skyb0rg, 12 years ago
Took out delvers...so ya
Added SB, and made a few changes MB
cannonballkuriboh, 12 years ago
Added the entire SB, and here were the MB changes: -2 Liliana of the Veil -2 Syncopate -1 Dissipate -1 Jace, Architect of Thought +4 Snapcaster +2 Izzet Charm +2 Rakdos Keyrune
Another Gorgon joins the deck
wallabyted, 12 years ago
Added another Gorgon to my Gorgon Commander deck. Vraska the Unseen is a nice addition, as this deck relies on permanent based removal. It replaces Karn, which was sitting in my hand too often. Also made a few changes to the deck to replace a few underperformers and try out a few other options. My opponents have been playing a few cards that I also want, so I added in gilded Drake, Puca's Mischief & Copy Artifact. Ever since Griselbrand was banned, my Demon tutor (Blood Speaker) got a lot worse. So I took it and Carnifex demon out (a long with Primeval Titan which was banned). In their place is Massacre Wurm, The Mimeoplasm & Tamiyo. There may be better options than these, but they were sitting around so I figured what the hell. The Mimeoplasm also offers me a chance to switch it into commander if I wanna try something different. I also opened a foil Omniscience, and there is like no way I'm not putting it in my deck!
Sideboard Notes for FNM
Gigglestomp, 12 years ago
Vs Control
If deck is NOT Token/Defender: -1 Champion of Lambholt, -1 Blessings of Nature, -1 Primordial Hydra, -1 Dreg Mangler, +4 Sheltering Word
id deck IS Token/Defender (Keep Lambholt) -1 Blessings of Nature, -1 Primordial Hydra, -2 Dreg Mangler, +4 Sheltering Word
I haven't needed to sideboard anything else yet. Some other suggested sideboard notes are welcome.
FNM
Gigglestomp, 12 years ago
1x Woodland Cemetery
4x Overgrown Tomb
... is what I had in my deck.
Game 1 : LOSS (0-2)
1) I aggroed him down to 1 health pretty fast and he got this saving grace combo... He used some card at the end of my turn that got him a few more lands. Then in his untapp step he tapped 11 mana and played Epic Experiment. He drew something like this... 3x Increasing Devotion x2, Temporal Mastery, x2 Reverberate, Some lands. He then played all 15 tokens,and got 3 turns in a row. Game over. IMHO the wording on Temporal Mastery seems like copying it would be redundant and only add to the next turn after this one.
2) Next game very similar. Got him to 3 life. He drew epic experiment and killed me.
Game 2 : WIN (2-0)
1) He O-ringed my hydra with Increasing Savagary on him. Coprsejack was on the field. I played Savagary from the GY on corpsejack then used Essence Harvest and won!
2) Same thing except it was for 9ish damage. But then I applied rancor for the attack phase and trampled the last few hp down!
Game 3 : WIN (2-0)
This guy forced a 1-1-1 tie breaker the third game we played last week because he couldn't win. His deck relied on heavy control, board wipes, and fog effects. Blue White with detention spheres, o rings, and other fun things.
1) I outright killed him game 1. He didn't draw any o rings and he only detention sphered my first creature which I believe was my Hydra. I powered through the fogs and finished it. Only having 1 planes mana really slowed him down.
2) I outright killed him again. The overgrown tombs were making all the difference in my startup speed against this deck. I think I won by turn 5.
Game 4: LOSS (1-2)
This guy had a deck that looked pretty weak at first glance. I am new to the location and didnt know he was in the top 5 already. It was 4 colored deck with blue green red white cards. He utilized defenders. He got Fog Bank out turn 2-3 usually. He also had a lot of green creatures that let him search his deck for lands and play them or put them into his hand. because of Fog Bank all he had to do was keep using control effects like detention sphere and make sure I only had 1 attacker. His finisher was some 8/8 tokens with vigilence from his lands.
1) For my win I surprised him game 1 with Champion of Lambholt coming down. His defender deck couldn't even beat her ability when she was 1/1 so I played her, attacked with a big creature and won.
--We both sideboarded-- I added hexproof against his detention spheres.
2) Seemed like it would go the same way as game 1. I was underestimating his deck some after my lambholt workaround last game. Unfortunatly he added more control cards for her and simply soaked my 2 Primordial Hydras with his Fog Bank. I only drew Sheltering Word after lambholt was gone.
3) Lost. Same as above.
Game 5: LOSS (1-2) -- My Brother http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=1065769
Runs heavy White/Green control blink deck.
1) I destroyed him because he made a mistake and didn't leave a blocker. I used Increasing Savagery and attacked and won.
2) Lost to him. He freaking controlled all my stuff
3) Same as above except I also drew only Forests to power the creatures and spells I drew that were swamp...
Finished the night 2-3 but with the feeling that my deck would be able to counter alot of the issues it was faced with if I could only execute it faster.
I purchased 3 Woodland Cemetery. After that, It was hard for me to lose to my brother. I beat him 4-5 times in a row. Usually what killed him was Essence Harvest after I got some tokens on something.
I'm really excited about trying these new changes out at next weeks FNM.
Side note -- If anyone knows how to beat that Epic Experiment let me know. I don't have much in the way of counters in a green/black deck. The only thing I can think of is try to win faster.
The next update will have my sideboard notes.
For previous comments click the title of this update.
Testing Against Brother's GW Control/Thragtusk
Gigglestomp, 12 years ago
I acquired my 4 Overgrown Tomb this morning. Afterwards I headed over to play my brother.
With only 1 Woodland Cemetery and 4 Overgrown Tomb up from 2, I was already noticing a huge improvement with my mana. Combined with farseek, I really got the cards I needed much quicker.
Unfortunatly, it wasnt quick enough to beat him before he started blinking Thragtusk. I won 1 game and lost 2.
After FNM (Update above -- Lost to him 2 more times, 1 win) I had 3 cemetaries to add to my deck.
After acquiring all 8 lands:
I then proceeded to win .
He was winning 4-2 against me. After these additions I beat him 4-5 games in row.
So I feel that (slightly late for FNM) I have found a deck that can work very well to crush the competition early.
See above for added updates about tonight's FNM as well as what my new situational side-board trades are.
ComputersAreDifficult, 12 years ago
Added more control, removed cards that don't work well, added cards that do.
First FNM- 3rd Place
psyloh, 12 years ago
Round 1: Super Friends vs Golgari zombies 2-0 This guy was all creatures. Creatures and murder. I just kept wiping the board and stalling until i devil's played for 20. Same thing for the second game. Round 2: Super Friends vs. 3 color Reanimator. 2-0 He used angel of serenity(geared against an aggro deck). Pretty much every time he reanimated i either d-sphered it or used terminus. Once i got all my planeswalker out i let him build up his creatures letting tamiyo lock down griselbrand and using sorin's vamps to chump. the i ultamated sorin and stole the thragtusk and griselbrand. Second game was similar escept for no angels. once i stabilized nothing else could touch me. Round 3: Super friends vs Jund. 1-2 Freakin dreadbore man. first game i locked him down and devil's played for 20. but everything changed when the dreadbore nation attacked. He sided in 4. needless to say he got the next two games. Round 4: Super Friends vs B/R zombies 2-0 This kid had nothing. one creature at a time and tamiyo took care of that. i actually used my creatures to beat him both games. Round 5: Super friends vs Golgari zombies 2-0 A much more respectable golgari zombies. gravecrawlers, blood artists, abrupt decay etc. only one problem. still nothing but creatures. and terminus put them away every time. I then devils played for 20 each game. my overall stamdings were 4-1 3rd place. i was extremely pleased seeing as how this was my first time playing the deck. and i got a geist of st traft for 2 slaughter games that night. it was a good night.
fackstah, 12 years ago
32-10 W/L
Update #1
megapenthes, 12 years ago
Playing against a friend's black discard deck a lot, and a few other decks a bit. I feel like this deck needs a bit of reworking. I have added Ash Zealot and Lightning Mauler, and sideboarded Gallows at Willow Hill to deal with big win con creatures.
I am thinking of changing to RW since white seems to have many strong humans, although I am a bit concerned that I will lose the fun that this deck currently has from flickering. I don't know what White has other than Cloudshift for flicker.
3-1-0 at local card shop!
boston89, 12 years ago
Cant remember all the details but did really well. it was a more casual standard type play but it was still fun. only lost to a g/w aggro type deck with lots of angles.
rs1996, 12 years ago
replaced angelic wall with clone
2-0 Vs. B/U/G Graveyard
evil_monkey, 12 years ago
First game wasn't much of a game. The other guy got stuck on 2 forests and pretty much just died to my early tokens.
Game 2 was actually insane. I started with really slow mana playing out 2 Steam Vents tapped and cast a Think Twice to draw into a Glacial Fortress turn 3. His turn 4 he plays a Ghoultree for one mana with Armored Skaab on the field. I have no board presence and am forced to cast Krenko's Command to board some chump blockers. Turn 5 he attacks with 2 Armored Skaabs and a Ghoultree. I chump block the tree and take 2. I go into the next turn with Snapcaster Mage and flashback Krenko's Command. I chump block his tree again and he casts 2 Skaab Ruinators from his graveyard. I cast Increasing Devotion on my turn and then take 10 damage from his fliers, chump block his tree, and sit with 7 creatures on my side of the board, a Burn at the Stake in hand and one red source short of casting it. On my next turn before facing annihilation from Skaab Ruinators, I draw into a mountain, cast Burn at the Stake for 21 damage to close out the game.
I'm impressed with the deck so far. I'm planning on doing some more playtesting, so more updates soon!
Whew, that was fun
zephyrkey, 12 years ago
After a lot of testing with my play group, I decided to make some pretty severe changes to the deck. I took out all the Judge's Familiars, Azorius Arresters and Azorius Justiciars because they just weren't doing work in the deck, and moved Martial Law into my sideboard. In their place I went up to 24 lands; added an Azorius Charm, Sphinx's Revelation, and an additional Oblivion Ring; and got myself a play-set of Invisible Stalkers that have been doing some serious work in the deck. As long as I can turn 2 an Invisible Stalker into a turn 3 Etherial Armour and Curiosity I am in amazing shape.
I also borrowed a couple of Tamiyo, the Moon Sage to maindeck instead of Supreme Verdict. What I was finding was that 9 times out of 10 I was in a good enough position to not need to wipe the board and the Supreme Verdict would just sit in my hand. Not so with Tamiyo. She would lock down creatures (and Kessig Wolf Runs) left, right, and center. Literally - we play a lot of FFA. Her -2 ability is also totally in line with what the deck is trying to do, especially once I get Righteous Authority out into play. Now I just need some of my own...
shadowknightx, 12 years ago
Ideally, I would like to fit in 2 more All is Dust though I am unsure of what I would be removing.
Discarded The Old Comments
Busse, 12 years ago
Asdasdasd
3-0 at FNM
MyNameIsToby, 12 years ago
This week I played this list with Strangleroot Geist replacing Loxodon Smiter seeing as i don't have them.
Round one: 2-0 Izzet Aggro I can only assume it was aggro because I never saw any instants and he kept laying chump blockers... which meant nothing to my Rancors
Round two; 2-1 Mono White Weenie Lost the first game despite getting her to 1 life haha. Brought in removal and Sigarda, Host of Herons and that was that.
Round three; 2-0 Izzet Control Bonfires are annoying but I was still able to overwhelm him and once again Sigarda was an MVP here.
Putting the deck back together
IamSuperman825, 12 years ago
The deck came apart for awhile and when I put it back together I decided to try a few different cards. OUT: Beast Within, Bestial Menace, Buried Ruin, Confiscate, Darksteel Ingot, Explosive Vegetation, Eye of Ugin, Inundate, 1x Island, Mimic Vat, Mystifying Maze, Persuasion, Tezzeret the Seeker, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, Vivid Creek, Vivid Grove, Wasteland. IN: Boseiju, Who Shelters All, Alchemist's Refuge, Skyshroud Claim, Academy Ruins, Cyclonic Rift, Desertion, Chromatic Lantern, Omniscience, Rhystic Study, Maze of Ith, Tooth and Nail, Krosan Grip, Inkmoth Nexus, Vesuva, Worldspine Wurm, Homeward Path, Hinterland Harbor, Defense of the Heart. I will be adding Tropical Island and Breeding Pool soon.
