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Post by John Galli on Feb 26, 2013 12:04:00 GMT -5
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 26, 2013 13:26:56 GMT -5
...and a Pod deck took 2nd place! Also, liking the UW Sun Titan list that took 6th place. Reminds me of the Reveillark decks of old. The 8th place list also looks pretty cool.
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Post by John Galli on Feb 26, 2013 13:53:21 GMT -5
Yeah for sheezy. There actually was a UW Reveillark control deck at the PTQ too, forgot to mention it. Harks back to the old days when we were PTQing in Minneapolis.
That 8th place list is basically the stock U/W/R Control as opposed to the tempo version. I played against it at the PTQ in round 2 and it's fairly common so I'd prepare to play against it. Ultimately, it's very similar to the tempo version despite one being slightly more aggressive.
Pod is definitely a good place to be right now, I really like the kiki version as it just has so many friggin win-cons.
I played Modern at Mox yesterday, went an abysmal 2-2 dropping my first 2 rounds. I misplayed so bad throughout the tournament, not sure what was up but I definitely should have slowed down. Lost to Junk in round 1 (pretty much a mirror match except he has knight of reliquary and path instead of thrun and bolts), lost round 2 to R/B Burn (I quickly learned how ridiculously good blood moon is against me), and then beat 2 scrub decks.
I somewhat want to hop on that ooze build, but it just seems so suicidal against burn and zoo decks. On the plus side, it seems like it has a lot of game against U/W/R and puts a faster clock on the table; something I wanted in some of my games. I don't think I'm capable of piloting it well enough yet to understand how to beat certain matchups and it lacks a ton of the sideboard cards I think are critical. I do really like however how he has faerie mcabre against eggs, that's just an old-school ingenious sideboard card (calling either lotus bloom or the stupid card that returns their artifacts to the bottom of their library)
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 26, 2013 15:42:28 GMT -5
Against the Eggs decks, I'd probably just go for Extirpate. You should reasonably expect to cast it on turn one or whenever you need to, since you run four Deathrites. They can't counter it or even respond to it, so you just wait until they get their one Pyrite Spellbomb in the yard and then nuke it.
Blood Moon is pretty bad for you...you don't have many basics. Oddly enough, the four-color Pod deck doesn't really care about Blood Moon because of Wall of Roots. I will say that I definitely enjoy playing the Pod, and it's certainly nice to be playing one of the top decks in the format, as opposed to some rogue brew like I usually do. Still working on getting the last few pieces for Pod...need a Linvala, a couple more Chords, the Scars lands, and one or two board cards. Uttke said he had a Linvala.
I'd love to play some UW Lark/Sun Titan deck for old times sake. If I can't find all of the Scars lands I need for Pod, I might just audible to that one instead. It would mean that I'd need all my Kitchen Finks back, though...I only have four copies.
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Post by John Galli on Feb 27, 2013 8:58:54 GMT -5
Most eggs decks I've seen really don't run a lot of counters, and I'd imagine some run more than one spellbomb. From what I've been told and what I've experienced, calling lotus bloom shuts off the combo. Regardless, yeah there's lots of answers to that deck and I plan on playing rakdos charm + jund charm anyway.
Blood moon is pretty bad, but now at least I understand why some lists run seal of primordial. Still, yeah it's a rough card for me.
ALSO, not sure if people noticed but cockatrice is down this morning. Apparently they got a cease and desist letter from Hasbro's lawyers. The company doesn't sound too concerned, they're going to try and fight it it sounds like. But still, SUCKS cuz i wanted to playtest lol. Might have to pick up the lackey program Zach uses. In the meantime, cockatrice has an alternate server you can connect to at play.woogerworks.com
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Feb 27, 2013 9:32:18 GMT -5
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Post by John Galli on Feb 27, 2013 11:59:55 GMT -5
Good article. I think it accurately sums up what I've been following on MTGO.
I've been waffling on cards for my build, but after some brief testing this morning I think this is what I want to run on Sunday-
4 Blackcleave Cliffs 1 Blood Crypt 1 Forest 1 Godless Shrine (need 1) 4 Marsh Flats 1 Overgrown Tomb 1 Plains 4 Raging Ravine (need 1) 1 Stomping Ground 1 Swamp 1 Treetop Village 4 Verdant Catacombs 24 lands
1 Olivia Voldaren 1 Thrun, the Last Troll 2 Huntmaster of the Fells (need 2) 4 Dark Confidant 4 Deathrite Shaman 4 Tarmogoyf 16 creatures
4 Inquisition of Kozilek (need 1) 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Lingering Souls (need 4) 2 Terminate 1 Jund Charm 1 Maelstrom Pulse 1 Thoughtseize 17 other spells
3 Liliana of the Veil 3 planeswalkers
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I'm waffling on the sideboard, I really need some help if any of you guys have thoughts. The rough game 1 matchups are thus-
Eggs Tron R/B Burn Infect Pod Twin Zoo
So game 2 I need to shore these up but keep the other matchups honest (UWR, Affinity, Mirror)
These are cards I've been considering, I'm more concerned about the numbers of each-
Sowing Salt (The card I want against Tron, but not really great in other matchups. It's marginally acceptable against UWR and the Mirror but it's not nearly as good as Molten Rain or Fulminator Mage) Spellskite (good against twin, RDW, infect) Rakdos Charm (good against eggs, affinity, tron, pod, twin, infect) Jund Charm (good against eggs, UWR geist, affinity, infect, zoo, junk, any aggro deck) Grafdigger's Cage (good against pod) Batterskull (good against mirror, UWR, RDW if you have time + blood moon) Ancient Grudge (good against affinity, tron, Pod) Terminate (good against everything non-eggs) Thoughtseize (good against eggs, tron, combo) Faerie Macabre (good against eggs) Dismember (good against twin, infect, manlands, baneslayer) Combust (good against UWR, Twin, Pod) Kitchen Finks (good against RDW, Mirror, UWR, aggro) Seal of Primordial (good against RDW, Enchantress, Tokens, Affinity, Tron) Maelstrom Pulse (good against tokens, mirror, UWR, aggro, enchantress, tron) Abrupt Decay (good against aggro, affinity, tokens, tron's o-stone) Molten Rain (good against mirror, UWR, tron to an extent) Fulminator Mage (good against mirror, UWR, tron to an extent) Burning Tree Shaman (good against twin, pod, mirror, eggs) Slaughter Games (twin, tron, eggs to a lesser extent, combo)
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Post by John Galli on Mar 11, 2013 15:08:09 GMT -5
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Mar 11, 2013 17:02:13 GMT -5
Yeah, I probably shoulda played in the Modern PTQ...this format looks awesome. Too bad I usually have basketball on Mondays, or else I would be there at Mox for some sweet Modern action.
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Post by John Galli on Mar 11, 2013 20:45:52 GMT -5
I lent the rest of the cards Uttke needed to him for Jund, sounded like its been going mostly good so far.
Travis there's a ptq I believe at pastimes this Saturday if you still wanted to make one
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Post by Travis Lannoye on Mar 18, 2013 14:49:52 GMT -5
Cool new deck for modern: www.channelfireball.com/articles/owens-a-win-boborgymos-from-the-loam/Despite the name on the article, the deck looks pretty cool. Bobo is dirt cheap to acquire and the rest of the deck looks like a bunch of standard cards. Tron decks seem like the worst matchup, since they often pack 2-4 main deck Relic of Progenitus. Still, this seems like a pretty cheap deck to pick up and try out.
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