I would prefer Joraga Warcaller. I think that card is underplayed in general
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My sideboard for elves:)
1x Caller of the Claw
1x Gaea's Herald
2x Containment Priest
4x Abrupt Decay
2x Surgical Extraction
2x Nissa, Vital Force
2x Ensnaring Bridge
1x Null Rod
You have Decay for Leovold :) He plays Wasteland, for what? For me this package (crop and land) is funny, good but it's wrong solution. If you want to beat Storm, Sneak Show and Reanimator, play a another deck :)I beg to disagree. This package is quite strong. I would even run a third crop with it and a Ruric if you run NO (crop makes T2 NO quite easy).
I think karakas is especially handy as leovold is quite a beating against us.
It's not the same cost. 2/3 death touch for g it's very good. Good Vs Eldrazi, Good Vs Miracle. You can play this card MDI would prefer Joraga Warcaller.
But why would elves want a 2/3 deathtouch? Eldrazi is already a pretty good matchup, this isn't going to swing it. If you want something powerful for them play Glissa, the Traitor. And a 2/3 deathtouch is basically a blank vs Miracles...
Glissa does have the advantage of first strike, but she's also much worse to find while you're going off with Glimpse. And I'm not sure about the Miracles comment, but two power in a single one-drop creature is always welcome. It also survives Kozilek's Return if they're running it.
If you're going off with Glimpse, why are you worrying about a 2 power guy with deathtouch? I don't think either should be in the deck, but this is hardly an argument for the new guy.
A 2 power guy that doesn't do anything is just going to get swept up with a Terminus, you can't aggro Miracles out like that.
You have totally misunderstood the Mu if you think a 2/3 for g is bad vs Miracle.and a 2/3 deathtouch is basically a blank vs Miracles...
So funny.
I never said "It's awesome, with Narnam I can't lose Vs Miracle !" but it's good. Vs Miracle you want to attack with a short board (3 creature max) so a 2/3 for G is good for this game plan.
I haven't found this to be the case. Could you elaborate? I think the published record of Elves v. Eldrazi also doesn't bear out this being a good match up, but I might be confused. Either way, I'd appreciate if you'd explain more about this being a good match up for us.
In my experience, on natural order elves, colorless eldrazi is a very good matchup. White eldrazi on the other hand, is a very tricky matchup.
Anyways, at go Louisville, started on 2 byes then got paired against: sneak show (l), br reanimate (l), Grixis delver (w), be reanimator(l). Got real unlucky with the matchups.
UB or RB Reanimator?
The seven cardinal sins of Legacy:
1. Discuss the unbanning ofLand TaxEarthcraft.
2. Argue that banning Force of Will would make the format healthier.
3. Play Brainstorm without Fetchlands.
4. Stifle Standstill.
5. Think that Gaea's Blessing will make you Solidarity-proof.
6. Pass priority after playing Infernal Tutor.
7. Fail to playtest against Nourishing Lich (coZ iT wIlL gEt U!).
Oh, I got typoed. I got matched up against 2 br, 1 ub total.
Went 4-2 in Legacy at Louisville; dropped to play more vintage. Sometimes staxing is more fun then elving.
Rd 1: BYE
Rd 2: MUDpost 2-0
Rd 3: Miracles 0-2
Rd 4: D&T 0-2
Rd 5: Mono Red Sneak Attack 2-0
Rd 6: D&T 2-0
Did see a decent amount of elves, miracles, d&t and aluren.
List:
//Artifact (3)
3 Cloudstone Curio
//Creature (31)
3 Birchlore Rangers
4 Dwynen's Elite
4 Elvish Visionary
1 Essence Warden
1 Gaddock Teeg
4 Heritage Druid
4 Nettle Sentinel
3 Quirion Ranger
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Shaman of the Pack
4 Wirewood Symbiote
//Sorcery (8)
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Green Sun's Zenith
//Land (18)
2 Bayou
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Dryad Arbor
2 Forest
4 Gaea's Cradle
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Savannah
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
2 Wooded Foothills
SB: 4 Abrupt Decay
SB: 1 Caller of the Claw
SB: 2 Containment Priest
SB: 2 Ensnaring Bridge
SB: 1 Gaea's Herald
SB: 2 Nissa, Vital Force
SB: 1 Null Rod
SB: 2 Surgical Extraction
GP Louisville was kind of a wash, went 6-3 after heading into the last round. Lost against the mirror (He found the NO to kill me after I ripped his hand apart with Therapy), omni show, and Legend Miracles. I think for Legend Miracles the sideboard strategy needs to be approached vastly different than the normal builds. Attempting to outgrind the simply does not work with them playing two Moats in the SB. Definitely left a sore taste in my mouth after starting the day 4-0 with no byes.
Had a rough day two of the GP, ending up 8-6-1 after a great start. Won enough to guarentee myself a bye for the next couple GPs i head to, so not a total loss. Since the only real non-stock tech I ran was the crop rotation package, I'll focus on how it impacted some of my matchups.
Rounds 1&2- 5-0'd a GPT on-site and won two byes
Round 3- Draw vs Miracles- extremely close, would have won the match if he didn't find a miracle off of his fetch/spin top.
Round 4- W- UR Delver
Round 5- W D&T
Round 6- L- Infect- stole game 2 with a wasteland, game three I needed to play a land to keep glimpsing- was holding up a crop rotation to hit his only infect creature, but my last draw was the Wasteland in needed to rotate for. He untapped, topdecks a second invigorate, hit me for exactly 10 poison to get my first loss at 5-1-1.
Round 7- W- Lands- Bojuka Bog let me steal a win on a game 3 where he played a t1 vortex, t2 tabernacle.
Round 8- L- BG Turbodepths- this one was my fault- punted game 2- had a Karakas in hand and played a fetch instead, didn't get another turn.
Round 9- BG midrange- W- lost game 1 to a t2 lilliana, but vampire nighthawk doesn't have shit on 70+ trample damage. 6-2-1 into day 2.
This is where the 20 hour drive started wearing on me- I picked up 2 uncharacteristic GRV and played a little more casual knowing I couldn't make top 8.
Round 10- L- BUG delver- Hymn hit a Cradle both games and I was never able to crawl out from the tempo loss. Didn't see a fetch or basic all match.
Round 11- W- Eldrazi. Crushed him, g2 I tagged him with an early wasteland (I side out a rotation but still bring it in)- kept him off reality smasher mana while I delta with his t1 chalice, t2 ratchet bomb.
Round 12-W- D&T
Round 13-L, 4C Delver- after beating up on delver in the GPT the previous night, I drew ~15 lands over the two games. A couple nicely timed decays gave him the advantage in the battle of the Deathrites.
Round 14- L- Aggro-Loam. Lost in a flurry of anti creature sideboard tech and wastelands. Fetched a bayou T1 and paid for being careless.
Round 15- L- Miracles- he was bad- entreat caught me the turn before I was able to swing for lethal with an uncounterable hoof.
Overall, had a really fun time- a little dissapointed in my performance, but I lost a few matches to the variance I couldn't do anything about and a few due to misplays. Next time someone suggests driving 16+ hours to go to a GP, tell them to cram it and get a plane ticket instead.
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