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- ##July 2nd
- Got on a plane from US Nats at 9:30am. Turned off phone. Got off at 11am, turned phone on, holy moly, this was rather unexpected.
- Going back to 2012 Legacy (plus TNN and other goodies) makes me think that RUG, GW/x, D+T, and BR are the most obvious decks that other people will play. UW/UWR Miracles are obviously okay as well, but something wheel-spinny about those decks has always bothered me.
- ##July 3rd
- Played a bunch of RUG Delver versus BR Reanimator.
- So few cards matter in g1 (establishing a threat, keeping Griselbrand out of play are the obvious things).
- 2-1
- 1-2
- 1-2
- 2-0
- I had an experimental Ooze in my sideboard, but I don't think it's actually good versus BR. Way too slow, requires GG. Probably better versus like Jund or something similar.
- I contemplated trying to side in Submerge as the world's most worst unsummon for chancellor of the annex and the like but came to my senses that was awful.
- In general I was siding out all of my bolts (4 lightning bolt, 1 forked/wild slash) for surgicals/cage/ooze/flusterstorms.
- ##July 4th
- Birded some streams silently, before having to go do family stuff.
- Javier was playing updated Cephalid Breakfast which looked intriguing versus UW/UWR Miracles. Opponent didn't really have an idea of what was going on, but I suspect Breakfast is good there anyway.
- ##July 6th
- Playing more RUG, talking to RUG Experts.
- Going to try this list versus UW/UWR:
- **Maindeck**
- 8 Fetch
- 3 Trop
- 3 Volc
- 4 Wasteland
- 4 Delver
- 4 Mongoose
- 4 Tarmogoyf
- 1 TNN
- 4 Brainstorm
- 4 Ponder
- 4 Stifle
- 2 Spell Pierce
- 2 Spell Snare
- 4 Daze
- 1 Dismember
- 4 Force of Will
- 4 Bolt
- **Sideboard**
- 1 Flusterstorm
- 2 Submerge
- 2 Surgical
- 2 Pyroblast
- 2 Ancient Grudge
- 1 Sulfur Elemental
- 1 Life from the Loam
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
- 1 Null Rod
- 2 Winter Orb
- ##July 6th continuation
- Ended up playing a bunch of matches vs UW/UWR Miracles as RUG.
- Matchup feels difficult, I think you need 3 Winter Orb to win the matchup (the card warps the game so much from the RUG side, letting your soft counters become hard counters).
- I was told Goyf/Delver aren't great versus Miracles and that most people side them out which surprised me at first then made so much sense to just play a 'hexproof' game and not give a shit about plow.
- ##July 8th
- Played a bunch of BR Reanimator versus RUG.
- G1 feels very very very good, whereas I was going about 50% in postboard games with the updated BR list. (6-1, 5-5)
- I sideboarded 0 cards generally, but you can side in 1 Wear//Tear and 1 Elesh Norn for 1 Therapy and 1 Griselbrand.
- Also played some UWR Miracles versus RUG.
- G1 felt good, G2/3 were made much more difficult by Winter Orb which makes all of their soft coutners a lot more alive. (5-1, 3-4)
- ##July 9th
- **UWR Miracles League:**
- R1: 4C Loam LWL
- R2: TBS on Naya Maverick WW
- R3: 4color (no black) maverick WW
- R4: D+T (Allen Wu) WW
- R5: OmniShow LL
- **Lands League:**
- R1: TES LWW (oppt left in empty)
- R2: Infect LL (played horribly)
- R3: Goblins WW (assembled manabond + chasm + stage + tabernacle)
- R4: RUG WW (G2 t2 20/20, G1 tabernacle lock)
- R5: D+T LWL (played horribly, missed maze activations somehow)
- ##July 10th
- **BR Reanimator League:**
- R1: RUG Delver WW
- R2: RUG Delver WW
- R3: Moon Stompy WW (animate deaded his rabblemaster after he leylined me)
- R4: Infect WW
- R5: Moon Stompy Loss then G2 crash when i had to fuse wear//tear (to get rid of a chalice on 2 and blood moon) (i think i was gonna lose that game still but it was gonna be a weird one)
- ##July 12th
- Here's the decks I currently like:
- BR Reanimator
- Sneak and Show
- UWR Miracles
- Lands
- The positioning of Lands focuses on how much of the first two there are. I'm relearning UWR Miracles because there's a tons of way to build it, and I'm satisfied with my experience(s) with BR Reanimator now. You mulligan a lot with the deck but that almost doesn't matter. Eric Landon tells me he often keeps no landers in G1 if all he needs to do isd raw a land to have a protected Griselbrand.
- **BR Reanimator League:**
- R1: WW matt nass living wish reanimator/depths deck
- R2: WW goblins
- R3: LWL D+T
- R4: Esper Stoneblade 2-0
- R5: Esper Stoneblade 1-2
- I played too cautioustly R5 and got killed by a priest (I was waiting for a discard spell to hand check them for surgical then got killed anyway)
- **BR Reanimator at MTGFirst (local legacy event):**
- R1: UWR Miracles WLL
- R2: RUG Delver WLW
- R3: Sneak + Show WW
- R4: D+T WLL
- R5: Burn WLL
- R6: Merfolk WLW
- R7: Lands WW
- Locally it felt like most of the people had 5+ graveyard hate cards which is actually really debilitating (especially if one is Containment Priest). Surgical is easier to beat because you can aalways discard spell it before you cast reanimation, but a Priest will just enter play whenever they have 2 mana.
- ##July 17th
- **[Trying updated Noah Walker Bomat Grixis Delver](snag.gy/5BS8jK.jpg)**
- R1: LL 4c Loam (lots of knights killed me)
- R2: LWL Bant 12post (wtf?... elephant grass+tab problematic in g3)
- R3: LWL Moon Stompy (being on the draw g1 and 3 sucks)
- Deck felt pretty underpowered, although my games versus bant 12post and 4c loam were close. Probably not spending more time on this unless someone can figure out a better threat base.
- ##July 20th Weekend SCG
- **Classic: UWR Miracles**
- R1: 1-2 UW Helm Miracles
- R2: 2-1 RGu Lands
- R3: 0-2 Infect
- R4: 2-1 D+T
- R5: 2-1 Sneak
- R6: 2-0 4c Loam
- R7: 1-2 Sneak
- R8: 0-2 Goblins
- **Team Trios SCG: Lands**
- R1: 2-0 Dreedge
- R2: 2-1 Infect
- R3: 1-2 Eldrazi
- R4: 2-0 RUG
- R5: 0-2 Storm
- R6: 1-2 RUG
- R7: 0-2 Infect
- Issues with Lands are that people have learned to play against it (I consider RUG/Infect good matchups, but people are choosing to respect Lands now / play better against it). Also having cantrips makes their decks way more consistent unfortunately.
- Miracles, something feels off, and it's mostly that it's pinpointed to beat a very specific number of decks (I can't fathom ever beating Goblins or Infect as Miracles the way the deck is constructed now).
- ##Jul 23, 2018
- **JPA Omni-Sneak**
- R1: 2-0 D+T
- R2: 1-2 Grixis Delver (mulled to 5 G3, played a T2 Sneak, then got my red source wasted then died without drawing
- a red source for 8 turns causee he surgicaled my volcanics and tarns)
- R3: 1-2 UWR b2b miracles (g3 got counter walled out. didn't draw a defense grid which would have been excellent)
- R4: 2-1 D+T
- R5: 2-1 D+T
- (obviously Mmniscience was super valuable in these matchups, although i sided it out versus Grixis but left it in vs UWR Miracles cause of Priest?)
- **[Bant Blade](snag.gy/5tTzKF.jpg)**
- R1: 2-0 ANT
- R2: 2-0 Jeskai Stoneblade
- R3: 0-2 Sneak
- R4: 1-2 D+T
- R5: 0-2 Red Stompy
- Mulliganed a bunch but no basics manabase makes the matchup a LOT harder.
- ##Jul 23, 2018
- **[Maverick](snag.gy/UBz6Q2.jpg)**
- R1: 1-2 POX
- R2: 0-2 Elves
- R3: 0-2 Eldrazi (manascrewed in g1 in a stall where my kotr was holding off 3 creatures but endbringer pinged me down)
- **[Maverick](snag.gy/UBz6Q2.jpg)**
- R1: 2-1 Food Chain
- R2: 2-0 MonoBlue Omnishow with Pieces of the puzzle
- R3: 2-0 EldraziPost
- R4: 1-2 Eldrazi Stompy
- R5: 2-0 Bant Landstill with Rallier/SFM
- ##July 24, 2018
- **Bant Blade (3 Zeniths/2 KotR):**
- R1: D+T LWL
- R2: D+T LL (drew extremely poorly in both of these matchups. on a hypothetical level basic lands + hierarch + tnns is excellent vs them)
- R3: Grixis Waste Not WW (IDFK man.)
- R4: Elves WW (MarijinLybaert). This should be a terrible mu but I drew extremely well both games to win. I forced double stone rain in g2 by never putting my jitte into play vs his obvious abrupt decay.
- R5: MonoBlack Reanimator WW Iona named blue vs my hand of double TNN, then i zenithed -> kotr -> karakas to win. G2 he kept on 7, i mulled, scried ooze to top, and played ooze with a green up on t2. he packed.
- **5C Humans**
- R1: 4c Loam WLL
- R2: RUG Lands LL. (intuition/fow/brainstorm/exploration/pfire/spell pierce/crop rotation)
- R3: Steel Stompy LWW. G2, opponent refused to take the monarch from me because he had ensnaring bridge. I think that decision killed him very easily.
- R4: Grixis Control WW. G1 oppt mulls to 5. G2 vial beats him.
- R5: Sneak LL. G1, I have reflector mage, but he has Omniscience off show. G2 I have Canonist but he has Griselbrand off show >_>
- ##July 25, 2018
- **[BUG Delver](snag.gy/6pvQtu.jpg)**
- R1: LL Jeskai Miracles
- R2: LL UW Stoneblade
- R3: LWW Grixis Control
- R4: LWL Red Stompy
- Thought this deck would be better, and Hymn is in fact quite good. The problem is it felt like you actually do need to draw multiple Hymns to win a game. In addition, it's difficult to kill Gurmag Angler (and by association any big creature).
- ##Jul 26, 2018
- **BR Reanimator updated Landon list**
- R1: LWW RUG Delver
- R2: WLW Sneak
- R3: LWW Lands
- R4: WW Sneak
- R5: LL 4c Loam
- Was inspired to try this deck again after talking to Pascal and Ewlandon. Still good, Cryptbreakers are the new addition to try to get around hate.
- Played a bunch of Maverick vs BR Reanimator to get an idea of the matchup with Ari at our airbnb.
- Wow does Maverick not have many cards that do anything. (8-4 preboard, 6-3 postboard for reanimator). Kinda off Maverick cause it's slow and clunky in general and not that great vs degenerate stuff unless it gets to be on the play nad have thalia
- ##Jul 30, 2018
- **Steel Stompy**
- R1: WW D+T
- R2: WW D+T
- R3: WW Monoblack Reanimator-(Depths?)
- R4: WLW UW Miracles-b2b-mentor
- R5: WLL Reid BUG stuff
- **Steel Stompy**
- R1: LL Maverick
- R2: LWL Sultai stuff (Kikurek)
- R3: LL UWr AK Miracles
- Midrange decks feel harder to beat (Maverick with its KotRs and stoneforges and not caring about thorns was difficult). Tarmogoyf and Strix are also pretty annoying (granted if you don't draw Ballista for Strix). I've also seen a bunch of uptick in AK miracles in the queues. Has this occurred to anyone else?
- ##Aug 1, 2018
- **BR Reanimator**
- R1: LL Miracles
- R2: LWW Sultai stuff (Kikurek)
- R3: LL MIracles
- R4: WW Red Stompy
- R5: WLL Sneak (yaya3)
- Total BR record as of right now: 21-9.
- ##Aug 1, 2018
- **BR Reanimator**
- R1: WW EldraziPost
- R2: WW GrixisDelver
- R3: WLW D+T
- R4: WW Grixis Dazai
- R5: WLL UW Stoneblade
- 25-10 final record. Feeling OK, submitting this:
- **Main deck**
- 2 Badlands
- 2 Bloodstained Mire
- 2 Marsh Flats
- 2 Polluted Delta
- 1 Scrubland
- 3 Swamp
- 2 Verdant Catacombs
- 4 Lotus Petal
- 4 Cabal Therapy
- 4 Dark Ritual
- 4 Entomb
- 4 Reanimate
- 4 Faithless Looting
- 4 Animate Dead
- 4 Exhume
- 4 Unmask
- 4 Chancellor of the Annex
- 4 Griselbrand
- 1 Tidespout Tyrant
- 1 Ashen Rider
- **Sideboard**
- 3 Cryptbreaker
- 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
- 1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
- 2 Thoughtseize
- 1 Coffin Purge
- 3 Wear//tear
- 2 Abrade
- 1 Pithing Needle
- 1 Archetype of Endurance
- Reasons to pick this deck:
- * shreds other fast combo decks with its plethora of discard,
- * does great in g1 vs most decks, and you just need to steal 1 of the next 2 for the most part.
- * Cryptbreaker adds a valuable dimension, as does additional discard (if they're relying on Surgicals, especially).
- Lands isn't great, cause I expect a reasonable amt of Sneak/Reanimator and even fair decks packing Surgicals. Lands can beat Surgicals plus removal but I'd rather roll the dice with Reanimator instead in a similar fashion.
- #Record at the Pro Tour
- 0-1 R1: RUG LWL
- 1-1 R2: Aluren WW
- 1-2 R3: SNS WLL (lost g3 after making a t1 Chancellor when he went Tomb -> petal -> artisan -> make an emrakul token)
- 1-3 R4: D+T WLL
- 1-4 R5: BR LL
- 1-5 R6: BR WW
- 2-5 R7: Eldrazi Post WLW
- 2-6 R8: Miracles WLL
- 3-6 R9: SNS WW
- 4-6 R10: Eldrazi Stompy LL (Ari's oppt didn't even show up and Mark won this round so we 'lol' won in the 3-6 bracket)
- 4-7 R11: Miracles LWL
- 5-7 R12: ANT (Storm) WW
- 5-8 R13: BR (Pascal) LL
- 5-9 R14: RUG WLL
- I actually enjoyed playtesting for this PT quite a bit, and if you're wondering what I would have played given no bans, I would have registered Grixis Delver no questions asked (19 lands, tuned sb, etc).
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