4 Card Blind: The Silkster Seasons

[Dooey]

5. Dooey: Lesser Masticore, Mizzix's Mastery, Biorhythm, Radiant Fountain
Goblin smash, then Noxious! 6-0

Yep, noxious on my biorhythm is a line I didn't see. Nice.

[Dooey]

Yep, noxious on my biorhythm is a line I didn't see. Nice.

But wait, if you noxious revival biorhythm on my turn, you can only make 6 goblins on your turn. With my 2/2 to block 1 every turn, you can do 5+4+3+2+1=15 damage which doesn't kill me, and you eventually die to mana vault. Without mana vault you don't have the mana to cast castigate and empty, so you can only make 2 goblins. I can attack into 2 goblins, if you take the trade I persist and win, if you try to race I win.

[FTW]

But wait, if you noxious revival biorhythm on my turn, you can only make 6 goblins on your turn. With my 2/2 to block 1 every turn, you can do 5+4+3+2+1=15 damage which doesn't kill me, and you eventually die to mana vault. Without mana vault you don't have the mana to cast castigate and empty, so you can only make 2 goblins. I can attack into 2 goblins, if you take the trade I persist and win, if you try to race I win.

Interesting.

I think you're both wrong and it should be WD for GoblinSmashmaster.

On your play you go Masticore + Mizzix. Noxious Revival (pay 2 life) is forced to prevent the combo win.
GoblinSmashmaster can then play Mana Vault (untapped) & Empty for 4 Goblins, which is too few to win, but enough to trade with Masticore + persist without Mana Vault being tapped.

[dte]

7. FTW: Mana Vault, Barbed Shocker, Shriekmaw, Flusterstorm


2. dte: Disagreement. I can't win, but you can't either due to the CMC restrictions. I do nothing. If you make Baloth, I hardcast Shriekmaw with WUBRG. You can't Prohibit 5CMC, so Baloth dies, you StP Maw and we draw. The only way to prevent that is to Cleave Dread Fugue to discard Shriekmaw, but that leaves you choked on mana with only 2 left, and you have to choose which mana to spend before I have to react.
If you leave WG: I Flusterstorm Dread Fugue. If you pay 2, you discard 1 creature but you're out of mana and die to the other. So you have to let Fugue get countered. With WG you can make Baloth and threaten StP (so I don't use Mana Vault), but I can Evoke Maw to kill it and you don't have Prohibit mana. Draw.
If you leave UG: I Flusterstorm Dread Fugue. You let it get countered. If you suspend Baloth (U left), Prohibit is out so I can Mana Vault -> Maw to kill Baloth when it resolves and I win. If you don't suspend Baloth (UG open), I cast Shocker instead (can't kick Prohibit) and discard your hand and win. So leaving UG is bad for you.
If you leave UW: I let Fugue resolve. You can discard either creature, but then I play the other and can Flusterstorm your Prohibit or StP (can't cast both) so I would win. Leaving UW is bad for you.
If you do anything other than Cleave Dread Fugue, I ignore everything and save my mana for hardcast Shriekmaw on Baloth.
So you either do nothing or let Maw & Baloth trade. DD 2-2

Agree, 2-2

[Dooey]

Interesting.

I think you're both wrong and it should be WD for GoblinSmashmaster.

On your play you go Masticore + Mizzix. Noxious Revival (pay 2 life) is forced to prevent the combo win.
GoblinSmashmaster can then play Mana Vault (untapped) & Empty for 4 Goblins, which is too few to win, but enough to trade with Masticore + persist without Mana Vault being tapped.

Yep. Good line.

[Asthereal]

How many rounds are we playing this season? The full 15 from the doc?

[silkster]

4. Wrath of Pie: Eldrazi Temple, Thought-Knot Seer, Thought-Knot Seer, Spell Pierce

7w4d = 25 points

I'm free!

We're all free! Eldrazi winter is over! ( I say as the Atlantic northeast faces its coldest day all season.)

GoblinSmashmaster Results for "Finally Goblins Smash!"

Total: 29 goblin points :(

Sad face? 29 points is more than 4 round points. Possibly the highest score this round.

Yeah, well go the full 15 to give everyone a chance to use those stored up ideas.

[Asthereal]

We're all free! Eldrazi winter is over! ( I say as the Atlantic northeast faces its coldest day all season.)

I may be too drunk to follow this cryptic message.

Season's done? Need we congratulize a certain someone?

[silkster]

I may be too drunk to follow this cryptic message.

Season's done? Need we congratulize a certain someone?

I'm just glad that TKS is banned and I was making a joke by referring to when TKS was completely dominant in modern. I think there was a gp that saw 28 copies of TKS in the top 8. I feel like it was crushing all the world that I wanted to play, and now I'm free to brew whatever. The modern Eldrazi winter ended with the banking of Eye of Ugin.

[silkster]

After a few intricacies were worked out (the aggressive version of Noxious Revival is always cool), we have our bans:
Castigate
Eldrazi Temple
Empty the Warrens
Izzet Boilerworks
Keldon Megaliths
Mana Vault
Maze of Ith
Noxious Revival
Spell Pierce
Thought-Knot Seer

[Asthereal]

I'm just glad that TKS is banned and I was making a joke by referring to when TKS was completely dominant in modern. I think there was a gp that saw 28 copies of TKS in the top 8. I feel like it was crushing all the world that I wanted to play, and now I'm free to brew whatever. The modern Eldrazi winter ended with the banking of Eye of Ugin.

Right, I missed the other Eldrazi deck doing so well. I hadn't expected the difference between the support spells to be this large.
So we go 15 rounds until we call it quits for S14?

[FTW]

After a few intricacies were worked out (the aggressive version of Noxious Revival is always cool), we have our bans:
Castigate
Eldrazi Temple
Empty the Warrens
Izzet Boilerworks
Keldon Megaliths
Mana Vault
Maze of Ith
Noxious Revival
Spell Pierce
Thought-Knot Seer

If results and bannings are in, why not open the round earlier to give players more submission time?

[Asthereal]

If results and bannings are in, why not open the round earlier to give players more submission time?

I guess the TO hasn't been able to come up with a deck yet.
Silk has to send his own deck before the rest can start sending.

[silkster]

[QUOTE=silkster;1103337]ROUND 13 OF SEASON 14: WUBRG is now open.

I have PM'ed myself my deck for round 13, and for fun I made a salted hash at https://emn178.github.io/online-tools/sha256.html which is 7df3254088462e24050f230b63261f95890a2e6ca50ae6aa7fe96dc0416de13f

[B]DEADLINE: Tuesday, February 7th at 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5). (Later because I have meetings during the day.)
PLEASE NOTE:
The way you send your deck to me matters. Please send it in the way described below, so it doesn't cost me an hour of editing before I can post all the decks.
Please send your deck as follows:

silkster: Smoke, Smoke Teller, Smokespew Invoker, Fire-Lit Thicket.

So with name, colon, and card tags around each card, and not above each other, and with your Username and 4CB S14R13 in the topic.

Usually you should keep an eye on the banned list, found in the second post and in the spreadsheet. Remember that the card pool is Vintage minus Unfinity.

After the deadline has passed, I will post all decks on the forum here, and you can start puzzling out your scores.
If you have any questions, please read the first two posts of this thread first. If you can't find the answer there, drop a message here. We'll answer a.s.a.p.

Happy listbuilding!

name and 4CB S14R13
YOURNAME: [cards]A[/cards], [cards]B[/cards], [cards]C[/cards], [cards]D[/cards]. 

Note: even though Scryfall thinks that Phyrexia All Will Be One is legal, Gatherer does not, so it is NOT legal this week.