How often do you see that singleton Whip, seriously? Does the lifelink make it work like a Pseudo Vault of the Archangel or is there something to this I'm missing?
Played the same list as last week, except I finally found my two copies of Kiora over Needle/Eye Gouge, to 4-1 finish. Lost to GW Aggro off of mull to five and land screw respectively. Won vs Jund, Maze's End, BW Midrange and WU Aggro(not a real deck).
The biggest conclusion: Holy shit Kiora is waaay better than I thought she was.
In post 4178, InflatablePie wrote:I like how WU gets dismissed as "not a real deck", but Maze's End doesn't.
I could also launch into a joke about "real" decks but I'm lazy.
Maze's End is a solidly tier 2 deck at the moment, imo. But if you're telling me the Battlewise Hoplite/Dauntless Onslaught deck is a real deck, well, lol. It was one of the decks I always end up playing round one of FNM and I feel terrible. It's like, last standard, I'd always play against the guy with the 'sick UB Zombie Mill' and I sigh, beat him, then move on. While feeling bad that the game was not fun for either of us.
I play WU Heroic in Block Con, and it's only viable in there because it's got a half-decent matchup with GR Monsters because of Aqueous Form. I would definitely never play it in a format that has Supreme Verdict.
Played around with the Hero of Iroas deck that Sam Black posted a bit ago. It's probably tier 1.5 or so, because despite decent matchups all around it's about 30/70 to MBC. Stormbreath is also very difficult to deal with. A bit prone to drawing all your cards in the wrong order.
Went 4-1 then draw into the Top 8 at a GPT running Mono Blue, unfortunately faced the guy who won SC Columbus in the first round of the Top 8 and missed a billion Thassa scry triggers in losing to him 2-1; my brother was on Maze's End and took it to a respectable 4-2, ninth place finish.
Didn't run into it at all, lost to UW Control, beat Maze's End (of course I faced my brother after we both opened 0-1), BUG Control-ish, RG Courser/Domri, and WRB Control and then lost to W splash U good stuff in the Top 8.
In post 4178, InflatablePie wrote:I like how WU gets dismissed as "not a real deck", but Maze's End doesn't.
I could also launch into a joke about "real" decks but I'm lazy.
Maze's End is a solidly tier 2 deck at the moment, imo. But if you're telling me the Battlewise Hoplite/Dauntless Onslaught deck is a real deck, well, lol. It was one of the decks I always end up playing round one of FNM and I feel terrible. It's like, last standard, I'd always play against the guy with the 'sick UB Zombie Mill' and I sigh, beat him, then move on. While feeling bad that the game was not fun for either of us.
Oh okay.
I thought you were either saying:
- Wu Aggro (WW plus blue for Ephara/DSphere etc.) was "not a real deck"; I actually like that deck even if it's a bit worse than Wb (Thoughtseize, Sin Collector etc). Again, I haven't seen much of BNG Standard, but I like the deck idea.
- Maze's End was like Tier 1.
Hell, GW Aggro is even below Tier 1 I think. Depends on the build, but I don't think I've seen it place at all in this standard.
If you don't know how to lie, then how do you know when you're being lied to?
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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.
Spoiler:
4th: Mike Keknee – Go Islanders Happy Jazz Time Band
MAIN DECK:
4 Soldier of the Pantheon
2 Imposing Sovereign
4 Precinct Captain
3 Brimaz, King of Oreskos
3 Boros Reckoner
3 Ephara, God of the Polis
2 Archangel of Thune
1 Lavinia of the Tenth
1 Angel of Serenity
2 Jace, Architect of Thought
2 Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
4 Detention Sphere
2 Sphinx’s Revelation
2 Spear of Heliod
4 Mutavault
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Temple of Enlightenment
3 Azorius Guildgate
8 Plains
2 Island
SIDEBOARD:
2 Supreme Verdict
2 Essence Scatter
1 Boros Reckoner
2 Rapid Hybridization
3 Glare of Heresy
1 Lavinia of the Tenth
2 Negate
1 Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
1 Jace, Architect of Thought
Went 3-1, lost in the finals (to a user named "pie" no less) against RG stuff. Mulled to 5 game 1 and 6 game 2 and got stuck on mana. Oh well. 9 packs plus some of those cards kinda makes up for the 24 tix I spent to enter.
Not sure in the end if splashing Xenagos was worth it (and maybe splashing Fall and Revelry was greedy) but it was a fun deck. Fate Unraveler and Nessian Demolok are my two favorite cards now.
If you don't know how to lie, then how do you know when you're being lied to?
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
I like Sip. :< I think maybe Fall of the Hammer and 2x Time to Feed with only 11 creatures, in retrospect, was a poor choice. In the last round I got stuck with a Hammer+TtF in my hand with no creatures out. Maybe drop one of those for a Presence (probably Fall to make mana easier) or even the Revelry since 2x Enchantment-destruction backfired in at least one game, and in that case may have been able to drop a Mountain for a Forest/Swamp and just splashed ~2 cards off an Amulet+Presence+Gild+1 Mountain.
Also I think the only useful thing Xenagos did was make 1-2 Satyrs and absorb some damage. Not terrible, no, but not that great. I probably could have dropped him for some meh cards (the Minotaur bear dude, maybe a Sable if I wanted to be more aggressive, Returned Centaur, Boon of Erebos etc.). I was also tempted to try the Warcaller as just a 5/3 haste dude, but I had enough 5-drops as-is.
If you don't know how to lie, then how do you know when you're being lied to?
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
One time, back in 'nam, Sudo was set upon by an entire squadron of charlies. He challenged them all to a game of Pictionary, which he won resoundingly. The charlies were forced to not only surrender the skirmish, but also their world-famous chili recipe, which Sudo sold to Texas for a hefty profit. Sudo is a master of diplomacy.
In post 4195, Thestatusquo wrote:Vintage IS a great format. Anyone who says it isnt probably hasn't actually played it.
But you're probably trying to troll right now.
Actually I assumed you were one of the unbathed masses that thinks eternal formats are all degenerate turn 1s so I decided to troll by stating the truth
Modern is probably better than vintage but not worse than legacy. If they just reprinted force of will and brainstorm they could remove everything on the modern ban list right now and the format would be awesome.
