Werewolf Heirloom

Standard AndyReveler

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Top 8 First FNM —April 16, 2016

So My deck preformed more or less as expected with a few bumps in the road. I managed to get Top 8, and then lost due to some Mistakes on my end.I also found myself muligining a lot, because a fast start with a good curve is absolutely key and i didn't always get it (but still managed to win my matches). I'm gonna go through my experience with some of the cards, then edit my deck based on that.

Here are some notes about the cards:

1. Neglected Heirloom  ^Flip and Moonlight Hunt performed superbly for me last night. Once a single heirloom transformed, it was enough to get them worried and put me ahead. I think 3, or possibly 2 is good.
2. Arlinn Kord  ^Flip is a great card, but It either took a turn of damage and she didn't help my board state, or i was already ahead so her help didn't matter much. I may cut her out. Silverfur Partisan was also not particularly helpful and often ended up being just a 2/2 body for 3. I don't have enough triggers for it in my deck and even if I got a wolf token or two they still managed to come back.
3. Breakneck Rider  ^Flip was not as bad as people said it was, it at it's worst was a solid 3/3 body for 3, at its best it gave everything +1/0 and allowed me to swing for game. Having said that, I did take it out for more removal if i felt it was necessary since i didn't know what else to cut. Kessig Forgemaster  ^Flip was also pretty good, Its ability became pretty relevant as people either were afraid to attack, or attacked into it without fully understand its ability (it deals its damage before the actual combat). Hermit of the Natterknolls  ^Flip was interesting because it did perform well, but i always drew cards i didnt need with it, haha.

Now for the sideboard:

1. Fiery Temper performed as expected, skip turn, transform, remove a threat on their turn. Might swap it out for similar cards later. (Fiery Impulse)
2. Atarka's Command was almost useless, almost.
3. Act of Treason and Magmatic Chasm didn't get to be used.
4. Pack Guardian was great and really helped me out in a bind, I might keep it as a 2 of or mainboard it instead of the Silverfur Partisan. It mostly came out against decks with mass removal as it helps rebuild your army quickly or decks i knew would drag out.

These are the decks i played:

1. Vs Random Golgori 2-0: Kid was pretty new so it wasnt a fair match for him
2. Vs Elf Ramp 2-1: I lost the one match because of a horrible hand
3. Vs Izzet Artifacts 1-2: He just overwhelmed me with flying thopters
4. Vs Izzet Thing in Ice 2-1: I lost one mact because I wasn't fast enough

Then top 8:

1. Vs Rakdos...I honestly dont know, Vampires AND Demons? 1-2: I won the first match cause I quickly overwhelmed him with Heirloom. I lost the second one due to him casting a lot of spot removal. I lost the last match because:
   1. Sin Prodder (it helped out a bit because it got rid of some removal, but the damage quickly added up)
   2. I never drew my removal which would have quickly ended the game
   3. I chose to attack to get rid of some zombie tokens instead of hanging back and waiting to build up a small army, he drew chandra, made tokens and attacked for lethal
   This match showed me its okay to implement non-werewolf strategies and not need to attack so much.

I manged to score 3 Collected Company afterwards and am gonna place them in for my first change.