jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow
I'm actually enjoying this PT a little. It's really interesting the way their all working out.
Pretty much everyone was prepared for Courser decks. The UB decks, especially. But the Mardu and Jeskai decks are going so threat-dense that the UB decks can't compete. And Siege Rhino seems to be wrecking those. The guy who's top atm is actually running a variation of the deck I was outlining earlier in the thread(except he went full aggro with Heir of the Wilds, cutting the Elspeths). I like it!
I really love watching the variety of this standard so far. Combo, Control, Aggro, and Midrange are all coming out in force so far, and that makes me happy.
Its a very diverse format. And I mean actually diverse as in there are actually many different decks trying to do many different things, as opposed to just 4 different midrange decks of various different colors.
jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow
In post 4788, chamber wrote:Was not is. But yeah. He was quite active at one point.
Mhm. He even partook of a few MS magic tournaments in the past as well.
jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow
I'll probably have more notes once the decklists actually go up, but I find it not coincidental that the only UB deck to make it is the one ran by probably the best control player right now(Ivan Floch) AND is the one version of the deck to not run Pearl Lake Ancient(he uses Prognostic Sphinx). Also, I know his list ran 4 Disdainful Stroke main that the Pantheon build wasn't running. I have been messing with variants of this deck on and off(but always came back to Abzan--I think it's defacto the strongest thing you can be doing right now) and Ashiok is too vulnerable, and Pearl Lake is too slow.
Tian's combo list is very different from the one LSV/Dave Williams/Matignon/etc were playing, since he's got things like Twinflame/Nissa instead of Altar of the Brood. It's very weird, and I think it actually takes more cards to go off than the Altar version.
jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow
jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow
In post 4793, hasdgfas wrote:Tian's combo list is very different from the one LSV/Dave Williams/Matignon/etc were playing, since he's got things like Twinflame/Nissa instead of Altar of the Brood. It's very weird, and I think it actually takes more cards to go off than the Altar version.
I don't like his list(it is succeptible to AEtherspouts, for one), but I think he did it so he can board into 'standard' RUG midrange deck.
In post 4793, hasdgfas wrote:Tian's combo list is very different from the one LSV/Dave Williams/Matignon/etc were playing, since he's got things like Twinflame/Nissa instead of Altar of the Brood. It's very weird, and I think it actually takes more cards to go off than the Altar version.
I don't like his list(it is succeptible to AEtherspouts, for one), but I think he did it so he can board into 'standard' RUG midrange deck.
I agree. I prefer the Altar of the Brood list, but I think the Nissa list is interesting.
jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
jdodge1019: vermont is made of liberal freaks and cows
jdodge1019: he's not a liberal
jdodge1019: thus he is a cow
