Quote Originally Posted by Leshrac82 View Post
Another week and nobody tried my list.
I'm still winning slightly more than 2/3 of my matches on xmage with this.
I tested your list extensively the same day you posted it. I thought I bopped back with my results.

I found the deck interesting, playing much more like Junk Nicfit than any other version of 12post, even the mono green version, which is the closest to Nicfit. Just knowing that I run U/G will probably hint to my criticisms and thoughts.

Cons:

I really missed brainstorm - In the Mono green version, you can just power through bricks stuck in your hand, but in this deck, if you are short on mana (many non-mana producing lands) with bricks, you lose. If you flood on mana (rare but happens, you don't have maps to dig you out of bad situations with eye. If your hand needs certain counterplay elements (Warping Wail, crop, EE) your ability to dig for them is often mana exhaustive without being profitable (no candelabra to recoup spent mana) All these problems brainstorm helps with tremendously.

The deck felt like Maverick - Maverick already has some huge issues of being KotR based, and I feel the same is true for this deck.

The deck could lose to other midrange/tempo - This is THE reason you go mono green. To have a near-bye to tempo/midrange builds. Your redundancy fights hymn/counters with light pressure, the entire theme of tempo. This deck though could have its legs cut out, with its greedy manabase and clunky cmc's of bricks.


Pros:

Tireless tracker was a boss. Card is incredible and I will value it much higher in the future for sideboards and meta building.


All in all, I enjoyed testing the deck, but my person pet peeve of 12post builds is simply sacrificing matchups. Legacy has an unusually healthy meta at the moment, so perhaps this niche type of deck could belong in a less tempo focused deck (meta heavy in aggro or combo), but would have to change if the meta was extra combo heavy. Thus my prediction is that if Eldrazi Aggro becomes even stronger than it already is, this deck could merit more testing.