TheManaDrain.com
November 21, 2025, 08:39:01 am *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News:
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: Metagamed Tainted Mask (red splash)  (Read 1140 times)
Necropotenza
Guest
« on: July 27, 2003, 08:10:58 pm »

Hi, I'm attending a Mox tourney on Saturday 2nd and I'll need your help to tune my deck for my local metagame.

My metagame (35 people will be attending the tourney)

Suicide/Void/BG Void 15%
Trix 9%
Keeper/The shining 9%
Rogue decks 9%
Random combo decks 9%
Sligh 9%
Madness (with and without Bazars) 9%
Hulk/GAT with Accumulated knowledges 9%
Random aggro 9%
Mono blue (usually with Standstill) 6%
Vengeur masque 3%
Tainted mask with red (me) 3%
Stacks/TNT (no players) 0%

Those are the aproximate numbers of what I expect to face at the tourney. About 50% of the field is going to be powered, usually fully powered.

my decklist (60 cards)
4 Mask
4 Nought

4 Hypnotic specter
2 Withered wretch
2 Gorilla shaman

4 Duress
4 Hymn to tourach

2 Blood moon

1 Demonic tutor
1 Vampiric tutor
1 Demonic consultation
4 Tainted pact

1 Yawgmoth's will
1 Necropotence

4 Wasteland
1 Strip mine
1 Lotus
1 Mox jet
1 Mox ruby
1 Sol ring
3 Bloodstrained mire
3 Polluted delta
3 Badlands
3 Swamp
3 Snow-covered swamp
1 Mountain

My sideboard
2 Blood moon
4 Reb
4 Smother
1 Withered wretch?
x Coffin purge?
x Earthquake?
x Cabal therapy?
x Distopia?

I need to work very hard on my sideboard  

Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Logged
suicide_slushy
Guest
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2003, 10:12:57 pm »

Looking at the decks your expecting to face it doesn't seem like Dystopia would be useful.  Coffin purge, however, looks like it could be golden in addition to the wretched.  

I'd run

4 REB
2 Blood Moon
4 Smother
2 withered wretch
3 coffin purge (possably cut 1 or a wretch for a mind twist)
Logged
urza's child
Guest
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2003, 10:45:35 am »

um... dark ritual??? And use full moxen if you have it. Explosiveness =  
Logged
Necropotenza
Guest
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2003, 10:51:19 am »

I own a full set of Moxes and I would definitely like to play Rituals.
The problem is always what to remove:

-1 Tainted pact
-1 Polluted delta
-1 Wasteland

+3 Dark ritual

What do you think about it?
Logged
urza's child
Guest
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2003, 10:57:24 am »

do something more like this:

-2 Blood moon
-1 Wasteland
-1 Bloodstained Mire
-1 Polluted Delta
-2 Snow-Covered Swamps
-1 Swamp
-1 Mountain

+3 Moxen
+1 Mana Crypt
+1 mana Vault
+4 Dark Ritual

That should give you 29 mana sources, which is the right number. I also dont like the MD wretches. I'm currently testing a BUR mask with draw 7's, but personally i'd add blue for recall and time walk. It's amazing how important those are

EDIT: Where is this mox tourny?
Logged
Necropotenza
Guest
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2003, 11:32:34 am »

I'll keep the Blood moons in the main deck. In my opinion they are one of the big reasons to spash red considering that 70% of my metagame is full of non-basics and that it spells game against the top decks right now.

This is what I'd do:
-1 Tainted pact
-1 Wasteland
-1 Bloodstained Mire
-1 Polluted Delta
-1 Snow-Covered Swamps
-1 Swamp
-1 Mountain
+3 Moxen
+4 Dark Ritual

The updated decklist is:
4 Mask
4 Nought
4 Hypnotic specter
2 Withered wretch
2 Gorilla shaman
4 Duress
4 Hymn to tourach
2 Blood moon
1 Demonic tutor
1 Vampiric tutor
1 Demonic consultation
3 Tainted pact
1 Yawgmoth's will
1 Necropotence

4 Dark ritual
3 Wasteland
1 Strip mine
7 SoLoMoxen
2 Bloodstrained mire
2 Polluted delta
3 Badlands
2 Swamp
2 Snow-covered swamp


Obviously, slpashing blue for Recall and Walk would be great, but in my humble opinion, I don't think the mana base can support it plus Blood moons.

Thanks for the advice!  

PD: the tourney is in Barcelona (Spain). Will you make the trip?
Logged
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.03 seconds with 17 queries.