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Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: RIW Time walk Slaver splits
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on: July 12, 2006, 06:54:45 pm
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Round 3 CS Edmund(sp?) this guy is the best opponent I had all day and is funny too
Game 1 we both get mana screwed and he get tinker Colossus
I didn't see too much of his deck to know what he is playing so I put it on gifts
sideboarding -2 welder, trike, island, fact
+2 reb 2duress 1 crypt
Game 2 he plays an Early welder and I EOT go broken or something drawing then tinker for slaver on my turn and mystical for thirst to start wrecking his hand and use his welder to make slaver happen again and he scoops to a the yawgwill I thirst into
Sideboarding -Island, fact, E. truth, Shaman
+reb, pyro, crypt, Dart
Game 3 I get mana screwed and I think he titans my few mana sources.
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Round 4 Togless Tog
Game 1 in this game he tinkers for DSC I gifts for 3 tutors and something else I get the Merchant scroll and Demonic tutor and scroll up Echoing truth to bounce Colossus and Demonic gor Will and Will tinkering up Titan for the Win
Sideboarding -Island, Trike, Welder, Fact
+reb, Pyro, 2 Duress
Game 2 I get out the gates early and draw alot of cards activate a slaver and put a titan into play wrecking him.
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Top 8 CS Edmund again
Game 1 He gets mana screwed and I draw lots of cards and activate a slaver or something
Sideboarding -Island, fact, E. truth, shaman
+reb, pyro, crypt, dart
Game 2 he plays first turn library I strip it and my next following turn lay my own library which goes un contested and soon play a mana crypt and a bunch of thirst. I draw about half my deck in about 5 turns and take alot of damage from crypt but tinker it away and resolve Will.
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: Library of Alexandria in Control Slaver?
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on: July 10, 2006, 04:59:41 pm
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Hi, I've been playing control slaver for a decent amount of time now and have been considering cutting Library of Alexandria for the simple fact that it often clogs up getting Mana Drain online and many times games are over before it even gets useful. It is however very useful for the miror match and versus gifts and other control decks. What is everyone's opinion on this? I've been considering something like strip mine in its place.
Strip Mine is not the correct answer for your reasonings to cut Library of Alexandria. Strip Mine also prevents turn 2 Mana Drain mana. The issue here is whether or not the slot for MVP Land (next to Tolarian Academy) belongs to Library of Alexandria or Strip Mine. Both have very powerful effects, it is just up to the player to decide which one he considers The Best Possible Move. This player thinks Library of Alexandria. Hands down. |
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: Revisiting Stax
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on: April 08, 2006, 10:49:45 pm
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Tooling around with Chang's list makes me feel very unhappy with Goblin Welder in general. I do really like Tangle Wire a lot though, and hate to see it cut (without Welders, it's an easier decision to remove them). Although, with a Choke out, a single Tangle Wire can spell doom for any opposing Drain deck hoping to sit tight until an Echoing Truth can be found.
Control Slaver's Welders aren't even as serious a threat as they used to be. My gameplan against CS was always to attack their Thirsts, which renders Welders useless anyways. Choke and In the Eye of Chaos do that fairly effectively.
One problem I have with the presented deck is the 3cc non-artifact threats in this deck. Goldfishing the Stax deck I have proxied up tells me that this isn't nearly as much of a problem as one would think, since one learns to make every Moxen and Gemstone activation count - but I still can see it leading to more mulligans.
The second problem is that this deck's numbers seem off. Fixing this problem fixes the first problem:
-2 Choke
+2 Null Rod
Brings your count down to three, lowers your mana curve, improves your non-Island matchup while not hurting your Island matchup, and gives you a bit more consistency.
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: [Sideboarding] How do you use a sideboard?
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on: March 17, 2006, 09:40:37 pm
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Do you just copy a list and hope to figure out how the creator used the sideboard?
Am I really the only person who has successfully done this? At the February RIW tournament I had literally never even goldfished a sideboard game with my deck, deciding to just 'wing it' instead - going with whatever I felt best at the time (this may seem stupid, but I needed to work towards my mount in WoW). |
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: Food for Thought: Tutoring for Tinker
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on: March 17, 2006, 06:53:09 pm
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One point that keeps getting brought up about Transmute - it's an "uncounterable tutor for Tinker or Yawgmoth's Will." That amounts to nothing.
While sometimes you may want to counter Demonic Tutor because it can fetch Black Lotus (and you'd rather have two Drain mana) or the uncounterable land (Strip Mine, LoA for examples) Transmute cards can never do that, so you'd never want to counter them anyways - it's a moot point.
Your opponent always knows what you get, and due to Drift's cost and speed will usually have his next turn to plan his strategy around stopping yours.
In fact, due to their versatility you're probably better off running just DT, MT, two Cunning Wishes for VT, Seal and Personal Tutor. Maybe even a couple of Merchant Scrolls.
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: A hard moral question
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on: March 16, 2006, 03:50:11 pm
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I don't but it isn't for moral reasons. I'm too lazy to do it, and I'd rather spend my time at tournaments catching up with people I haven't seen since the last one (which for me can be months at a time).
Scouting isn't dishonest, unless you actually pick up a closed deckbox and riffle through it - even worse, while the owner is in front of you objecting. Whenever I go to a tournament I know the surprise factor of whatever I'm playing (which is usually advertised by the GIANT Psychatog on my playmat) will wear off after game one and everyone around me has seen me kill or be killed.
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Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: Dawn of the Dead in Chicago: Zombies eat brains, split Lotus
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on: March 09, 2006, 05:17:09 pm
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Werebear is the fat of the deck... You guys are forgetting the one thing this deck redeems: the attack step! You CANNOT forget about it... Werebear is amazing.
What's the big dealio bout cutting a card anyways? So the deck can have a big perfect 6-0 next to its name? Let it go! There is such a minute statistical difference between 60 and 61 that we need not worry about it.
If there is something that wants to be suggested or changed about the contents of the deck itself, then by all means... But let's not bicker about the number of cards!
As for Orim's Chant, it's amazing! An instant speed Time Walk that has otherwise potential to be absolutely insane (take that Yawg WIll!)... Its the best combo hater the colors have to offer.
Imperial Seal gets mixed reviews. I love it to death, but Poly P had mixed results with it... I think the need to tutor out silver bullets or even the final nail in the coffin is definitely of the utmost importance
Agreed. You aren't trying to maximize your chances of landing Yawgmoth's Will or a tutor for it, or a first turn Tinker. This is not saying that 65 cards is ok - there is definitely a limit to where you will no longer see what you're looking for. This is coming, by the way, from someone who has never played a deck with more than 60 cards in it (Battle of Wits aside). Repeat what Poly P said - drop Aura Shards if you're that against the prospect of a 61st card. This is the only deck in which I would say do not cut Imperial Seal since it's probably going to find you one of your only ways to get rid of a Chalice of the Void set at two. Do not cut Werebear, or you will have the same weakness as modern Fish decks - the inability to quickly finish off a subdued opponent. The more turns they have to live, the more turns they have to find an answer or win on the spot. All things aside, this deck is all about utilizing creatures to reduce the opponent's life total to zero. |
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: JDizzle Returning to Michigan Next Year
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on: February 14, 2006, 07:20:00 pm
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Great, another speed bump in Battle Creek's victory over Eastern Michigan. Would you prefer your beatings to remain in-game, cuz I could always take a hose to you beforehand to get you used to the feeling  And if you happen to run into Edman "The Iron Lung" Leung while you're over there in Ann Arbor, look him up - he's in dire need of a playtest partner. Welcome back. |
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Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: Cooker Penguins, Scarves and Burning Slaver; 2nd in the Mitten.
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on: February 14, 2006, 06:04:39 pm
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I completely fucking forgot to ask what the deal with the penguins was! Oh well, now I know.
Another thing I forgot to ask about was the whole onelovemachine's girlfriend thing - I heard that was over and to be honest, my first thought was "oh no did she start reading themanadrain?"
Round one you faced my teammate Charly, who split the Lotus that one time. When he walked up to me afterwards he looked like he got shot or something. Your Sundering Titan definitely performed for you when I saw it in our casual games.
Expect to see me at the next one. If not to win, then at least I have to give that Mana Vault back to Ben Perry - the one that says Height of Pleasure from the Depths of Hell.
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