I'm in LOVE with the COCO!
Standard*
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Game Day! —Feb. 13, 2016
I took this deck to my LGS for Game Day expecting there to be quite a bit of Bant Company deck's hanging around. My first week I piloted the deck to a 3-1 record and I was the sole player playing this deck type. This past Friday at FNM, I went 2-2 and there turned out to be 6 people playing it! So I switched things up for this tournament specifically (if the changes are good, they will stay as permanent changes)
Mainboard:
-2x Harbinger of the Tides -2x Eldrazi Displacer +4x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy Flip
Sideboard:
-2x Stasis Snare +2 Hallowed Moonlight
Now for the results, my record was 2-2 once again. My tiebreakers got me the 8th seed in the top 8.
Round 1: vs / Elves Won 2-0
He couldn't get much going game 1. Game 2 I sideboarded in the Silkwraps and drew them often early. Collected Company put me wayyy ahead on board.
Round 2: vs Bant Company Lost 1-0-1
We only played one game. The board was flooded with creatures to the point that we were only swinging with Sylvan Advocate(s)! I drew Collected Company very late and ended up going with the Deathmist Raptor + Den Protector plan very early with Dromoka's Command. He however casted Collected Company 4 times before I even casted it once (he had Jace, Telepath Unbound Flip). He won by getting 2 Jace Emblem's, and the final touch was a Nissa Emblem. We ended up going to turns and didn't have time for a 2nd game.
Round 3: vs Atarka Red Lost 1-2
This round was actually much longer than I expected. Game 1 I got stomped and lost on turn 4. Game 2 He wasn't as fast and on turn 4, CoCo got me 2 Arashin Cleric which he did in fact have Atarka's Command in hand but didn't realize he could've Skullcracked me with it so he used it to pump instead. I won but it took me a very long time to close out the game. Game 3 we had only 5-7 minutes left and went to turns and he top decked Reckless Bushwacker and surged it by just hard casting Zurgo Bellstriker.
Rounder 4: vs Abzan Won 2-0
I was put against a noob with a good deck (he's not new to the game but he makes several rookie mistakes). I squashed him both games with Sylvan Advocate's.
Round 1: vs Grixis Dragons Lost 1-2
During the first game, I got him very quickly with Den Protector, Sylvan Advocate and Reflector Mage bouncing his Hangarback Walker and Thunderbreak Regent. He did play Dragonlord Silumgar to try and take my Sylvan Advocate, but I got Collected Company during his turn and found Reflector Mage ultimately ending the game. He destroyed me the next 2 games as I failed to get anything going.
So my overall record was 2-3, not to happy with it. I feel the deck has soared in popularity and that has caused a lot of mirror matchups recently (at my LGS anyway). Having Jace, Vryn's Prodigy Flip in the deck I think is really good...but honestly I never saw him enough to really judge how much I like it. The Hallowed Moonlight's were specifically for the mirror matchups but I did put 1 in against Atarka Red for Hordeling Outburst as it's a good tempo play that way.
Nightdragon779 says... #2
IzzetGod UR Prowess is just like any other aggro deck. They're scary in the beginning, but it's hard to come back after being shut down (boardwipe). The easiest way to do this would be a turn 3 Flaying Tendrils, because that's when its power spikes. However, you're not running black, so you have to resolve to single target removal either slowing them down (bounce/tap): Rush of Ice, Clutch of Currents, or destroying them, Immolating Glare/Searing Light.
February 7, 2016 5:54 p.m.
Nightdragon779: The sideboarding I've done against it was:
In: 2x Dispel, 2x Silkwrap, 2x Stasis Snare, 2x Immolating Glare (I was using theImmolating Glare but forgot to update the deck from Gideon's Reproach)
Out: 2x Harbinger of the Tides, 3x Eldrazi Displacer, 1x Deathmist Raptor, 2x Ojutai's Command.
I've had good results against the Jeskai Prowess (Monastery Mentor) but this deck is just a tad faster. Searing Light I wouldn't recommend in this case simply because the Prowess will just fizzle it (same with Gideon's Reproach). Because the players know my deck will cause the game to be more grindy and I'll get far ahead on board if they aren't cautious, they won't dump there hand of spells unless they know the win is secure.
IzzetGod says... #1
HairyManBack, you seem to be completely knowledgeable about these kind of decks (sort of like I am with
decks) and I would like to ask how you would play against the U/R Prowess deck. My meta has a lot of it and I seem to get pretty unlucky against them. Would you say bad luck? Or could there be an actual solution?
February 7, 2016 1:36 p.m.