This thread is to gather general data about which decks are being played in localized metagames and in what numbers. Please keep discussion to a minimum. What I'd like to see is simple posts in the following format:
Area/Store Name
Deck Name (Number)
Deck Name (Number)
Deck Name (Number)
Deck Name (Number)
Deck Name (Number)
Deck Name (Number)
Deck Name (Number)
If a few specific decks commonly make Top 4/8, please list those too. If someone has already posted information for your area or store, please don't post duplicate information, excepting decks which should be added that someone else missed. Thanks.
Last edited by Zilla; 01-30-2006 at 12:03 AM.
Northern Virginia/ The Lucky Frog
Decks.
Vial Goblins 1-2
Solidarity 1-2
Threshold 3-4
Mono White 1-2
T2 Ghazi Glare 1
2-3 Color Aggro 1-2
Mono Black Sui 1-2
Angel Stompy 1
Sermon Fire 1
Usually in Top 4/8.
Solidarity (Only if Deep6er is playing it)
Threshold
Vial Goblins
3 Color Aggro (Zoo)
That's what usually makes the Top 4 cut. If i'm missing anything, someone tell me.
Last edited by Canook; 01-30-2006 at 01:01 PM.
Laterly there has been a huge number of R/G/W aggro, and R/G/B aggro, and 1 fire sermon. They do tend to make top 8 and top 4Originally Posted by Canook
Occasionaly there is survival advantage played by SpatofAges.
Massachusetts/Gateway comics 15-25+ people
Suicide Black
Mono black Draw4
White Weenie
Welder Stax
Vial Goblins
Solidarity
The Rock
Lighting rift
Morph
Goblin sligh
Elves
Mwc
Boros deck wins
Survival Biorhythem
Ravenger
Green Stompy
Last edited by vanele; 01-31-2006 at 08:25 PM.
Note: I want all decks that get regularly played in your metagame, not just the Top 8. Thanks.
We also sometimes have Spring Tide (played by me usually). Mono White refers to Rabid Wombat.
Fort Wayne IN / Indiana Institute of Technology
Psychatog(1)
GW Sundering Titan (1)
UG Madness (1)
White Weenie (1)
MWC (1)
Stompy (1)
The Rock (1)
Also we have the occasional Pox,Jilhad,and Ankh sligh when Powergamer1003 is in town.
I played for a while at 3Play in NH, and the meta was something like this:
1 R/G Berserk/Fling (he played this every week)
1 Pox or Gamekeeper (one or the other, every week)
and 3-4 others who played random decks, changing every week to keep things interesting (Landstill, Trix, FEB, Goblins, U/G Madness, Fish, Survival variants)
Occasionally a kid played Burn, and there were always 1 or 2 scrubs playing bad T2 decks.
The Top 4 was basically always Pox, and 3 of us who played random decks. We'd play one match, and then split for the win. I won with such things as Madness, Madness Survival, Goblin Sligh, and Stax.
In the syracuse metagame I've seen the following decks. If the missed something please inform me, thanks.
Weekly Decks
Vial Goblins (2-3)
Solardity (1-2)
Grow (4-5)
RGSA (1)
Garv.dec (2-3)
Wildfire (1)
Turboland (1-2)
Survival (1-2)
Spring Tide (1)
Randoms (3-4) , these include Life, R/G Beats, MBC, and Burn
The top 4 usually always has a Grow deck in it with Goblins.
All decks, eh?
The Batcave, Vancouver Washington, 15-25 people on average
0-2 UGW Gro
0-1 UGR Gro
0-3 Tendrils Deck, being variations of Spring Tide or TJS usually played by people I go up with when we do show.
3-5 Red Burn decks, generally variations of Goblin Sligh or old school Sligh
2-3 Mono Black or G/B Suicide decks
0-2 G/B The Rock
2-4 White Weenie Variants
1 Multicolor aggro - Generally R/G/W
0-2 Monogreen Stompy
1 Elf Deck variation
1 Current Type 2 deck - though it varies which one and who pilots it.
1 Rotated Type 2 deck who can't find anywhere else to play... i.e. Tooth and Nail or Ravager.
1 Deck that includes some card that is banned in this format, generally something stupid like 1 Land Tax or 1 Skullclamp in thier deck because they though it was restricted.
0-2 Vial Goblins
0-1 Wombat
0-3 Solidarity
1-2 Completely unsleeved bad decks where the pilots of them has never seen a Force of Will or a Fetchland.
1-4 Survival Variations ranging from ATS to RGSA to 4 color Recurring Nightmare.dec
1-2 BBS variations, generally splashing red for Fire/Ice
0-2 Landstill Variants either UW, UR or Urw
0-1 Deadguy Ala
0-1 Counter-sliver
Only thing garunteed to make Top4 is one of the sligh/burn decks.
P.S. any decks in that list that are considered to be "Tier 2" or above are only played by a select group of about 5-6 people (assuming they show up) so it cuts down on the number of "good" decks
It's not a sin to be weak, it's a sin to stay weak.
Worcester, MA
That's Entertainment
1-3 Survival decks (lately, MacGuyver x2, ATS)
1-3 Threshold decks (in a range of flavors)
1-3 Vial Goblins (usually 2 each week, at least 1 almost always makes Top 5)
1-5 Blue based control decks (&%$# WPI luvvvvvvs blue based control - these range from BBS type decks to U/W Landstill type control to 3color control but the emphasis of most of these builds is on the control)
1-3 MWC (Jeremy is back with his Parfait-like homebrew and I usually loan out Wombat - neither one makes Top 4 very often)
1 Aluren-Brain Freeze (the damn thing also has threshold elements in it too...played by a really good player, it has so many different ways to kill you, it always makes Top 4)
1-3 Pox/MBC type decks (have done very well the last month or so)
0-1 U/G Madness
0-3 R/G Beats
1-3 Affinity (and it does well despite it's most frequent pilot being a recent conversion from the high school cafeteria Magic scene and limited as a player & theorist, also as you can see we have a diverse enough meta that you can't focus on everything)
1-4 R/G/W (various flavors) Zoo style decks - fast aggro-burn-control
2-6 n00bs, homebrews, 90 card decks - although to be fair, a lot of these guys are new to tourneys in general and are learning as rapidly as possible. Some of the nomebrews are becoming quite well honed also.
Wll edit more as people remind me or the meta updates.
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WE know what the price of progress is (often 8-10 life). - Cait Sith
A casual stasis deck? You must not really like your friends. Do you play it before or after you pull the wings off of flys and microwave the neighbor's cat? - EwokSlayer
3Guys Games In Glens Falls
About 15-25 People
0-2 Vial Goblins
0-1 Goblin Sligh
0-1 Dredgeatog/Infestation/Reanimator
0-2 Thresh/Whatever Nick feels like playing
0-1 Landstill
0-3 Apple Jacks (RG with Iwomori, Baloth etc)
0-2 Burn
0-1 Elves
3-7 Little Kids
Team Rehab- We Keep Coming Back For More
Team Blitzkrieg- Swagga.
Storm Boards
Rochester, NY -- Millennium Games
UGr Thresh (0-2)
Deadguy Ale (0-2)
RGSA (0-2)
Vial Goblins(2-4)
Elves/G Stompy (1-3)
Mono Black Control (0-1)
Golden Grahams (0-1)
IGGy Pop (0-1)
Solidarity (0-1)
Belcher (0-1)
Aluren (0-1)
Burn (2-4)
U/G Madness (0-2)
WW/Angel Stompy/WUB Muffin (1-3)
Reanimator (0-1)
Landstill (0-2)
Dallas Fort Worth MetroPlex/Lone Star Comics
Pebbles Combo (1)
Burn (2-3)
Affinity (2-3)
MBC (2-3)
Goblins (4-6)
Madness (1-2)
Landstill (1)
Solidarity (1)
Belcher (1-2)
Scepter Control (1-2)
Aluren (1)
The Rock (3-4)
Mono-Red Sligh (2-3)
Fluctuator Combo (1)
Elves (2-3)
B/W Angel Beatdown (1)
Zoo (1)
RGSA (1)
Decks Most Consistently in Top 4:
Pebbles
Fluctuator
Goblins
MBC
Burn
The Rock
Detroit/Flint, MI area
Zoo
Goblins
Solidarity
BW Confidant (Deadguy)
Flame Vault Stax (me)
UW Landstill
The Rock
Reanimator
UW Confinement
I've seen some of these decks at Pandemonium Games in Garden City (Detroit), RIW Hobbies in Livonia (Detroit), and Adventurer's Guildhouse in Flint. Unfortunately, the players never seem to be able meet at the same time so there are no top-8 or other data.
How does this deck work? or is it just a pile?
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Sweep the leg!
It's a pile, but it works way too well for a pile. It's sort of angel-control with forbids, squees, and confinement. It runs intuition to fetch out it's protection, along with running forces and counterspells and other random card advantage. As to creature removal, it switches between 1-3 StP and 0-2 Wrath effects. The win conditions are factories, angels, and decking.
It'd be like taking Landstill, Angel Control, and Confinement, throwing them all together, and this is the pile. I think nassif ran something similar at Lille, though I'm not sure of this. We have done a fair amount of testing and it can be looked at as Landstill with mega inevitability through 1-2 recurring counterspells a turn, confinement, angels, and the lone scepter when it sees play. I'll see if I can get a decklist and post it.
The Fun Factory / Traverse City, MI
2 UGW Thresh
1 UGR Thresh
1 Iggy Pop
At least 3 Goblin style decks / Burn
3 Deadguy Ale
1 The Rock
1 Elf Deck thats not great
1 Vail Goblin deck piloted by a good player (seems to always be one)
1 Landstill Variant
1-2 ATS
0 Solidarity unless I play it
2-4 random BBS type decks
1-2 Psychatog
2 Gamekeeper Salvagers
1 Lightning rift
1 Converted Ichorid (does decent actually till it hits a deck with crypts)
Unsurprisingly, the last two decks are always one of the goblin types and one of the others that smashes goblins. Ie. Rift, Solidarity, Thresh w good board.
Ive definitly never seen Solitaire in the top 4 punk.
Well I think our meta has changed a bit in worcster so I'd go with...
Turnout: 20-25
2-3 Vial Goblin
2-4 Thresh
2-3 G/R/x Zoo
1-2 Blue Based Control
1-2 Angel Stompy
1 Aluren
1-3 Survival Variant
1-2 Storm Combo
1-2 Affinity
0-2 G/W Aggro
0-2 Madness
0-2 Rifter
0-2 Scepter Chant
0-2 Burn
0-2 Landstill
0-1 MWC
0-1 MBC
0-1 Loam Deck
0-1 Golden Grahams
0-1 Boros Win
0-1 Pox
0-1 Flamevault
0-1 Stax
0-1 Solitaire
Top 4
0-1 Thresh
1 Goblins
0-1 Aluren
Random deck off that list
Last edited by Bane of the Living; 03-17-2006 at 09:16 PM.
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