Little angel, go away come again some other day the Devil has my ear today I'll never hear a word you say. He promised I would find a little solace and some peace of mind. Whatever. just as long as I don't feel so desperate and ravenous.
So I played in a 7 round tournament today with dual lands as prize support. I went 5-2. Lost round 1 to Grixis Blue Moon and round 7 to u/w gifts tron. I was 40 seconds late in round 7 and got a game loss. I won the first game and was 2 points shy before he unburial rites an elesh norn and locked me out.
Edit: so I defeated Temur midrange, b/g elves, Jund shadow, colorless eldrazi and Jund.
Little angel, go away come again some other day the Devil has my ear today I'll never hear a word you say. He promised I would find a little solace and some peace of mind. Whatever. just as long as I don't feel so desperate and ravenous.
I played a pretty standard list with one wild defiance main and had Geist of Saint Traft in the side. I didn’t play humans but I’m considering some number of gutshot I’m the side.
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Little angel, go away come again some other day the Devil has my ear today I'll never hear a word you say. He promised I would find a little solace and some peace of mind. Whatever. just as long as I don't feel so desperate and ravenous.
Played in the SCG Atlanta Open main event. Finished 6-3. Lost to humans(game 1 five kitesail freebooters and I was still drawing to any pump spell to win), Jund and mono green tron. Tron on the play with turn three tron plus karn take out a mana source, turn 4 karn take out a mana source and turn 5 gigantic walking ballista. Overall infect felt good and was well represented.
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Little angel, go away come again some other day the Devil has my ear today I'll never hear a word you say. He promised I would find a little solace and some peace of mind. Whatever. just as long as I don't feel so desperate and ravenous.
Hey Guys,
can someone please explain me why everyone is so into this invisible stalker thing. On MTGgoldfish nearly every list that had good placing in the past week has 4 copies in the sideboard.
I played Infect in the past and tried a lot SB cards, but this one leaves me with a weird feeling. Is it for Humans, Jeskai? What is the plan to sideboard out?
I love transformative sideboard plans and really want to know whats up with this one
Stalker is for decks with lots of removal. Decks like mardu, Jund and jeskai. I like stalker if you run rancor main deck. Makes it easier to close the game out. You would side out some number of pump spells.
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Little angel, go away come again some other day the Devil has my ear today I'll never hear a word you say. He promised I would find a little solace and some peace of mind. Whatever. just as long as I don't feel so desperate and ravenous.
I see Kitchen Finks in a lot of sideboards. Do you just bring this in vs. Burn and other aggressive decks? Or, is it a plan against the grindy decks like Jeskai, UW, and BGx, too? I'm currently playing Invisible Stalker in that spot. Maybe we can discuss the pros and cons to each plan?
Considering buying into either UG or GB Infect as my second deck. Anyone that streams the deck at a high level? Looking to get a feel for match-ups and play patterns.
PPTQ this past Saturday, went 4-1-2
(50 players)
Bogles- 2-0
Easy match up, poor guy didnt have any sb prep for me
Abzan Valuetown (2-1)
Wierd list with resto/smiter/slyvan carytid/etc. I hadn’t seen it before but for us it played like abzan midrange. G1 he destroyed me, G2 he only had discard with no removal, G3 he missed a land drop- his hand was gas but missing the land and a color made it difficult to lose.
Humans (2-0)
He kind of misplayed the matchup, tried racing with mantis rider instead of prioritizing controlling my board with staticaster/reflector mage
Counters Company (2-1)
Kind of lucked out, he whiffed a coco and never found melira or a chord
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ID
QF- Mono Green Tron (1-2)
I’m really disappointed by this one- got g1, disrespected him g2 and kept an elf hand that got bricked by his thought-knot blocker, g3 i kept a risky hand without a clear gameplan in mind. I simply tilted and didn’t think clearly- only my second tournament, i hadnt played in 2 1/2 hours bc of the IDs, and he found the perfect card in g2 and g3 with ancient stirrings. G2 he found his only out with a walking ballista, G3 he found his tron land.
Overall, i like infect, i like its positioning, and i think theres still a lot of room for me to improve. My advice for playing this deck- there are three critical aspects to infect. 1) This is the one most people get pretty fast- play around your lose conditions. Sometimes this means playing safe and holding up protection, sometimes it means going for the unsafe kill if you feel theres an unbeatable card about to be played.
2) MULLIGANING. The skill I’m currently trying to develop. It isn’t about knowing when or when not to keep, it’s about recognizing the hand you’ve drawn, what your hand needs, and the probability that you’ll draw that needed card. A few rules of thumb, in order from most to least important- never mull less than 4, strongly consider never mulling below 5, I never ever keep without an infect creature, i sometimes keep no landers if the hand is absolutely INSANE with a land.
3) deckbuilding and sideboarding are a skill. I havent developed this one yet, i still netdeck, but ive found that infect is an outsider strategy. By that I mean we are always trying to prey on the meta, not be the meta. Naturally that means we always need to be aware of what decks we are likely to face and have a gameplan for them. Is it creature heavy we need dismembers main, is it spell heavy and we need pierces main, do we just want to go fast and cut the fluff for more consistent pump. These are all questions we should ask- infect does not netdeck particularly well, so i encourage everyone including myself to learn this skill asap!
My list was very similar to Dillion Nelson’s PPTQ on MTGtop8, without the sleight of hands.
Finally, a question: i’m considering testing street wraith since i havent seen any lists running it. Zan syed’s version w/ stalkers appears a lot faster than Aaron Barich’s Geist list, aren’t street wraiths good if we are trying to go fast?
It hurts our burn matchup but I’ve basically given that one up, my PPTQ list had almost nothing for it.
Good luck and happy games, everyone!
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I mulliganed 4 times to 5 cards, I really don't understand how it is possible to just run 20 lands including 1 dryad arbor and 4 Nexus :/
Some lists are running 21 lands, I think it's better,
what do you think ?
I played infect 4 years ago and the deck was really good (gp day 2 finish) : https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/established-modern/aggro-tempo/557165-infect?comment=667
Edit: Aaron said he sided in Geist against Jeskai. Would you side out Glistener elves?
2 BG Infect in T8 with the black disruption suite of discard and Fatal Push.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-ptq-2018-06-18
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Edit: so I defeated Temur midrange, b/g elves, Jund shadow, colorless eldrazi and Jund.
Congrats with the oke finish.
can someone please explain me why everyone is so into this invisible stalker thing. On MTGgoldfish nearly every list that had good placing in the past week has 4 copies in the sideboard.
I played Infect in the past and tried a lot SB cards, but this one leaves me with a weird feeling. Is it for Humans, Jeskai? What is the plan to sideboard out?
I love transformative sideboard plans and really want to know whats up with this one
What's your list like berto1011?
He also seems great against any death shadow strategie. But for sure death shadow is not the main argument to play him;)
(50 players)
Bogles- 2-0
Easy match up, poor guy didnt have any sb prep for me
Abzan Valuetown (2-1)
Wierd list with resto/smiter/slyvan carytid/etc. I hadn’t seen it before but for us it played like abzan midrange. G1 he destroyed me, G2 he only had discard with no removal, G3 he missed a land drop- his hand was gas but missing the land and a color made it difficult to lose.
Humans (2-0)
He kind of misplayed the matchup, tried racing with mantis rider instead of prioritizing controlling my board with staticaster/reflector mage
Counters Company (2-1)
Kind of lucked out, he whiffed a coco and never found melira or a chord
ID
ID
QF- Mono Green Tron (1-2)
I’m really disappointed by this one- got g1, disrespected him g2 and kept an elf hand that got bricked by his thought-knot blocker, g3 i kept a risky hand without a clear gameplan in mind. I simply tilted and didn’t think clearly- only my second tournament, i hadnt played in 2 1/2 hours bc of the IDs, and he found the perfect card in g2 and g3 with ancient stirrings. G2 he found his only out with a walking ballista, G3 he found his tron land.
Overall, i like infect, i like its positioning, and i think theres still a lot of room for me to improve. My advice for playing this deck- there are three critical aspects to infect. 1) This is the one most people get pretty fast- play around your lose conditions. Sometimes this means playing safe and holding up protection, sometimes it means going for the unsafe kill if you feel theres an unbeatable card about to be played.
2) MULLIGANING. The skill I’m currently trying to develop. It isn’t about knowing when or when not to keep, it’s about recognizing the hand you’ve drawn, what your hand needs, and the probability that you’ll draw that needed card. A few rules of thumb, in order from most to least important- never mull less than 4, strongly consider never mulling below 5, I never ever keep without an infect creature, i sometimes keep no landers if the hand is absolutely INSANE with a land.
3) deckbuilding and sideboarding are a skill. I havent developed this one yet, i still netdeck, but ive found that infect is an outsider strategy. By that I mean we are always trying to prey on the meta, not be the meta. Naturally that means we always need to be aware of what decks we are likely to face and have a gameplan for them. Is it creature heavy we need dismembers main, is it spell heavy and we need pierces main, do we just want to go fast and cut the fluff for more consistent pump. These are all questions we should ask- infect does not netdeck particularly well, so i encourage everyone including myself to learn this skill asap!
My list was very similar to Dillion Nelson’s PPTQ on MTGtop8, without the sleight of hands.
Finally, a question: i’m considering testing street wraith since i havent seen any lists running it. Zan syed’s version w/ stalkers appears a lot faster than Aaron Barich’s Geist list, aren’t street wraiths good if we are trying to go fast?
It hurts our burn matchup but I’ve basically given that one up, my PPTQ list had almost nothing for it.
Good luck and happy games, everyone!