Golgari Counters
Modern*
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FNM 30 Nov —Dec. 2, 2012
A better night of FNM with this deck. All the changes I made to the deck were well received.
Match 1: Win (2-0)
I played against solid Loleth Troll scavenge deck.
Game 1: He didn't draw any creatures, missed creatures with Grisly Salvage. and overall just wasn't drawing anything useful. I put down a Vampire Nighthawk on turn 3 and played Increasing Savagery on turn 4 for a severe beating. It was over on turn 6.
Game 2: He got a Lotleth Troll out early and started discarding scavenge creatures to the troll. As he dropped me to 3 life, he tapped out and I was able to Murder the troll without fear of regeneration. After that, I put a Dreg Mangler out and caught Blessings of Nature on a miracle and that was the end of the game.
Match 2: Loss (0-2)
G/W Ramp. Lots of mana elves to build up mana to put out Armada Wurms.
Game 1: He got an Armada Wurm out early and I couldn't defend against it.
Game 2: I had to peel my jaw off the floor after what happen in this round. Of course he started out early with lots of mana elves. Then he surprised me with a Sublime Archangel and paired it with Silverblade Paladin and swung for 22 flying on turn 5.
Match 3: Win (2-0)
A B/R deck with very little synergy. This match wasn't very memorable, he didn't seem to have focus and was crushed in each game
Match 4: Win (2-1)
A red goblin deck with Krenko, Mob Boss as the center of the deck.
Game 1: I was unable to get any green mana and I had a hand full of green cards. So I sat and watched as he trampled me with goblins.
Game 2: I got my green mana this round and was able to get creatures built up. Golgari Charm took care of the token goblins and Murder took care of Krenko, Mob Boss for me. After that I was able to crush him with my counter stacked creatures.
Game 3: Same as game 2
Match 5: Loss (1-2)
A Rakdos flavored RDW. Using Stromkirk Noble and Hellrider as the primary attackers.
Game 1: Primordial Hydra crushes small creatures, especially when you pair it with Increasing Savagery. He scooped immediately after I hit 10 counters
Game 2: He boarded in a lot of direct damage spells to kill my creatures before I could build up any counters. After all my creatures were killed, I was easy pickings.
Game 3: He had also boarded in Traitorous Blood and took control of a counter stacked Predator Ooze. and killed me with it.
All in all it was a good night with a 3-2 overall. I was happy with all of the changes and I thinking about a few more changes. Once I have made up my mind, I will list the changes.
Gigglestomp says... #2
Howdy again, daknik! This is my third FNM using my deck, which is similar. In response about your Racnors..
I'd leave the Rancor s. They are just too useful for busting down walls and tokens.
Consider dropping your 4 drop Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and perhaps 1 Blessings of Nature for 2 Essence Harvest . My reasoning for Jarad is below. My reasoning for Blessing is because it lessens the chance of getting it on the draw. You really want to miracle it.
I've rarely had my Jarad be the deciding factor in any games. Normally its a mix of hydras oozes and nighthawks.
Consider dropping Jarad for essence harvest because Essence harvest is very cheap while allowing you to nuke lifepoints directly just like Jarad (Except no sacrafice required).
Not only that, but it heals you a good 4-20 per use of it. Even using it with only a corpsejack out still distances the life by a factor of 8.
In fact, against defender decks where multiple walls can block my hydras, Fog Bank s, and endless control, Essence Harvest is a nice suprise.
Usually use it right before you swing with trample dealing more than double the damage an opponent expected to receive. Out of the 4 FNM matches at my local store this week, I won 3 due to Essence Harvest .
---------------Sideboard--------------------So far my policy has been removing Murder and Champion of Lambholt for Hexproof cards like sheltering word when sideboarding vs Control/Walkers.
If the control deck has a few creatures or token decks I usually leave lambholt and remove a mix of hydras and manglers instead.
-----------------------FNM------------------------This weekend I lost 1 of my 3 matches against a player who had infinite Rewind with Tamiyo, the Moon Sage out. It was actually because I am newer and forgot about the stack under the pressure. I kept letting him counter my spells with Tamiyos emblem giving him infinite rewind. If I had played a creature then in response to his rewind played a creature and 2 essence harvests i'd have won.
My other match I lost 0-2 because I had never read up on or played against the planeswalker Sorin, Lord of Innistrad . He created several lifelink tokens and then took control of my oozes and corpsejack. I had to murder the corpsekacl, then the tokens finished me off. I am not quite sure how to deal with him other than killing him faster. The problem is I didn't draw my tramples to get past his tokens to his walker early. I was not able to sidedeck for round 2 because one of my sidedeck cards had gone missing after my last match.
I suppose I learned that Sorin looks badass, and to get him now cheaper before Gatecrash makes Black/white popular.
November 19, 2012 3:16 p.m.
How did he take control of your Predator Ooze ? Doesn't Sorin, Lord of Innistrad destroy 3 creatures then bring them back into play? Predator Ooze is indestructible and can't be destroyed by Sorin using his ultimate ability.
You are right Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord didn't see any play. Every time I had him in my hand, I was casting other stuff in place of him. I think he is losing his spot in the deck.
November 19, 2012 5:51 p.m.
Gigglestomp says... #4
I probably just didn't catch him on it. Honestly it was the massive lifelink counters that did me in.
You should really think about Essence Harvest =) It is usually the thing that beats my brothers thragtusk control deck and saw a lot of FNM match victories!
I'm going to look into adding 2 Pithing Needle s to my sideboard for walkers (And learning their names correctly to use it lol). Also next FNM I want to try out some Garruk Relentless Flip to look for cards(ooze vs board wipes) and call me some tokens.
November 19, 2012 6:30 p.m.
I've been convinced on the Essence Harvest for a while. Just haven't had the time to think about what to take out. I will work on it some over the holidays.
My local game store doesn't have a Type 2 FNM this week... they are doing booster drafts. So I have a week and a half to work it out.
November 20, 2012 3:28 p.m.
Gigglestomp says... #6
Yeah ours is shut down but i'm going to be playing against my brothers deck at our relatives house. Id consider pulling the jarad for an essence harvest. Its useful in more situations than he is, and you don't harm yourself with a sacrafice.
As far as the other 1-2 drops... Up to you. I cut down to 3 blessings of nature from 4 but there are other options.
I actually cut Blessings and savagry both down to 2 and put in 2 Garruk Relentless Flip .
His first form is useful, but if you flip him early and start making deathtouch tokens they add up. Once you can afford his -2 ability sack a token and you get to search your deck for any creature you want and put it into your hand as well!
I'm going to test Garruk out this weekend against my brother and at FNM next week. He's diverse in that you can pull a corpsejack, a hydra, and ooze, a nighthawk, anything. And massing oozes against people with Supreme Verdict is dead useful. (Immune)
Lately 've rarely lost a match to anyone without planeswalkers, which tells me i need to use flashcards and memorize their full names lol. I'm going to start sideboarding 4 Pithing Needle s for decks with only walkers in them. (2 if its only part of their strategy).
daknik says... #1
Considering removing one of my Rancor s in favor of boosting my creature count some.
Suggestions?
November 19, 2012 11:38 a.m.