thanks for the report! it's good to see the deck doing decently and getting out there, i like some of the choices you made as well....i don't kno about the serum visions though, rarely do i feel like i have the time/inclination....but i may test your list a bit on 'trice to see the difference in feel
i've been considering a second snapcaster mage in my list too. I run 1 atm...and i wish I could run 1.5, i'm betting sittner felt the same way, and decided to overshoot rather than undershoot.
my thoughts on Alex Sittner and UB fae in this meta game...i think it's actually decently well positioned, I just think everyone ASSUMES it isn't, and is straying away from it. the fact that Sittner has twice now placed decently in two large scale modern tournaments with the deck show that it's at least viable. If it had the representation of some of the other big decks in modern, i'd be willing to bet we'd have seen chances at higher place finishes, or more well placed finishes at least.
13-2 is a damn good record at a gp, imo, and the fact that someone else this weekend went 13-0 in the first 13 rounds, and still didn't top 8, should prove that only looking at the top 8 of this event is short sighted.
i feel like it's only a matter of time before someone gets lucky and gets that last little push to make it into the top 8 of an event, and put the deck back on the masses radar. I'm excited, personally.
Against pod.. I want to see hibernation every game. Its just such a huge swing in tempo. But ya, same thing, just remove the dorks...and try to keep them off pod. Otherwise if they are on beat down town, I try to counter the spells that give em CA, ranger of eos, reveilark, persist targets. I still need a lot of practice against melira pod and kiki pod tho
Its cute....but the problem is you lock your game ender(mistbind) into being the control not, and taking a longer time to end the game. I wouldn't build around it, but also wouldn't ignore it if the option came up and you had some kind of a nonmistbind clock on the table tho
I'm down to one sword and a jace beleren( I lump them together as 'equipment, card advantage generator effects) I had two swords...but at the CFB 5k light and shadow was less useful then the raw power of fire and ice(such an insane clock if you connect with sword) so I cut l&s to run a singleton baby jace and haven't been unhappy with that setup. I'd like to find room for a relic or two in the board, but haven't gotten Around to making it fit yet. I've been standard testing all week for an scgiq on Saturday, so haven't been able to do much faerie testing
Haha I'm not advocating the green splash currently, I said if zoo really takes over, it may mean more....at least we are having good discussion again and not arguing/name calling(yet, this IS the internet still)
I like ooze, I think in a bug list he'd make pod easier....my only issue is you really need heavier green landbase to support him, as you will want to cast him with green open usually, which dilutes our main UB package. I wouldn't count it out tho if someone were going the bug route
I recently, after the 5k, cut my sword of light and shadow for a have beleren maindeck. But I left in the fire and ice(I seen both of em multiple times, and fire and ice just pulled far more weight every time) been playing against udrew on cockatrice(friend me any of you who want to test, BTW, cockatrice I'd: brianbgrp) and he runs baby jace, and every time I seen it I had the awkwardness of not wanting to waste a turn attacking it, but it giving him so much CA if I didn't. So I'm testing him out, cause forcing your opponent to make those awkward choices works well with the deck I think.
@snapcaster talk: I run it as a one of, and I wish I could run it as a 1.5 of...if that makes sense. I don't want it the way a ur player does, cause for them its a burn spell on a stick and a significant clock increase..... However its backbreaking to occasionally t1 discard, t2 bb, t3 snap discard. Or mid/late draw the snapcaster for an extra cryptic or removal spell. I don't really want two in the deck, but I want more than one lol. Actually hoping the jace card draw helps it be closer to the 1.5 snapcasters I want to run.
I honestly don't think the meta calls for the bug version ATM, I was just bringing it up as a discussion point. I'll load the list in 'trice today tho and try it out to make sure tho
Exactly! If zoo really took over the meta....I'd either a) go bug, cry about having to pay for goyfs or b) play a different deck. I hate that those are the options...I just don't think making our g1 good against zoo is worth the hit everywhere else, unless zoo starts destroying the meta. But combo and uwr really hold zoo down.
My honest plan going into a large event would be to try and get lucky, dodge zoo early, and prey on the combo/uwr matches. Twin/storm/uwr should hopefully keep zoo from the top tables. Modern. Is a very diverse format right now, we are GOING to have some rough matchups. Just gotta Roll with it and hope your pairings don't screw you.
I think people are overestimating zoos numbers...at the CFB 5k I seen very little zoo at all lookin around. I think its safer to just ignore it for maundeck considerations... People don't want to play zoo in a combo control meta
Goyf because it is hands down the best 2 drop in the format. It gives us another game ending 2 drop. And IMO a bug list would probably run less counter spells, and more proactive threats(a LA jund, just with u over r)
I may mess with a list and try it out on cockatrice later after work. But don't see a lot of reason to do so. I'm a firm believer in UB being enough tho
Edit: also, solely focusing on tribal synergy is not a good move. Maybe if the goal is a casual deck....but if the plan is too build a good deck, ignoring cards cause it doesn't fit the tribal shouldn't matter unless its hurting the rest of the tribal synergy, I wouldn't cut faeries for a goyf. I'd cut mana leaks
Delver decks shift their focus far more to ending the game quickly and just disrupting as much as possible in the meantime...Fae is definitely not the same style, and splashing red for bolts, IMO, does very little against our bad matchups except make us, basically, a bad grixis delver deck. Which has been tried in various ways in modern, with no success. As I said earlier, in all my games playing UB Fae, I never once can look back and say "if I was running red for bolts, this match would be so easy to win" the only match it'd even pretend to help is against zoo, and not convinced it helps enough, as you just take an extra 3-5 damage from your own lands, in order to use your bolts to slow down zoo, putting you withing easy burn range the same as if you weren't in red.
I played ur delver for 6-7 months before this, we are NOT the same style of deck, and I think people pushing for it should maybe be in the ur delver thread, discussing a black splash there instead. I just fail to see the benefit, if I were to splash a third color right now, there is zero doubt in my mind it would be green for decay and goyf.
13-2 is a damn good record at a gp, imo, and the fact that someone else this weekend went 13-0 in the first 13 rounds, and still didn't top 8, should prove that only looking at the top 8 of this event is short sighted.
i feel like it's only a matter of time before someone gets lucky and gets that last little push to make it into the top 8 of an event, and put the deck back on the masses radar. I'm excited, personally.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g761vvfq9bj3b3w/bugfae5k.dec]
@snapcaster talk: I run it as a one of, and I wish I could run it as a 1.5 of...if that makes sense. I don't want it the way a ur player does, cause for them its a burn spell on a stick and a significant clock increase..... However its backbreaking to occasionally t1 discard, t2 bb, t3 snap discard. Or mid/late draw the snapcaster for an extra cryptic or removal spell. I don't really want two in the deck, but I want more than one lol. Actually hoping the jace card draw helps it be closer to the 1.5 snapcasters I want to run.
I honestly don't think the meta calls for the bug version ATM, I was just bringing it up as a discussion point. I'll load the list in 'trice today tho and try it out to make sure tho
My honest plan going into a large event would be to try and get lucky, dodge zoo early, and prey on the combo/uwr matches. Twin/storm/uwr should hopefully keep zoo from the top tables. Modern. Is a very diverse format right now, we are GOING to have some rough matchups. Just gotta Roll with it and hope your pairings don't screw you.
I may mess with a list and try it out on cockatrice later after work. But don't see a lot of reason to do so. I'm a firm believer in UB being enough tho
Edit: also, solely focusing on tribal synergy is not a good move. Maybe if the goal is a casual deck....but if the plan is too build a good deck, ignoring cards cause it doesn't fit the tribal shouldn't matter unless its hurting the rest of the tribal synergy, I wouldn't cut faeries for a goyf. I'd cut mana leaks
I played ur delver for 6-7 months before this, we are NOT the same style of deck, and I think people pushing for it should maybe be in the ur delver thread, discussing a black splash there instead. I just fail to see the benefit, if I were to splash a third color right now, there is zero doubt in my mind it would be green for decay and goyf.