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TrueUVGP
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« on: September 14, 2009, 10:56:14 pm »

Hey, so I made top eight at the last blue bell after a long slump.
I lost to 5-c stacks in the top 8.
And at GenCon my two losses which knocked me out of contention were too, you guessed it 5-c stacks.
So I need to work on that mathup and thats what this thread is about.
Here is the current list:

4 x Dark Confidant
3 x Meddling Mage
3 x Aven Mindcensor
2 x Vendillion Clique
2 x Kataki, War's Wage

4 x Force of Will
3 x Spell Snare
3 x Thoughtseize
2 x Negate
2 x Null Rod

3 x Polluted Delta
3 x Tundra
3 x Underground Sea
3 x Wasteland
2 x Flooded Strand
1 x Island
1 x Swamp
1 x Mishra's Factory
1 x Strip Mine
1 x Mox Pearl
1 x Mox Jet
1 x Mox Sapphire
1 x Black Lotus

1 x Darkblast
1 x Vampiric Tutor
1 x Demonic Tutor
1 x Ancestral Recall
1 x Brainstorn
1 x Hurkl's Recall
1 x Time Walk
1 x Rushing River
1 x Sensei's Diving Top
1 x Crucible or Worlds

Sideboard

3 x Extirpate
3 x Energy Flux
2 x Path to Exile
2 x Duress
1 x Diabolic Edict
1 x Tormod's Crypt
1 x Relic of Progenitus
1 x Echoing Truth
1 x Seal of Cleansing

I was running three path in the board at blue bell, but I'm starting to think with a darkblas main, there isn't a need for so many path.
With school and work I'm only getting one day of testing in a week right now, but my current board in is as follows:

+3 Energy Flux
+2 Extirpate
+1 Seal of Cleansing
+1 Path to Exile

-3 Spell Snare
-2 Null Rod
-1 Top
-1 Clique

I think this plan is closer to what I should be doing, but not close enough.
I'm going to ammend this article a little later.
Advice is appreciated, as for the haters I've heard it all before.
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« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2009, 11:29:17 pm »

spell snare is to narrow. rushing river is garbage.
play swords to plowshares. also, more null rod. vendillion clique is insane, play at least 3 of him.

your one mishras factory is worse than a fourth wasteland would be.

7 cards in your board for one matchup is too many. try to streamline your sb, so that you can have cards that work in at least two to three matchups each.
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« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2009, 03:18:49 pm »

suggestions
-3 snare
-1 rushing river
-2 kataki
+1 vendillion clique
+1 aven mindcensor
+2 null rod
+1 meddling mage
+1 hukyl's recall
isn't negate just worse than mana drain in your deck? (1 swamp 3 waste 1 mishra's workshop 1 strip)
I just never liked kataki, if you really have that much of a problem with 5c stax then play them.
Vendillion clique is really good, against most decks, disruption and fast clock.
Spell snare seems too narrow

Board-
extripate is good against multiple decks,
flux isn't as much
more seal of cleansing, good against vault key decks and stax
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