[Deck] Imperial Painter

[from Cairo]

no way to deal with eldrazi triggers

He had quad Ensnaring Bridge SB to keep Annihilator triggers checked.

[Koby]

It's as if Paper is finally catching up to the MTGO metagame. :D

[Dice_Box]

It's as if Paper is finally catching up to the MTGO metagame. :D

I would be willing to bet it has more to do with the Judge Foils than anything else. The price of Recruiters is a night and day difference on and off line

[Kap'n Cook]

He had quad Ensnaring Bridge SB to keep Annihilator triggers checked.

Sorry, shuffle triggers. You still need to win via beatdown. Definitely doable, just really annoying since you'll probably have to blast a grisel along the way

[Dice_Box]

Yes I'm well versed in bridge vs grisel and emrakul. You still need to beat down through them in this case.

A good reason to run Rakka Mar.

Anyone notice that he is missing the 4th REB in the 75?

[Koby]

A good reason to run Rakka Mar.

Anyone notice that he is missing the 4th REB in the 75?

I've never considered needing the full 8 Blasts except against Mono-U Show & Tell or other mono-blue combo decks. Even at seven blasts, it's just too much.

[Dice_Box]

I've never considered needing the full 8 Blasts except against Mono-U Show & Tell or other mono-blue combo decks. Even at seven blasts, it's just too much.

I guess I am biased toward my meta but with 3 SnT decks, one Dream halls and what not, I more or less built painter with Combo hate in mind. So to me those 8 counters are needed. I side out two and bring them in where needed.

Found it, hate finding SCG links though.

[KobeBryan]

I wonder what his matchups were. Zero grave hate plus no way to deal with eldrazi triggers/alt win cons means you need to run pretty hot, which he did. Congrats nonetheless.

no one ever plays gy hate in scg tournament. you try to get lucky and have the decks who pack the sideboard with gy beat the gy decks, then you pound your way against RUG.

[jandax]

Good job Mr. Suarez! Solid list albeit no GY hate (obv not needed in SCG circuits), link us a report if you read this?

[Dice_Box]

After watching that I think I am going to pull white from the deck. I find Moon cuts it off white and Moon is such a part of the deck you can't take it out. The benefit in speed E Tutor gives is balanced out by the time gained with Moon.

[combolover]

where can you find the video coverage?

[Dice_Box]

http://www.twitch.tv/scglive/b/451192366

Round 9 and later.

[Ish]

After watching that I think I am going to pull white from the deck. I find Moon cuts it off white and Moon is such a part of the deck you can't take it out. The benefit in speed E Tutor gives is balanced out by the time gained with Moon.

Really you should make adjustments based off your experiences. There have been many posts here about the white splash. Personally I don't like the splash, but others do. So there really isn't a right or wrong choice. Make sure your final build is based in your own testing and meta. Just my 2 cents :)

About 8 blasts. I had 8 for a long time. I'm now running 7/0 split. I've been happy so far.

I'm also trying something else. MB Koth. I have found he ends a lot of game 1s, and as a one of doesn't shift the focus of the deck too much. Also playing 1 MB bridge. Gets me a lot of free wins against fair decks since post hard the artifact hate usually comes in.

[jandax]

Agreed.

If the last fifty pages will teach anything, it's that people come here to read opinions but stick to what they want to play. Look further to the OP, three different deck builds by three different people. The deck does enough of two things well to allow people to play to their own style. Therefore, no one really has a "standard" list that is tried and true above all others. It'd be better to report findings here than discuss merits of card choices or the white splash or whatever. Personally I think it's more valuable to come here and read "X card(s) tried out, they suck, going back to Y because of Z" than something revolving around opinion. Asking questions is always the right thing to do, don't get me wrong. I just don't know for sure if discussion is better than sharing individual experiences and building a knowledge base from there with the goal of being able to adapt the deck to an optimal list given one's own metagame.

[Dice_Box]

Ok, resleeved white and red and will give it a go after the Brisbane GP thats coming up. Its nice to know we can do these things, shift around and play so many different versions of the deck. I am still going to up my Magus count in the side.

And Combolover says you all cry a lot... Seam rather nice to me.

[jandax]

I've swapped out a couple cards for MD Koth and a Bridge and really like it. Obv the two don't play well together but so far I wanted to always play a koth in the 75 but never found room I was satisfied with. Was a good suggestion

[Ish]

I've swapped out a couple cards for MD Koth and a Bridge and really like it. Obv the two don't play well together but so far I wanted to always play a koth in the 75 but never found room I was satisfied with. Was a good suggestion

Although the mountains don't have to attack to get to the ultimate. And you can always not play the bridge in a matchup where you're the aggressor. Of just welder / REB it outta playoff need be.

Glad to see someone else trying it out.

[Nickm]

Hey guys, I took the deck to a 95 man event this last Sunday, didn't do as well as I would have liked but Dem's Da Breaks.
I went 5-2 and ended up in 20th place due to the world worst breakers. Here were my pairings:

R1:Reanimator (sdematt no less!) 1-2/0-1
R2:Dredge 1-2/0-2..... Beer Bracket....
R3:Lands 2-1/1-2
R4: High Tide 2-1/2-2
R5: Meat Hooks 2-0/3-2 Magus of the Moon deals the while 20 game one!
R6: B/W 2-0/4-2
R7: Tezzert 2-0/5-2

Almost everyone I beat dropped so I think I ended up the lowest 5-2 in the room, O well. I was happy to rally after be terrible start and defend the deck/my pride a little. I defa did a fair bit of yelling when I heard Painter won Baltimore.

[combolover]

@nickm
can you post a list and your turn by turn if you remember it?

[jandax]

Picked up my third English Recruiter last night. Only one ugly Chinese proxy to get rid of, now. On top of it all I got it for a long box of chaff and a Force of Will that I won the last tournament.

Has anyone ever considered Crystal Vein as a sort of 9th Sol land, like what Mox/Petal is to SSG?