I haven't played mtg in 8 months so i flubbed a few times. Also, I don't run Goryo's because I'm not entirely sure it's worth it?
Match 1. Burn.
Game 1: I get lucky as he keeps a 1 lander with a 2 goblin guides and a swift spear. But I get a T3 Madcap experiment to get plat emperion. Stalls me long enough to get srams expertise into beck call. He concedes.
Game 2: I play turn 1 visions. Drawing simian, showing a Kari Zev and an Emrakul with my scry and I have breaking/Entering in hand. Easy money.
1-0
Match 2. Death Shadow
Not a fan of the MU.
game 1: I live long enough to get turn 4 madcap experiment. I don't think he had any main board way to kill it so he concedes.
game 2/3: his hand hate blows me out as I mull to 6 both games and never seeing a leyline. Afterwards, I realized I only put in 3 leylines and not 4.
1-1
Game 3. Infect
least favorite mu. makes me consider adding izzet charms
game 1: I only play 2 scry lands (U/W temples) and kills me on his turn 3. (He thinks i'm on ad nauseum)
game 2: He goes turn 1 noble so I'm not instantly dead. I get a t3 kari zev with Beck call. I continue to chain beck/calls with Srams expertise or kari zevs.
He concedes due to his mis sideboarding (I assume he took out distortion strikes for things like Dispel as he told me after the match he had a dispel in hand
Game 3: turn 1 G-Elf. I found a silence with my Turn 1 serum visions but I misplayed and didn't play a white source. (sequencing probs.
1:2
Game 4. coco combo with melira, finks, and friends
Game 1: turn 3 Griselbrand that I knew I'd get (discarded him turn 1 with a faithless looting) he never draws an answer.
Game 2: He sides in tide hallows and I forgot those were a thing. Oops. Madcap'd plat emperion dies to a pridemage. I scoop
Game 3: I get a open hand leyline. Hand is protected. Turn 4 Srams expertise into breaking gets me an Ulamog (my last emrakul didn't come in the mail)
He sacs things but doesn't concede. hoped to YUGIOOOOOOH into a PtE. Doesn't.
2-2
I feel like Srams is better than Yahenni's in all honesty. Yahenni's is a dumb nonbo with Beck/call. The tokens are mostly just to stall into getting a reanimator combo going. Or to overwhelm them with birds while the sram tokens fight the good fight and die to protect us. things that Yahenni's kill don't have trample anyway soooo who cares? Sure the spirit tokens can be annoying but they've been an acceptable loss.
NOTE: I talked to infect guy. He said if I had silenced him on his upkeep like I had intended, It would've bought me a turn while I had Red expertise and beck in hand. Feels bad but lesson learned: S E Q U E N C I N G
Note: I might try Goryo's soon though. maybe as a two of? I'm note entirely sure how I feel about it.
I haven't played mtg in 8 months so i flubbed a few times
Match 1. Burn.
Game 1: I get lucky as he keeps a 1 lander with a 2 goblin guides and a swift spear. But I get a T3 Madcap experiment to get plat emperion. Stalls me long enough to get srams expertise into beck call. He concedes.
Game 2: I play turn 1 visions. Drawing simian, showing a Kari Zev and an Emrakul with my scry and I have breaking/Entering in hand. Easy money.
1-0
Match 2. Death Shadow
Not a fan of the MU.
game 1: I live long enough to get turn 4 madcap experiment. I don't think he had any main board way to kill it so he concedes.
game 2/3: his hand hate blows me out as I mull to 6 both games and never seeing a leyline. Afterwards, I realized I only put in 3 leylines and not 4.
1-1
Game 3. Infect
least favorite mu. makes me consider adding izzet charms
game 1: I only play 2 scry lands (U/W temples) and kills me on his turn 3. (He thinks i'm on ad nauseum)
game 2: He goes turn 1 noble so I'm not instantly dead. I get a t3 kari zev with Beck call. I continue to chain beck/calls with Srams expertise or kari zevs.
He concedes due to his mis sideboarding (I assume he took out distortion strikes for things like Dispel as he told me after the match he had a dispel in hand
Game 3: turn 1 G-Elf. I found a silence with my Turn 1 serum visions but I misplayed and didn't play a white source. (sequencing probs.
1:2
Game 4. coco combo with melira, finks, and friends
Game 1: turn 3 Griselbrand that I knew I'd get (discarded him turn 1 with a faithless looting) he never draws an answer.
Game 2: He sides in tide hallows and I forgot those were a thing. Oops. Madcap'd plat emperion dies to a pridemage. I scoop
Game 3: I get a open hand leyline. Hand is protected. Turn 4 Srams expertise into breaking gets me an Ulamog (my last emrakul didn't come in the mail)
He sacs things but doesn't concede. hoped to YUGIOOOOOOH into a PtE. Doesn't.
2-2
I feel like Srams is better than Yahenni's in all honesty. Yahenni's is a dumb nonbo with Beck/call. The tokens are mostly just to stall into getting a reanimator combo going. Or to overwhelm them with birds while the sram tokens fight the good fight and die to protect us. things that Yahenni's kill don't have trample anyway soooo who cares? Sure the spirit tokens can be annoying but they've been an acceptable loss.
NOTE: I talked to infect guy. He said if I had silenced him on his upkeep like I had intended, It would've bought me a turn while I had Red expertise and beck in hand. Feels bad but lesson learned: S E Q U E N C I N G
I feel like you might want Murderous Cut? One or two delve spells will go a long way for Vial Smasher. Kill spell + lava axe all in one seems good to me.
I don't like the idea of matchups like Narset where his token generation ability does very little if anything... I'm also kinda biased towards Lily.
Kalitas seems a lot better suited against aggro because kill spells and lifelink and he becomes bigger. Both are mono black and have accesss to sac spells. Liliana also has lifelink but isn't that great by herself. She needs a lot more moving pieces imo
The bias shows.
Also kalitas doesn't die to most red wraths.
Pathbreaker Ibex is a 1HKO if cascaded in to. Also we made our decks with more burst mana. Still waiting on deck lists from 2 people. More low to the ground. More life gain.
Duel commander event in Toledo Ohio @ Frog town hobbies. 18 players I believe. 20 life starting total.
Top 4 was:
Maelstrom Wanderer
Grand Arbiter Augustus
Maelstrom Wanderer
Maelstrom Wanderer
Our meta is really weird. Will be posted onto mtgtop8 as soon as I get lists from the top4.
As a Wanderer player using 30 20 life, Fastbond is an absolute garbage card and I would never play that card in the deck. IMO Fastbond would be far more absurd in Titania. Where she only needs 5 mana to get your power house out. If Wanderer players thought they needed that, they'd just use Exploration. Pretty sure there are far more non-exploration Wanderer decks than there are Wanderer decks that use the card.
Cmon, why would you discuss it on facebook when you can discuss it here :-D
Because Facebook is easier lol and we're still in the brainstorming process. If you'd like Kriggy, you can join up with us! And when we have results we'll discuss them on here and how our meta changed.
Also, Highlander is a very close format to what DC is now, and is a very popular format with none of the problems imagined about the new DC. All I can ask you is to just test the format before saying it's bad, otherwise you're just complaining for nothing.
That was what I was afraid of. 50% aggro meta, here we go :'(
@fsecco toledo will be holding a 20 life tournament. I'll try to get a hold of the tournament results info.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/fusion-experts/
I haven't played mtg in 8 months so i flubbed a few times. Also, I don't run Goryo's because I'm not entirely sure it's worth it?
Match 1. Burn.
Game 1: I get lucky as he keeps a 1 lander with a 2 goblin guides and a swift spear. But I get a T3 Madcap experiment to get plat emperion. Stalls me long enough to get srams expertise into beck call. He concedes.
Game 2: I play turn 1 visions. Drawing simian, showing a Kari Zev and an Emrakul with my scry and I have breaking/Entering in hand. Easy money.
1-0
Match 2. Death Shadow
Not a fan of the MU.
game 1: I live long enough to get turn 4 madcap experiment. I don't think he had any main board way to kill it so he concedes.
game 2/3: his hand hate blows me out as I mull to 6 both games and never seeing a leyline. Afterwards, I realized I only put in 3 leylines and not 4.
1-1
Game 3. Infect
least favorite mu. makes me consider adding izzet charms
game 1: I only play 2 scry lands (U/W temples) and kills me on his turn 3. (He thinks i'm on ad nauseum)
game 2: He goes turn 1 noble so I'm not instantly dead. I get a t3 kari zev with Beck call. I continue to chain beck/calls with Srams expertise or kari zevs.
He concedes due to his mis sideboarding (I assume he took out distortion strikes for things like Dispel as he told me after the match he had a dispel in hand
Game 3: turn 1 G-Elf. I found a silence with my Turn 1 serum visions but I misplayed and didn't play a white source. (sequencing probs.
1:2
Game 4. coco combo with melira, finks, and friends
Game 1: turn 3 Griselbrand that I knew I'd get (discarded him turn 1 with a faithless looting) he never draws an answer.
Game 2: He sides in tide hallows and I forgot those were a thing. Oops. Madcap'd plat emperion dies to a pridemage. I scoop
Game 3: I get a open hand leyline. Hand is protected. Turn 4 Srams expertise into breaking gets me an Ulamog (my last emrakul didn't come in the mail)
He sacs things but doesn't concede. hoped to YUGIOOOOOOH into a PtE. Doesn't.
2-2
I feel like Srams is better than Yahenni's in all honesty. Yahenni's is a dumb nonbo with Beck/call. The tokens are mostly just to stall into getting a reanimator combo going. Or to overwhelm them with birds while the sram tokens fight the good fight and die to protect us. things that Yahenni's kill don't have trample anyway soooo who cares? Sure the spirit tokens can be annoying but they've been an acceptable loss.
NOTE: I talked to infect guy. He said if I had silenced him on his upkeep like I had intended, It would've bought me a turn while I had Red expertise and beck in hand. Feels bad but lesson learned: S E Q U E N C I N G
Note: I might try Goryo's soon though. maybe as a two of? I'm note entirely sure how I feel about it.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/fusion-experts/
I haven't played mtg in 8 months so i flubbed a few times
Match 1. Burn.
Game 1: I get lucky as he keeps a 1 lander with a 2 goblin guides and a swift spear. But I get a T3 Madcap experiment to get plat emperion. Stalls me long enough to get srams expertise into beck call. He concedes.
Game 2: I play turn 1 visions. Drawing simian, showing a Kari Zev and an Emrakul with my scry and I have breaking/Entering in hand. Easy money.
1-0
Match 2. Death Shadow
Not a fan of the MU.
game 1: I live long enough to get turn 4 madcap experiment. I don't think he had any main board way to kill it so he concedes.
game 2/3: his hand hate blows me out as I mull to 6 both games and never seeing a leyline. Afterwards, I realized I only put in 3 leylines and not 4.
1-1
Game 3. Infect
least favorite mu. makes me consider adding izzet charms
game 1: I only play 2 scry lands (U/W temples) and kills me on his turn 3. (He thinks i'm on ad nauseum)
game 2: He goes turn 1 noble so I'm not instantly dead. I get a t3 kari zev with Beck call. I continue to chain beck/calls with Srams expertise or kari zevs.
He concedes due to his mis sideboarding (I assume he took out distortion strikes for things like Dispel as he told me after the match he had a dispel in hand
Game 3: turn 1 G-Elf. I found a silence with my Turn 1 serum visions but I misplayed and didn't play a white source. (sequencing probs.
1:2
Game 4. coco combo with melira, finks, and friends
Game 1: turn 3 Griselbrand that I knew I'd get (discarded him turn 1 with a faithless looting) he never draws an answer.
Game 2: He sides in tide hallows and I forgot those were a thing. Oops. Madcap'd plat emperion dies to a pridemage. I scoop
Game 3: I get a open hand leyline. Hand is protected. Turn 4 Srams expertise into breaking gets me an Ulamog (my last emrakul didn't come in the mail)
He sacs things but doesn't concede. hoped to YUGIOOOOOOH into a PtE. Doesn't.
2-2
I feel like Srams is better than Yahenni's in all honesty. Yahenni's is a dumb nonbo with Beck/call. The tokens are mostly just to stall into getting a reanimator combo going. Or to overwhelm them with birds while the sram tokens fight the good fight and die to protect us. things that Yahenni's kill don't have trample anyway soooo who cares? Sure the spirit tokens can be annoying but they've been an acceptable loss.
NOTE: I talked to infect guy. He said if I had silenced him on his upkeep like I had intended, It would've bought me a turn while I had Red expertise and beck in hand. Feels bad but lesson learned: S E Q U E N C I N G
Kalitas seems a lot better suited against aggro because kill spells and lifelink and he becomes bigger. Both are mono black and have accesss to sac spells. Liliana also has lifelink but isn't that great by herself. She needs a lot more moving pieces imo
The bias shows.
Also kalitas doesn't die to most red wraths.
Honestly Kalitas just seems a lot better. Makes free bodies, gets bigger, what's not to like?
Top 4 was:
Maelstrom Wanderer
Grand Arbiter Augustus
Maelstrom Wanderer
Maelstrom Wanderer
Our meta is really weird. Will be posted onto mtgtop8 as soon as I get lists from the top4.
3020 life, Fastbond is an absolute garbage card and I would never play that card in the deck. IMO Fastbond would be far more absurd in Titania. Where she only needs 5 mana to get your power house out. If Wanderer players thought they needed that, they'd just use Exploration. Pretty sure there are far more non-exploration Wanderer decks than there are Wanderer decks that use the card.Because Facebook is easier lol and we're still in the brainstorming process. If you'd like Kriggy, you can join up with us! And when we have results we'll discuss them on here and how our meta changed.
@fsecco toledo will be holding a 20 life tournament. I'll try to get a hold of the tournament results info.