Hello people!

Prior to the Felix Mox Showdown-tournament, me and a friend of mine tested a version of U/R Fish
That would beat our current metagame, which is basically just:

Food Chain Goblins
SmmenenBlue
$tacks
TPS
Tog
Unpowered decks

My friend ended up winning the tournament, but that’s besides the point, cause he really didn’t think it was the correct build for the metagame. The deck that won the tournament was this:

NAKED FISH ver. 1

Maindeck:
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Spiketail Hatchling
2 Voidmage Prodigy
1 Gorilla Shaman
4 Curiosity
4 Standstill
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
4 Null Rod
1 Time Walk
 
4 Mishras Factory
2 Faerie Conclave
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
4 Volcanic Island
2 Island
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
 
Sideboard:
 4 Fire/Ice
4 Red Elemental Blast
4 Energy Flux
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Sword of Fire and Ice

The first thing that comes to mind when looking at the decklist and the metagame is that Voidmage
Prodigy is bad, and we quickly decided to replace it with a more curiosity-friendly Goblin Vandal.
Almost all the other decklists of U/R Fish on the net play only 3 Null Rod, and we found that to be
the correct call also, and we also cut a Daze since it only really shines in the combo match-up’s which
aren’t that common in our metagame. In comes Crucible since it was sided in in almost every match
throughout the day of the tournament. We’ve also changed the sideboard to be a little more specific, now it hates SmmenenBlue through 6 blasts (and that is not the only match-up those are good in),
and all stax-related problems will be solved through the 4 Energy Flux and the newly submitted 2
Rack and Ruins, we filled the last 3 spots with Chill cause we felt that the Goblin Food Chain deck
needed some hate too. That sure was allot of red cards in the sideboard, so we felt that we needed
to fix the mana-base a bit, so here it is:

NAKED FISH v. 2

Maindeck:
4 x Grim Lavamancer
4 x Cloud of Faeries
4 x Spiketail Hatchling
2 x Goblin Vandal (NAKED)

4 x Force of Will
4 x Curiosity
4 x Standstill
3 x Daze
3 x Null Rod
2 x Crucible of Worlds
1 x Ancestral Recall
1 x Time Walk

4 x Volcanic Island
4 x Mishra's Factory
4 x Wasteland
2 x Flooded Strand
2 x Polluted Delta
2 x Faerie Conclave
2 x Island
1 x Bloodstained Mire
1 x Strip Mine
1 x Mountain
1 x Library of Alexandria

SB:
2 x Rack and Ruin
2 x Pyroblast
3 x Chill
4 x Energy Flux
4 x Red Elemental Blast

The biggest problem with the deck is what to sideboard out in the match-up’s
and it is here we need some help.

Against Stax what should be taken out? We ended up with a solution called:
+ 4 Energy Flux, +2 Rack and Ruin
-3 Daze, -3 Curiosity (these are very debatable, but since we can only
answer Triskelion with Null Rod or Fow we felt Curiosity had to go, thoughts?)

Against Tog:
+4 Red Elemental Blast, +2 Pyroblast
-3 Daze, -3 Null Rod

Against SmmenenBlue:
+4 Red Elemental Blast, +2 Pyroblast
-3 Daze, -2 Crucible of Worlds, -1 ??

Against TPS:
+4 Red Elemental Blast, +2 Pyroblast
-4 Standstill (is this right?) -2 Crucible of Worlds

Against Goblin Food Chain:
+3 Chill
-3 Null Rod

Please tell us what you think of it so far!

Robert the Swordsman, i think tangleroot is a nice idea... and then u could play with the mana vault to accelarate your mana further...  And then u could play with chromatic sphere, 2 mana u have a black mana + draw a card...

I like the deck alot... i think it is very fun to play with, but can u play a tournament, and still have a chance to win???

why do u play with the serum powder?? I know, free muligan... but......

I have testet it a lot, and i would cut :
1 gush ( TO RANDOM )
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Mana crypt ( u doesn't need 2 colerless mana )
and putt in:
1-2 deed ( your metagame....)
1 deep

i think Cursed scroll suxx in this deck... maybe put in 2 fiery temper istead...

ye... but if u cast it in turn one, u'll kill it the turn after, if u can see that ... maybe not that good idea...

- Rasmus

I've played anhk sligh for some time and i think that Grim lavamancer is much much better than Goblin Cadets and Jackal pups... the casting cost is the same, but if u run out gas, Grims can keep the presure and kill ur opponent instant...

- Rasmus

What about Sphere of Resistence??? 2 mana to lock down the opponent? just an idea...

- Rasmus

I've spent a lot of hours thinking about Cunning Scales. Is it available in T1???
It can kill a lot crap, eg. Welders, moxes, black lotus scepters, random creatures...
But is it to slow??? it cost 3 mana, and kill one taget each turn....
Is it only me, who's thinking how to use it???

- Rasmus aka TheRealSuperman

I have never seen a keeperdeck with exalted, and i doesn't know about it coming, maybe it's because I play in denmark, and scepters is a great kill here.
But yeah, it's so fucking cool in some matchups, eg. stompy, sligh and suicide, with a toughness  5, sligh need to use 3 burn spells, stompy and suicide cant do a fucking shit agains it. U cant play with abyss.
Well, Exalted have some problems, It can be taget, which means that u need a lot of counters to help it to the kill, and with the power 4, it needs 5 attacks before u'll win the game.

And at last, keeper have many oppertunities for a kill( morphling, scepter, decree, stroke)
Each kill is very different, so i think it's up to the way u are playing...

- Rasmus aka TheRealSuperman