[Deck] Survival

[Al-ucard]

Maybe its true and Jitte is better than Engineered plague or pernicious deed against agro/tribal decks...

Edit: So, is better this last version than the one with Natural Order-Progenitus?

[hungryboi]

Progenitus does nothing for you in terms of establishing control. It is an aggro card/combo when Survival decks play the role of control in most matchups. VS fast aggro, it's too slow. Jitte and Plague on the other hand, establish board control.

[hungryboi]

Just placed 8th today at a 36 man tournament piloting Survival.

1st game: VS UGR Countertop (draw)

2nd game: VS Landstill (Win 2-0)

3rd game: MonoBlack Rack (Loss 1-2)

4th game: Dredge (Win 2-1)

5th game: Dredge (Win 2-0)

6th game: Affinity (Win 2-1) Should have been 2-0 but I got 1 round taken off for getting to my table 3 minutes late.

Cut to top 8

7th game: BW Landstill (Loss 1-2)

All in all, it was a good day. I felt bad though since my GF was with me the whole 8 hour tournament.

I didn't get to face any aggro all day, yet there were a couple zoo's, dragon stompy, elves, goblins, and etc.

[TOGITwill]

Mind sharing your particular way of handling Ichorid pre/post-board? I played in Eli's Power Tournament on Saturday and played dredge 3 different times. I lost twice.

[beastman]

Faerie macabre recursion is savage. I've beaten parcher about 8 times with that one card.

[hungryboi]

If I would have known that I would have ran into so many decks that run off the graveyard, I would have played Macabre (bad move on my part). Beating Ichorid had a lot to do with 2 mainboard deeds and 4 swords. Postboard, 4 leyline come in as well as 2 jitte. Next tournament I will be sure to run some mainboard graveyard hate. I'll try to type up decklist later today.

[beastman]

I made top 8 of a 28 man tournament yesterday. The tournament was fun, but I don't feel like writing a report because I was playing terribly and nothing interesting really happened, except for my game 3 against a pox deck where I made the most epic comeback ever. My losses were to Alix hatfield playing zoo, and Dan signorini playing team america in the top 8. You guys better step your game up so we can put survival back in the DTB forum where it rightfully belongs.

[hungryboi]

Mind sharing your particular way of handling Ichorid pre/post-board? I played in Eli's Power Tournament on Saturday and played dredge 3 different times. I lost twice.

Here's my list:

Main Deck
7 Forest
4 Bayou
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Savannah
2 Taiga
2 Windswept Heath

4 Survival Of The Fittest
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Thoughtseize
3 Cabal Therapy
4 Swords To Plowshares
2 Pernicious Deed
3 Eternal Witness
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Genesis
1 Anger
1 Loxodon Hierarch
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Wickerbough Elder
1 Shriekmaw
1 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
1 Big Game Hunter
qty: 61

Sideboard
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Engineered Plague
3 Krosan Grip
2 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Magus of the Moon
qty: 15

My side was really geared towards aggro yet I didn't face a single aggro deck the entire tournament. All in all, I'm very happy with this deck since it won me 4x Natural Orders which I will put in one of my jank decks. I need to make room for that 1 macabre but don't know what to cut :(.

[Pastorofmuppets]

4 survival of the fittest
4 cabal therapy/duress/thoughtseize
4 seething song

4 demigod of revenge
4 birds of paradise
4 wall of blossoms
4 elvish visionary
4 wall of roots
1 squee
1 eternal witness
1 genesis
1 thrull surgeon

4 wooded foothills
4 bloodstained mire
4 bayou
4 taiga
4 forest
1 swamp
1 mountain

Not mine, posted by Slaughtercult on TCGplayer. What do you guys think of Demigod Survival? Personally I think Spellbreaker Behemoth and Tinder Wall but let's hear it.

[beastman]

I've toyed around with demigod survival. It can work, in the right metagame, but I would never play seething song, demigod is best suited as a 4 of toolbox to be fit in a normal RGBSA shell.

[Parcher]

Faerie macabre recursion is savage. I've beaten parcher about 8 times with that one card.

Lies. Divide that by four. Maybe. Unless you include eight-mans in Centreville, you loser.

[hungryboi]

4 survival of the fittest
4 cabal therapy/duress/thoughtseize
4 seething song

4 demigod of revenge
4 birds of paradise
4 wall of blossoms
4 elvish visionary
4 wall of roots
1 squee
1 eternal witness
1 genesis
1 thrull surgeon

4 wooded foothills
4 bloodstained mire
4 bayou
4 taiga
4 forest
1 swamp
1 mountain

Not mine, posted by Slaughtercult on TCGplayer. What do you guys think of Demigod Survival? Personally I think Spellbreaker Behemoth and Tinder Wall but let's hear it.

Deck looks interesting, but it relies wayyy too much on Survival and the graveyard. Without Survival, swords and creature removal will take out your demigods 1 at a time. The deck has no removal either which can prove to be problematic (Stacks and Enchantress will do damage to you). If they side in graveyard hate, then your demigods are basically gone.

[Brushwagg]

OK so I ran my build today in a small tournament. Ranger of Eos was pretty nuts everytime and FTK was also good (2 Zoo, 1 Survival elves). 0.

@Demigod List:Umm.. whats the secondary plan for the deck, beside bending over and taking it like man?

[beastman]

Foil Judge Promo Survivals Are Coming Out Bitches!!!1!!1!!!!

[Pastorofmuppets]

@Demigod List:Umm.. whats the secondary plan for the deck, beside bending over and taking it like man?

I haven't even tested with it yet, it's not even my list. I was wondering if you guys thought it'd be worth my time to tweak around with it and see what I can make based off of that list as a sort of foundation.

[AngryTroll]

Foil Judge Promo Survivals Are Coming Out Bitches!!!1!!1!!!!

Source? Oh, man, as a Judge Foil? Man, I can't afford a set of those!

[Brushwagg]

Source? Oh, man, as a Judge Foil? Man, I can't afford a set of those!

Eli. I so want a play set.

[Muela]

Hi everyone,

I would like to show you a deck list in order to hear the thoughts from more experienced survival players :)

--- GR Survi Moon ---
Creatures [30]
3x Birds of paradise
2x Llanowar elves.
3x Eternal witness
3x Tarmogoyf

1x Genesis
1x Anger
1x Squee, goblin nabob

1x Quirion ranger
1x Rofellos, llanowar emissary
1x Chameleon colossus

3x Flametongue Kavu
1x Spitebellows

2x Bloodbraid Elf
1x Stingcourger
2x kitchen finks
1x Shivan wurm
1x Spore frog
1x Viridian zealot
1x Magus of the moon

Enchantments [7]
4x Survival of the fittest
3x Blood Moon

Artifacts [4]
4x Aether vial

Lands [19]
4x Wooded Foothills
4x Windswepth heath
3x Taiga
1x mountain
7x Forest

Sideboard
2x red elemental blast
3x Umezawa’s jitte
3x Tormod’s crypt
3x thorn of amethyst
2x krosan grip
1x Ancient grudge
1x Goblin sharpshooter

This deck was designed by a cataloian team (team-walk) and an article about it can be found in [1] (it's in Spanish).


So, apart from the SB which is meta-dependant, what do you think about it?

I've been testing it with -1 kitchen finks -1 chamaleon +1 tarmogoyf +1 masticore and it is really awsome against any aggro and tribal decks, and really good against control and counterbalance decks. The main problem again are those combo decks where we (survival-players) are almost a bye, and well, loam decks with DD and gigant crushers are also a pain :-/


[1] http://team-walk.blogspot.com/2009/0...n-by-papu.html

[Kesta]

This R/G Survival looks funny, but I think you should have problem with Monored goblin and Burn, as Combo, you can't deal with.

Here the list I'm playing:

// Lands (21)
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bayou
3 Savannah
6 Forest

// Creatures (21)
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Eternal Witness
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Spore Frog
1 Genesis
1 Quirion Ranger
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Shriekmaw
2 Kitchen Finks
1 Academy Rector
1 Harmonic Sliver
4 Tarmogoyf

// Spells (18)
4 Survival of the Fittest
3 Thoughtseize
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Pernicious Deed
1 Recurring Nightmare
1 Enlightened Tutor

// Sideboard (15)
4 Krosan Grip
1 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Gaddock Teeg
1 Rule of Law
1 Moat
3 Choke
3 Engineered Plague

What do you think about this list? What should be improve? It works well for me, against most of the DTB. The worst MU is ANT, but post side it's quite good I think.

[Brushwagg]

Hi everyone,

I would like to show you a deck list in order to heari the thoughts from more experienced survival players :)



This deck was designed by a cataloian team (team-walk) and an article about it can be found in [1] (it's in Spanish).


So, apart from the SB which is meta-dependant, what do you think about it?

I've been testing it with -1 kitchen finks -1 chamaleon +1 tarmogoyf +1 masticore and it is really awsome against any aggro and tribal decks, and really good against control and counterbalance decks. The main problem again are those combo decks where we (survival-players) are almost a bye, and well, loam decks with DD and gigant crushers are also a pain :-/


[1] http://team-walk.blogspot.com/2009/0...n-by-papu.html

@Muela: I'm currently playing G/W/r and it's playing fine, however my list is very differt then this one. My list can be found a few pages back. I know you didn't design the list but I feel there is really no need for 4x Bloodmoon effects in the deck, 3 of which you can't Survival for.

@Masticore: I was running him but found him to be not so good anymore. So I cut it all together.

@FTK:I've found to be awesome. But then my meta has filled up with Zoo and alot of tribal decks. If you run into a good amount of Threshold it could become not so good.

@Combo: Well there is always Teeg, Cannonist, and Orim's Chant. I'm thinking about going with Chant over the other 2.