of Lifeforce, Nightveil Predator, Frilled Mystic, Bloodhall Ooze
I go for a Savage Meddling Mage. If you don't play Mysic, I name Mystic, our other resources trade, and Meddling Mage comes out on top. If you do play Mystic, I name Nightveil Predator, and Atraxa comes out on top.
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6. alphastryk: Leyline of Sanctity, Dark Ritual, Wheel and Deal, Aura Mutation
I hold Savage Meddling Mage to respond to Dark Ritual. Atraxa lifelinks to victory.
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7. jhhdk: Raven's Crime, Howltooth Hollow, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Force Spike
Savage Meddling Mage on Crime or Emrakul gets the job done. Force Spike is neat here. My first draft of a deck had Nix.
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8. FTW: Savage Summoning, Meddling Mage, Frilled Mystic, Narset's Reversal
My plan is Savage Summoning into Atraxa. If you Savage Summoning a Meddling Mage, it either names Abrupt Decay or eats Abrupt Decay. Narset's Reveral can force me to recast Savage Summoning, but I have the life for that since I don't plan to cast Meddling Mage. Narset's Reveral hilariously doesn't stop Decay on Mage because you have no other targets to choose. If Abrupt Decay was "better", you could let it kill the Mystic.
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9. Reeplcheep: Blood Celebrant , Aetherflux Reservoir, Pact of Negation , Cavern Harpy
Savage Mage on Blood Celebrant stops all shenanigans. Man, I looked so hard for a good activated ability, but I couldn't find one. This is super cool.
Discrepency: Savage Summoning can't be countered.
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10. mattamort: Esper charm, Funeral Charm, Funeral Charm, Thrilled Mystic
Thrilling! If you let me get to my main phase, Atraxa takes over. I let you Funeral Charm twice discarding Decay and Mage, but I can respond to Esper Charm with Savage Atraxa.
WWDD, forgot that main phase Atraxa is counterable.
11. dte: Savage Summoning, Lavinia, Azorius Renegade, esper charm, fork
Resolved Lavinia is GG. Even when I'm on the play, you have two Savage Summonings. Wow, this deck is amazing.
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13. Tylert: Nicolas bolas, dragon god, Orim's chant, Orim's chant, The tabernacle at pendrell vale
I'm cold to Tabernacle.
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14. Serguei: Cunning Nightbonder; Spell Queller; Frilled Mystic; Leyline of Lifeforce
Abrupt Decay answers Spell Queller (regardless of whether you hit Savage Summoning or Atraxa) and Savage Atraxa takes over.
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15. maxx!: Savage Summoning, Meddling Mage, Esper Charm, Mardu Charm
This matchup is really confusing. I thought I figured it out like three times, but then I found more lines. All of our cards are gas, but Esper Charm has a 2-for-1. But if your Meddling Mage is already in play, then it's hitting a dead card. I can't figure this out at the moment.
pending investigationI believe maxx!
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16. H: Chancellor of the Dross, Smallpox, Phyrexian Obliterator, Counterspell
On the play, I can Savage Mage naming Counterspell and play Atraxa. Counterspell is now blank, Smallpox will kill Meddling Mage, and Atraxa flies over Obliterator. Unfortunately, Chancellor + Smallpox + spending 7 mana puts me at 2, and you're at 20+3-8-4-1=10. Then (6,6), (1,6), (5,2), (0,2) has me dead first. The one life from Smallpox comes in clutch.
So instead, I just hold Savage Atraxa to block and draw.
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20W, 6L, 4D = 64, but with many mistakes likely. (One found thus far.)
After the Dream Halls round was less exciting than we'd hoped, I was a little concerned for this one, but wow! This round was much cooler than I expected and with much more diversity and interesting matches. Never have I had to read so many cards. Then again, this is perhaps more similar to the WUBRG round, which had a lot of diversity too.
I was kicking myself for not playing Meddling Mage last round, and it felt like a shoo-in here. But then again, everything felt broken: counterspells, uncounterable counterspells, Meddling Mages, removal, discard, big fatties, and infinite combos that I was sure were there but couldn't find, and all of it for free and often at instant speed. I considered Lavinia because of the last time that we saw Lavinia dominate, but I expected a lot of uncounterable creatures that would get through anyway. I did, however, do my best to mimic the role of Eater of Days, and I think Atraxa did a pretty good impersonation at that. But I had no idea if this would be any good because I couldn't predict the meta at all. The only other decks I had brainstormed were:
Savage Summoning, Meddling Mage, Counterflux, Nix.
Ancient Tomb, Ancient Tomb, Chromium, something undecided.
Chancellor of the Forge.dec
Cavern of Souls, Atraxa, Praetors' Voice, Archangel of Tithes, Counterflux.
Special shoutout to Fork for being so flexible. I'm still in awe.
PS: At the moment of writing this PS, I've written up 14 of my 15 match results and I just noticed that I actually have something to proliferate. lol
I think you mean that Fiery Justice is a "rituel". :wink: It's interesting that we both started with your WUBRG deck as inspiration. I feel like a dirty net-decker.