Been a long time since there have been posts here!
Looking for some advice against Abzan heliod. Deck seems really good, so many combos and outs. I've gotten them once or twice with well-timed meddling mages, but most of my victories are more that they drew poorly. Any ideas?
So I've been unable to play humans for the last twoish months because it never fires on the occasional Thursday when I make it into our local shop. Had quite a bit of success with it before that, and we're going to a tournament next Saturday. Normally I wouldn't really be concerned, but everyone talks incessantly about spirits (a deck I played for a while and I'm not worried about, especially if they aren't running four rattlechains) and about ArcLight Phoenix, who I haven't played against a single time.
What are your lists looking like right now? Normally I run 4 champ, 4 Hierarch, 4 vial, 4 lieutentant, 4 rider, 4 image, 4 freebooter, 3 thalia, 4 ref. Mage, 2 meddling mage, 1 hostage taker, 3 militia bugler.
Sb: 2 auriok champ, 2 knight of Autumn, 2 tajic, legions edge, 2 gaddock teeg, 2 direfleet dd, 2 izzit staticaster, 2 meddling mage, 1 sin collector.
Any ideas for tips for these hot decks? I know it's weird to only run two meddling Mage in the main I might have to change that back. I prefer to have a full playset of images and reflector Mages in my meta.
While I will be picking up 4 promo foils, my guess is that, like hanweir garrison, it will be another awesome card that fits right in our deck, but lacking an ETB, it just can't be justified.
How can our sideboard adapt to help us against hardened affinity? Let me just clarify - in a deck with walking ballista, meddling mage and kataki are non-starters.
I have not brought in the spheres or champions against them, and have it found hard to cut cards for cages. Obviously this strategy is not working. I just need a way for staticaster to kill things with higher toughness!
Last night I played elves (as I always seem to do). I beat him game two with three crusaders, but was dead the next turn if I didn't have exact damage. Games 1 and 3 I had to mulligan to 5, but it wouldn't have mattered. They just crush me.
How the heck do we beat elves? This is my current sideboard:
2 Dampening Sphere
1 Izzit Staticaster
2 Mirran Crusader
2 Dismember
1 Ananfena, the Formost
2 Grafdiggers Cage
2 Auriok Champion
1 Direfleet Daredevil
1 Hostage Taker
1 Heron's Grace Champion
Wow Smaug, I didn't even see that. It does cause CoP and Thalia's lieutenant to trigger a second time! Any other interesting interactions? I played Bant spirits for quite awhile and I really miss the incredible power some of their cards have. If only Humans had something like nebelgast herald....or rattlechains...or geist of saint traft....or selfless spirit...or drogskol captain...or spell queller. Ugh.
I need a source of protection against spot removal. Best sources (since we don't have Mother of Runes and kabira evangel only effects allies) are, by my estimation, spellskite, kira, the great glass spinner, or shapers sanctuary. Any thoughts on which serves us best until we get our own version printed?
The last two weeks i've played soul sisters at FNM, and I cannot seem to win a game against them. 4x reflector mage and 2x staticaster in the side just never show up. Any tech I could play against them?
Well I went 2-2 or worse for 6 weeks in a row playing in 2-3 tournaments a week, including not earning a single push promo in 5 September FNM's. I took a week break and played it again on Monday and it did well went 3-1 for first place. Just depends on the matchup. I struggle against any deck with a heavy distribution of removal or a combo. URW control/saheeli, GB value are all very hard.
I put in two shapers' sanctuary to fight removal. Card seems bonkers; i've seen it in matches for other decks. I didn't see it at all, and sided it out because my opponents were on valukut and thopter/sword.
What specific auras, with the exception of Steel, that we could run in conjunction with tallowisp? Pacifism seems interesting, but there must be better ones... Thoughts?
Threads of disloyalty seems interesting. Gift of Immortality? Are there any good flash ones?
Looking for some advice against Abzan heliod. Deck seems really good, so many combos and outs. I've gotten them once or twice with well-timed meddling mages, but most of my victories are more that they drew poorly. Any ideas?
What are your lists looking like right now? Normally I run 4 champ, 4 Hierarch, 4 vial, 4 lieutentant, 4 rider, 4 image, 4 freebooter, 3 thalia, 4 ref. Mage, 2 meddling mage, 1 hostage taker, 3 militia bugler.
Sb: 2 auriok champ, 2 knight of Autumn, 2 tajic, legions edge, 2 gaddock teeg, 2 direfleet dd, 2 izzit staticaster, 2 meddling mage, 1 sin collector.
Any ideas for tips for these hot decks? I know it's weird to only run two meddling Mage in the main I might have to change that back. I prefer to have a full playset of images and reflector Mages in my meta.
Last night I played elves (as I always seem to do). I beat him game two with three crusaders, but was dead the next turn if I didn't have exact damage. Games 1 and 3 I had to mulligan to 5, but it wouldn't have mattered. They just crush me.
2 Dampening Sphere
1 Izzit Staticaster
2 Mirran Crusader
2 Dismember
1 Ananfena, the Formost
2 Grafdiggers Cage
2 Auriok Champion
1 Direfleet Daredevil
1 Hostage Taker
1 Heron's Grace Champion
I put in two shapers' sanctuary to fight removal. Card seems bonkers; i've seen it in matches for other decks. I didn't see it at all, and sided it out because my opponents were on valukut and thopter/sword.
Threads of disloyalty seems interesting. Gift of Immortality? Are there any good flash ones?