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Went 2-4 with a Dimir deck; had all the good top end stuff but between a mediocre early game, my rustiness, and my usual terrible luck didn't fair so well.
Lost the first to a Boros deck that was just better in the first round, guy went either 4-2 or 5-1.
Ran roughshod over a pair of Orzhov decks in rounds 2 and 3.
Against Gruul in round 4, drew no mana in my opening hand at 7, mulled to 6, no mana, had to play a bad 5 hand to start and lost the first because of that; screwed up the second round when I somehow kept myself in it despite him dropping 7/6 wurms on me... twice but got overly aggressive in endgame and screwed it up.
Round 5 was an Orzhov deck that beat me clean in the first match, second match I had a massive advantage but in what ended up being late game I drew seven consecutive lands with no hand and that'll allow anyone to climb back in the game.
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In post 1723, Fate wrote:I also have zero way to get rid of indestructible stuff, any g/r cards that do that, or is that just going to be my weakness?
A quick browing of all green, red, and green/red instants and sorceries with converted mana cost four or less that are standard legal says that's going to be a weakness.-
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Might as well solicit ideas here, I'm building a Blue/Black Standard deck using cipher to mill; shooting for either a mill win or more likely using that to pump Jace's Phantasm and/or Consuming Aberration to smash through to victory. Deck currently looks something like this (and yes I realize it's 61 cards, call it a personal quirk)...
Creatures (14)
4x Jace's Phantasm
4x Invisible Stalker
1x Nightveil Specter
1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
4x Consuming Aberration
Planeswalkers (2)
2x Jace, Memory Adept
Instants (12)
3x Thought Scour
3x Tragic Slip
4x Dimir Charm
2x Aetherize
Sorceries (9)
3x Hands of Binding
4x Paranoid Delusions
2x Mind Grind
Mana Base (24)
1x Watery Grave
2x Drowned Catacombs
11x Islands
10x Swamps
Potential Options/Sideboard
Extra copies of most everything above except Jace
Dispel
Psychic Strike
Whispering Madness
Wight of Precinct Six
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In post 1911, Sudo_Nym wrote:I don't think mind grind is worth it. Straight mill effects aren't that good. I'd want another Hands of binding and anesthetized. If you're trying to feed on the graveyard for consuming aberration, then duskmantle guildmage and psychic strike could both be nice.
Psychic Strike got sideboarded because I was doing most of my playtesting against this deck and running Cavern of Souls + Humans means whenever that happened there were all of nine things I could counter but it probably should find it's way back into the main deck. Duskmantle Guildmage's big problem is that his ability costs are fairly high that they're tough to use with first casting of other spells, but he would compliment ciphered copies of Paranoid Delusions and he goes HAM with Jace.-
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In post 1912, Thestatusquo wrote:I would agree with sudo in the sense that I don't think that "aggro mill" is viable. If I were to build a deck with mill as its win con I'd devote like 90% of my slots to controlling the board. Once you've done that, it shouldn't be too hard to win with whichever repeatable mill effect you choose.
Alright, leave in Invisible Stalker, Paranoid Delusions, and Jace as the primary millers. Dimir Charm and Psychic Strike offer a little mill or mills options along with control. What else represents the best blue/black board control in Standard.-
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In post 2157, NabakovNabakov wrote:I understand that, but 8 slots seems like a little much to devote to 1-drops, especially when you won't be happy to see them later on. I would just experiment with having 6 or 7 instead.
The odds of not having Cloudfin Raptor or Experiment One in his opening hand on the play is 34% already and 29% on the draw as it stands. Cutting down to six copies raises those odds to 46% and 41% respectively.-
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Boros + hoping for Azorious/Izzet; played Dimir at Gatecrash prerelease and don't want any part of that again.In post 2465, bv310 wrote:So what's everyone here looking to play for Prerelease? I'm thinking I'm going to go Golgari, just for the sheer power and fun of Scavenge.-
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Went 3-3 with Boros/Azorious on Friday; started 3-1 which got me powered into some better decks. Two of my losses came to other Boros based decks that dropped Aurelia in my face in at least one game and the other came against a straight Orzhov deck that managed to drop a ton of extort creatures on the board quickly. I really needed one or two more guildgates to make better use of my gatekeepers and a bomb or two since I think my creatures topped out at 3 power.-
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I will say the prize support for all the "main" side tourneys at Origins/SCG was hilariously good; RTR block sealed 2HG for $26, solid deal already for 8 packs. 8 teams register and prize support to... Top 8 with top two teams getting From The Vault: Legends or Realms for each head. Bomb out going 1-2, as long as you stick around here have four packs and crack a Voice of Resurgence and make the entire thing profitable, fantastic.-
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She's probably not in the current standard; but I'd say she can fit into the UWR decks (like this one) in Modern, top ability pings for one and clears a blocker, mid ability is card draw, and ultimate is good for nine damage (or six damage and three cards or twelve if you swap in Boros Charm) with the burn spells that deck carries. Other than that however, not seeing her reach play, no.In post 2887, kdowns wrote:I ... I don't really see her that playable.-
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Basically I'm looking for many of the pieces and parts to the UWR midrange/control decks that are near top of the modern pile right now.-
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Eh, I prefer the more creature based version of the build, so add Geist of St. Traft, Thundermaw, and Reckoners (sic) as things beyond that list.In post 3169, xRECKONERx wrote:I've got a couple verdicts and a Glacial Forttess-
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Current deck for this:
4x Syndic of Tithes
4x Basilca Screecher
4x Tithe Drinker
4x Kingpin's Pet
4x Ethereal Armor
4x Pacifism
4x Stab Wound
4x Tragic Slip
2x Sign in Blood
2x Executioner's Swing
4x Murder
4x Orzhov Guildgate
8x Plains
8x Swamp
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SB is completely negotiable as it's just whatever I tossed in there for now.
I love the enchantment sub theme but there's too much bounce in pauper for the Armor and Pacifism to work well, so looking mostly for suggestions to replace those.-
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Current list:
4 Tragic Slip
2 Angelic Wall
2 Capashen Knight
4 Syndic of Tithes
4 Basilica Screecher
4 Sign in Blood
4 Tithe Drinker
2 Basilica Guards
2 Griffin Sentinel
4 Stab Wound
4 Murder
4 Kingpin's Pet
4 Orzhov Guildgate
8 Plains
8 Swamps
SB:
3 Ethereal Armor
3 Pacifism
2 Celestial Flare
2 Contaminated Ground
2 Dark Favor
3 Devour Flesh
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I get mulched by Flickergate and need to get some idea how to stop it.
Idea #1: Up the Contaminated Grounds to four and side them in, throw them on Gates to try and slow/prevent gatekeepers from going off
Idea #2: Get even more aggressive, pull the walls and sentinel griffins; add Rakdos Shred-Freak for BB as a 2/1 Haste creature and attack!
Idea #3: Up the toughness of my creatures... Vanguard's Shield, downside is slow and does nothing to stop Devour Flesh/Murder just the Black Gatekeeper
Idea #4: Add Undying Evil in response to mudering, bring back my creatures even stronger than before
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Because my curve is super low to get as many extorters on the board and hit as many triggers as I can and Seraph is a four drop of which I have none. Additionally I have enough life gain so the lifelink isn't super useful so we're talking a 2/4 flyer for 4. It's too slow against aggro decks and against Flickergate I need removal and I need speed as far as I can tell because I'm not going to win once they begin flickering and it doesn't offer either of those things, it offers a body that a single black gatekeeper can't kill but between Murder, Slip, and Devour there's enough black ways to remove it and with multiple flickers it's way dead.In post 3309, Thestatusquo wrote:I still dont understand why you dont play serif of dawn.-
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Trust me, I don't have anything worth trading that I'm willing to trade for some Geists as much as I'd like them.In post 3321, InflatablePie wrote:Hey DDD, still looking for a playset of Geists?
Also, do you have anything interesting up for trade? I may do it for a playset of Deathrites if you'd be able to spare them.-
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Agreed that sounds like the trick I might need to pull it out, I think I'd rather have another card rather than a 1/1 flyer for them to just gatekeeper so anyone got any MTGO cremates I can borrow?In post 3311, TheButtonmen wrote:Cremate / Beckon Appiration work wonders, hit their ghostly in response to the Archomancer trigger.Much more reliable then trying to add beatdown / contimained grounds.-
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In post 3478, xRECKONERx wrote:Okay.
You can easily, with a new account, accumulate enough value to keep playing for free. A new player phantom draft is 1 new player ticket + 1 regular ticket, which means you're spending $1 at most to draft. If you win, you get a pack of M14, which is worth 3 tix from bots. Rinse, repeat.
The New Player 4-Person Phantom Draft and Sealed tourneys hand out one pack to the winner, your ten dollars is already a sunk cost and for a dollar each your break even percent is 28.57% tourney wins with M14 packs selling at 3.5 tickets. I just went 9/17 in those drafts (and 1/3 in Sealed) so basically I covered my the $10 initial investment and the 20$ to play those events and came up five tickets ahead.In post 3479, InflatablePie wrote:phantom events actually give out a pack? hmm.-
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I'm with you there, made the finals of an 8-4 and kept a 3 card, 4 land opening hand and five of my next six draws were land. Second game wasn't much better but between the second place payout and the Chandra, Pyromaster and Mutavault I pulled it worked out.In post 3526, xRECKONERx wrote:Sometimes, you get to play magic.
Other times, you draw 10 lands in the first 12 turns.
*sigh*
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I took a GW aggro to the finals of the 8-4 I mentioned like two pages ago, where I lost after flooding to a RW aggro deck. I find the idea that blue is obviously the best color in M14 color and that white is obviously the worst to be way overblown.In post 3565, chamber wrote:White red and Green white are like the two weakest color combinations in m14, I wouldn't worry too much about getting beared out in that deck. Maybe a reason to run an 18th land.-
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I went 2-0, 2-0 with matches running 5-8 minutes each in the first two rounds; I was just playing what felt open but I admit to having read this article the day before; good enough to Top 8 a GP, good enough for me.In post 3567, hasdgfas wrote:
I find that decks running anyone over almost never happens in M14.In post 3564, Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:Pie, that's not a bad deck for M14 limited and it might work against slower decks but I can see GW, GR, or RW (basically if someone forced Slivers you're in trouble) running over you before you can do anything about it.-
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...In post 3572, InflatablePie wrote:http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=11368
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1) UB DelverIn post 3586, kdowns wrote:For those in the Pauper Tournament, What decks have you played so far?
2) UWG (Limited Flicker) Gates
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Went 3-1-1 (would've been 4-1 if not for clock and turns) running RBu, good enough for fifth and a small payout. My brother and I are doing a 2HG sealed prerelease event tomorrow as well. Also I'd agree to Chamber's tempo assessment but I have no idea why he's recommending white over blue as the tempo play.-
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(12:40:34 AM) Danny DiPietro: got back from Theros PR 2HG sealed
(12:42:42 AM) Danny DiPietro: me and my brother were the only 4-0 team but unfortunately 17 people meant there were 5 rounds which meant we lost in the fifth and dropped from 1st place (2 boxes of Theros) to 2nd (1 box of Theros)
(12:44:14 AM) thesheamuffin: Why didnt you split?
(12:45:11 AM) Danny DiPietro: they weren't undefeated
(12:45:30 AM) Danny DiPietro: they were 3-1, so we couldn't offer a draw/chop with them because a draw would've sent them to 4th
(12:46:41 AM) thesheamuffin: Sounds shitty
(12:47:14 AM) thesheamuffin: anything good in the box?
(12:48:05 AM) Danny DiPietro: my brother pulled the Thoughtseize and the UB Planeswalker, I pulled the devotion land, the RB mythic, and a foil Ember Swallower which I now have a playset of
(12:48:23 AM) Danny DiPietro: and I pulled the worst of the Gods (white)-
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Looks like part of the payout is enough TGCPlayer points to go to the 50K invitational in Columbus; if you haven't sold or traded those or don't plan on coming up for it I could find some people who could make use of those.In post 3778, kdowns wrote:So Uhhh. I got 10th at the TCG Player 5k. Also I Got an amazing Story to tell you about Atherling.-
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Coolio, let me know if you need any Columbus related information if you do.In post 3792, kdowns wrote:So far I have about 30 points and another 5 points somewhere in my cards. I was going to try to go to the 50k invitational.-
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Because it reminds older players of a card that was actually good when creatures mostly sucked.
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Interesting, not what my calculations were showing but then again mine was incomplete and I was just scratching things together from the publicly available information; I'd obviously trust the guy whose running it's calculations over mine.In post 3826, Shanba wrote:We've been sent out the tiebreakers, and it turns out my OMW% is the second highest in the whole damn thing - plus I'm up against one of the two people at effectively 20, so we'll be IDing in.
Edit: If you can post the complete standings/pairings for the last round from the e-mail that'd be great for me since they aren't up on the site yet.-
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Yeah this is what I have before Rd 8...
1. Charlie S 19 points (67.62%)
2. Conor Moran 19 points (59.09%)
3. Jason Grey 18 points (62.58%)
4. Hugh Kramer 18 points (61.63%)
5. P. Dalton 18 points (59.93%)
6. Ben H 18 points (59.93%)
7. Justin Beckert 18 points (56.69%)
8. Andrzej 18 points (55.39%)
9. Andrew 16 points (58.28%)
10. aceracerff 16 points (58.12%)
Wonder what I'm screwing up for you because that looks like the big difference. Then again even if I were right ID probably would be the way to go.-
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So these are the decent decks (lol Azorious Detention) I've seen playing Standard Pauper the last few days to think about building upon or that you might have to face...
Extort(what I'm playing and am obviously partial to, Tragic Slip and Murder rolling out hurts since there's not as much cheap targeted removable available but I've still been having success with it)
Boros Aggro(only faced it in a one game and kept a dumb hand and since have curved my deck lower again but it did what it said on the tin and won that game)
Bant Hexproof(have only faced it for one game and my deck has been changed up since then but it did exactly what you'd think it'd do; perhaps I was too eager with my early celestial flares and didn't take out enough enchantments by waiting, the 1/1 lifelink enchantment creature that betows for four makes this deck hard to race as well)
Mono Black(this deck gives my deck fits because it carries enough removal to make it so I can extort nearly as much as I want, I think I sport a 3-1 record against it but each win has been a 2-1 affair, I actually brought in Duress the last match from my sb and it did great work stealing a Read the Bones each time and without that reach the deck was relatively DoA.)
Mono-Green Stompy(I've seen two different builds for this, one vastly better than the other, the bad one played guildgates just for the Saruuli Gatekeepers but they're totally not worth it, the good one was busy dropping Battering Krasis and evolving it with Advocate of the Beast and Ivy Lane Denizen and while I never saw a Rumbling Baloth they had to be there as well)
Izzet-Clops(hurt massively by Delver and flashback rotating out which steals away the card advantage this deck needed to be top tier, it simply doesn't have enough threats against a good removal suite in my opinion)-
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Took 3rd/4th in a 64 person release draft last night on MTGO; went 3-0 in the first part running GreyMerchants.dec and then while MTGO decided to crash during the end of the first round of my second draft I still managed to get back for Pack 2, Pick 3 and salvage an alright Uwb deck that was based around bestowing dudes on Artisan of Forms and/or Agent of Fates that let me win the first match with a 10/9 deathtouching, trampling Artisan of Forms in game 3, then my second match went to game three where I kept a five lander, with a two drop (1/2 Flyer) and three drop (1/4 - extort for 3), ran my opponent down to 3 life on just those two creatures and if I had drawn one more threat in the first seven turns I would've won; instead, of my first seven draws, six of them were lands and eventually he threw the lifelink bestower on a 3/3 and got himself out of the danger zone and I kept mostly drawing lands.-
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And he just took down Grand Prix Toronto as well.In post 3886, hasdgfas wrote:And an ex-scummer wins the Legacy Championships!
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Went 5-1 at my prerelease running RW aggro, went 5-0 and offered a draw/split with the other guy in the final but he rebuffed me and then he beat me game 1 and my lands beat me game 2. Luckily my tiebreakers were high enough to keep me in second and scored me 24 packs. Got a 2HG prerelease with my brother tomorrow.-
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I mean it depends on what we're talking about but this is what I faced in the Top 8 and while it struck me as more good stuff than aggro obviously it can have some seriously aggressive starts, the BNG is pretty up in the air except the addition of Courser to RG Monsters seems like it'll help it plenty.
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Nah I didn't talk with him, just started searching through the tournament listings.In post 4216, bv310 wrote:Any idea what he ended up running?-
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Looks like 4-5. Coincidentally it looks like in his seventh round match when I checked earlier he was playing right next to a Columbus area player who I played in my recent GPT.In post 4218, AGar wrote:What did his final record for Day 1 look like?-
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Debonair Danny DiPietro Jack of All Trades
- Jack of All Trades
- Jack of All Trades
- Posts: 5487
- Joined: January 21, 2009
- Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Debonair Danny DiPietro Jack of All Trades
- Jack of All Trades
- Jack of All Trades
- Posts: 5487
- Joined: January 21, 2009
- Location: Columbus, Ohio
I considered it briefly but a six hour drive by myself to play a deck I like but not love with no byes didn't seem worth it.In post 4279, Thestatusquo wrote:Anyone going to GP Chicago?
I'd love to meet up with anyone in the area, and I'm hosting a beer/pizza/testing shindig at my place on friday night.
Also, if anyone is going and still looking for accomodations I can offer a free floor to crash on.
I'm playing UW. I think we're going to see a serious overreaction to the SCG open last weekend, which will bring in many mono red decks which are a good matchup anyway, in addition to the other decks packing tons of cards meant to fight that matchup (anger of the gods, for instance) which are completely dead against UW. I think it's pretty well positioned. I kinda want to play 2 detention sphere and 4 syncopate, but that just can't be right. Still ironing out last few MD choices and some sb stuff.-
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Debonair Danny DiPietro Jack of All Trades
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- Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Debonair Danny DiPietro Jack of All Trades
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In post 4288, Thestatusquo wrote:Is divination a first pick?
The answer to this question will mainly be what I used to determine how much I play this format.
No? Then again I'd have to open the world's worst M14 pack for me to first pick a divination so maybe I'm not the best person to answer that question.-
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Debonair Danny DiPietro Jack of All Trades
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In post 4290, Thestatusquo wrote:Divination was probably the best common in m14.
Definitely in the top 5-10. If you weren't first picking divination some significant amount of the time then you were probably playing the format incorrectly.
Well I don't agree with the first at all but I don't disagree with the last half of the last sentence. Hence, "maybe I'm not the best person to answer that question."-
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Debonair Danny DiPietro Jack of All Trades
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- Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Debonair Danny DiPietro Jack of All Trades
- Jack of All Trades
- Jack of All Trades
- Posts: 5487
- Joined: January 21, 2009
- Location: Columbus, Ohio