[Primer] Elves!

[amppyou]

I completely took back what I said and am so fucking happy I didn't turn it off. Hilarious.... that was just hilarious.

could you do a quick recap of the highlights? missed that stream.

[Dzra]

could you do a quick recap of the highlights? missed that stream.

Long story short...

Elves VS Hypergenesis

G1, Hypergenesis kills Elves on t2 with Emrakul and friends.

G2, both players keep hands with no mana-producing lands. Durdling happens. Gerry eventually Spirit Guides into Hypergenesis and puts Griselbrand into play. Elves puts in Emrakul, Craterhoof, Craterhoof. Smash.

G3, Gerry Show and Tells on t2 and both players put an Emrakul into play. Wah waah~

[Dice_Box]

Game 2:

Hypergenesis is played.
Hyper Drops Brand
Elf drops Emmy, two Hoof and wins

Game 3:
Hyper Drops SnT, Emmy. Elf drops Emmy off the same SnT. Hyper passes.
Elf attacks with Emmy and wipes the board of the Hyper player in what is the funniest show of Kama the Hyper player could get for being the kind of jerk that plays SnT.

Was great.

[Koby]

Anyways...

I also played at the MTG Deals tournament. We had 38 people and a solid healthy 6 rounds. Quick & dirty:

Deck:
4 Deathrite Shaman
1 Llanowar Elves
4 Heritage Druid
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Wirewood Symbiote
2 Birchlore Rangers
4 Elvish Visionary
2 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Viridian Shaman

1 Crop Rotation
3 Natural Order
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 GSZ

1 Dryad Arbor
4 Gaea's Cradle
1 Bayou
1 Savannah
2 Forest
9 fetchland

SB
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Thalia
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Ruric Thar
1 Harmonic Sliver
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Scavenging Ooze

Round 1 - Miracle Blade (2-0) -- he did not get lucky with finding terminus.
Round 2 - Blue Zoo (2-1) -- Ruric Thar is a boss with Vigilance
Round 3 - Punishing Jund (1-2) -- flooded in G3 against three Punishing Fire. Drew 1 creature in 7 turns, but 5 lands.
Round 4 - Dredge (1-2) -- each game I lost he played 2x LED
Round 5 - No show (2-0) :\
Round 6 - Punishing Jund (1-2) -- the winner makes Top 8; we split the first two games. G3 I have Natural Order but can't generate 4 mana against a recurring Punishing Fire. Turn after I lose 3 creatures, I topdeck Cradle that would have resolved and gotten Ruric Thar to stop the PFires recursion. #rage

The Viridian Shaman was underutilized, but I stand by the decision to keep it. I could easily cut a fetchland for Priest of Titania or 3rd Birchlore; possibly even the Crop Rotation.

[amppyou]

@Koby @Nudon

were you guys at the MTGdeals tournament 2 weeks ago? I didn't see anyone else running elves that day, but I could be mistaken. Congrats on no terminus, I loathe that matchup.

[Koby]

@Koby @Nudon

were you guys at the MTGdeals tournament 2 weeks ago? I didn't see anyone else running elves that day, but I could be mistaken. Congrats on no terminus, I loathe that matchup.

It was yesterday. I never felt like I was out of the game against Miracles. I played it really conservatively as to not overextend. Value NO for Craterhoof was used just to pressure rather than kill.

[Dice_Box]

Do you feel you would have gotten more value from Thar if he had of been main?

[Koby]

Do you feel you would have gotten more value from Thar if he had of been main?

Not particularly. Of all the matches I played, I only lost to Jund in Round 6 in G1. This was particularly because my opponent cast 3 Lilianas while beating down with Goyf, nor did I have Natural Order. Well that's not totally true: I lost to Dredge in G1 on the draw after he had half his deck, 6 Zombies, and I had no hand; I was effectively dead on Turn 1.

[amppyou]

It was yesterday. I never felt like I was out of the game against Miracles. I played it really conservatively as to not overextend. Value NO for Craterhoof was used just to pressure rather than kill.

yeah, there was another one about 2 weeks ago as well. I wasn't able to make it yesterday due to work, though. Out of curiosity, what is your LGS? I'm down in Tustin, and the MTGdeals events are pretty much the only tournaments available to me.

[Koby]

yeah, there was another one about 2 weeks ago as well. I wasn't able to make it yesterday due to work, though. Out of curiosity, what is your LGS? I'm down in Tustin, and the MTGdeals events are pretty much the only tournaments available to me.

Majestix CCG off the 55 in Costa Mesa.

[Absolutflipz]

I'm starting to feel like 2 copies of Choke belong in the sideboard as a very high-impact sideboard card. Miracle, RUG, BUG, possibly other archetypes. The green blood moon.

[Lemnear]

I'm starting to feel like 2 copies of Choke belong in the sideboard as a very high-impact sideboard card. Miracle, RUG, BUG, possibly other archetypes. The green blood moon.

I like that

[Dice_Box]

As do I, I like it and Library. My side is going to take some rebuilding once all my mail arrives.

[amppyou]

I'm starting to feel like 2 copies of Choke belong in the sideboard as a very high-impact sideboard card. Miracle, RUG, BUG, possibly other archetypes. The green blood moon.

sweet. let us know how the testing goes. I know that Miracles has taken painstaking steps to blank choke in the past- mystic gate, seat of the synod, less reliance on tundra.

[Dice_Box]

For those that missed it, the replay is on now.

[Absolutflipz]

For those that missed it, the replay is on now.

Watching...wow...and somehow he's running hot as hell at 6-1.

And he's really running 11 lands? 4 of which are cradle/arbor?

[Dice_Box]

No 2 Cradle, 1 Arbor and 3 Elvish Sprits. Then add 8 basic you have his mana.

[Lemnear]

6-1 with that manabase? Somethings fishy...

Anybody has a decklist/link/link-to-Stream?

[Dice_Box]

The stream is live, the replay is over. As of now I have no link to a list. The only reason I know what the Mana base is is because it was commented on by Adam Prosak and I agreed with his WTF moment when he saw it.

[nudon]

Here's the link to my tournament report.