UBr Tezz

[Schonkreuz]

Where I play vintage there is a point system based on your standings at the end of the night. After a month whoever has the most points gets in free for the next month and the points reset. Before now I always worked nightshift so I couldn't play every week and keep in the running for monthly champ, now I work in the day and I can play every week. Because of this and my financial situation I'm a lot more serious about what I play now and so I thought I'd give Tezz a go again. The sideboard was rushed (I made it before the tournament) so its really weird I'm still going to post it though.

4 Dark Confidant
1 Inkwell Leviathan

1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
1 Thirst For Knowledge
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fire/Ice
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Hurkyls' Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Ponder
4 Duress
1 Thoughtseize

1 Tezzeret, the Seeker
1 Jace Beleren

1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Island
1 Swamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black lotus

SB
1 Control Magic
2 Negate
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Pithing Needle
1 Thoughtseize
2 Smother
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Goblin Bombardment
2 Ingot Chewer
3 Extirpate


Red is my favorite splash for tezzeret, I really like the blasts and it makes the sideboard a lot more interesting. The Goblin Bombardment was random but it ended up getting me into top 8 vs Oath. I got into the top 4 but we ended up splitting because it was late and the mall was closing soon. Anyway I'm really rusty when it comes to magic so I thought I'd post the deck here, suggestions very welcome!

[M.Solymossy]

Honestly, you'd be best off just starting from my ICBM Open list.   For one, you're playing confidants yet still have Inkwell, which will cost you at least 1 game in a month.  You also have no Sensei's Divining Top!   That seems to be a very big omission from this list.


Here:

  3 Island
    1 Tolarian Academy
    4 Polluted Delta
    2 Flooded Strand
    3 Underground Sea
    2 Volcanic Island
    1 Tezzeret the Seeker
    4 Dark Confidant
    1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
    1 Mox Sapphire
    1 Rebuild
    1 Mox Emerald
    1 Echoing Truth
    1 Mox Pearl
    1 Mox Ruby
    1 Mox Jet
    1 Black Lotus
    1 Mana Crypt
    1 Sol Ring
    1 Yawgmoth's Will
    4 Force of Will
    4 Mana Drain
    1 Thirst for Knowledge
    1 Ancestral Recall
    1 Time Walk
    1 Time Vault
    1 Voltaic Key
    1 Tinker
    2 Sensei's Divining Top
    1 Ponder
    1 Brainstorm
    1 Vampiric Tutor
    1 Mystical Tutor
    1 Demonic Tutor
    1 Merchant Scroll
    1 Gifts Ungiven
    1 Impulse
    3 Spell Pierce
    1 Mindbreak Trap

3 Red blast
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Darkblast
2 Sower of Temptation
3 Trapmaker's Snare
4 Ravenous Trap

[Schonkreuz]

GAH! There is a top I just missed it when I was typing up the list while watching Heroes Thanks for the decklist, it looks really similar I'll put this together and see how I like it. Thanks!

edit: i looked over the list and top is in there, you must have just looked over it.

[jaeppel]

i can see a pair of welders being good in something like this, going a bit more down the SCV route, but with the mighty plansewalker.  Welder in a way adds to your duress package, as it is usually hastily countered if possible.  I could see them working well out of the sideboard.  Game two anyone running darkblast or whatever should be boarding them out, so the welders become a must-counter.

Obviously, if you were to go the welder route, Memory Jar looks alot more attractive.  Personally i almost never run tinker without jar.  So many times i am holding tinker, but i really wish it were a draw spell.  Jar bridges the gap nicely.

[majikal]

I really like the inclusion of the Trap package in the SB! I'll definitely try that.

One question I have though - how do you like Spell Pierce? I keep going back and forth between more countermagic and more card draw in my build, and this looks cheap enough to make a huge difference in my matches while also providing some much-needed protection against a surprise Sadistic Sacrament.

[Greeg]

I am a big fan of Negate.

I was playing 2 Spell Pierces the other day, then switched them to Negate and that was fantastic. I top 8'd at RIW this past Sunday with:

Land: 13
1 Tolarian Academy (used it as a stripmine in Mirror match)
4 Underground Sea
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
3 Island

Artifact: 13
5 Moxen
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Sensei's Diving Top
2 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault

Instant: 21
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Negate (was fantastic, ALL DAY LONG)
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Intuition (I boarded out for most G2 and G3's and was really only helpful once to dig up 3 FOW)
1 Fact or Fiction (I played it once and it was a BOMB)
1 Gift's Ungiven (Play it and Win)
1 Rebuild (Saved me a few times)
1 Repeal (Never used it)
1 Darkblast (saved me once... gotcha welder!)

Sorcery: 7
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tinker

Planeswalker: 1
1 Tezzeret The Seeker

Creatures: 5
1 Inkwell Leviathon
4 Dark Confidant

I flipped Inkwell once, but I won that game still.