I think there is a flaw in judging competitive decks from their performance online.
Many people will spend a ticket to just play casually after work. With their 5-10 ticket infect deck.
That's like judging a cars performance 0-60 on how fast the average driver takes that particular car on the on ramp.
Conditions aren't optimal, not being driven it's absolute best or for sport. Just casual in nature.
I thing heirarch is inherently better/more suited for the meta. But it's usefulness to the deck does not warrant the massive price increase. We're talking a $200+ difference for a play set for paper. Idk what online prices are, usually a lot more reasonable but if you're running hierarch in a local tournament....
someone explain viridian corrupter in the mainboard. isn't it really expensive to run? also since etched champion is protected from it, isn't it a futile attempt?
I run 4 apostle
4 vines
And I side board 4 rangers
@planeswalkerwizard.
Wait for the modern prices to come down next year. You can build it if you want but I'd wait. Actually if you do wait I'll sell you my deck once this season is over
@mrenigmas that deck is called zoo. It's very very good.
Yeah, he had a lot of answers. Swing elf he takes 1, then I try to groundswell he would spell pierce. Or he would remand every pump so like turn 5 or 6 on the second match he's coming out with like 4 counters
Played a pretty big tournament today.
Can you guys help me be a better player?
I went 2-2
Match 1: 0-2 American control
Got probe t1. Saw the bolt saw the helix saw remand.
Ghost quarter pass, popped ghost on colonnade. I lost to cryptic command on my last creature for awhile. Something tells me with a budget like that nothing I can really do will work. But I could suggestions. Personally I am 50% win/loss to control.
Match 2: 2-0 storm
Game 1 git probe and I all I talked about all game was that he was piloting my dream deck. I don't have a lot of money to spend on magic which holds me back. Didn't do much other than empty the warrens for like 7 tokens but I still won because of apostle's blessing. I was jealous of the dude playing it.I wish I could afford that deck, and I wish I were good enough to pilot it in a tournament. Want!
Match 3: tron 1-2
Brand new player to modern not going to lie he kicked my ass up and down. Only tricks I had were blocking and apostle's blessing for pro artifacts and folded. I snuck one game in on a turn 2 swing and pray
to stop lethal I sometimes chump with blight mamba then regen.
should I SB out the mamba for more necro so the chump gets em -2/-2? then claim their cranial?
seems like a 3 for 1 deal that is more glass cannon than my deck.
usually they just win by infect believe it or not (their own inkmoths )
Hey guys I went 2-1 with a budgetversion of this deck. (beating tron NOT BUDGET, and American control *so not budget its not even funny*)
I have 1 problem with a deck archtype called robots.
on my first turn I usually throw a glistener elf out.
however on their turn they can manage to dump their entire hand, or have more than enough chump blockers to get me into some serious trouble.
the memnites tend to chump block, and they have more than enough artifacts to cause protection from everything on
Etched Champion.
meaning I tend to lose to this deck before I even start the game.
I do run artifact hate in the side board, but it's usually a wash between destroying artifacts, or pumping creatures. as I only have 2 forests on the field on my second turn I can't really do much in the way of clearing enough artifacts, especially when their lands count as one.
any other hate I have for the robot deck, just runs into more redundancy as the affinity mechanic is designed for it.
so just to be clear, everyone on the same page. dismember cannot target etched champion, you can't block it, you can't gut shot it, you cannot bolt it, you cannot summnoer's pact it
Many people will spend a ticket to just play casually after work. With their 5-10 ticket infect deck.
That's like judging a cars performance 0-60 on how fast the average driver takes that particular car on the on ramp.
Conditions aren't optimal, not being driven it's absolute best or for sport. Just casual in nature.
I thing heirarch is inherently better/more suited for the meta. But it's usefulness to the deck does not warrant the massive price increase. We're talking a $200+ difference for a play set for paper. Idk what online prices are, usually a lot more reasonable but if you're running hierarch in a local tournament....
4 vines
And I side board 4 rangers
@planeswalkerwizard.
Wait for the modern prices to come down next year. You can build it if you want but I'd wait. Actually if you do wait I'll sell you my deck once this season is over
@mrenigmas that deck is called zoo. It's very very good.
Can you guys help me be a better player?
I went 2-2
Match 1: 0-2 American control
Got probe t1. Saw the bolt saw the helix saw remand.
Ghost quarter pass, popped ghost on colonnade. I lost to cryptic command on my last creature for awhile. Something tells me with a budget like that nothing I can really do will work. But I could suggestions. Personally I am 50% win/loss to control.
Match 2: 2-0 storm
Game 1 git probe and I all I talked about all game was that he was piloting my dream deck. I don't have a lot of money to spend on magic which holds me back. Didn't do much other than empty the warrens for like 7 tokens but I still won because of apostle's blessing. I was jealous of the dude playing it.I wish I could afford that deck, and I wish I were good enough to pilot it in a tournament. Want!
Match 3: tron 1-2
Brand new player to modern not going to lie he kicked my ass up and down. Only tricks I had were blocking and apostle's blessing for pro artifacts and folded. I snuck one game in on a turn 2 swing and pray
Matchn4: was a free 2-0 someone left.
should I SB out the mamba for more necro so the chump gets em -2/-2? then claim their cranial?
seems like a 3 for 1 deal that is more glass cannon than my deck.
usually they just win by infect believe it or not (their own inkmoths )
I have 1 problem with a deck archtype called robots.
on my first turn I usually throw a glistener elf out.
however on their turn they can manage to dump their entire hand, or have more than enough chump blockers to get me into some serious trouble.
the memnites tend to chump block, and they have more than enough artifacts to cause protection from everything on
Etched Champion.
meaning I tend to lose to this deck before I even start the game.
I do run artifact hate in the side board, but it's usually a wash between destroying artifacts, or pumping creatures. as I only have 2 forests on the field on my second turn I can't really do much in the way of clearing enough artifacts, especially when their lands count as one.
any other hate I have for the robot deck, just runs into more redundancy as the affinity mechanic is designed for it.
so just to be clear, everyone on the same page. dismember cannot target etched champion, you can't block it, you can't gut shot it, you cannot bolt it, you cannot summnoer's pact it
2 Ghost Quarter
4 Inkmoth Nexus
2 Pendelhaven
10 Forest
4 Glistener Elf
4 Ichorclaw Myr
2 Necropede
2 Blight Mamba
4 Might of Old Krosa
4 Groundswell
4 Vines of Vastwood
4 Apostle's Blessing
4 Mutagenic Growth
2 Rancor
2 Dismember
2 Unnatural Predation
2 livewire lash
2 Dismember
2 Ranger's Guile
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Rancor
2 Creeping Corrosion
1 pithing needle