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EchoBoy
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« on: January 28, 2004, 10:29:29 pm » |
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U/W or U/R for my meta? You help aid my decision please!
Heres Shockwaves U/R: // Mana Sources 4 Island 4 Volcanic Island 4 Faerie Conclave 4 Wasteland 4 Mishra's Factory 1 Wooded Foothills 1 Flooded Strand 1 Mountain 1 Strip Mine 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Sapphire 1 Lotus Petal
// Card Drawing and Utility 4 Standstill 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Time Walk
// Removal 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Fire/Ice 4 Nevinyrral's Disk
// Permission 4 Mana Drain 4 Force of Will 3 Misdirection 3 Stifle
// Sideboard 4 Red Elemental Blast 4 Chalice of the Void 4 Tormod's Crypt 3 Maze of Ith
Here is Keith Johnson's U/W: 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Time Walk 2 Decree of Justice 4 Nevinyrral's Disk 4 Swords to Plowshares 4 Standstill 3 Stifle 3 Mana Leak 3 Misdirection 4 Mana Drain 4 Force of Will
1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Sapphire 1 Black Lotus 2 Flooded Strand 1 Plains 2 Islands 4 Tundra 4 Mishra's Factory 4 Faerie Conclave 1 Library of Alexandria 1 Strip Mine 4 Wasteland 1 Petrified Field
SB: 3 Blue Elemental Blast 3 Tormod's Crypt 3 Disenchant 3 Energy Flux 3 Chalice of the Void
The decks I know of attending the tourney are: A Workshop variant, 2 Hulks, Masknaught, 2 Sui Black, a Survival Mask, an Oshawa, Dragon, Sligh, and maybe a keeper.
Is W or R better for this meta. I'm leaning towards W but only because of the ability to decree and because of the 12/12s. I also sort of iffy on drawing one of the Nevyns when I need it, I have aweful luck.
There won't be much combo, I expect more control and aggro. So i need an anti-control and aggro MD, with anti brown and anti combo SB.\
Please don't regard this as spam my intentions are to win my tourney this weekend, not cause a flame war.
Thanks a bunch.
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Plainswalker
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« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2004, 11:03:03 pm » |
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It's rough with all the hate right now, main deck Teferi's Response might be worth looking into. I believe most people have cut two Lighitng bolts for two Chain of Vapor.
here's what I suggest anyways
-2 Lighitng bolts -1 Misdirection and if your worried about Wastelands, maybe -1 Stifle for + 1 Teferi's Response
+ 2 Chain of Vapor + 1 Teferi's Response
From the decks you seem to be facing, Misdirection seemed weak, and if there good, Wastelands strong. Again as I said, it's tough now, but the deck can deal pretty well with LD hate, and Disk works under Blood Moon so it's really not to bad.
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RobtheSwordsman: Well, that's true, but this was re-goddamn-diculous.
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EchoBoy
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« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2004, 11:10:35 pm » |
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Forgot all about Disk working under Blood Moon, thanks a lot. What about Slice and Dice? I see that warranting maybe 1-2 MD slots. It cycles to kill what Fire/Ice would, except u get to draw off it like Ice would. It's basically uncounterable, and the 4 Damage beats everything I need to. Small Dryads, Makes Tog discard to live, Juggs, Su-Chi, Negator, Shade, Karn, etc.
Edit: Looks like U/R it is! Now let us prepare it for my meta.
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DEA
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2004, 08:25:59 am » |
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white also gives consecrate land  i cut my disks for that in the mirror, pretty fun i must say
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i need red mana
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EchoBoy
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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2004, 12:06:35 pm » |
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Heh that sounds fun, but I don't expect to see a mirror. I really want to fit in some slice and dice versus decree tokens, or versus random goblins. Also the 4 damage can kill karns and make negators cry.
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TheRock
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« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2004, 01:08:51 pm » |
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I might consider using Chain for the simple fact that you will be facing decks such as Hulk where you can use the bounce and force them to wait to be able to counter that Chain. If you were to do that, I would cut no more than 1 Lightning Bolt for it. I wouldn't want to drop Misdirection when two Sui Black decks, two Hulks, and possibly a Keeper are around. If you feel like they are good matchups for you though, then you could cut a Misdirection.
Assuming you would cut the 4th Lightning Bolt, a good sideboard might be something like this: 4 Maze of Ith 3 Chalice of the Void 3 Red Elemental Blast 3 Tormod's Crypt 2 Rack and Ruin
I see a ton of juicy Maze targets. This is a card that you will want at all times agaisnt Oshawa, Hulk, Mask, and Sui. Force Sui and Oshawa to try to Wasteland your Mazes and use Stifle as directed.
I know running two Rack and Ruin may seem odd, but I don't want to completely forget about a Workshop deck.
3 Crypts will keep Dragon from getting set, and the 3 Chalices will help out against most of your aggro opponents as well. Finally, you still have 3 Red Elemental Blasts to side out your Lightning Bolts against Keeper and Hulk.
Slice and Dice may be good because it can cycle, but it's just too expensive. 4RR to get rid of Oshawa creatures is just too late. Keeper players also use Stifle now so it may not be the absolute answer. You could run one just for Decree tokens though.
Good luck!
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EchoBoy
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« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2004, 03:01:00 pm » |
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I might run 1 slice main 1 sb
but i feel that i should cut 2 bolt for 2 chains. i really want 2 chains main.
moreinput please. Rock, your awesome!
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