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  1. ##July 2nd
  2.  
  3. 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.
  4.  
  5. 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.
  6.  
  7. ##July 3rd
  8.  
  9. Played a bunch of RUG Delver versus BR Reanimator.
  10.  
  11. So few cards matter in g1 (establishing a threat, keeping Griselbrand out of play are the obvious things).
  12.  
  13. 2-1
  14. 1-2
  15. 1-2
  16. 2-0
  17.  
  18. 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.
  19.  
  20. 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.
  21.  
  22. In general I was siding out all of my bolts (4 lightning bolt, 1 forked/wild slash) for surgicals/cage/ooze/flusterstorms.
  23.  
  24. ##July 4th
  25.  
  26. Birded some streams silently, before having to go do family stuff.
  27.  
  28. 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.
  29.  
  30. ##July 6th
  31.  
  32. Playing more RUG, talking to RUG Experts.
  33.  
  34. Going to try this list versus UW/UWR:
  35.  
  36. **Maindeck**
  37.  
  38. 8 Fetch
  39. 3 Trop
  40. 3 Volc
  41. 4 Wasteland
  42. 4 Delver
  43. 4 Mongoose
  44. 4 Tarmogoyf
  45. 1 TNN
  46. 4 Brainstorm
  47. 4 Ponder
  48. 4 Stifle
  49. 2 Spell Pierce
  50. 2 Spell Snare
  51. 4 Daze
  52. 1 Dismember
  53. 4 Force of Will
  54. 4 Bolt
  55.  
  56. **Sideboard**
  57.  
  58. 1 Flusterstorm
  59. 2 Submerge
  60. 2 Surgical
  61. 2 Pyroblast
  62. 2 Ancient Grudge
  63. 1 Sulfur Elemental
  64. 1 Life from the Loam
  65. 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  66. 1 Null Rod
  67. 2 Winter Orb
  68.  
  69. ##July 6th continuation
  70.  
  71. Ended up playing a bunch of matches vs UW/UWR Miracles as RUG.
  72.  
  73. 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).
  74.  
  75. 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.
  76.  
  77. ##July 8th
  78.  
  79. Played a bunch of BR Reanimator versus RUG.
  80.  
  81. G1 feels very very very good, whereas I was going about 50% in postboard games with the updated BR list. (6-1, 5-5)
  82.  
  83. I sideboarded 0 cards generally, but you can side in 1 Wear//Tear and 1 Elesh Norn for 1 Therapy and 1 Griselbrand.
  84.  
  85. Also played some UWR Miracles versus RUG.
  86.  
  87. 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)
  88.  
  89. ##July 9th
  90.  
  91. **UWR Miracles League:**
  92.  
  93. R1: 4C Loam LWL
  94. R2: TBS on Naya Maverick WW
  95. R3: 4color (no black) maverick WW
  96. R4: D+T (Allen Wu) WW
  97. R5: OmniShow LL
  98.  
  99. **Lands League:**
  100.  
  101. R1: TES LWW (oppt left in empty)
  102. R2: Infect LL (played horribly)
  103. R3: Goblins WW (assembled manabond + chasm + stage + tabernacle)
  104. R4: RUG WW (G2 t2 20/20, G1 tabernacle lock)
  105. R5: D+T LWL (played horribly, missed maze activations somehow)
  106.  
  107. ##July 10th
  108.  
  109. **BR Reanimator League:**
  110.  
  111. R1: RUG Delver WW
  112. R2: RUG Delver WW
  113. R3: Moon Stompy WW (animate deaded his rabblemaster after he leylined me)
  114. R4: Infect WW
  115. 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)
  116.  
  117. ##July 12th
  118.  
  119. Here's the decks I currently like:
  120.  
  121. BR Reanimator
  122. Sneak and Show
  123. UWR Miracles
  124. Lands
  125.  
  126. 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.
  127.  
  128. **BR Reanimator League:**
  129.  
  130. R1: WW matt nass living wish reanimator/depths deck
  131. R2: WW goblins
  132. R3: LWL D+T
  133. R4: Esper Stoneblade 2-0
  134. R5: Esper Stoneblade 1-2
  135.  
  136. 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)
  137.  
  138. **BR Reanimator at MTGFirst (local legacy event):**
  139.  
  140. R1: UWR Miracles WLL
  141. R2: RUG Delver WLW
  142. R3: Sneak + Show WW
  143. R4: D+T WLL
  144. R5: Burn WLL
  145. R6: Merfolk WLW
  146. R7: Lands WW
  147.  
  148. 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.
  149.  
  150. ##July 17th
  151.  
  152. **[Trying updated Noah Walker Bomat Grixis Delver](snag.gy/5BS8jK.jpg)**
  153.  
  154. R1: LL 4c Loam (lots of knights killed me)
  155. R2: LWL Bant 12post (wtf?... elephant grass+tab problematic in g3)
  156. R3: LWL Moon Stompy (being on the draw g1 and 3 sucks)
  157.  
  158. 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.
  159.  
  160. ##July 20th Weekend SCG
  161.  
  162. **Classic: UWR Miracles**
  163.  
  164. R1: 1-2 UW Helm Miracles
  165. R2: 2-1 RGu Lands
  166. R3: 0-2 Infect
  167. R4: 2-1 D+T
  168. R5: 2-1 Sneak
  169. R6: 2-0 4c Loam
  170. R7: 1-2 Sneak
  171. R8: 0-2 Goblins
  172.  
  173. **Team Trios SCG: Lands**
  174.  
  175. R1: 2-0 Dreedge
  176. R2: 2-1 Infect
  177. R3: 1-2 Eldrazi
  178. R4: 2-0 RUG
  179. R5: 0-2 Storm
  180. R6: 1-2 RUG
  181. R7: 0-2 Infect
  182.  
  183.  
  184. 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.
  185.  
  186. 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).
  187.  
  188. ##Jul 23, 2018
  189.  
  190. **JPA Omni-Sneak**
  191.  
  192. R1: 2-0 D+T
  193. R2: 1-2 Grixis Delver (mulled to 5 G3, played a T2 Sneak, then got my red source wasted then died without drawing
  194. a red source for 8 turns causee he surgicaled my volcanics and tarns)
  195. R3: 1-2 UWR b2b miracles (g3 got counter walled out. didn't draw a defense grid which would have been excellent)
  196. R4: 2-1 D+T
  197. R5: 2-1 D+T
  198.  
  199. (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?)
  200.  
  201. **[Bant Blade](snag.gy/5tTzKF.jpg)**
  202.  
  203. R1: 2-0 ANT
  204. R2: 2-0 Jeskai Stoneblade
  205. R3: 0-2 Sneak
  206. R4: 1-2 D+T
  207. R5: 0-2 Red Stompy
  208.  
  209. Mulliganed a bunch but no basics manabase makes the matchup a LOT harder.
  210.  
  211. ##Jul 23, 2018
  212.  
  213. **[Maverick](snag.gy/UBz6Q2.jpg)**
  214.  
  215. R1: 1-2 POX
  216. R2: 0-2 Elves
  217. R3: 0-2 Eldrazi (manascrewed in g1 in a stall where my kotr was holding off 3 creatures but endbringer pinged me down)
  218.  
  219. **[Maverick](snag.gy/UBz6Q2.jpg)**
  220.  
  221. R1: 2-1 Food Chain
  222. R2: 2-0 MonoBlue Omnishow with Pieces of the puzzle
  223. R3: 2-0 EldraziPost
  224. R4: 1-2 Eldrazi Stompy
  225. R5: 2-0 Bant Landstill with Rallier/SFM
  226.  
  227. ##July 24, 2018
  228.  
  229. **Bant Blade (3 Zeniths/2 KotR):**
  230.  
  231. R1: D+T LWL
  232. R2: D+T LL (drew extremely poorly in both of these matchups. on a hypothetical level basic lands + hierarch + tnns is excellent vs them)
  233. R3: Grixis Waste Not WW (IDFK man.)
  234. 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.
  235. 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.
  236.  
  237. **5C Humans**
  238.  
  239. R1: 4c Loam WLL
  240. R2: RUG Lands LL. (intuition/fow/brainstorm/exploration/pfire/spell pierce/crop rotation)
  241. 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.
  242. R4: Grixis Control WW. G1 oppt mulls to 5. G2 vial beats him.
  243. R5: Sneak LL. G1, I have reflector mage, but he has Omniscience off show. G2 I have Canonist but he has Griselbrand off show >_>
  244.  
  245. ##July 25, 2018
  246.  
  247. **[BUG Delver](snag.gy/6pvQtu.jpg)**
  248.  
  249. R1: LL Jeskai Miracles
  250. R2: LL UW Stoneblade
  251. R3: LWW Grixis Control
  252. R4: LWL Red Stompy
  253.  
  254. 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).
  255.  
  256. ##Jul 26, 2018
  257.  
  258. **BR Reanimator updated Landon list**
  259.  
  260. R1: LWW RUG Delver
  261. R2: WLW Sneak
  262. R3: LWW Lands
  263. R4: WW Sneak
  264. R5: LL 4c Loam
  265.  
  266. 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.
  267.  
  268. Played a bunch of Maverick vs BR Reanimator to get an idea of the matchup with Ari at our airbnb.
  269.  
  270. 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
  271.  
  272. ##Jul 30, 2018
  273.  
  274. **Steel Stompy**
  275.  
  276. R1: WW D+T
  277. R2: WW D+T
  278. R3: WW Monoblack Reanimator-(Depths?)
  279. R4: WLW UW Miracles-b2b-mentor
  280. R5: WLL Reid BUG stuff
  281.  
  282. **Steel Stompy**
  283.  
  284. R1: LL Maverick
  285. R2: LWL Sultai stuff (Kikurek)
  286. R3: LL UWr AK Miracles
  287.  
  288. 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?
  289.  
  290. ##Aug 1, 2018
  291.  
  292. **BR Reanimator**
  293.  
  294. R1: LL Miracles
  295. R2: LWW Sultai stuff (Kikurek)
  296. R3: LL MIracles
  297. R4: WW Red Stompy
  298. R5: WLL Sneak (yaya3)
  299.  
  300.  
  301. Total BR record as of right now: 21-9.
  302.  
  303.  
  304. ##Aug 1, 2018
  305.  
  306. **BR Reanimator**
  307.  
  308. R1: WW EldraziPost
  309. R2: WW GrixisDelver
  310. R3: WLW D+T
  311. R4: WW Grixis Dazai
  312. R5: WLL UW Stoneblade
  313.  
  314. 25-10 final record. Feeling OK, submitting this:
  315.  
  316. **Main deck**
  317.  
  318. 2 Badlands
  319. 2 Bloodstained Mire
  320. 2 Marsh Flats
  321. 2 Polluted Delta
  322. 1 Scrubland
  323. 3 Swamp
  324. 2 Verdant Catacombs
  325. 4 Lotus Petal
  326. 4 Cabal Therapy
  327. 4 Dark Ritual
  328. 4 Entomb
  329. 4 Reanimate
  330. 4 Faithless Looting
  331. 4 Animate Dead
  332. 4 Exhume
  333. 4 Unmask
  334. 4 Chancellor of the Annex
  335. 4 Griselbrand
  336. 1 Tidespout Tyrant
  337. 1 Ashen Rider
  338.  
  339. **Sideboard**
  340.  
  341. 3 Cryptbreaker
  342. 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  343. 1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
  344. 2 Thoughtseize
  345. 1 Coffin Purge
  346. 3 Wear//tear
  347. 2 Abrade
  348. 1 Pithing Needle
  349. 1 Archetype of Endurance
  350.  
  351. Reasons to pick this deck:
  352.  
  353. * shreds other fast combo decks with its plethora of discard,
  354. * does great in g1 vs most decks, and you just need to steal 1 of the next 2 for the most part.
  355. * Cryptbreaker adds a valuable dimension, as does additional discard (if they're relying on Surgicals, especially).
  356.  
  357. 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.
  358.  
  359. #Record at the Pro Tour
  360.  
  361. 0-1 R1: RUG LWL
  362. 1-1 R2: Aluren WW
  363. 1-2 R3: SNS WLL (lost g3 after making a t1 Chancellor when he went Tomb -> petal -> artisan -> make an emrakul token)
  364. 1-3 R4: D+T WLL
  365. 1-4 R5: BR LL
  366. 1-5 R6: BR WW
  367. 2-5 R7: Eldrazi Post WLW
  368. 2-6 R8: Miracles WLL
  369. 3-6 R9: SNS WW
  370. 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)
  371. 4-7 R11: Miracles LWL
  372. 5-7 R12: ANT (Storm) WW
  373. 5-8 R13: BR (Pascal) LL
  374. 5-9 R14: RUG WLL
  375.  
  376. 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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