Hi guys, played a few events this weekend. Didn't do very well, actually. I'm not going to write them all up but I will offer some notes and thoughts.
On Friday I played a ~40 person Modern side event at our local GP (Standard format). I went 2-3, felt kinda slow and unlucky. I did a lot of mulliganing. Then I went 3-2 that night at my LGS FNM, beating only a couple of janky brews.
For Saturday, I readied for a large (~200+ person) 25K tix Modern side event by calling an audible and swapping some cards for what I expected to be a faster, aggro-based meta. I dropped 2x Thoughtseize for 2x Inquisitions, a Blight Herder for a second Matter Reshaper, and a Shambling Vent for an Isolated Chapel (figuring I have 8 ways to make it active after T1.) In the side I dropped one Ratchet Bomb for a Ghostly Prison. All day I felt like I mulliganed a ton, drew the wrong half of my deck, and just generally got wrecked by my opponents. Example: I went 1-4 and dropped, beating only Dredge, and losing to--among others--a janky Esper Tokens/Polymorph deck. Awkward alert: In G3 against the Polymorph build I drew bothInquisitions while she had her Polymorph in hand and I held Extraction. I had no instant to kill her target token on her T4 so I lost. That felt bad.
Tonight I went 4-0 for first of 36 players at my LGS MNM, though, beating some of the top-8/top-16 players from the Saturday big tourney. I was 8-1 in games beating Dredge, Jeskai Nahiri, Grixis Delver, and RW Burn.
Notes: I am impressed by the current state of Kiki-Chord. With Eldritch Evolution and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite it is extremely good now and very consistent. In fact I am so sick of losing to it that I made some changes.
I am cutting 3x Surgical Extraction, and keeping the maindeck changes described above (except back to 4x Thoughtseize because f*&% Inquisition of Kozilek). In the side I am moving to a bunch of one-of's: Ghostly Prison, Ratchet Bomb, Grafdigger's Cage, and even a Rest in Peace since I took out the Extractions and Dredge is such a big deal right now. I posted my deck list below as I ran it tonight.
There are a bunch of PPTQs coming up around here and I'll attend them--I will report back after as usual. I sure felt bad about the deck after Saturday but tonight has me a little more chipper again; I will see how the next few competitive REL days go before I make any drastic decisions.
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What are your experiences with Matter Reshaper in this build? Does it do any good, or would you rather fit in an extra Strangler and Blight Herder/removal?
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What are your experiences with Matter Reshaper in this build? Does it do any good, or would you rather fit in an extra Strangler and Blight Herder/removal?