3 Version: MONSTER PONZA (Moonless!)
Play February 2018
This is the list
CREATURE - 23
4x Arbor Elf
2x Sakura-Tribe Elder
4x Tireless Tracker
2x Kitchen Finks
1x Obstinate Baloth
2x Pia and Kiran Nalaar
1x Thrun, the Last Troll
3x Stormbreath Dragon
1x Goblin Dark-Dwellers
2x Inferno Titan
1x Carnage Tyrant
SORCERIES-INSTANT - 10
4x Stone Rain
2x Molten Rain
1x Abrade
1x Dismember
2x Bonfire of the Damned
PLANESWALKER - 2
2x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
ENCHANTMENT - 4
4x Utopia Sprawl
LANDS 21
9x Forest
1x Mountain
3x Stomping Ground
4x Windswept Heath
4x Wooded Foothills
SIDEBOARD
1x Acidic Slime
1x Goblin Dark-Dwellers
1x Ancient Grudge
1x Creeping Corrosion
1x Beast Within
2x Trinisphere
2x card:relic of progenitor
1x Walking Ballista
2x Chameleon Colossus
1x Carnage Tyrant
1x Inferno Titan
1x Obstinate Baloth
1 MATCH > 2-0 VS UWR Control
Tricolor is not a problem also without Blood Moon.
I destroy lands, he counters many spells, but with Tracker I draw a lot, and Sakura provide me a sure land and a clue. Thrun in main is strong, he cannot do anything. When I play Titan he has no more counterspell.
2 MATCH > 2-0 VS Living End (As foretold)
First game I start very fast: land, elf, land utopia: 3° turn Stormbreath, 4 damage; 4° turn, Stormbreath dragon become monstrous (7 damage!) then attack (7damage again!)
Second game he counter many spell, but Chandra and Titan win the game.
3 MATCH > 1-2 VS Merfolk (UG)
First game I destro two lands then tracker and Finks go very well. Finally Titan.
Second game he starts with Vial and Spreading Seas… I kill two merfolk with ballista (very good card!), he play second Vial then attack for 5 damage islandwalk, and a10 damage islandwalk.
Third game I mulligan, I don’t see any removal (bonfire could kills every creature on board) and flood a lot. He win with islandwalk.
4 MATCH > 1-0 VS UR (Thing in the ice)
First game some counter, but Thrun take the battlefield.
He defends with Pyromancers’ token. I kill Thing in the ice with Dismember, then play Baloth and Pia.
Close the game with Dragon.
Second game I was in advantage, but there’s no time to finish.
IMPRESSION
Playing Monster I make a “monster” sideboard: take off a a creature, put on a creature. Except for other useful spells. I never play Trinisphere (it’s good vs Infect, Storm, Affinity… if we see it during 1°, 2°, 3° turn); I never play Beast Within: it’s better with 4x Titan and 3-4x Bonfire.
Moonless version is also good, because I destroy lands and I play monsters early (I prefere draw a Dragon or another monster instead of a Blood Moon over the 3°-4° turn).
Goblin Dark-Dwellers is a very good card because my opponent don’t use sideboard vs graveyard against me (if he does, we can put out GDD and add another creature).
Against Merfolk we need more mass removals: Anger of the Gods could be in sideboard because I can replay it with Goblin Dark Dwellers.
Why Sakura and not Birds? Because of Chalice of the Void, Fatal Push, Bolt, mass removal… With Sakura I can always take a land.
There’s so many blue decks, so I play Carnage Tyrant and Thrun on main: when I play VS ago I take out Tyrand and add the third Titan.
