Is that a new spoiler? i'm seeing just Opal Palace as a land on the spoiler at MTG Salvation.
http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/s...822#post758822
Basically this lands allow you to sac the token to deal 20 damage, so no more sword/terminus in resp, and it is a land so you can fetch it.
Might see play as a two-three off.
All the cards are uncounterable.
Opal Palace is the land spoilered so far and it's not like you are saying (http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/attac...1&d=1381982431). Can you give a link or source to the land you are talking to?
EDIT: LOL those lands posted by Kayradis are CLEARLY fakes, he was just joking, really man...
Those lands are mockups; the lack of artist signature and collector's number give them away (also the my little pony crossover references).
Oh sheet i thouhgt it was real .... my bad
Big tornament about 50 players, went 4-2.
Beating BUG shardless 2-1
Maverick twice 2-1 2-1 (one vial version and the other GSZ version)
Random 'meule'
and losing to B/R reanimator 2-0 and to stoneblade 2-0.
I feel like I could have beat stoneblade, but didn't see my pyroclasme and he overhelms me with flying blockers (souls+strix) while I had a shroud marit lage (game one).
Lost game 2 to restoration angel with sword of feast and famine found the seal of primordium too late.
The changes I made were the followings -2 into the north -1 steely resolve -1forest +1 kessig wolf run +3 phyrexian crusader.
Crusaders were very strong against maverick, and I won one game thanks to poison (with kessig).
Still not 100% sure they need to be play, it was a choice against swords.decks, (death and taxes+maverick+miracle).
The combo is pretty consistant but hate is huge.
I am now testing slaughter games in sb for the miracle matchup.
Heyall,
Here's what I've been working on for quite a while, and will be running this weekend as SCG Indy:
1 snow forest
3 ancient tomb
4 city of brass
4 gemstone mine
4 stage
4 depths
1 okina
1 pendelhaven
4 scrying
4 pithing needle
4 expedition map
4 into da north
4 not of this world
4 crop rotation
4 esg
3 ssg
4 petal
3 fling
Board
1 tabernacle of pendrell vale
1 bojuka bog
1 sejiri steppe
4 seal of primordium
4 trinisphere
4 ashen rider (or sphere of resistance)
Anyone else going this weekend/representing?
This is an updated version I'm testing. The white has been removed for blue. Blue seemed like a good choice because it provides cantrips to replace dark confidant. Dark confidant just gets hit with all the removal because there are no other creatures to hit with it. Often times he doesn't even draw me a card because he dies. Rarely will a brainstorm / ponder get countered.
another big change I've made is adding counter spells in blue. The cantrips support the force of will and they allow you to have game against combo decks like ant that you would otherwise have to race.
I've cut the basic lands from the deck because pithing needle stops wasteland and you're not really worried about them wastelanding a bayou or something. They have been replaced with ghost quarters. Ghost quarters is favored over wasteland because you can use it under pithing needle and the replacement land it provides is irrelevant. Quarters targets karakas and maze mainly and can be tutored for with crop rotation.
You'll notice there are 4 ponders and 3 brainstorms. That is not a mistake. Since the deck run's mire's guiles you want more ways to shuffle your deck than anything because it runs fewer fetches than most decks.
Ratchet bomb/powder keg have been put in to replace deed because they come down a turn earlier which is huge against elves and goblins and belcher. Keg doesn't kill mire's guile but it doesn't kill planes walker either so i haven't figured out which I prefer. I think i might be leaning towards ratchet bomb cause you can add counters at eot when you have more information. It also hit Blood moon which is a complete blow out. But now with ratchet bomb you can kill blood moon even after its in play.
Other considerations now include stifle, not of this world, and a whole new sideboard. The white version had combo protection in the form of canonist and thalia. Now that i have that combo protection main i can cut them and revamp the sideboard.
I've cut the discard from the deck because its subpar compared to having counter spells. The reason is that even though i discard something important from their hand they can always draw into something on their turn and it happens more often than i'd like to experience.
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Powder Keg
3 Rite of Consumption
3 Pithing Needle
4 Crop Rotation
4 Thespian's Stage
4 Dark Depths
4 Vampire Hexmage
4 Ponder
3 Brainstorm
3 Mirri's Guile
4 Spell Pierce
4 Force of Will
1 Tropical Island
4 Polluted Delta
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Karakas
1 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2 Ghost Quarter
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I'd love to see Intuition and 1 Life from the Loam so you can get the Loam / DD / Stage package for some inevitability.
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I'd probably say the Mirri's Guiles maybe?
I think Living Wish also really works well for the DD combo since it gets any of the missing combo pieces you might need.
Let me spend some time tomorrow brewing and see what I can come up with. I've had an idea on the back burner for awhile but just haven't gotten around to it yet.
heres the thing. intuition for life form the loam and / living wish both improve consistency but slow the deck down considerably.
I've tested living wish quite a bit, and it produces a t4 token like 90+% of the time, but it will never improve consistency making a turn 2 token. Mirri's guile does and it helps get other answers like rite of consumption. Intuition id say is very similar to living wish.
I'm not saying that they are bad but they are slower so you'll have to be prepared to have games last 4-5 turns instead of 2-4.
Something that your post made me interested in was cutting black and running red. It would be GUR, red for punishing fires, green for living wish / crop rotation, blue for control against combo decks. Red gives you access to fling which functions like rite of consumption. It also has pyroclasm for fending off elves goblins and Death and taxes. Punishing fires are huge help to a lot of the matches id imagine. This version could also run gamble
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Alright!
This actually had me up pretty late last night because I couldn't sleep (hopped up on caffeine and brewing juices)!
Here's what I ended up with:
// Deck file for Magic Workstation (http://www.magicworkstation.com)
// Lands
1 [7E] Plains (1)
1 [WWK] Sejiri Steppe
3 [FUT] Horizon Canopy
1 [COM] Bojuka Bog
1 [FUT] Dryad Arbor
4 [ON] Windswept Heath
3 [CS] Dark Depths
1 [M13] Forest (3)
3 [MPR] Wasteland
1 [LG] Karakas
4 [R] Savannah
3 [DGM] Thespian's Stage
// Creatures
4 [ON] Weathered Wayfarer
1 [JU] Sylvan Safekeeper
1 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage
4 [CFX] Noble Hierarch
3 [LRW] Gaddock Teeg
3 [CFX] Knight of the Reliquary
4 [FNM] Mother of Runes
1 [RTR] Deathrite Shaman
// Spells
4 [JU] Living Wish
4 [MBS] Green Sun's Zenith
2 [MR] Sylvan Scrying
3 [UL] Crop Rotation
// Sideboard
SB: 1 [ALA] Ethersworn Canonist
SB: 1 [DKA] Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
SB: 1 [LRW] Gaddock Teeg
SB: 2 [ZEN] Mindbreak Trap
SB: 2 [M13] Ground Seal
SB: 1 [ISD] Fiend Hunter
SB: 1 [CS] Dark Depths
SB: 1 [COM] Bojuka Bog
SB: 1 [TSP] Harmonic Sliver
SB: 1 [MPR] Wasteland
SB: 1 [LG] Karakas
SB: 1 [JU] Sylvan Safekeeper
SB: 1 [DGM] Thespian's Stage
So currently, I've gone with a straight GW version. Here's the pros & cons as I see it:
Cons:
- Not as explosive as the black Hexmage versions (at fastest, it's a T4 kill vs a T3 kill)
- Black offers nice anti-combo / combo protection options with hand disruption
- Doesn't offer a Rite of Consumption / Fling option
Pros:
- Being focused on the DD / Stage kill means every card that tutors for a land now works for either half of the combo
- Less susceptible to Wasteland / Stifle being a blowout (Stifle only temporarily stops our plan for a turn only if they Stifle the Stage activation, Wasteland only removes 1 of the combo pieces as opposed to both being a 2 for 1 on the Hexmage plan)
- Mother of Runes / Safekeeper offers protection so the Rite of Consumption / Fling option may not be necessary.
- Backup game plan of Knight beatdown in case we can't assemble the combo somehow.
- Sneaky Show matchup is greatly improved with the inclusion of Knights and land searching for Karakas.
- Wayfarer / Knight can find the entire combo on their own.
The maindeck & sideboard can use work, of course, but I think it's an interesting direction to go. Ground Seal in the board is there to give some more yard hate as well as protect you from Extirpate / Surgical effects. I'm not certain it's needed though?
The Teegs over Thalias in the main help protect from FoW as well as hurts your land searching spells less.
I have a lot of redundant Wishboard pieces simply because I'm not certain which direction I wanted to go so I figured I'd just play a bunch of silver bullets.
Some potential improvements:
- I'd love to add black to add Hexmage / Urborg without hurting our mana searching consistency, but I'm not sure we can do it. Black also lets us play Dark Confidant and hand disruption too.
- A Cavern of Souls for Humans seems really good.
- I'm not certain if the Sejiri Steppe is too cute as way for KoTR to protect Merit Lage from StP.
rite of consumption / fling is preferable only because it solves all of the issues regarding targeting and the blockers. As you play test you'll notice that while Mom can give it colored protection and push through blocking tokens your token is still open to karakas / maze of ith. Sylvan safe keeper solves those problems but doesn't allow it to push through tokens. Because you have a lot of redundancy you may find that you have what you need in the right situation.
White has good anti combo such as thalia, and canonist, and with your heavy creature presence you should be fine. When i built my aggro version of the deck it was similar but I scrapped it cause I'm a combo player and got annoyed with how grindy some of the match ups felt. I felt like blue had more to offer in terms of combo protection / finding the combo.
if you don't run black senjiri is probably fine, but I ran black and it got cut.
If you do choose to run black, -3 canopy -1 senjiri -2 savannah -1 wasteland +4 urborg +2 verdant catacombs, +1 bayou
you may find bojuka bog to be underwhelming since the decks you want it against are almost as susceptible to karakas. While bojuka helps your dredge matchup your main deck teeg probably helps just as much. Dredge doesn't have much interaction with you either and your knights are big enough to block their tokens. I think you'd find that 1 md ooze does better than the bog especially if you choose not to run black.
IDK if you have access to cockatrice but i'd be willing to help you test on that if you wanted.
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Thanks for the thoughts!
Yeah, Rite / Fling does get around having to attack, but then you get blown out if it gets countered, which I wasn't a fan of. The GW version I threw together is definitely grindier and takes more time setting up protection before going off.
I don't use Cockatrice, but thanks for the offer! I mainly just enjoy theorizing about tweaking different decks and seeing how far they can go.
I'm surprised no one has really tried pushing the Thespian's Stage / DD combo yet since it's much harder to stop than the old Hexmage / DD combo. I guess people are still into attacking with 3/1's as opposed to 20/20's. With how much land searching out there, I actually had to cut a bunch of tutors simply because there are just way too many good ones (Expedition Map didn't even make the cut!).
Its not that no one is pushing the combo, its just they are putting that combo in a lands shell.
Any way what do you think about the following deck list that just won a 77 person event.
4x Vampire Hexmage
4x Crop Rotation
4x Punishing Fire
3x Life from the Loam
4x Exploration
4x Manabond
4x Mox Diamond
1x Bojuka Bog
1x Glacial Chasm
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Savannah
1x The Tabenacle at pendrell Vale
1x Tranquil Thicket
1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Windswepth Heath
2x Taiga
3x Maze of Ith
4x Dark Depths
4x Grove of the Burnwillows
4x Rishadan Port
4x Thespian's Stage
4x Wasteland
4x Urborg, Tomb of Yagmoth
Sideboard
2x Cotv
1x Cruciable of Worlds
3x Ethersworn Canonist
3x Seal of Primordium
4x Sphere of Resistance
2x Trinisphere
Thoughts?
Man, was there no combo in that meta? Even with that sideboard, he's probably losing almost all his Game 1's and the G2 / G3's don't seem that guaranteed against fast combo...
I have no idea, but I bet the deck makes a monster on turn three pretty consistently. Having loam in the deck makes mulliganing much easier.
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I've been testing a lot and came up with this list
1 Underground Sea
3 Verdant Catacombs
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
4 Swamp
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Dark Depths
4 Thespian's Stage
3 Chrome Mox
3 Pithing Needle
3 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Thougthseize
4 Dark Ritual
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Dark Confidant
4 Vampire Hexmage
2 Crucible of Worlds
Sideboard
2 Chains of Mephistopheles
4 Engineered Plague
2 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Surgical Extraction
3 Massacre
I've been playing this deck online and I've had a lot of success with it. It is linear and focused, with only one game plan. With Thoughtseize, Cabal Therapy, Pithing Needle, and Hymn to Tourach, there is a lot of disruption. Chrome Mox and Dark Ritual provide acceleration, with Dark Ritual usually being removed for Chrome Mox when both are drawn. Dark Confidant and Crucible of Worlds provide resilience against opposing disruption and are great for drawing out answers from the opponent. I run the full four of each combo piece because there is only Sensei's Divining Top to manipulate the library.
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