Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[Magister Ludi]

If anyone ever comes to San Fransisco area, message me and we can go to a nice little drafting place around here. Haven't been in a while, and I love the game.

[Sudo_Nym]

So, I'm beginning to feel like Zombies just isn't good enough to get there. I think I'm going to build the Rock.

[Sudo_Nym]

Ha. Built a White Weenie Pauper deck for my sister, and she went undefeated with it.

[xRECKONERx]

decklist?

[Sudo_Nym]

4x Benevolent Bodyguard
2x Gideon's Lawkeeper
2x Guardian of the Guildpact
3x Kor Hookmaster
3x Kor Skyfisher
1x Porcelain Legionnaire
4x Razor Golem
4x Suture Priest
4x Holy Strength
4x Moment of Heroism
3x Oblivion Ring
4x Pacifism
21x Plains

SB:
4x Apostle's Blessing
4x Prismatic Strands
4x Solemn Offering
2x Guardian of the Guildpact
1x Gideon's Lawkeeper

The decklist is a bit weird. She didn't tell me about it until the night before, so I had to use what was lying around. If I had my choice, I'd be running Journey to Nowhere over Pacifism, Bonesplitter over Holy Strength, and probably Unmake instead of Moment of Heroism. Plus, Loyal Cathar, Icatian Javelineers, and Squadron Hawk should be in the creature base, over Porcelain Legionnaire, Kor Hookmaster, and Gideon's Lawkeeper.

I wasn't there to observe, but she tells me that she beat Affinity, Wee Dragonauts, and Infect with this thing, so it couldn't have been that horrible.

[bv310]

Prismatic Strands hoses WeeDs and Infect, and that deck is super-strong against Affinity. Give her a high-five for kicking ass in Pauper.

[xRECKONERx]

2nd place tonight at FNM with a GWb deck. Splashed the black mostly because I had two Stab Wounds, Underworld Connection, and the Golgari guildmage

[Klazam]

3rd place at a 20 man spilt a box tournament with Junk Reanimator. oh god is the deck SO good.

[Thestatusquo]

If by good you mean really boring. Like all of standard right now. I'm keeping to limited.

[Thestatusquo]

So, I'm beginning to feel like Zombies just isn't good enough to get there. I think I'm going to build the Rock.

Youre just starting to think this? Hasn't this been obvious for like 2 months now? Since states when it made up 40% of the field and like 5% of the top 8s?

[Sudo_Nym]

I haven't paid much attention to t8. Just at my store, it did fine for a while after rotation, where most of the people were playing RDW, Rakdos Aggro, Selesnya Aggro, or Zombies of some variety. It's only the last few weeks that people have gone to the midrange and tempo decks, and that's when Zombies really started to struggle for me.

[Thestatusquo]

Your store is at least a month and a half behind magic as a whole. If you paid attention to results from big tournaments, you could dominate it. I mean, really, still playing RDW? It became pretty clear pretty quickly that RDW is barely a deck post rotation, and selesnya is just far outclassed by bant control, although its the best of the decks you listed.

[bv310]

Selesnya Midrange (specifically the FlickerTusk version) has good results at tournaments, since it does really well against everything except Bant Control and some of the Frites builds (Frites is a luck matchup).

That said, Bant Control and Frites are the decks to play right now if you want to win tournaments.



Also, I'd like to point out that BR Zombies won GP Charleston, and more importantly, Ali Aintrazi placed in top 16 with Door to Nothingness in his deck

[xRECKONERx]

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[xRECKONERx]

About to go in with a clusterfuck of an Azorius/Selesnya deck...

On the Selesnya side, I've got:

1x Centaur's Herald
2x Druid's Deliverance
1x Sundering Growth
2x Seller of Songbirds
1x Eyes in the Skies
1x Phantom General
1x Trostani's Judgment
1x Coursers' Accord

...and then on the Azorius side, I've got:

2x Ethereal Armor
1x Blustersquall
2x Azorius Arrester
1x Inaction Injunction
1x Precinct Captain
1x New Prahv Guildmage
1x Sundering Growth
1x Stealer of Secrets
1x Soulsworn Spirit
1x Hussar Patrol
1x Voidwielder

Let's see what happens.

[kdowns]

Sealed?

[xRECKONERx]

welp

went up against Golgari rd 1 and holy shit he had corpse jack menace and two dreg manglers and trestle troll FUCK THAT DECK

[xRECKONERx]

Sealed?

nay, just dicking around for the MTGO free cube tix weekend

[TheTrollie]

i honestly did not know this game still existed

[Thestatusquo]

then you're fairly ignorant, as its still one of (if not) the most popular card games in existence.

Reck, the deck seems fine, but I think that I would never want to play more than 1-2 populate cards that don't directly effect the board state (Druids Deliverance, sundering growth) main, as they seem like they have a very low floor. I.E. It's a terrible top deck some awful percentage of the time, with growth even having situations where it is a 100% dead card. Also, blustersquall seems meh in your deck where you should already be winning with flyers and large amounts of 3/3s. That card is best in aggressive decks that need help to push through the last few points of damage. In your deck it seems like it would be a glorified (and expensive) fog a vast majority of the time, and you already have the two deliverences. Can you afford that many possibly dead cards? It seems like an awful draw some large percentage of the time, and even worse in the opening grip.

[xRECKONERx]

Yeah I realized that. Blustersquall was there to push through Stealer and Precinct Captain, mostly. Overload in it actually saved my ass the second game.

I think my issue is I tried to generate tokens, throw fliers, and go for the Ethereal Armor deck, and I did all three things half heartedly instead of focusing on one.

[bv310]

Woo random StarCity sale. I am now 2 Angel of Serenity and 3 Sphinx's Revelations from being able to play OmniDoor

[bv310]

and I've now bought my entire Modern deck. Fuck you SCG, get away from my wallet.

Also, Power Cube Drafts.



Yeah, these actually happen apparently

[xRECKONERx]

Power 9 cube is a thing on MTGO now

[Thestatusquo]

no but, that pack is clearly shopped.