Results 1 to 20 of 5963

Thread: [Deck] ANT (Ad Nauseam Tendrils)

Threaded View

  1. #11

    Re: [Deck] ANT (Ad Nauseam Tendrils)

    Played a list very close to Inaki's (great work, btw, really enjoyed Google-reading the article!) in our weekly mini-tournament yesterday.
    List:

    4 Delta
    4 Misty
    2 Sea
    1 Volc
    1 Trop
    2 Island
    1 Swamp

    4 DRit
    4 CRit
    4 Petal
    4 LED

    4 Brainstorm
    4 Ponder
    4 Probe

    4 Duress
    4 Therapy

    4 Infernal
    2 Grim
    1 Tendrils
    1 AdN
    1 PiF

    SB:
    4 Dread of Night
    4 Xantid Swarm
    2 Chain of Vapor
    2 Echoing Truth
    1 Empty the Warrens
    1 Ill-Gotten Gains
    1 Bayou

    Round one beat Cascade Bant,

    G1 he plays Top but I empty his hand of blue cards with a ton of discard before having to go for AdN. I brick on fast mana until I'm down to two life (finally finding the second CRit), can't find an LED and topdeck a land next turn, keeping me from getting hellbent (kept one of AdN because I was mana-light). Luckily all he has for pressure is a SFM and I Past in Flames him next turn.
    G2 He has turn 2 Counterbalance but no Top and after running a few spells into blind CB flips I finally have him with a Top on Top (just cracked a Fetch into it) and no cards in hand. Cabal Ritual, LED and Infernal Tutor get there.

    Round two against UW Tempo
    G1 I win after he Forces a post-Probe Therapy leaving him without any other interaction (I have the Duress anyway) and I Brainstorm without a shuffle effect to hit any tutor to instant win. Natural Storm with a bunch of Probes, cantrips and Rituals into Grim Tutor.
    G2 He has turn one Delver which doesn't flip for a turn. I drop Xantid on turn 2 to avoid Daze and he flips his Delver with a Stifle (obv...). Given that I'm not missing any landdrops and shuffled away Dark Ritual plus Infernal Tutor with my last Brainstorm, the god-hand gets there. I take out the Stifle with a Swarm-attack, crack a fetch afterwards, Duress his last relevant card and win with two Rituals, LED, Pif and Infernal in hand.

    Round three against Merfolk
    G1 I can go for a relatively safe turn two AdN but decide to wait because I have Duress, Therapy and the means to win with PiF a turn or two later and hey, what could he do? He drops Standstill... Two turns later my Duress gets stopped, Therapy resolves and shows a hand full of lands. PiF it is.
    G2 He forces my first two swarms and puts on a sizable clock, leaving me at six the turn I can win with Grim Tutor->Pif. 1 life short.
    G3 I have a solid though land-heavy hand but no protection. He drops turn 3 Chalice @1 and a Tormod's Crypt. Seeing as I won't get to cast any more protection, I go for Petal, Infernal, LED Dark Ritual (countered by Chalice) Empty the Warrens. He has Master of the Pearl Trident, Mutavault and Vials in another Lord when I attack so he only takes seven. From there on out he drops another Chalice on 0 but doesn't draw any more pressure. I make landdrops and stockpile cards, including an Infernal for a Lotus Petal. When he taps out the turn after that for Chalice @2 both he and the onlookers start saying "man, if you still win that, that'd be the sickest." I casually attack him to 8, cast my five spells into the Chalices and kill him with the natural Tendrils through FoW.

    Round four against Punishing Maverick.
    G1: I win the roll and kill him on turn two with AdN after he plays a Mom. Could have waited for the turn 3 PiF but didn't want to risk Thalia.
    G2: I keep a really weak hand (lands, acceleration, ETruth, Dread of Night) on the logic that the only relevant thing he does is hatebears and the anti-hate should allow me to just topdeck business at some point and win. Dread of Night ends up killing a Mindcensor and a Mom, Teeg gets ETruthed and I kill him with Rituals, tutor and in hand IGG.

    As to the list, I didn't have ADs yet, but seeing the Swarms in Inaki's list made me really want to play those again and they were quite brutal. Definitely worth the splash until I get ADs.
    I wouldn't want to miss EtW any more, the card just wins so many games at random. I'm actually contemplating just cutting AdN for it (both fill the same roll of "doing something with random early LED hands") but first game people have a ton more removal in so I'm dubious. Postboard I board Empty against most decks in place of the AdN (exceptions include Nic Fit, clockless blue control-decks and Maverick) - that card is just too random and pretty bad postboard against any form of clock plus SB hate.
    The sweet thing about Dread of Night is that it allows you to beat those random non-Legendary hatebear plus Mom hands that you'd otherwise have trouble with and setting up dubs isn't really that hard if you can't find another answer for Teeg or Canonist.
    IGG feels like it isn't really necessary, but maybe that's just me.
    SB Bayou: I love boarding in extra lands against Wasteland-softcounter decks and this casts turn 1 Duress, turn 2 Swarm. Not playing it maindeck because non-blue sources suck to draw.

    tl;dr: Deck is insane, need to get Abrupt Decays.

    /edit: remembered that I semi-bricked of off AdN R1G1
    Last edited by Mon,Goblin Chief; 11-01-2012 at 05:24 PM.
    I don't have low self-esteem, I have low esteem for everyone else. -Daria

    Proud member of Team CAB
    High Priest of the Church of BLA

    CAB JaceTM

    My articles

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)