I went 2-1-1 yesterday. I'm pretty fed up with continuing to get draws in every tournament. I'm making decisions quickly (although possibly not as quickly as possible / necessary?), but my opponents are taking their sweet time. Have to say that's one big thing I miss about Storm and Delver.
I was still trying out Stoneforge. I still like it more than Moat / Baneslayer and theoretically it should allow me to close games faster. Academy Ruins rebuying Batterskull was good in the pseudo-mirror (the winning list vs mine, we drew). Someone in the thread claimed that any discussion of Stoneforge disqualifies the deck from this thread. That's unreasonable, the key difference between this and Stoneblade is the cantrip and Dig suite. The finisher is yet to be determined clearly.
R1 - Burn - he played and boarded poorly but I don't think I was likely to lose the match. 1-0
R2 - Mirror - he resolved Jace first, and was just barely able to defend it and kill mine. He Jaced me out (maybe I should have conceded when my chances were slim?). Game 2 was really interesting, the person ahead switched back several times. Both of us got Batterskulls shattered, but I had a cute play Stoneforge, trigger on the stack put Batterskull on top with Ruins play. Game 3 we were even on board. 1-0-1
R3 - ESG's Delver brew - BURG Delver without Stifles or Wastes. He flooded horribly game 1, but killed all my creatures. Snapcaster eventually picked up a Jitte and ended it. Game 2 he had grudges aplenty, and lots of pressure. Game 3 I plowed Goyf then resolved Blood Moon on turn 3, locking him out. 2-0-1
R4 - Miracles - the pairdown against a person playing Miracles for the first time. I made a big mistake with a Ponder by not sequencing a couple turns in advance (didn't put a land on top), which made me play Jace without Pyroblast up, which allowed him to win the counterwar on Entreat. That got there. Game 2 I got him down to 5 with Meddling Mage on Counterbalance, but then he found a Plow, played Counterbalance, and locked me out.
So far I've gone 1-3 against Miracles. Obviously I need to test or approach the matchup differently since I'm getting such different results from alphastryk. I wasn't boarding in Flusterstorms and I was boarding out Pierce, so that's a big difference. What do you guys think is a good board plan with the Stoneforge builds? Should those be favored more?
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