Dies to Removal

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Alex:

What kind of content are you looking to develop for MD?

To my great surprise, I've been in invited to participate in the 2014 Melbourne Masters Invitational. It's a three-format event: Standard/Modern/Legacy with three rounds of each in a 10-player round robin format.

Last year I played:
Standard, Mono Red Midrange, 2-1
Modern, Jund, 2-1
Legacy, RG Goblins, 3-0

This year it'll probably be:
Standard, UB Control
Modern, UB Tezzerator
Legacy, UB Control

I'm not kidding either. If people want to play their crappy midrange Pharika's Cure decks in standard I'm going to go so far over the too that they can't even comprehend how dead they are (in 20 turns).

What's the prize? Invitational's always have swanky prizes.

Looks like fun Z

What's the prize support like?

PS: It has nothing to do with FoS, it's the rest of the website I'm sick of.

Ok then, sounds fine. Are you leaving the Fos then?


Z? Straight u/b control in legacy? Seems wierd, you have a list you want to share?

We'll keep the homefire burning for you Alex

Z, congrats man.

UB Control looks strong enough to make me venture back into possibly playing blue, haven't since my tempest days.

Alex:

What kind of content are you looking to develop for MD?

Probably audio content or youtube content.

Consider UW Venser in Modern. I'd say nobody will ever expect that. And it's actually capable of playing Spreading Seas without ever regreting anything.

James, Tezzerator is pretty bad. Just play a Teachings list or something.

I believe it's $5K in prize support, which is pretty huge for here. There's at least three PT players in attendance, but we'll see.

[deck]Legacy UB[/deck]
Maindeck Free-Win Condition
1 Notion Thief

Artifact Tutor
1 Trinket Mage

Best Planeswalker Ever
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Second Best Planeswalker Ever
3 Liliana of the Veil

Nifty Artifacts
1 Chrome Mox
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Sensei's Divining Top

OP Spells
4 Brainstorm
1 Damnation
4 Force of Will
4 Innocent Blood
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Spell Pierce
4 Stifle
4 Thoughtseize

Awesome Lands
2 Mishra's Factory
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
2 River of Tears
4 Underground Sea
4 Wasteland

1 Island
1 Swamp

[b:
ldwdxpf8]Sideboard[/b]
1 Darkblast
2 Engineered Plague
3 Flusterstorm
2 Hymn to Tourach
1 Massacre
1 Pithing Needle
1 Relic of Progenitus
3 Small Pox
1 Zuran Orb
[/deck]

RE: Modern, I'm expecting a lot of UWR and Tezzerator beats that, if not much else.

Just play Jund. You get to play Chandra!

It worked well enough last year I guess.

Maybe ill test that RB Ad Nauseum aggro-combo deck though.

Pretty sure I'd never beat your legacy deck though since I play storm. At the very least, it would be VERY hard.

And was the green in the goblin list just for hooligan or was there something else?

Krosan Grip in the board.

Playing burn v. goblins is fun. Somebody needs to hate out all these combo decks so that my deck can be good again.

I believe it's $5K in prize support, which is pretty huge for here. There's at least three PT players in attendance, but we'll see.

[deck]Legacy UB[/deck]
Maindeck Free-Win Condition
1 Notion Thief

Artifact Tutor
1 Trinket Mage

Best Planeswalker Ever
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Second Best Planeswalker Ever
3 Liliana of the Veil

Nifty Artifacts
1 Chrome Mox
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Sensei's Divining Top

OP Spells
4 Brainstorm
1 Damnation
4 Force of Will
4 Innocent Blood
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Spell Pierce
4 Stifle
4 Thoughtseize


Awesome Lands
2 Mishra's Factory
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
2 River of Tears
4 Underground Sea
4 Wasteland

1 Island
1 Swamp

Sideboard
1 Darkblast
2 Engineered Plague
3 Flusterstorm
2 Hymn to Tourach
1 Massacre
1 Pithing Needle
1 Relic of Progenitus
3 Small Pox
1 Zuran Orb
[/deck]

This is super similar to the list Caleb Durward was playing a few months ago. I like it, I just don't like a few of the cards in the deck. Most notably Chrome Mox and Inquisition, I'd probably just play Cabal Therapy instead. Mox was always so miserable when I played with the deck.

I like mox in theory since it gives you something else to do with force of will and dead disruption spells. Besides, who doesn't like turn 3 jace?

That and lily makes good use of all your dead cards.

All this talk of alignments made me remember this test: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20001222b

I'm Neutral Good, apparently.

I like mox in theory since it gives you something else to do with force of will and dead disruption spells. Besides, who doesn't like turn 3 jace?

That and lily makes good use of all your dead cards.

Turn 2 Liliana is unbeatable but also very uncommon. I might brew a Teachings list that does that.

I actually just really, really like Teachings. The decks are always particularly skill intensive.

+1 Teachings. Such an excellent deck.

We should work on some stuff. And champion James since none of us can be there to swat kangaroos with him.

Mono-Red devotion splashing white for Aurelia's Fury? You also get assemble the legion, Aurelia herself, boros charm, etc. Could be spicy.

[deck]Spells:
4 Stormbreath Dragon
2 Boros Charm
3 Purphoros, God of the Forge
2 Ember Swallower
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Ash Zealot
4 Boros Reckoner
2 Chandra, Pyromaster
2 Mizzium Mortars
2 Aurelia's Fury
1 Aurelia, the Warleader
1 Assemble the Legion
4 Frostburn Weird

Lands:
4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
4 Temple of Triumph
4 Sacred Foundry
1 Plains
12 Mountain[/deck]

Deck obviously needs a realistic curve, but all the cards are powerful. Could play gates instead of basics, but I don't think you're actually that red intensive past turn 2.

Certainly wins harder than mono red does. Which is actually relevant considering if you putter out a few damage short in mono red you basically have to find the fanatic to win.

ZOMG GUYS ASSEMBLEZ PURPHOROS COMBOZ

There's special kind of cancer hell for people who play that combo in the maindeck.

Chrome Mox is better than the 23rd land. The deck is absurdly mana hungry basically.

All this talk of alignments made me remember this test: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20001222b

I'm Neutral Good, apparently.

Apparently, I'm Lawful Good.

There's special kind of cancer hell for people who play that combo in the maindeck.

Combo? I don't think I can call it a combo after I've beaten it more times than I've lost to it.

[deck]Creatures:
4 Phantasmal Image
4 Blade Splicer
4 Sun Titan

Planeswalkers:
4 Jace Beleren
2 Venser, the Sojourner

Other Spells:
4 Path to Exile
4 Serum Visions
4 Detention Sphere
4 Sphinx's Revelation
2 Supreme Verdict

Lands:
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Hallowed Fountain
6 Plains
6 Island

Sideboard:
15 Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded[/deck]

Tibalt for all the Purphoros-Assemble combo matchups.

All this talk of alignments made me remember this test: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20001222b

I'm Neutral Good, apparently.

Apparently, I'm Lawful Good.

True neutral. Meh.

True Neutral. Not surprising in the slightest.