Dies to Removal

BrainsickHater

So doing damage to your opponent instead of yourself doesnt put you any closer to winning?? You act like its just a fog effect. It can do a lot of damage for 2 mana. There are definitely times where you are behind and it is not just a fog effect. There are also situations where DP isn't much better...

BrainsickHater

I don't think you can say it's better behind than ahead.

If you're behind it buys you some time but you aren't actually any closer to winning. If you're ahead it prevents them from gaining any traction against you. It's a win-more card.

BrainsickHater

The deck needs some kind of powerful endgame

Does the deck need a powerful endgame if it kills its opponent first?

BrainsickHater

I'm 100% with Val on Deflecting Palm. The card is situational and gets worse the better your opponent is and the more likely it is that he/she expects you have it. The more you lean on the card and integrate it into your plan A, the more its value drops. It also contributes to inconsistency which is...

BrainsickHater

That being said, I think you're underestimating exactly how much small aggro is going to be present on day 0. This is usually when savvy players pilot aggro to capitalize on suboptimal three color builds. I think you're absolutely right. I would certainly play the list with Searing Blood at the sta...

BrainsickHater

Here's a fun list I threw together off of LPs: [deck] Creatures 4 Mantis Rider 4 Goblin Rabblemaster 3 Brimaz, King of Oreskos 1 Narset, Enlightened Master Noncreature spells 2 Sarkhan Dragonspeaker 1 Chandra, Pyromaster 4 Jeskai Charm 4 Stoke the Flames 4 Lightning Strike 4 Magma Jet 4 Chained to t...

BrainsickHater

Why is the deck running Frontier Bivuoac instead of Mystic Monastery?

BrainsickHater

I'm basically wondering if a black splash is worth it. I really like the white splash and will definitely be at least RW, but the only card that I really want out of black is Rakdos Charm, and that's just a SB card.

BrainsickHater

Is this the mono-red burn thread or just a general burn thread? I see a lot of lists splashing for other colors in here, and I want to know the proper place to post the questions I have.

BrainsickHater

@ Rhyno, why the switch back to burn?

BrainsickHater

I also think it's wrong, as the UW player pluses and invalidates your YP$, netting a card, and then they don't have to minus (at which point they're ahead on cards) until they can deal with the YP$ with a different card. YP$ keeps them from drawing cards now, but doesn't actually kill them before th...

BrainsickHater

I think if your meta is primarily UW, Burn, and BW, Eidolon is actually a fine maindeck choice. You can then jam your SB with GW and MonoU hate (read Firedancer), since apparently RabbleRed is not in your meta.

EDIT: But at an open meta like a WMCQ I would play more of a stock list and maindeck YP$

BrainsickHater

Young Pyromancer > Satyr Firedancer against BW Control

BrainsickHater

I'm with Rhyno on Jund Walkers. They're faster and post-board they get a lot of interaction so we don't even have a fighting chance. The bad pilots who ramp with Nissa when they play her are very beatable, it's the ones who make a 4/4 every turn that are the problem. When they play Nissa correctly, ...

BrainsickHater

Quick follow-up: Wear // Tear may be a meta-call. It seems better in Pod and Bogles-heavy metas (the matchups with the most upside for W//T) and metas that aren't expecting to play against Storm. If a room is full of players without Storm hate, then it's better to have the card with more application...

BrainsickHater

Read about some interesting tech today. Play 1 Hallowed Fountain over an Island in the main to gain access to 2-3 Wear // Tear out of the board. Wear // Tear seems to actually just be an Echoing Truth that kills the targeted hate (although it does only hit one piece of it), as every hate piece I can...

BrainsickHater

I think the surprise factor is the only reason why it took 8th tbh.

BrainsickHater

The deck is bad, but certainly fun to take for a spin.

BrainsickHater

You can just jam all the hate cards in the baord and watch them cry.

BrainsickHater

I think at this point, we could play any variation posted within the last 15 pages and focus on becoming better players rather than supa-analyze miniscule tweaks.

Yeah at some point you have to realize the last 2 cards you play don't really matter that much and theorizing will only get you so far.

BrainsickHater

"UW control is actually one of my best match ups" Yep, he's full of shit. Not defending the guy or anything since I agree that UW Control will never be the "best" matchups without ruining many other matchups, but why is it that in the past when people like Zem and many others in...

BrainsickHater

The idea is that it's more proactive than a Chained to the Rocks while still serving some of the same functions, albeit not as efficiently.

I am doubtful that 2 1/1's will be strong enough to outperform the sheer efficiency of Chained but I eagerly await MDU's testing results nonetheless.

BrainsickHater

Didn't get there with burn at the Standard Open but I apparently ran the deck back in the modern event.
http://sales.starcitygames.com/deckdata ... ckID=71448

I assume this was a mix-up?

BrainsickHater

How are you all determining what will be played at these events? The only thing I can think of is looking at some of the last major events in my area (GP Portland was just here, so I will probably use that).

Looking at past results and asking people from the area what the meta is like.

BrainsickHater

@zemanjaski I really felt that this past weekend. I kind of gave up laboring over card choices because it felt like no matter what I didn't have everything I needed. Definitely something I realized too late but at the very least know to watch for it in the future. @notarobot The idea is you just con...

BrainsickHater

Following up on my last post, maybe a list like this is where I want to be: [deck] Creatures 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix 1 Eidolon of the Great Revel Spells 4 Stoke the Flames 4 Boros Charm 4 Lightning Strike 4 Magma Jet 4 Skullcrack 4 Warleader's Helix 4 Shock Lands 1 Temple of Silence 2...

BrainsickHater

I played at the SCG Open on Saturday and had a pretty mediocre showing. Here's the full-fledged report, the 75 I played, and some thoughts on the deck (despite their irrelevance as the format wanes). [deck] Creatures: 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix Spells: 4 Chained to the Rocks 4 Shock 4 Ma...

BrainsickHater

Reckoner houses Rabblered so badly that it's actually embarrassing. I'm sticking with them for the Open, they're good enough enough matchups. Has anyone playtested them against MonoU by the way? I'd guess they'd be fine, not sure if they should come in though, I haven't tested them enough. I think ...

BrainsickHater

Tom Ross on Electrickery in Rabble Red:
"There's no way for them to be left with any Elemental tokens if you overload it. "

Boros Charm anyone?

That said Tom Ross is a boss and I love that deck.

BrainsickHater

you sure? Lot's of juicy 4 cmc targets for Rakdos Return, no chains to deal with Courser... Rakdos's Return will always be a beating. It's not as if there are 0 ways to deal with courser in the list, and if your opponent doesn't have it, you don't get stuck with dead cards. I playtested today again...

BrainsickHater

If Jund Walkers takes off, then Sperling's list looks really good.

BrainsickHater

I think the card is too slow and too narrow. I don't ever want to be casting it against MB, and it doesn't really do THAT much for you against RabbleRed. It doesn't really keep you from getting overwhelmed by triple one-drop openers and tapping out just lets them go full ham with pump effects to end...

BrainsickHater

If I go to an SCG Open I would certainly expect green and blue devotion.

I have lost a lot of games playing the control role against MB and have lost less than 5 since I switched back to beats. I seriously don't understand how it works for anyone.

BrainsickHater

Yeah SB is sweet against them. @Elricity After seeing the game where you decided to ignore Chandra, I agree you can ignore Chandra when you're plan is to send everything at the face, while you can't ignore Xenagos because he kills you too fast. But if my plan is to keep him off anything relevant whi...

BrainsickHater

@BrainsickHater: I recommend the 4th Mutavault since that card is solid vs UW control which I expect will be out in force, I also wanted to say BW (control or midrange) are actually rather well tuned in delaying us since they tend too run 8 or more discards spells which is quite brutal against 4cc ...

BrainsickHater

I have actually started cutting YP against Jund Walkers. Seems to be the way to go.

I agree. My only issue is finding enough cards to put back in. There are so many cards I don't want.

BrainsickHater

I think I agree with the mortars being better. Being able to stabilize through Nissa tramplers is a big deal as is dodging enchantment hate. Magma Spray is certainly a beating, which makes me like Reckoner more. They cut their terror effects for magma sprays and things that are less dead, which leav...

BrainsickHater

Against the UW DSphere builds, I'm bringing in 2 Wear//Tear in addition to Banishing LIght, so I'm not super worried about sheep. If they have FSP, oh well. Hopefully I have a Game 3, because I'm not going to plan on facing such a narrow card. Against the Cleansing builds I'm leaving in 2 Chains or ...

BrainsickHater

I was trying to play control and found it extremely fragile and was wildly unsuccessful with it. I went back to playing aggressively and now my winrate is ~80% against MB decks.

BrainsickHater

Holy shit you're right

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