Dies to Removal

hmm. perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

i know i just finally hit 40 after a severe drought this week.

ZMan, I finally win a match and you get knocked out of the same 8man in round 1? Lame.

Zem, after you said you were brewing a block burn deck I decided to throw something together as a baseline. here's what I came up with:


[deck]MD:
2 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
4 Temple of Abandon
2 Temple of Malice
16 Mountain
3 Flame-Wreathed Phoenix
3 Stormbreath Dragon
4 Firedrinker Satyr
2 Hammer of Purphoros
3 Satyr Firedancer
4 Fanatic of Mogis
4 Magma Jet
4 Searing Blood
2 Bolt of Keranos
4 Lightning Strike
3 Everflame Eidolon

SB:
1 Satyr Firedancer
4 Peak Eruption
1 Everflame Eidolon
1 Stormbreath Dragon
2 Akroan Horse
4 Purphoros, God of the Forge
2 Two-Headed Cerberus[/deck]

i just timed out my mono black opponent

for justice

beat an active erebos for about 7 turns

i just timed out my mono black opponent

for justice

you fucking savage

who needs lifegain

great mono black round 2, another hour of my life

Testing some new streaming stuff. About the only thing Win8 is good for is making my streams smoother, it seems. Will be flickering off and on, thank god I have no followers.

I am running so bad today. Opponent at 3, draw land for three straight turns and die.

Talk about fucking variance, three matches today come down to my opponent needing running cards to my 1, they get there all three times. Instead of being up 20 I am down 15. FML.

yeah, i am not doing great. got one rupee, lost a couple unloseable games.

can't beat the top of my crappy opponents deck, not even the opponent who can't kill me with pack rat when they have 100% perfect information

And fell in round 3 to a bad keep + flood, then to an Obzedat. First QP of the season.

OK crushed an Esper player and beat a Hexproof guy. Feel a bit better.

My MTGO day started rather badly; I lost 0-2 to MonoB Control in my first SE and 0-2 in the Mirror in my second. Undeterred I pressed on and beat MonoU 2-0 in my 3rd before losing to RWDevo 0-2 in the second round Variance had played a part but I was not a happy LaZer at this point

Fortunately I remembered some wise words offered to me by Zem in similar circumstances a couple of days ago - "Don't get disheartened, play slowly, review your games, ask questions on the Forum, you'll get better" so I decided to record some games, commentate and get some feedback from you all

So without further ado here you go Feedback on my lines of play are MOST welcome I've already spotted some errors reviewing them

Listen To LaZer; Adventures with Zem's Boros Burn Part 1

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2 man Zem's Boros Burn Vs UW Devo
2 man Zem's Boros Burn Vs UW Control

I've only watched the first video so far, and overall I think you played nearly exactly how I would have.

I thought it was smart of you to hold the boros charm near the end of game 2, in case you drew another firedancer. however, I think
after you drew the searing blood you should have used the charm at his next eot, this would free up your mana so that a burn spell would have been lethal in combination with the mutavault. additionally, you then drew a mutavault but held it and tapped your mountain to attack instead. I would have played the vault, tapped it to activate the other, leaving up boros charm AND searing blood mana, therefore making any 2 power or less creature a lethal play for him.

I also felt like maybe the shocks should have stayed in instead of the spark troopers since shock has a lot of targets but I'm not that familiar with the sb strategy so I'm not sure

45 QPs.

Nice@ beating Brad Nelson

I've only watched the first video so far, and overall I think you played nearly exactly how I would have.

I thought it was smart of you to hold the boros charm near the end of game 2, in case you drew another firedancer. however, I think after you drew the searing blood you should have used the charm at his next eot, this would free up your mana so that a burn spell would have been lethal in combination with the mutavault. additionally, you then drew a mutavault but held it and tapped your mountain to attack instead. I would have played the vault, tapped it to activate the other, leaving up boros charm AND searing blood mana, therefore making any 2 power or less creature a lethal play for him.

I also felt like maybe the shocks should have stayed in instead
of the spark troopers since shock has a lot of targets but I'm not that familiar with the sb strategy so I'm not sure

Thanks for the feedback You're correct about the Vault activation, MDU noticed it too, I just missed the line. I SBed incorrectly too, that was my mistake

I never knew Brad was FFFreak, I always just treated him as a decent grinder.

That's about right.

Really bad run for me tonight, I got kinda tilted and ragequit my DE as well so I wasn't in good form.

Looking back at today, I think I've gotten drunk of my success - since strings of defeat isn't something I'm accustomed too so I let it effect me more then it should have.

Gonna call it a night and try again tomorrow maybe its time for some Modern Magic again or if I really want to blow stream I can go abuse Pauper (though the firing rate is HORRIBLE).

our low point

OMG I sold a fair number of my Robot cards sometime in the past without noticing.

It seems that out of my PRM collection the cards which are worth the most are:

Non-Foil
Tropical Island (29)
Scrubland (9.85)
Savannah (15.23)
Batterskull (30)
Natural Order (60)

I have Foil versions as well, I'm not sure how much it would jack the price by.

Ham may I have my Batterskull back? I need some extra funding soon (wanna play Robots ).
other notes:
I recall Cloud of Faeries (2.57), Daze (9.54) and Gush (2.96)
being very expensive... app. Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra killed the prices while 8post banning in pauper killed the CoF prices (should have sold these earlier).

Wow I sold my Batterskull too early

And now for a lovely day of grinding on my day off before FNM tonight.

@MDU

Where do you find prices for those promos? Noone want to give even 30 for natural order.

maybe he's full of shit

@MDU

Where do you find prices for those promos? Noone want to give even 30 for natural order.

MTGOGOLDFISH and if you type Promo in classified and try and buy Natural order that is what they'll sell it for.

Though I agree no one buys them for those prices. T_T

On that note, anyone know hows to set-up bots? The only way to get "buy" prices is to sell it to humans (bots buy for less and sell for more).

I scrubbed out of the DE 1-2 last night, with both losses getting my opponent to 2 with no cards in hand and 4 turns from death both times (due to life gain and his lack of board presence). Both losses I drew 4 land straight and he just durdled to victory. I hate losses like that. @zem -- YOU BEAT HEXPROOF?!?!? Woo! There is hope, albeit completely unrealistic =D.

maybe he's full of shit

I was gonna ask where did you sell your Batterskull too? It seems really hard to unload them.

MTGOtrader do have a buy/sell list but the bots don't seem to want anything.

Totaled by inventory, plus cards bought and I have clawed my way back to even today, with I think, a much refined deck list and good insight as a result.

On that note, anyone know hows to set-up bots? The only way to get "buy" prices is to sell it to humans (bots buy for less and sell for more).

I set up a bot through mtgo library a few weeks ago but I could never get it to buy or sell anything. I'm not sure if its because of my prices, my small inventory, or if I was doing something wrong. The bot would just sit for hours in buy/sell mode and never interact with any humans

maybe he's full of shit

I was gonna ask where did you sell your Batterskull too? It seems really hard to unload them.

MTGOtrader do have a buy/sell list but the bots don't seem to want anything.

I sold it to

*gasp*

a human being

On that note, anyone know hows to set-up bots? The only way to get "buy" prices is to sell it to humans (bots buy for less and sell for more).

I set up a bot through mtgo library a few weeks ago but I could never get it to buy or sell anything. I'm not sure if its because of my prices, my small inventory, or if I was doing something wrong. The bot would just sit for hours in buy/sell mode and never interact with any humans

New bots always have a rough time of it since people go to the ones they know and trust. It also doesn't help that you can't search for
cards in trade binders other than what is specifically advertised.

Blah, I'll just set-up a Sell-Order with (Bot sell prices slightly marked down) and wait till a human wants one.

@Kait: did you find your human via classified or did you set-up a sell-order?

Classifieds