Congrats on your result.
Stage/Depths will be overplayed and there will be bannings for sure...
@Devin: Grats on your finish -- and glad you survived the "trial period," so to speak =)
Few thoughts --
Vs Janene, since you know she runs Geddons, I think that I would adopt the tactic of holding 1x green source in hand, even if it means missing your land drop. Like, unless slamming that green source will enable a Scapeshift kill that turn (that she can't break up with Wasteland), screw it. Having a redundant green source so that you can rebuild seems way more important.
Vs Omniclash, you mis-Slaughtered IMO. If you CAN Slaughter them (fuck Leyline, seriously), -always- name Omniscience. This is because their only out at this point is Show and Tell -> Emrakul. Literally. That's it. They can't Ant you, because they can't recast it over and over again (even with Dream Halls). Likewise, they can't Dream Halls their Emrakul, because "colorless" is not "a color." You can't just pitch a Petal or a land or something to Dream Halls Emrakul.
What are you running for your board, that you're able to run 3x Extirpate? Obviously the 4 REB / 2 Games split is just a tweak, but you had to cut 3 targets for the 3 Extirpates, and I'm very interested in your logic therein. Is it something just for locals because combo/dredge? Or have you not been missing whatever you cut enough that you would run it that way at something like a Jupiter or an SCG?
I also do want to try to incorporate Depths/Stage, but I'll be damned if I have any idea on how the fuck I'm going to find room for them. I suspect that the combo will end up being highly subpar for Scapewish, but I want to at least try it at a local and verify that with my own eyes.
Also, are you going to be at Jupiter this time? I noticed that you guys weren't at the last one.
Any Jace/BUG Nic Fit players getting some results?
Almost to columbus for scg....gonna be battling both days this time. As always, feel free to track me down (just look for kevin mckee on the pairings). I'll be updating round by round on sunday, as usual. Running scape on sunday and a blue reanimator brew tomorrow. Progenitor mimic is a hell of a drug.
Back in the days of Survival of the Fittest there was Full English Breakfast. Here is a random list for reference:
3 Dark Confidant
1 Eternal Witness
1 Flowstone Hellion
1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
2 Phyrexian Dreadnought
1 Shriekmaw
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Volrath's Shapeshifter
4 Brainstorm
3 Counterbalance
3 Daze
4 Force of Will
3 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Stifle
4 Survival of the Fittest
2 Bayou
2 Flooded Strand
2 Forest
4 Island
2 Polluted Delta
4 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Wooded Foothills
Since Varolz, the scar-striped came out i have been toying with the idea of merging StifleNought into a BUG Nic Fit list in order to get a glimpse of what used to be one of the funniest deck i have played.
I'm working on the list below, but i am getting stuck. Do you guys have tips or idea's?
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Pernicious Deed
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Brainstorm
3 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Counterbalance
2 Jace, the mind sculptor
1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
4 Stifle
4 Veteran Explorer
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
1 Eternal Witness
1 Varolz, the scar-Striped
1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Thrun, the last Troll
1 Creeping Tar Pit
2 Bayou
1 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
3 Forest
3 Island
2 Swamp
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Volrath's Stronghold
4 Verdant Catacomb
2 Polluted Delta
2 Misty Rainforest
A similar deck just took 9th at the last SCG open, however, I think if you are trying to cheat fatties into play without paying much mana, the vets are kind of pointless. Besides garruk everything in that deck is 4 or less. Why not just drop therapies and vets for DRS and other discard?
That version running goyfs, bobs and drs looks solid. But its just a combination of bug tempo and stiflenought. I am specificly looking to import the deck into a nic fit shell.
But it must be meaningfull.
When Varolz was spoiled, I wanted to do the same thing, but after building a couple of decks, testing, philosophizing about them - Nic Fit just doesn't need Varolz. My game plan with Nic Fit is clear their board, land a fatty, keep their board clear until they're dead. Varolz wants to be a midrange combo kill and it doesn't do anything to further our gameplan of wiping their board. Why cast Varolz, who needs a second card to be effective, when you can cast Primeval Titan, Thragtusk, Thrun, or Huntmaster?
Additionally, Varolz seems to be better suited for decks that don't have 5 lands on turn two.
As far as Win More combo kills go, I liked Jarad better. Still though, outside of a few corner cases where I couldn't seal the deal, Jarad wasn't very useful.
Whats the point of the nic fit shell though? What is the point of ramping if the game plan is cheat alot of power out for little mana.Originally Posted by Bobmans
Sloughed through all ten rounds of standard today for an entertIning but disappointing 5-5 end record. Prepare for the spam tomorrow as I keep everyone updated :)
Casually 1-0 after starting the day with junk.
Lost a very close match to the winner of the last columbus....riley curran with elves. I think I made a slight misplay with top that may have cost me, but I'm not sure. I had to kill progenitus twice in g3 :/...then stalled by flood and died to a 9/9 ooze.
Beat dredge. 2-1.
Keep up the good stuff! Rough to lose to elves... Isnt that a decent MU?
Beat junk 2-0. Now 3-1 on the day.
Lost to sneak after bricking on five shuffles with an active top. Kept seeing literal three-land spins. Very frustrating. Even more so because I'm literally surrounded on all sides by fair decks, and I keep getting paired vs the one combo deck at my table.
There's something about you and elves
Lost to bug delver after having the same thing happen. Stabilize. Top. Triple land. Shuffle. Top. Triple land. Etc etc. Seriously fuck this =/
Still in it for now....but I'm both near death (one more loss) and really, really tilted on the day.
Textbook smashing of burn. 4-3.
Good luck w/ top 16!
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