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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 4, 2012 22:03:20 GMT -5
My evening was well spent. Ended up going 3-1 with stock UW-blade. Best part, the last of my three prize packs had a foil sorin. So yeah, worth the time. Way to go, sack.  at least now I feel better about playing maverick. What was the meta like? |
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Post by Zach on Feb 4, 2012 22:09:56 GMT -5
Sheesh. Nice rip Andrew. My fat pack wasn't bad with two grafdigger's cage and a black mike. But that's silly.
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Post by abeckett on Feb 4, 2012 22:30:50 GMT -5
The meta is actually pretty diverse. I played against a SneakyShow deck (only loss) and then against URW Delver, Hive Mind, and Goblins. Looking around, I saw some enchantress, zoo, and at least two Maverick, along with a few storm combo decks.
Most of the crowd was very friendly and fun to play against. I had a good time.
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Post by Evan on Feb 7, 2012 2:41:12 GMT -5
Yeah I just hate Smar so freaking much I can't stand to play legacy on the chance that I'll play him. But most of the people are cool.
Cheers
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 7, 2012 9:15:08 GMT -5
Who/what is Smar?
On another note, I'm considering purchasing a "white-bordered" Maze of Ith for $23 shipped. Thoughts?
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Post by abeckett on Feb 7, 2012 12:18:33 GMT -5
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 7, 2012 17:01:26 GMT -5
That is the exact card I was looking at. By "white-bordered", I meant "heavy play". Guess I'll pull the trigger on this one then.
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Post by abeckett on Feb 7, 2012 17:39:41 GMT -5
Ah, I thought you meant borders erased. That's actually a thing. I had a sword of fire and ice like that, which I picked up for like $2 at one point.
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 7, 2012 18:15:45 GMT -5
Pulled the trigger on the Maze. $24 shipped.
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 8, 2012 11:13:51 GMT -5
...and another one, this time $22 shipped for a played Maze of Ith.
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Post by Zach on Feb 8, 2012 20:00:12 GMT -5
So what are the two of you planning on playing? I've been doing some good reading on Star City. Apparently brainstorm was not in the top two decks of the legacy open.
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 8, 2012 20:27:57 GMT -5
I'm going to play some kind of Maverick deck, either Naya or GW or maybe Bant (I now have two Vendilion Cliques and three Flooded Strands, but no Jace TMS).
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 9, 2012 23:16:47 GMT -5
After further review, I'm missing the following cards from the stock punishing maverick list: 1 goyf 1 stp 2 choke 1 stony silence 1 e tutor 2 reb This assumes I can substitute shocks for duals and Zen fetches for onslaught fetches. I also need to have my karakas and maze delivered from eBay in time. Crossing my fingers! ...oh, and I need to learn the format Edit: also, I only need four cards for the gw maverick list... 1 noble hierarch 1 scavenging ooze 2 choke Again, assuming shocks and Zen duals and eBay and stuff. |
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Post by crazedferret on Feb 29, 2012 14:56:06 GMT -5
So how bout something like this?
4x Thrumming bird
4x Tangle wire
4x Parallax wave
4x Parallax tide
3x intuition
2x Eternal witness
2x Anjani vengeant?
2x venser?
3x contagion clasp
3x flickerwisp
2x Contagion engine
3x Sun titan
3x mox diamond
2x Wasteland
4x ancient tomb
4x Saprazzan skerry
4x remote farm
4x tendo ice bridge
4x gemstone mine
My general goal is to play out a quick tangle wire, parallax wave/tide/ajani to slow down their game, then to play venser and sun titan shennanegans and then prolieferate the crap out of all those. There are obvious other shennanegans such as removing counters in response to flickerwisp/venser in order to permanently rfg things. Dropping a third turn sun titan. Dropping a mox diamond and then getting the land back with titan. Killing a depletion land then getting it back via titan.
Other ideas I have out of the cards I have are
Metalworker combo -- I still have this deck, but in pieces scattered about. I feel like it could win out turn two fairly easily
enchantress-- I have most if not all the pieces I'd need for this
I can almost build the goblins deck
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 29, 2012 15:20:48 GMT -5
The Tangle Wire part sounds like something out of a Stax deck. You might want to do a little research on some of those decks to get more ideas. I'm not an expert on the format, but I believe that 6-drops are generally too slow for this format. All the lists I've seen usually top their curve out at four or five.
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at least now I feel better about playing maverick. What was the meta like?