Since no one else made a thread for it, I figured I should. Starcitygames is having the Columbus Invitational, which is half Modern, and a Modern Open this weekend.
Todd Anderson is currently playing Tarmo-Twin (with Roasts), Danny Jessup is playing Grixis Moon, Chris Vanmeter is playing Amulet Bloom, and Gerry Thompson is playing Jund.
I saw Joe Lossett being on Goryo's Vengeance and Reid Duke piloting Jund.
What a terrible match it was too. The judge call in game two took longer than the actual time spent playing the entire match.
Looks like there's a lot of Jund showing up and at least a couple RG Tron decks. BBD and one of my friends both lost to it in the first round.
Interesting that we just saw RUG Twin on stream. Seems like UR and Grixis have largely overshadowed it recently, I wonder what his motivation to run RUG was.
Interesting that we just saw RUG Twin on stream. Seems like UR and Grixis have largely overshadowed it recently, I wonder what his motivation to run RUG was.
Todd even said it's not the best version of Twin but it's the version he's most comfortable with.
I saw Joe Lossett being on Goryo's Vengeance and Reid Duke piloting Jund.
What a terrible match it was too. The judge call in game two took longer than the actual time spent playing the entire match.
Looks like there's a lot of Jund showing up and at least a couple RG Tron decks. BBD and one of my friends both lost to it in the first round.
Interesting that we just saw RUG Twin on stream. Seems like UR and Grixis have largely overshadowed it recently, I wonder what his motivation to run RUG was.
He ran RUG Twin at SCG Baltimore as well, so I think he just likes the deck.
Goryo's Vengeance is the most broken PURE combo deck in Modern (just by the Turn 2 kill percentage). But yeah, hate inc.
Greetings,
Kathal
Can anyone recap the results so far? I'm just seeing last-chance decklists on their page.
I didn't catch it all but I saw Reid Duke (Jund) beat Nathan Holiday (UR Twin) in 2-1, Joe Lossett (Griselcannon) beat Jund 2-0 in six total turns round two, and Amulet Bloom beat Zoo 2-1. There was also RUG Twin and Grixis Control but I can't remember whether they were playing each other or not.
Goryo's Vengeance is the most broken PURE combo deck in Modern (just by the Turn 2 kill percentage). But yeah, hate inc.
Greetings,
Kathal
Can anyone recap the results so far? I'm just seeing last-chance decklists on their page.
I didn't catch it all but I saw Reid Duke (Jund) beat Nathan Holiday (UR Twin) in 2-1, Joe Lossett (Griselcannon) beat Jund 2-0 in six total turns round two, and Amulet Bloom beat Zoo 2-1. There was also RUG Twin and Grixis Control but I can't remember whether they were playing each other or not.
Todd Anderson with Tarmo-Twin beat Danny Jessup playing Grixis Moon.
Also, Joe Losset's Griselbrand Reanimator deck looked sweet.
Joe Losset is a funny guy. He is one of the most well-known Miracles players and yet I have seen him play Red Deck Wins in Standard and now Griselbrand Reanimator in Modern. Dude definitely doesn't stick to one archetype. That's for sure.
Though it is funny that he chose to play it now. Considering having graveyard hate is definitely a consideration now with Abzan Company decks on the rise and a ton of decks like Delver relying on their graveyard quite a bit.
After 9 rounds, only 2 players are undefeated. Chris Van Meter is on Bloom Titan. Does anyone know what Kevin Gerhart is on? (I do realize that this record is Modern AND Standard, but I'm still curious.)
EDIT> It looks like CVM moves on as the only 10-0. Kevin is on Jund.
Legacy - Sneak Show, BR Reanimator, Miracles, UW Stoneblade
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
Serum Powder will be $20 by the end of the day, sadly. Caverns too.
I also don't think that list even remotely approaches "consistent". But it is neat.
Serum Powder actually didn't spike! Maybe people are finally using common sense now.
I didn't want to say this earlier because it doesn't really have to do with the Invitational per se, but Gemstone Caverns is a pretty easy pickup. I picked up a few play sets a few months ago at $0.75 for each card ($3 a play set). This card seems highly underrated and all it takes is some Combo deck to run these and they will spike to $5 minimum. I think this card is seriously underrated, even if people believe that it only contributes to "glass cannon" decks.
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Legacy - Sneak Show, BR Reanimator, Miracles, UW Stoneblade
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
From memory:
Temur Delver vs Grixis Delver, Grixis wins
Sultai Delver vs Jund, Sultai wins
Temur Twin vs Merfolk with Twilight Sparkle hair & shirt, Twilight Sparkle wins
Grixis Twin vs Jund, Twin wins
UWRb Control vs Melira Company, Melira wins
2/3 of the players at the top of the standings after R12 are playing Amulet (Tariq Patel and Chris VanMeter)
I guess there goes the replies of "Bloom Titan" is so inconsistent." Well, now people may say that it won't perform in the next tournament, which obviously the people doing well with it right now could care less about.
I think every deck has poor hands. The poor hands in this deck just look uglier. I won 2 matches last FNM with Cheerios in which I played hardly anything in the game 2s. However, games 1 and 3, I comboed out or put enough Monks into play to force my opponent to concede. Some decks just have games that look UGLY, although admittedly this deck is incredibly inconsistent.
Case in point - Bloom Titan keeps a hand with 3 land, Summer Bloom, Amulet of Vigor, Primeval Titan, and Summoner's Pact. They are looking for a single Karoo land to basically probably win. They fail to draw them. This loss looks very ugly. Jund keeps a 2 land hand. They play a Terminate, an Abrupt Decay, and a Tarmogoyf, but fail to be able to cast Liliana or Kologhan's Command, which get stranded and lose because those 3 cards were not enough. This loss looks a "little better."
The deck has consistency in 9 Karoos, 4 Summoner's Pact and 4 Primeval Titan, Hive Mind with 7 main deck Pacts, 4 Serum Visions and 4 Ancient Stirrings, 4 Summer Bloom and 1-2 Azusa, Lost but Seeking which Pact can find, with the least consistent part, Amulet of Vigor to be hopefully found off Visions or Stirrings.
Legacy - Sneak Show, BR Reanimator, Miracles, UW Stoneblade
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
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Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Aggro: Naya Burn RWG
Combo: Scapeshift RG
Control: Jeskai Control UWR
Legacy
Control: Miracles UW
Aggro: Burn R
Prepare for Goryo's Vengeance is broken threads to start up soon
What a terrible match it was too. The judge call in game two took longer than the actual time spent playing the entire match.
Looks like there's a lot of Jund showing up and at least a couple RG Tron decks. BBD and one of my friends both lost to it in the first round.
Interesting that we just saw RUG Twin on stream. Seems like UR and Grixis have largely overshadowed it recently, I wonder what his motivation to run RUG was.
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Greetings,
Kathal
Modern/Legacy
either funpolice (Delver, Deathcloud, UW Control) or the fun decks (especially those ft. Griselbrand)
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Todd even said it's not the best version of Twin but it's the version he's most comfortable with.
Can anyone recap the results so far? I'm just seeing last-chance decklists on their page.
He ran RUG Twin at SCG Baltimore as well, so I think he just likes the deck.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
I didn't catch it all but I saw Reid Duke (Jund) beat Nathan Holiday (UR Twin) in 2-1, Joe Lossett (Griselcannon) beat Jund 2-0 in six total turns round two, and Amulet Bloom beat Zoo 2-1. There was also RUG Twin and Grixis Control but I can't remember whether they were playing each other or not.
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Todd Anderson with Tarmo-Twin beat Danny Jessup playing Grixis Moon.
Also, Joe Losset's Griselbrand Reanimator deck looked sweet.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Jacob Wilson, Brian-Braun Duin, Dan Jessup and Ross Merriam are 3-1.
Reid Duke is 1-3 with Jund.
Cheers!
Aggro: Naya Burn RWG
Combo: Scapeshift RG
Control: Jeskai Control UWR
Legacy
Control: Miracles UW
Aggro: Burn R
Though it is funny that he chose to play it now. Considering having graveyard hate is definitely a consideration now with Abzan Company decks on the rise and a ton of decks like Delver relying on their graveyard quite a bit.
http://www.starcitygames.com/events/coverage/goryos_vengeance_with_joe_loss.html
Serum Powder will be $20 by the end of the day, sadly. Caverns too.
I also don't think that list even remotely approaches "consistent". But it is neat.
EDIT> It looks like CVM moves on as the only 10-0. Kevin is on Jund.
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)URW Control
WBG Abzan
GRW Burn
EDH
GR Rosheen Meanderer
Serum Powder actually didn't spike! Maybe people are finally using common sense now.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Sultai Delver would be the only Delver deck that I would touch so I can't even say that Im on Junds side
I didn't want to say this earlier because it doesn't really have to do with the Invitational per se, but Gemstone Caverns is a pretty easy pickup. I picked up a few play sets a few months ago at $0.75 for each card ($3 a play set). This card seems highly underrated and all it takes is some Combo deck to run these and they will spike to $5 minimum. I think this card is seriously underrated, even if people believe that it only contributes to "glass cannon" decks.
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)| Ad Nauseam
| Infect
Big Johnny.
DECKS:
UB Faeries [Midrange/Tempo]
RWUGB Affinity[Aggro]
FAERIES TOO STRONK!!!1111
- Fae Prophecy, 201
5678From memory:
Temur Delver vs Grixis Delver, Grixis wins
Sultai Delver vs Jund, Sultai wins
Temur Twin vs Merfolk with Twilight Sparkle hair & shirt, Twilight Sparkle wins
Grixis Twin vs Jund, Twin wins
UWRb Control vs Melira Company, Melira wins
| Ad Nauseam
| Infect
Big Johnny.
I guess there goes the replies of "Bloom Titan" is so inconsistent." Well, now people may say that it won't perform in the next tournament, which obviously the people doing well with it right now could care less about.
I think every deck has poor hands. The poor hands in this deck just look uglier. I won 2 matches last FNM with Cheerios in which I played hardly anything in the game 2s. However, games 1 and 3, I comboed out or put enough Monks into play to force my opponent to concede. Some decks just have games that look UGLY, although admittedly this deck is incredibly inconsistent.
Case in point - Bloom Titan keeps a hand with 3 land, Summer Bloom, Amulet of Vigor, Primeval Titan, and Summoner's Pact. They are looking for a single Karoo land to basically probably win. They fail to draw them. This loss looks very ugly. Jund keeps a 2 land hand. They play a Terminate, an Abrupt Decay, and a Tarmogoyf, but fail to be able to cast Liliana or Kologhan's Command, which get stranded and lose because those 3 cards were not enough. This loss looks a "little better."
The deck has consistency in 9 Karoos, 4 Summoner's Pact and 4 Primeval Titan, Hive Mind with 7 main deck Pacts, 4 Serum Visions and 4 Ancient Stirrings, 4 Summer Bloom and 1-2 Azusa, Lost but Seeking which Pact can find, with the least consistent part, Amulet of Vigor to be hopefully found off Visions or Stirrings.
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)