Dies to Removal

BrainsickHater

Also can someone explain too me why people think Revel is good vs Dredge? They have some really big and nasty creatures. . . Against dredge you want to shorten the length of the game as much as possible. The more turns they get the more likely their engine will come online and they start churning o...

BrainsickHater

And probably dredge

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You bring them in against Hexproof, Control, Mono-Black Aggro, and certain builds of Naya.

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@Elricity Most of the time you have cards that deal with the other threats. Reprisal deals with things that the deck otherwise can't. Personally, I'm running them because I expect a lot of monsters with the possibility of BW Midrange decks at the tournament I'm attending this weekend. It's the perfe...

BrainsickHater

The thing I don't want to run into against control is having an apparition stranded in hand on turn 2 without another 2 drop. As a matter of preference I like my manabases to be less powerful if it means I can more consistently cast my cards when I want to cast them. If you wanted to play the 4th mu...

BrainsickHater

The other option is to switch Banishing Light for a mutavault in the SB, but the 1-of seems pretty nice.

BrainsickHater

+2 Chandra, +3 Eidolon, +2 Reprisal, +1 BL -4 Shock, -4 Boros Charm I also want 4 Mutavaults and it pains me to not run 4. The problem is that I want the ability to cast Keening Apparition and Eidolon on Turn 2. 20 Red sources are preferred for Eidolon and you need one of them to come into play unta...

BrainsickHater

I don't like running 2 Mana confluence but the Sideboard is a strain on the mana. Maybe I shouldn't run Apparition to make having white on T2 less necessary.

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[deck] Creatures 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix Other Spells 4 Chained to the Rocks 4 Boros Charm 1 Mizzium Mortars 4 Lightning Strike 4 Magma Jet 4 Skullcrack 4 Warleader's Helix 4 Shock Lands 2 Boros Guildgate 4 Temple of Triumph 4 Sacred Foundry 3 Mutavault 8 Mountain 2 Mana Confluence Si...

BrainsickHater

My LGS is UW, MB, and Dredge heavy, so I maindeck Eidolon when I play there. The games are hilariously easy. I'm expecting to play against everything at an SCG Open this weekend, so my recent posts have that in mind. I particularly expect to play against monsters because they seem to be popular at t...

BrainsickHater

Considering playing this board in a YP$ List [deck] 3 Mizzium Mortars 2 Keening Apparition 1 Wear // Tear 2 Chandra, Pyromaster 3 Eidolon of the Great Revel 1 Banishing Light 1 Blind Obedience 2 Reprisal [/deck] Against creature decks I play hard control and against control decks I can bring in Eido...

BrainsickHater

As far as an edge against UW goes, I find the matchups you lose when playing Burn are the ones where you don't get a hand filled with enough early action to apply real pressure in a timely fashion. To remedy this I played 4 Eidolon and 4 Toil // Trouble which basically filled my deck so full of card...

BrainsickHater

I'm really interested in more details in flamespeaker. - How did you use him? - What matchups did you bring him in against? - Did you feel he was weak in any of the matchups you brought him in? - Are there any matchups you didn't board him in and you think you should have? There is no obligation to ...

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I think he reads r/spikes

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Except when you draw it + 3 chains against control. The way I'm thinking about it, is it actually that much worse than drawing 2 chains 2 searing blood? I know that searing blood is still much better than mortars and chains in the matchup, but there will still be a lot of games when SB is just as d...

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I've been thinking about Flamespeaker against Monoblack, and I think the question is, when we board in Speaker+Chandra, is our deck threat-dense enough to overload Monoblack's removal suite in post-boarded games? I don't know how Bx decks sideboard so I don't know how much removal they'll have in th...

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Considering this deck for this weekend now because Yasooka's list makes me giggle like a schoolgirl [deck] Creatures 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix Other Spells 4 Chained to the Rocks 4 Boros Charm 1 Mizzium Mortars 4 Lightning Strike 4 Magma Jet 4 Skullcrack 4 Warleader's Helix 4 Shock Land...

BrainsickHater

Also, my thinking on Yasooka's MB was -1 MM, -4 Shock, -1 Boros Charm // +2 Chandra, +2 Reprisal, +2 BL I don't think I would run Flamespeaker because they'll still have some amount of removal in their deck and it gets walled by Specter, Merchant, and Demon. I think if you brought in Flamespeaker yo...

BrainsickHater

I think Reckoner is probably better than Phoenix. Phoenix is nice because your opponent will pretty much ignore it unless they have Chained or Searing Blood. Reckoner will probably get the same treatment except he doesn't get hit by Searing Blood as easily. The flipside to that is Lightning Strike i...

BrainsickHater

I think I'm liking the idea of 4 chained 2 searing blood in the maindeck. The matchups you want them in are very similar, except right now there are probably more matchups where you want chained. Not to mention YP$ favors the long game so the 3 damage from Searing Blood isn't as necessary.

BrainsickHater

Man, I would kill for a tournament report by Yasooka right now. Need info on all these spicy cards! Also, I think his list might be a reaction to the surge of midrange creature decks we've seen of late. Idk if things are going the same in Japan as they are over here, but his SB cards seem really goo...

BrainsickHater

I think Flamespeaker plays the role that Brimaz would in the SB. It's a creature that comes down and ends the game. You wouldn't play it against MB or Monsters because it matches up poorly against a lot of their cards, but you would against aggro because they'll probably never remove it, it's a soli...

BrainsickHater

I disagree. When I'm racing I'm looking to end the game quickly, when I'm playing control I'm trying to drag out the game. When you're playing against monsters or MU you try and end the game quickly because the power level of their cards will overtake you in the long game. Just because I'm assessing...

BrainsickHater

Seems likely.

BrainsickHater

The MU matchup is still a race. Yes you assess the board every turn to determine whether or not you should be burning them out, but your assessment is to determine whether or not you can burn them to death before they kill you. Your active role changes depending on whether or not you are ahead in th...

BrainsickHater

Not sure how Harness is good. I don't get why you think the monsters match up is a "race". That matchup is incredibly easy with the YP$ version, G1 is almost un-loseable (made up this word). I think the matchup is a race because the matchup is a race. If you have ever seen a game between ...

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@dpaine What's your SB look like? I'm curious to see what the real OG New Englanders play.

BrainsickHater

Hrmmm, then I think I'll want a little more for control so I can side out the bad cards (shock) in addition to the dead cards (blood/chains). @MDU Threaten is a lot better in a YP variant than an Eidolon variant. Clearing away a blocker in addition to the extra damage from the opponent's creature wi...

BrainsickHater

I didn't make myself very clear in my last post, and that's my bad. I was comparing Fated to Mortars. I didn't think the ability to clear out Obzedat or save some damage from Stormy was worth playing Fated over something like BloB or Mortars. I really like Threaten effects though, so that pretty muc...

BrainsickHater

I don't think I would run Brimaz in the mirror for the same reason Phoenix can be awkward to cast, and if I wouldn't run him in any other matchup than aggro he doesn't warrant a SB slot imo. Telling me Fated is good doesn't actually tell me all that much. Plus the only thing it really seems to do is...

BrainsickHater

The only card I don't like is Banishing Light. As I understand its place in the board, it's a catch-all response to control shenanigans that has additional utility in some other matchups, like MU devotion. In that capacity I think the card is definitely fine, but in all the times I've run Banishing ...

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It looks like I'll be heading to Providence for the SCG Open, and I'm trying to predict the meta. Any thoughts anyone has on this are greatly appreciated. I'm looking at the last SCG Open, it seems to me that UWx control decks are falling out of favor, while Monsters, Naya variants, and Bx decks are...

BrainsickHater

I want to apologize for making such a stink about Eidolon and YP$. I tried out MD Eidolon at Game Day because my store's meta seemed really soft to it and it performed very well. My matches were an absolute breeze until I got to the finals at which point I punted hard. Game Day Report incoming: [dec...

BrainsickHater

@Brainsick I'm trying to sum up your argument here: people that play the Eidolon are non-interactive dummies and people that play YP$ are the high brow thinkers? Am I close to the mark? Pretty much. If you argue that Eidolon is better than you basically don't want to play magic. One could also make...

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@Brainsick I'm trying to sum up your argument here: people that play the Eidolon are non-interactive dummies and people that play YP$ are the high brow thinkers? Am I close to the mark? Pretty much. If you argue that Eidolon is better than you basically don't want to play magic. Eidolon will net yo...

BrainsickHater

In 10 rounds of states I never had to play the Mana Confluence earlier than 3. Even when it was in my opener. YP$ forces you to SB into trying to play a grindier game, which is not where I want to be against BG Devo and Junk Control (sfd is SIGNIFICANTLY better in this matchup). MJ piloted the deck...

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I think Eidolon is important for the top 3 decks: 1) black 2) uw 3) mirror I had 4 mirrors at my GPT today (won all four) and whoever dropped this eidolon first had a huge advantage. ^this, except Eidolon isn't critical vs Bx Devotion though he helps since he usually represents 2 damage + discard a...

BrainsickHater

Took the following list to FNM: [deck] Creatures: 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix Enchantments: 3 Chained to the Rocks Instants and Sorceries: 4 Shock 4 Magma Jet 4 Lightning Strike 4 Skullcrack 4 Boros Charm 4 Warleader's Helix 2 Searing Blood Lands: 4 Temple of Triumph 4 Sacred Foundry 4 Mu...

BrainsickHater

I like Eidolon against UW a lot. I don't like him against MB as much because there's other cards I'd board in against them and they play a lot more removal, reducing the chance he'll be a game-breaker. I'm very unsure how he is in the mirror. Since his effect is symmetrical, it seems to me that he's...

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