The best player is to mindslaver them, and make them call heads on a loaded coin you flip. Mwaa haa.

Who plays COP red in type 1?

Eh, I am not sure I liked this as much as your usual article smenarch. But this may very well be personal bias due to

a) You are rehashing your arguments from the people who already read what you write here

b) I am not so liberal with the proxies.

Still, a well written and functional article, good job.

I live 2 hours away and have family 10 minutes away.. but it is just easier to use hotels for me.

Sligh can beat tog fine if it's not ass. My friend was like 6-2 in games with ankh sligh vs tog at gencon world champs...

What makes sligh bad is control slaver and big beefy aggro which is around.

But you make a conscious decision to cast tinker. Tinker cost the same as tog (yaya, 1UB ~ 2U). Tog is a 1 turn clock that is artifact destruction proof. Colosi is a 2 turn clock that is not totally artifact destruction proof (welder for example).

If you can resolve tinker in GAT, why not resolve tog? 1 turn >> 2 turns.

There is a "fine" line between not reading your post, and not agreeing with anything you said.

Did your entire tourney report focus on this as well? Its not that hawt. Why?

1) There are still some STPs around, its not like you CAN't deal with it.

2) If you draw it instead of tinker at a crucial time, you are screwed. He sucks in your hand.

3) If you draw tinker and no artifact it sucks.

4) If they counter your tinker it sucks.

5) as a 1 of, tinker is hard to get

6) Tinker is a pretty weak tutor target, and even when you tinker... why get an 11/11 instead of pentavous or slaver or jar? How many matchups does this matter?


etc. etc.

Sure you can throw it in some decks. But get real, don't start suggesting it gets thrown in every single deck in t1. That is insane.

It is a different form of slight or impulse. It is still worse than BS in many cases.

Play UG madness, the deck cost like $30. Or food chain goblin cost $60. (okay sans a little power, but its not that bad). No need for another budget thread in the t1 forum...

Wow wizard beatdown, that is rough.

When combo decks crap out, it doesn't matter what they are playing

They have broke the list before.

However, from a t2 standpoint, I don't like the card. An artifact creature should never be better than a non-artifact creature of equal cost. Although this part of the color wheel is already broke in t1, no need to smash it in t2 as well. (Though in current t2 masticore is too slow to be that special, but he would have some neat tricks in 12post).

Edit - In any case, this has 0 effect on t1. Why is this in the t1 forum?

Just keep checking gencon.com... should be soon.

Yes, it is very ugly

But... the game doesn't like you enchanting stuff not in play directly from your hand. That is the main reason I know of for the change.

Read animate dead, it don't work like it's printed.

If it iwas that good you would maindeck it. What is it good against? This isn't a deck like stax where it fits your game plan so well.

hulk - their counters and draw cost more. So does your welders and FoW. They can easily pay UU1 to drain a welder where you won't have mana to FoW back. Opps!

fish - same idea, but the creatures are smaller so it annoys them more... but disk still cost 5 and null rod cost 3. Still, might be ok here if u had spare space.


u/g madness - arrogant wurm is still 3, null rod is 3, and b2b is 3. All you do is mess up counters, but then you neuter yours as well.

dragon - its spells tend to cost 1B anyway, so its a really bad sphere of resistance.

sui - slows it down if dropped first. but who cares about sui.


keeper - Doesn't gain you that much.


landstill - see fish.

eba - who cares.

Jesus dude, invest in a spellchecker. At least try to spell 50% of your words correctly.

draw7 does not die to chalice for 0, in many builds - the correct chalice is still 1.

Look at smenneycakes deck and steal his sideboard if you really want to. It's posted right next to his decklist...

Look at some of the decklists. Ultimately, you need to adjust the SB for your meta, not just what people tell you to do.


3sphere just isn't THAT good of a metachoice right now. Its there for draw7, but nothing else I can think of.

Who shows up? Rodney and all the cool people don't play T1 as far as I know...

Counters and null rods will beat twister enough. Good aggro can do ok vs landstill. Obviously dragon can't be too fun with nothing to save you besides 8 counters.

What other kind of metagames are there?

Freaky like in germany?  

We don't already?

So you give up all hopes of infinite welds unless they have an active welder?

Indiana PTQs - around 100-130

Sadly, we can't get a mox tourney over like 30 people

No, you use paypal.

Don Bock overcharges like a mother fer.  He is as bad as crap-city.

Get it in person, or on ebay with a credit card. In case A, if they cheat you, beat their face in. In case B, you do a chargeback and sue.

The sounds incredibly stupid to us (off color moxen in aggro? timetwister in control?), but it IS the idea of the average player. I was playing some combo deck or other at a card store, and a t2 newb was like OMG YOU PLAYED A TIME TWISTER? ISN'T THAT p9? I HEARD IT WAS WORTH $50!!!

I mean he totally ignored the beta mox sapphire and alpha mox emerald on the table, but he saw a beat up unl. twister which he knew to be power and freaked out.

I just shrugged and said it was a really expensive wheel of fortune

Post stop different things (and both stop some of the same things).

My take on it, is overall in a deck that uses a full set of jewels, null rod hurts too much to use. However in a budgetish/low mox deck, either can work - each stopping different stuff. Null rod deneys manna better, while stopping a lot of stuff matrix already stops (scepter/slaver/scroll). On the other hand, matrix stops welder/tog stuff better.

I don't there there is one universal winner; both are effecient ways to deal with certain threats. A powered deck can poop out a matrix turn 2, and an unpowered deck can poop out a rod turn 2. Both will have an effect on the game in many cases.

Just a knitpick


This is what you should have done on his turn

you: cast brainstorm, standstill triggers goes on the stack
him: in responce, FOW the brainstorm, pitching misD: -> another standstill trigger goes on the stack
him: in responce, FOW the FOW, pitching MisD -> another standstill trigger goes on the stack
both pass
you draw 3 cards, and then get a brainstorm.

End result: He has no hand, you have +3 card, and whatever the brainstorm found.

Remember, you can keep casting stuff after you break a standstill. The most recent spell will trigger the standstill, and cause their opponent to draw.


Otherwise, good report, and good job.

What does Iridescent Angel do that Morphling cannot do? With only 4 counters, exalted may be hard to protect, but morphling would not be. Not to mention is is abotu 6 million times better. (although both are really slow for the current meta, but you already knew that).