[Deck] GW/x Maverick

[sdematt]

I meant something LIKE that. I approve of Sigarda, I totally forgot she existed.

-Matt

[Koby]

Of course, with Sigarda in the deck, Gaea's Cradle becomes necessary to both cast it early as well as Zenith for her. Might rock the Maves again soon once I see a more stable metagame.

[ironclad8690]

Can someone *enlighten* me as to why people put rest in peace in their enlightened tutor boards? Is it only for dredge and reanimator?

[Koby]

Can someone *enlighten* me as to why people put rest in peace in their enlightened tutor boards? Is it only for dredge and reanimator?

Beats me. Nothing like shutting down two of your best attackers and spending more mana on g/y answers. I'd still go with Tormod's Crypt and Faerie Macabre.

[ironclad8690]

Of course, with Sigarda in the deck, Gaea's Cradle becomes necessary to both cast it early as well as Zenith for her. Might rock the Maves again soon once I see a more stable metagame.

Good to hear you'll be back. I'm liking your storm vids though. Our of curiosity what is prompting the switch back?

[Koby]

Good to hear you'll be back. I'm liking your storm vids though. Our of curiosity what is prompting the switch back?

Desire to Wasteland the shit out of my opponents, and beat them up with Moms.

[ironclad8690]

Desire to Wasteland the shit out of my opponents, and beat them up with Moms.

Sounds like a "Noble" cause.

[ironclad8690]

Do you guys think a blue splash would be worth it for geist ala:

http://tcdecks.net/deck.php?id=10023&iddeck=73065

[defector]

Geist itself isn't enough justification. Its good vs uw control but suffers vs everything else. Gw/u though is totally fine and gives answers vs combo decks. Whether its better vs the meta than black or red is really hard to say.

[sdematt]

But, Bant gives you access to Rhox War Monk (all the lifegain!), Brainstorm if needed, and other cool things. Not sure I'd want to play it, but you never know.

-Matt

[kingsey]

I've switched back to playing " Bant " for awhile now. It has always been my favorite deck. I can post a list if interested since the bant thread is basicly dead on these fourms. Its blue cards are brainstorm, JtMS, Spell Pierce, Giest, and Clique

I use SFM and batterskull/Jitte for life gain

[black]

Tournament Report

(Jupiter's NELC - 2nd place)

1 Sword of Light and Shadow
1 Umezawa's Jitte

4 Mother of Runes
2 Mirran Crusaders
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Aven Mindcensor
3 Thalia
1 Thrun
2 Qausali Pridmage
3 Greensun
1 Teeg

1 Garuuk Relentless

2 Sylvan library

4 Swords to Plowshares

1 Horizon Canopy
3 Savannah
4 Windswept heath
1 dryad arbor
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Karakas
2 Forest
1 Plains
3 Wasteland
1 Maze of Ith
2 Verdant Catacombs
1 Bayou
2 Cavern of Souls


Round 1

Hypergenisis
Game 1- He ( Charles) is playing a bant version of this deck. He drops emrakul, g-brand, and progenitus (i believe?) on turn two. not much I can do a bout that.

Game 2- Side into O-rings. I really can't remember what happens this game. I wasteland his depletion lands. I think he just never draws what he needs to after that..

Game 3- He drops in emrakul off hypergenisis. I drop in an O-ring and the rest of my hand.

1-0

Round 2

Hypergenisis AGAIN
My opponent (James) is running the RUG version of Hypergenisis. (He also made it to top 8). I am more prepared for this match up because my friend Blayne took 5th last NELC with the same deck. Wastelands do no good in this match up. My opponent runs almost all basics.

Game 1- This is literally a repeat of my first match.

Game 2- I think I keep a wonky hand. it has no colored mana, but two o-rings from the side. Also side into ethersworn cannonist. Gets there mainly because of O-ring.

Game 3- Thalia and an ethersworn cannonist from the side help.

2-0

Round 3

Manaless Dredge
So my same friend who is running hypergenisis, used to run manaless dredge. This match is essentially a bye for me. Ooze + green sun + cradle = auto win

Game 1- My opponent, Skylar, ditches a phantasmagorian and uses it to drop most of his hand , and then cycles street wraith to dredge still at instant speed. Pretty groovy. He empties about 20 cards into his graveyard. I 've already play the ooze on like turn two ? at this point so i drop a cradle and eat his graveyard in the next two turns.

Game 2- Side into surgicals, and a path to exile, and a bojuka bog. Greensun for ooze. It gets sickening shoaled after eating some stuff. Pretty sure a jitte came down after that and just did what jitte normally does.

3-0

Round 4

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!! HYPERGENISIS AGAIN
Playing against Chris. At this point I am just used to the match up. I get one of the games on account that he forgets mirran crusader has pro black and green. (g-brand cant block it) I dont remember what happened in our second game...All the hypergenisis matches have just blended into this big ball of emrakuls at this point.

4-0

Round 5

JUNK?
playing against Lou, who made it into top 8 as well.

Games 1 and 2 - Mirran crusader does work in this match up. can't be abrupt decayed. throw on a jitte or sword of light and shadow and things get crazy. I dont think i sided for this match up.

5-0

Round 6

intentional draw

5-0-1

Round 7

intentional draw

5-0-2 going into finals as 2nd seat.


QUARTER FINALS

BUG delver
Played against Bert.

game 1- remember when i said mirran crusader did "work"? well it has pro all of BUG's relevant removal. Dropping a turn 1 MOM helped too.

game 2- I think I brought in an aven mindcensor, and a path to exile, because he wasn't running basics. Wasteland did a number on both of us. I was able to recover faster.

SEMI FINALS

W/U/R delver?
Played against Palo

game 1- I've never played against this deck before. I don't think geist is very good against maverick because all my creature trade with it. Delvers weren't a huge issue this game. I valued exiling lavamancer far more than delver. I won this game. Don't remember how.

game 2- Vendillion clique gets out , along with a flipped delver, and a geist . He wastelands me out of white mana. I cant cast swords on his flyers and they slowly chip away at my life total until I die. X.X

game 3- MIRRAN CRUSADER IS A BEAST. if i havent gotten that point across already. I think this one ended with a mirran crusader. a jitte was involved at some point..i think..

FINALS

Mono red sneak ATTACK?
Well poop. I've been trying to avoid playing a feature match all day. Cannot avoid it in the finals. I'm pretty nervous at this point. My opponent is the person who entered top 8 as 1st seat. D: My opponent (Henry), is playing some sort of fringe mono red sneak attack deck that I have never even seen before. One of my friends had wanted to build the deck (BIG RED?) , but he built Hypergenisis instead (yes this is the same friend I mentioned before. apparently even though he couldn't physically make it to Jupiter he insisted on being there in spirit).

le sigh

game 1- I do not understand the gravity of blood moon. Jesus Christ! that card is crazy. He drops it on turn two and i basically just auto loose. I can't crack fetches for mana, or find any basics in time. three fatties come in swinging and i loose.

game 2- i get to be on the play this time. I play MR. teeg on turn two. Which effectively prevents him from winning that turn. Equip a jitte to mr.teeg and he is out of burn range for the game. swing for the win with a jitte pumped teeg.

game 3- i mulligan. he is one the play. turn one blood moon. thank goodness i have a basic forest in my hand. I try to recover. I play a teeg- it gets volcanic fallouted. I play a second teeg- he finds the chaos warp and is able to shuffle it away. He sneak attacks and i hope he only plays 1 to 2 creatures. I am sitting on a path to exile, and have 1 basic plains in my deck and an active knight. I figure if he drops in an emrakul and a g-brand i can take the 15 and exile the g-brand , he gains no life and then- having sacked my lands i swing with a knight for the win.

NOPE he drops in three dudes. I cant stop three. D: g-brand, emrakul, and a worldspine worm- which is crazy good.
that ends the NELC for me.

Overall- 2nd

THOUGHTS

I'm pretty happy overall :) I've never done well in a tournament before so this was super exciting. Everyone I played against was also super nice, which is rare.
I also had an amazing time hanging out with the kich crew :)

Sorry if this isn't a great tournament report. It's the first one I've ever done.

[Koby]

I take back my comments on Maverick. PFires maverick is still miserable as it was last year.

Maverick is dead.
Long live Maverick!

http://www.twitch.tv/jkory/b/364130504

[matunos]

I take back my comments on Maverick. PFires maverick is still miserable as it was last year.

Maverick is dead.
Long live Maverick!

http://www.twitch.tv/jkory/b/364130504

Around 2:07:35 when your opponent Show and Tells and you bring in Harmonic Sliver, shouldn't the Sliver's ETB ability have triggered and forced you to target your Ethersworn Canonist? It wouldn't have mattered, obviously (besides having one more permanent to sac), and the Mother could have protected the Canonist anyway, but am I right that MODO glitched there?

You mentioned you should have played an O-Ring. Would you take out one of your Pithing Needles for it? (Also note that in that game, O-Ring probably wouldn't have helped, because he could have Burning Wished for Eye of Nowhere instead of Grapeshot.)

[Roland_Deschain]

Play against Jund yesterday and win pretty easy, the same happens against Affinity, Goblins and Reanimator the Omniscience game was close 2-1 but he don't draw so good, close to was the games against Lands 2-1 (Sylvan Libray and Loam Shine here) i will keep testing and post the results (want games versus elfs and storm combos).


I will try the tracker here, seems pretty good.

Play this weekend against UW, BUG, Jund (i dont know how Maverick players lose to those decks) and some tier 2 decks, and do pretty well, not losing a single match, gonna to a mediun champs next week and gonna try my list, the only changes i made is - 1 Horizon Canopy + 1 Gaea's Cradle, and in sideboard -1 crop rotation -1 Karakas +2 Unvenwald Tracker.
I still want games versus elfs and storm combos.

[Koby]

Around 2:07:35 when your opponent Show and Tells and you bring in Harmonic Sliver, shouldn't the Sliver's ETB ability have triggered and forced you to target your Ethersworn Canonist? It wouldn't have mattered, obviously (besides having one more permanent to sac), and the Mother could have protected the Canonist anyway, but am I right that MODO glitched there?

You mentioned you should have played an O-Ring. Would you take out one of your Pithing Needles for it? (Also note that in that game, O-Ring probably wouldn't have helped, because he could have Burning Wished for Eye of Nowhere instead of Grapeshot.)

Looks like it's just a MODO bug in my favor with Harmonic Sliver. Based on the available mana at the time (1 Island 2 Volc 1 Tomb), if I played O-ring and had it, it would have bought 2 turns. My opponent was at 10 with me having Sliver, Thalia, Canonist (unrealistic however) - so two turns of beatdown, plus another with Emrakul on board. That would have bought enough time to win.

[Barbed Blightning]

Tournament Report

(Jupiter's NELC - 2nd place)

1 Sword of Light and Shadow
1 Umezawa's Jitte

4 Mother of Runes
2 Mirran Crusaders
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Aven Mindcensor
3 Thalia
1 Thrun
2 Qausali Pridmage
3 Greensun
1 Teeg

1 Garuuk Relentless

2 Sylvan library

4 Swords to Plowshares

1 Horizon Canopy
3 Savannah
4 Windswept heath
1 dryad arbor
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Karakas
2 Forest
1 Plains
3 Wasteland
1 Maze of Ith
2 Verdant Catacombs
1 Bayou
2 Cavern of Souls

Round 1

Hypergenisis
Game 1- He ( Charles) is playing a bant version of this deck. He drops emrakul, g-brand, and progenitus (i believe?) on turn two. not much I can do a bout that.

Game 2- Side into O-rings. I really can't remember what happens this game. I wasteland his depletion lands. I think he just never draws what he needs to after that..

Game 3- He drops in emrakul off hypergenisis. I drop in an O-ring and the rest of my hand.

1-0

Round 2

Hypergenisis AGAIN
My opponent (James) is running the RUG version of Hypergenisis. (He also made it to top 8). I am more prepared for this match up because my friend Blayne took 5th last NELC with the same deck. Wastelands do no good in this match up. My opponent runs almost all basics.

Game 1- This is literally a repeat of my first match.

Game 2- I think I keep a wonky hand. it has no colored mana, but two o-rings from the side. Also side into ethersworn cannonist. Gets there mainly because of O-ring.

Game 3- Thalia and an ethersworn cannonist from the side help.

2-0

Round 3

Manaless Dredge
So my same friend who is running hypergenisis, used to run manaless dredge. This match is essentially a bye for me. Ooze + green sun + cradle = auto win

Game 1- My opponent, Skylar, ditches a phantasmagorian and uses it to drop most of his hand , and then cycles street wraith to dredge still at instant speed. Pretty groovy. He empties about 20 cards into his graveyard. I 've already play the ooze on like turn two ? at this point so i drop a cradle and eat his graveyard in the next two turns.

Game 2- Side into surgicals, and a path to exile, and a bojuka bog. Greensun for ooze. It gets sickening shoaled after eating some stuff. Pretty sure a jitte came down after that and just did what jitte normally does.

3-0

Round 4

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!! HYPERGENISIS AGAIN
Playing against Chris. At this point I am just used to the match up. I get one of the games on account that he forgets mirran crusader has pro black and green. (g-brand cant block it) I dont remember what happened in our second game...All the hypergenisis matches have just blended into this big ball of emrakuls at this point.

4-0

Round 5

JUNK?
playing against Lou, who made it into top 8 as well.

Games 1 and 2 - Mirran crusader does work in this match up. can't be abrupt decayed. throw on a jitte or sword of light and shadow and things get crazy. I dont think i sided for this match up.

5-0

Round 6

intentional draw

5-0-1

Round 7

intentional draw

5-0-2 going into finals as 2nd seat.

QUARTER FINALS

BUG delver
Played against Bert.

game 1- remember when i said mirran crusader did "work"? well it has pro all of BUG's relevant removal. Dropping a turn 1 MOM helped too.

game 2- I think I brought in an aven mindcensor, and a path to exile, because he wasn't running basics. Wasteland did a number on both of us. I was able to recover faster.

SEMI FINALS

W/U/R delver?
Played against Palo

game 1- I've never played against this deck before. I don't think geist is very good against maverick because all my creature trade with it. Delvers weren't a huge issue this game. I valued exiling lavamancer far more than delver. I won this game. Don't remember how.

game 2- Vendillion clique gets out , along with a flipped delver, and a geist . He wastelands me out of white mana. I cant cast swords on his flyers and they slowly chip away at my life total until I die. X.X

game 3- MIRRAN CRUSADER IS A BEAST. if i havent gotten that point across already. I think this one ended with a mirran crusader. a jitte was involved at some point..i think..

FINALS

Mono red sneak ATTACK?
Well poop. I've been trying to avoid playing a feature match all day. Cannot avoid it in the finals. I'm pretty nervous at this point. My opponent is the person who entered top 8 as 1st seat. D: My opponent (Henry), is playing some sort of fringe mono red sneak attack deck that I have never even seen before. One of my friends had wanted to build the deck (BIG RED?) , but he built Hypergenisis instead (yes this is the same friend I mentioned before. apparently even though he couldn't physically make it to Jupiter he insisted on being there in spirit).

le sigh

game 1- I do not understand the gravity of blood moon. Jesus Christ! that card is crazy. He drops it on turn two and i basically just auto loose. I can't crack fetches for mana, or find any basics in time. three fatties come in swinging and i loose.

game 2- i get to be on the play this time. I play MR. teeg on turn two. Which effectively prevents him from winning that turn. Equip a jitte to mr.teeg and he is out of burn range for the game. swing for the win with a jitte pumped teeg.

game 3- i mulligan. he is one the play. turn one blood moon. thank goodness i have a basic forest in my hand. I try to recover. I play a teeg- it gets volcanic fallouted. I play a second teeg- he finds the chaos warp and is able to shuffle it away. He sneak attacks and i hope he only plays 1 to 2 creatures. I am sitting on a path to exile, and have 1 basic plains in my deck and an active knight. I figure if he drops in an emrakul and a g-brand i can take the 15 and exile the g-brand , he gains no life and then- having sacked my lands i swing with a knight for the win.

NOPE he drops in three dudes. I cant stop three. D: g-brand, emrakul, and a worldspine worm- which is crazy good.
that ends the NELC for me.

Overall- 2nd

THOUGHTS

I'm pretty happy overall :) I've never done well in a tournament before so this was super exciting. Everyone I played against was also super nice, which is rare.
I also had an amazing time hanging out with the kich crew :)

Sorry if this isn't a great tournament report. It's the first one I've ever done.

Yep, it was big red (wrote the primer, but you ran into hdeck12). I was on Junk all day, but sick job with the mav. :)

[conley1000000]

I take back my comments on Maverick. PFires maverick is still miserable as it was last year.

Maverick is dead.
Long live Maverick!

http://www.twitch.tv/jkory/b/364130504

3-1 in the daily and you still think mavericks not playable?

[Koby]

3-1 in the daily and you still think mavericks not playable?

It's unlikely playable in the MTGO metagame. Too much Belcher/Burn and S&T to really be the "best" choice. It's fine if people want to durdle around with fair cards however.

[conley1000000]

It's unlikely playable in the MTGO metagame. Too much Belcher/Burn and S&T to really be the "best" choice. It's fine if people want to durdle around with fair cards however.

Offline is that still you opinion?