Yata, you put Flooded Strands twice...
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Fixed. The point was just to diversify your fetchland base to protect against Extraction.Originally Posted by Secretly.A.Bee
Thanks for the report! You couldn't have expected that Mono-G post. Good work (:
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle".
- Albert Einstein
I'm thinking about playing Major's list from this past weekend, although I'd like to cut a card (more than likely a Gitaxian Probe) for the 20th land (8th fetch probably). It seems that if everyone is going to want to play the mirror or pseudo mirror and land seems very important. Also, Owen was playing 20 in his version although he obviously didn't have probes. Thoughts?
Hi, I tested this deck with 20 lands and it was perfect. You really decrease the number of your mulligens and improve games against random wastelands. Flooding can happen but you have BST and hadrcasting batterskull is not that bad after all.
So in his last article Owen states this:
http://www.channelfireball.com/artic...ational-decks/
Any comments?I have decided to play Reanimator for a few reasons—first and foremost that I don't like my old UWR Delver deck. Don't get me wrong, UWR Delver is still a good deck, but I have had poor results with it as of late and grown tired of playing it
I still like the deck but i'm having some difficulties in this meta, lots of Miracles and Planeswalkers (Jace, Liliana).
I'm testing with some Detention Spheres on the side and starting to think to test some Jaces (since even Sneak and Show and Reanimator are starting to playing it, why not?).
Is it time to move on and go to more midrange builds without delvers and dazes (like this one that placed 10th on the last SCG Open http://sales.starcitygames.com//deck...p?DeckID=65564), or should i just drop some anti combo cards from the side and prepare myself for control?
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Although I do prefer that style over something like delver, I feel that guy's numbers are just all over the place. Also is this primarily to combat something like miracles?
I highly recommend the 20th land. Especially if it's a fetch.
General thought:
I have been running a Sword of Fire and Ice in the main along with Batterskull and Umezawa's Jitte. Is this wrong or should I just put the Probe in?
Any recommendation on how to Sideboard. What to take out and what to put in?
Current List is below:
Creatures:10
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Stoneforge Mystic
2 True-Name Nemesis
Spells:30
4 Brainstorm
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Ponder
3 Spell Pierce
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Daze
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Batterskull
4 Force of Will
Lands:20
3 Arid Mesa
3 Flooded Strand
3 Scalding Tarn
4 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
Sideboard:15
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Grim Lavamancer
1 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Wear // Tear
2 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Meddling Mage
2 Rest in Peace
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Vendilion Clique
Did this guy just decide to play w/o a sideboard?
"Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference."
Even tho' UWR is a better deck than RUG both decks have the same problem, they lose games vs graveyard based decks unnecessarily compared to any deck with Deathrite Shaman and they don't have an adequate answer to an opposing True Name Nemesis. I'm not really sure why any aggro-control deck would play red right now, Lightning Bolt isn't worth it and unless you're on the URphidian plan of Blood Mooning the other aggro-control and control decks it doesn't have much to offer that any other color combination doesn't.
I was thinking we should go back to Stifle because really what else is there?
It might sound pretty terrible, and will only catch them off-guard once, but Electrickery would be an interesting answer to opposing True-Names. Also hits Lingering Souls if people still play that. Obviously this doesn't work if they have equipment going but if they have equipment + TNN, we're in super bad shape anyways.
Electrickorey will not kill TNN protection prevents damage also.
His board is probably similar to this list that also did well at Charlotte, though I'll guess there were some blasts or wear and tears in place of some of the verdicts.
By the way, Michael Majors just put up an article on his list: http://www.starcitygames.com/article...-With-UWR.html
It's amazing how he managed to win despite the meta being full of miracles.
My local meta is also infested with miracles since recent results from GP Paris etc - kinda obvious, since UWR delver was the previous most popular deck and shares the same expensive cards -, and I find this particular match to be very hard. Things got worse when, as a reaction to the miracles infestation, jund (and other BG based decks) started to show up in big numbers again.
Does anyone have any advice for those matchups?
I liked Major's article a lot, although he provided SB plans for only a handful of matchups. 03 probes is very interesting and I like his reasoning behind that choice. I'll be testing his list in an event this weekend and see how it fares.
Majors' match against miracles in the finals was really interesting to watch. He basically never tried to counter a swords or a terminus that was a 1-for-1 (except a turn one daze in game 3). He held his forces and soft counters to fight the real finishers from miracles like counterbalance and jace.It's amazing how he managed to win despite the meta being full of miracles.
My local meta is also infested with miracles since recent results from GP Paris etc - kinda obvious, since UWR delver was the previous most popular deck and shares the same expensive cards -, and I find this particular match to be very hard. Things got worse when, as a reaction to the miracles infestation, jund (and other BG based decks) started to show up in big numbers again.
Does anyone have any advice for those matchups?
I liked Major's article a lot, although he provided SB plans for only a handful of matchups. 03 probes is very interesting and I like his reasoning behind that choice. I'll be testing his list in an event this weekend and see how it fares.
It's amazing how he managed to win despite the meta being full of miracles.
My local meta is also infested with miracles since recent results from GP Paris etc - kinda obvious, since UWR delver was the previous most popular deck and shares the same expensive cards -, and I find this particular match to be very hard. Things got worse when, as a reaction to the miracles infestation, jund (and other BG based decks) started to show up in big numbers again.
Does anyone have any advice for those matchups?
I liked Major's article a lot, although he provided SB plans for only a handful of matchups. 03 probes is very interesting and I like his reasoning behind that choice. I'll be testing his list in an event this weekend and see how it fares.
I'm also playing UWR since Owen Gp result and I was preatty active on this topic during past months.
My meta is full of Miracles and decks that fights miracles Well like Jund and Death and Taxes that for us are not Amazing matchups I would say we are slightly unfavoured.
My advice is just to become a better player. Yes we are Slightly behind those decks however we have to remember our very good combo matchups positioning MUs in this decks on a continuum of 60/40. The bottom line is we don't have a really bad matchup.
Our edge should be our playskill really.
2 UWR Delver players just made top 8 at Dallas; both on the same side of the bracket.
So, just out of curiosity (forgive me, I am somewhat new to the forums): What was the reasoning behind moving this from the "Decks to Beat"? It seems to be putting up a lot of good results as of late in the larger SCG events.
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