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Eternal Formats / Null Rod Based Aggro / Re: Human Ingenuity
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on: March 11, 2015, 10:21:51 am
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Guli. I really love the decks you craft here and its so funny how well the humans can fight against most of the meta. Where do you stand at stoneforge in these lists? Is it the risk of you mystic dying and not being useable or is it because the package itself spreads to too many spots? I ran a human list a while ago when I first started seeing your posts and it seemed that mystic was great. I am thinking about going back to some of these fun lists and was curious of your input.
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Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: Top 4 at Black Magic Invitational with Bomberman
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on: February 01, 2015, 10:36:12 pm
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Hey vasu or anyone who understand how tasigur work as the win con? I understand you can draw/mill your deck but how does that lead to the win?
Activating Tasigur repeatedly (with infinite mana from Bomberman combo) leads to the point where every single nonland card is in your hand, your library is empty, and your graveyard contains nothing but lands. From that point, you can cast any spell in your deck and then return it to your hand with Tasigur's ability (again, it would be the only nonland card in your graveyard). Ancestral Recall targeting your opponent allows you to deck him, Time Walk + Noxious Revival allows to take infinite turns without decking yourself. During this process, you have every piece of countermagic in your hand which you can return at will using Tasigur. Traditional countermagic from your opponent doesn't do anything as you return the countered card using Tasigur. Extirpate is realistically the only thing in your opponent's deck that can disrupt the combo once it has begun. Congrats on the finish again, Vasu! Thanks for the explanation Matt! I knew I was missing something lol |
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Eternal Formats / Blue-Based Control / Re: A Primer to UW Control
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on: November 17, 2014, 02:36:28 pm
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Great write up matt!
I have been fascinated with the U/W archetype ever since I came into vintage but I use to champion the sphinx version. I than moved away for a little while because I was struggling figuring it out. Since than I moved around with different decks before I returned to the U/W variant but in a landstill package for Eternal Weekend. The deck was very powerful especially when you were able to resolve a stoneforge and follow up with a standstill. With stoneforge specifically he helps you in many different matchups. He can help you come back with certain types of packages ( Sword of fire and ice, Jitte, Batterskull) all of these cards are great against random creature decks and even the delver lists. Batterskull is also great against dredge having the ability to exile bridge from bellow. In extremely grindy games dealing with control I found that sword of feast and famine can be amazing in playing small things and still able to leave counter spells up. Literally only deck I didn't like him in was Oath.
I Personally think I want to go back to a big U/W shell and am still trying to figure that one out. I love the archetype very much so.
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Eternal Formats / Blue-Based Control / Re: "The Unbroken" U/R Landstill: The Primer
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on: October 31, 2014, 11:55:06 am
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See I have been very impressed by the MBT honestly. I won a few games by having a counterspell that can get 2 for 1's. In round 4 I actually lived the dream haha. I was on the play went land mox pass. My opponent went land mox, lotus...he than cracked lotus for jace I responded with recall. He responded with misstep than responded with MBT countering the misstep and the jace he than went force and I tapped my mox which was a saph for flusterstorm and countered his force he had I think no cards left in hand and I never used my force that I had from the start. Now I cant see that happening often but the blowout potential I love. So right now I am very biased towards MBT that may change but I will have to see. I also like it against shops deck when they are on the play....the ability to have them cast 3 spells and you get to use MBT to counter the most threatening one is great.
on topic tho. A non zero number of drains I will stay on board with. If I was to move into the full 4 drains I would need to get two basic islands into my deck. Right now im just running a single one
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Eternal Formats / Blue-Based Control / Re: "The Unbroken" U/R Landstill: The Primer
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on: October 31, 2014, 11:01:55 am
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Counters:
4 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
2 Mindbreak Trap
How do you feel like the deck performs with such few permission cards? 10 permission spells doesn't really feel low to me, but there is so much removal and card draw that it balances out. Drain just feels too slow in today's meta, and doesn't synergize well with the rest of the deck. I kind of agree with this statement but I think some non 0 number of drain's wouldn't hurt. Currently I am running 2 in my deck as just a way to start a counter fight so mind break trap is always at a premium. I also love living the dream of draining a treasure cruise and than using the mana to cast my own treasure cruise. I would agree with you though if you are running more removal spells it could cancel out the need for the drains. I personally think its a nice catch all though. |
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Eternal Formats / Blue-Based Control / Re: "The Unbroken" U/R Landstill: The Primer
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on: October 30, 2014, 06:43:16 am
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I see that you might be switching from a U/W build to a U/R build. Do you have a sample deck list? What red cards provide a better answer to oath decks that white does not have for the board or main deck? Thanks.
The oath match up is better more because of what you lose rather than what you gain. UR builds do not run any creatures, whereas UW relies on the stoneforge package for some match ups. Exactly right. Stoneforge is great in most matchups but certain matchups they don't even care. I just jammed a list last night against a shops player for a littler while and it was actually enjoyable. |
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Eternal Formats / Blue-Based Control / Re: "The Unbroken" U/R Landstill: The Primer
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on: October 29, 2014, 11:48:31 am
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Yeah I understand the intrigue with Dack and he can certainly be played in the deck...I've just always beat shops without him and don't expect to be playing the mirror match like...ever? I just like to play cards with implications vs more decks across the board. Likely it's just a personal preference thing...but every time I tested dack I never really cared for him haha
I feel like I've had to play the mirror quite often lately as more people seem to be picking up the deck. As for shops, I've been struggling to beat TerraNova, the man lands are just overwhelming, Dack has at least given me a fighting chance in most games against them by stealing crucibles and some of their other larger threats. Like I said though I do like him in other match ups, and I guess we will just have to go with a personal preference in how we like to play those matches as the difference there. On paper I do like the synergy with the ability to discard lands and artifacts that are not needed to than get them back through crucible and academy ruin. Also if you are deciding to run the Treasure Cruise it helps fuel a cheaper boat trip. Its very interesting when thinking about this card. I am sadly going to be getting off my U/W list because it is very weak to oath but isn't bad against other matchups but I feel oath may be creeping back up with the rise of delver and with the winner of champs being oath. I like what both of your decks are doing honestly and I think im gonna try to mash all of our decks together and test some things for the next event I will be attending. |
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