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StasisMage
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« on: May 17, 2009, 01:53:48 am »

Tomorrow I will be attending a small weekly tournament and seeing as how we can have a 10 proxies this time and for the foreseeable future I was going to play various combo decks over the next few weeks. If we go back to no proxies Ill still be running combo albeit not storm based. Amywho this Sunday Ill taking a my TPS build (TPS being my usual choice to play) with me and I wanted to see what you all thought, that and i need a little help with the sideboard my meta can be rather weird.

Artifacts
Mox Ruby
Mox Emerald
Mox Pearl
Mox Jet
Mox Sapphire
Mox Diamond
Black Lotus
Sol Ring
Mana Vault
Lotus Petal
Memory Jar

Artifact Creatures
Inkwell Leviathan

Enchantments
Necropotence
Yawgmoth's Bargain

Sorceries
Duress   x4
Demonic Tutor
Yawgmoth's Will
Ponder
Tendrils of Agony
Time Walk
Merchant Scroll
Mind's Desire
Tinker

Instants
Vampiric Tutor
Lim-Dul's Vault
Misdirection
Impulse
Fact or Fiction
Mystical Tutor
Force of Will   x4
Frantic Search
Cabal Ritual   x2
Ancestral Recall
Gifts Ungiven
Chain of Vapor
Hurkyl's Recall
Brainstorm

Land
Watery Grave  x4
Polluted Delta  x3
Swamp  x3
Island  x3

Sideboard
Leyline of the Void  x4
Diabolic Edict  x2
Hurkyl's Recall
Chain of Vapor
Chainer's Edict
Helm of Obedience  x2
Dark Confidant  x3
Demonic Consultation

There is the deck as it stands right now. Ill go into a few of my odder choices.

Mox Diamond: I Currently don't have Mana Crypt so I've been running this in it's place. If I can pick up a Memory Jar this weekend Ill remove this for a proxy of the Crypt instead.

Lim-Dul's Vault, Impulse, Frantic Search: I do not have any Grim Tutors nor do I have Imperial Seal and my proxy Count is full. The Vault in particular is probably one of my weirder replacements for the tutors i don't have although I find that it more less acts like another one of the disadvantage tutors I do run. I do not want more then though so I added Impulse and Frantic Search. The Frantic Search very often ends up just being a means to untap my lands while I m going off and I use it less to dig through my deck.

That more or less covers the strange choices for the main deck of note is the fact that I would use Underground Seas over the Watery Graves but mine seas wen missing with my fetch lands and they do in a pinch while I proxy a pair of fetches. The Sideboard right now is designed to change the deck into a Leyline/Helm Combo deck. I'm not sure I like the idea but I'm not quite sure what to put in my sideboard for the time being. The meta I have is mostly some aggro of some kind or another (and mostly bad at that) although there are several other fairly good players as well who play better decks and in some cases decent aggro decks. The other player with partial Power (I only have a Lotus Sad ) I'm not sure what he will be playing, but I can bet it will be a top end deck. But other wise I need a few suggestions for my sideboard for dealing with fast aggro strategies including Sligh, Elves, and a pretty brutal Sliver deck (Caught me off guard the first time scrolled for a Mystical instead of bounce Sliver Legion hurts...). All in all thank you in advance. Ill check this in the morning and Ill let you know how things go on Monday there's D20's calling my name Sunday nights.
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« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2009, 09:22:11 am »

I might include an Echoing Truth or two as it will get rid of similar Slivers and or Aggro decks that may do things like double Nactl's.  Chain of Vapor is nice but Echoing gets around Chalice at 1 and can still be used to increase your storm just not as efficiently as Chain.  Another option is Massacre, depending on the size of the Aggro coming your way.  If the mobs are bigger ala Goyf and friends, then you might consider Meekstone which is a recent suggestion in the various budget threads.  Balance is another classic answer but not in your color.
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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2009, 10:15:46 am »

too less lands; too less fetchies; no Academy. 13 land with only 3 fetchies; you'll possible mana/color screwed some times. How could you run Desire without Academy? Seriously? Whatever ... your Sb should fix the bad matchups like 'Mora, GW, Vault+Key. Having a second COMBO in sb is a bad idea since the named decks and more are combo haters. A few aditional lands against denial and some aggro (Bob/Negator) vs. 'Mora etc. should be nice.

Myself run a whole set of Wraith and repeal's (which are insane with sapphire or against chalice/dreadnaughts) to make this deck feel like 52 cards so i can toss out all the additional weight aka misd., pulse, vault, cabals, etc etc. I should mention that I'm not running grim tutor either. In Germany there a still a bunch of shops or deeznaught decks around to this changes might not fit your meta.

PS: "Brutal Sliver Deck"? The last one I saw was intoduced like this too; playing a Wheel of Fortune against me while I hold mystical on Y'will ready to launch. He already knew that I was playing so carry a sliver (legion) deck to a vintage event is a pretty weak move. I wonder why you can't overpower such aggro decks easily with raw speed. Don't get me wrong but your meta's screaming "plz kill me".
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2009, 02:30:41 pm »

Haven't had any problems with the mana at all and never had a problem casting desire. I would like another fetch and an academy but have room with the proxy count form them but that should change soon anyways (I've got a few things coming).  Dont actually ever see 'Mora, GW, or Vault-Key go figure. I didnt actually run the listed sb and the changes were.

-2 Helm
-3 Confidant
-1 Consultation
-1 Chainer's
+2 Echoing
+3 Crypt
+2 Powder Keg

I did rather poorly this weekend. A first round was a bye, second round was elf combo I lost the match 1-2 as he went off the first game and cast a lethal grapeshot, second game a won with a tendrils, third game his combo fizzled but was able to attack with the large number of elf tokens he generated with elvish promenades, Third round was worse and I was unable to find anything but more mana of any flavor with my draw spells both games and lost to Goblin Piledrivers. After round 3 I stopped playing for the day. Bad luck all around.

Yeah my meta does scream "kill me" and I usally do... I agree the repeal's migt not work in my meta, but with the addition of Proxies and me and a couple of the others have been helping some of the others players build better decks. Case in point the kid with the elf combo deck I helped him build it.

So changes to the MD for a couple of Repeal's

-1 Lim-Dul's Vault
-1 Impulse
+2 Repeal's

I'll give it a try while testing this week.
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