-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Magic: the Gathering |OT9| Kaladesh - Cruisin' Down the Street in my 6/4
- Thread starter SigmasonicX
- Start date
- Status
charlequin
Banned
For Torrential Gearhulk, what they mentioned at least once in the commentary: would you play a 3 mana counterspell that had kicker 3: make a 5/6? We saw this a bit with GDD (where you'd "get a 5/5 for 2") but the math comes out even better here with stuff like Summary Dismissal.
:thumbsup:
What? It's 16. Ben Hull's RW Vehicles, Lee Shi Tian's Mardu Vehicles, Joey Manner's UW Flash, and Makis Matsoukas' RW Tokens each ran 4.
"God's Beard!"
Member
Some updates to my Abbey deck:
Spiced up the sideboard and slimmed down the main.
Spiced up the sideboard and slimmed down the main.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";220284090]Glad to see Travis Woo make the top 16. A lot of people think of him as the casual brewer guy that walks backwards down stairs but I've been trying to explain how good he was in general for years. I've been in this thread saying he was one of the best drafters CFB had a couple times, and that's a team with Owen Turtenwald and Ben Stark. Not surprised to see him go 6-0 at the PT in limited at all.
It's time to bring him back into the fold, guys.
Also, super happy to see the top 8 was a clean cut at X-3-1. I really fucking hate tiebreakers.[/QUOTE]
Dude needs to get his head straight. If he can prove that then whatever, sure
It's time to bring him back into the fold, guys.
Also, super happy to see the top 8 was a clean cut at X-3-1. I really fucking hate tiebreakers.[/QUOTE]
Dude needs to get his head straight. If he can prove that then whatever, sure
I didn't actually count; I just assumed bigkrev had counted correctly.
I did the counts like 5 minutes before I had to leave for work, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were other errors. 16 was my guess anyway, though. \o/
SigmasonicX
Member
Yeah, still the first game of the first match.
blindrocket
Member
GB, not sure if you knew about this, but I believe you like Peter's artwork?
Have to have the envelope postmarked no later than tomorrow.
http://www.angelarium.net/vault
Have to have the envelope postmarked no later than tomorrow.
http://www.angelarium.net/vault
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
How do these control decks beat Westvale Abbey? Chump blockers for days.
I refuse to believe this deck is good it plays dovin baan.
I refuse to believe this deck is good it plays dovin baan.
Infinite Stars
Member
I love the fact that Torrential Gear Hulk is now seeing play, makes the fact that I opened one at Pre-release all the better.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";220284090]
It's time to bring him back into the fold, guys.
[/QUOTE]
Sure, let's bring the stoner who said on Stream "Hitler had good ideas" back into the fold of Magic. That's ignoring that he still harps on Honoured Hierarch as this great card.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";220284090]
It's time to bring him back into the fold, guys.
[/QUOTE]
Sure, let's bring the stoner who said on Stream "Hitler had good ideas" back into the fold of Magic. That's ignoring that he still harps on Honoured Hierarch as this great card.
SigmasonicX
Member
That was a pretty close game, but also a good demonstration of how good control gets when it's allowed to go long.
EDIT: Gotta love one player siding in more controlling cards, the other player instead going more aggro than ever.
EDIT: Given the way that went, Carlos really should have waited for Spell Queller to steal the Harnessed Lightning, then destroy it with Harnessed Lightning and use the exiled one to destroy Avacyn.
EDIT: Yeesh, why would you keep a 1-land hand?
EDIT: Ben Hull (R/W Vehicles) and Carlos Romao (Jeskai Control) advance.
EDIT: Gotta love one player siding in more controlling cards, the other player instead going more aggro than ever.
EDIT: Given the way that went, Carlos really should have waited for Spell Queller to steal the Harnessed Lightning, then destroy it with Harnessed Lightning and use the exiled one to destroy Avacyn.
EDIT: Yeesh, why would you keep a 1-land hand?
EDIT: Ben Hull (R/W Vehicles) and Carlos Romao (Jeskai Control) advance.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
These marvel decks are entirely non interactive and paying for it.
"God's Beard!"
Member
Yeah, he's an awesome person and I try and stop him to chat when I get a chance at art events. Very cool dude, I've been talking online with him about how he does his clouds. I really think it's a trademark of his style.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
AG have you tried branching into black for hand disruption with the Marvel deck, jund mana should be quite good. Live Fast could also help.
Wonder how these control decks would have done against Fevered Visions
Wonder how these control decks would have done against Fevered Visions
"God's Beard!"
Member
I could be miscounting, but I think Nass' first Aetherworks Marvel was 29-32 cards into his deck. That's brutal.
24-27 points Standard decks
21-23 points Standard decks
18-20 points Standard decks
UW killed it and it kinda went unnoticed.
21-23 points Standard decks
18-20 points Standard decks
UW killed it and it kinda went unnoticed.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
They must have had a field day with 18% Atherworks Marvel decks.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Oh man he has a 2nd Spell Queller, 2 out of 3. While Matt Nass had to go through half his deck to find a 2nd marvel.
SigmasonicX
Member
EDIT: Was making this post for a while.
24-27 Point Decks
21-23 Point Decks
Things I noticed from the first list:
* Hatto's Blue-White Midrange runs Gisela and Bruna in the sideboard.
* Every deck with 27 points is W/U
* Anderson's Jeskai Control runs 1x Chandra, Flamecaller (Oath of the Gatewatch) in the sideboard.
* Eliatamby's Bant Midrange runs 4x Fairgrounds Wardens mainboard.
* McLaren's Red-Green Energy runs 2x Chandra, Torch of Defiance mainboard, and Root Out and Commencement of Festivities in the sideboard.
* Miani's Black-Red Aggro runs 4x Bomat Courier mainboard. I was worried it wouldn't return at all.
* Noorlander's Temur Aetherworks runs 2x Chandra, Flamecaller mainboard.
* Takao's Sultai Midrange runs 1x Nissa, Vital Force mainbaord.
Second list:
* Betesh's Temur Emerge runs 2x Kiora mainboard.
* Budde's Red-White Vehicles runs 1x Magmatic Chasm sideboard. I forgot that was still in Standard.
* Campanino's Red-White Humans runs 4x Hanweir Garrison and 1x Hanweir Battlements mainboard, and 2x Repel the Abominable sideboard.
* Chew's Temur Energy runs 3x Woodland Wanderer.
* I suppose Red-White Humans decks in general use both Hanweir cards.
* Enevoldsen's White-Black Aggro runs 4x Aerial Responder and 2x Stitcher's Graft mainboard.
* Floch's Jund Delirium runs 1x Noxious Gearhulk and 1x Arborback Stomper in the sideboard.
* Lim's Grixis Emerge runs 3x Minister of Inquiries mainboard (for self-mill, presumably).
* Lingelbach's Black-Red Madness runs 1x Asylum Visitor mainboard.
24-27 Point Decks
21-23 Point Decks
Things I noticed from the first list:
* Hatto's Blue-White Midrange runs Gisela and Bruna in the sideboard.
* Every deck with 27 points is W/U
* Anderson's Jeskai Control runs 1x Chandra, Flamecaller (Oath of the Gatewatch) in the sideboard.
* Eliatamby's Bant Midrange runs 4x Fairgrounds Wardens mainboard.
* McLaren's Red-Green Energy runs 2x Chandra, Torch of Defiance mainboard, and Root Out and Commencement of Festivities in the sideboard.
* Miani's Black-Red Aggro runs 4x Bomat Courier mainboard. I was worried it wouldn't return at all.
* Noorlander's Temur Aetherworks runs 2x Chandra, Flamecaller mainboard.
* Takao's Sultai Midrange runs 1x Nissa, Vital Force mainbaord.
Second list:
* Betesh's Temur Emerge runs 2x Kiora mainboard.
* Budde's Red-White Vehicles runs 1x Magmatic Chasm sideboard. I forgot that was still in Standard.
* Campanino's Red-White Humans runs 4x Hanweir Garrison and 1x Hanweir Battlements mainboard, and 2x Repel the Abominable sideboard.
* Chew's Temur Energy runs 3x Woodland Wanderer.
* I suppose Red-White Humans decks in general use both Hanweir cards.
* Enevoldsen's White-Black Aggro runs 4x Aerial Responder and 2x Stitcher's Graft mainboard.
* Floch's Jund Delirium runs 1x Noxious Gearhulk and 1x Arborback Stomper in the sideboard.
* Lim's Grixis Emerge runs 3x Minister of Inquiries mainboard (for self-mill, presumably).
* Lingelbach's Black-Red Madness runs 1x Asylum Visitor mainboard.
blindrocket
Member
That's awesome he's wearing traditional dress.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Maybe this card will become playable.
it's actually better when you're the one trying to resolve something. I think I'm going to try it in Metallurgic Summonings.
it's actually better when you're the one trying to resolve something. I think I'm going to try it in Metallurgic Summonings.
SigmasonicX
Member
That Declaration of Stone into Reckless Bushwhacker.
Too bad about Anticipate into removal.
Too bad about Anticipate into removal.
I really hope Romao goes all the way, I really love his deck.
As a curiosity, here's Romao's deck from when he won Worlds in 2002:
Standard Psychatog
As a curiosity, here's Romao's deck from when he won Worlds in 2002:
Standard Psychatog
SigmasonicX
Member
It took a long time for them to update Carlos' life total.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Makis came so close so many times but Carlos just rips answers nonstop.
phazedplasma
Member
Shoooottaaaaaaaa
cmon UR
cmon UR
SigmasonicX
Member
Flipped Thing in the Ice after Smuggler's Copter became a creature.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
What happened to the RB vehicle decks? They should do so much better against these control decks having unrestricted removal and recurrable threats.
Also Chandra should have done well in these decks being able to dome and generate CA
Also Chandra should have done well in these decks being able to dome and generate CA
The RW vehicle decks just splashed for the black parts, from what I can tell. Namely, Scrapyard Scrounger.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Ah would make sense. We haven't seen any Liliana's in the top 8 either and these control decks would just fold if one got resolved on curve. That'd actually be interesting sideboard tech for Mardu vehicles, board in 4 lilianas against control.
SigmasonicX
Member
That was a big misplay on Shota's part, choosing to ping the Toolcraft Exemplar after combat.
The combat phase being mandatory is a relatively recent rules development. It normally never comes up.
phazedplasma
Member
No green
Praise Nivmizzet
Praise Nivmizzet
GregLombardi
Member
its like 20 mins in and life totals haven't changed very much lolz
- Status