I'm not sure of if this is a budget question I.e. Not allowed or not. I found a great decklist, and have nearly completed it, but it calls for 2 Horizon Canopies, but I haven't been able to get them locally, until then, what should I substitute in their place? Mutavaults?
It depends on what the rest of your decklist looks like. What are you running?
I'm not sure of if this is a budget question I.e. Not allowed or not. I found a great decklist, and have nearly completed it, but it calls for 2 Horizon Canopies, but I haven't been able to get them locally, until then, what should I substitute in their place? Mutavaults?
I can't wait, been working to put Bogles together. Just waiting on 3 Spider Umbra to arrive in the mail and be finished. Let me know what you think of this deck?
I can't wait, been working to put Bogles together. Just waiting on 3 Spider Umbra to arrive in the mail and be finished. Let me know what you think of this deck?
It's funny that you mention some of the decks you just mentioned. In the few matchups I've played against Merfolk I've actually been able to overpower them. Maybe I just got god draws, but their creatures don't tend to get as big as ours as long as we are on curve. I also havn't had too much of a problem in racing tron because of the artifact hate in my sideboard. I pack +3 naturalizes, and +2 Apostle's Blessing. I've had the most difficulty with Abzan Collected Company(Bigger creatures and higher threat density), Burn, and probably tokens. There is nothing I hate more than someone play lingering souls when I don't have access to trample.
I thought I heard people complaining about Merfolk in this thread before. I can't be sure because the search function acts strangely on this website.
CoCo: Would having more Hunt the Hunter help here?
Burn: Is Kitchen Finks and Scavenging Ooze not quite enough against them?
What kind of token deck are we talking about here?
I don't have trouble with elves or merfolk, haven't played against Griselbrand yet. I can generally out race elves, due to them having to tap elves for their ramp, and merfolk I cast choke and they're hosed. Tron beast within their lands and choke help. Can usually out race them.
Do you suggest replacing several of the cards with Beast Within? Doesn't Tron get up right around the time you have mana for it?
I run 2 Beast within sideboard. Game 1 I usually can kill them before tron gets going, then I bring in chokes, beast within, and depending on their deck, various amount of artifact/graveyard hate.
Also, just played against Bloom Titan for the first time tonight. Without sideboard ing he won 1-2, but if we'd sideboard, I'd probably would have won.
I've played standard for a bit, and decided I wanted to go into Modern. After skimming this thread, this deck seems to have matchup problems with:
Tron, Bloom, Griselshoal, Elves, Merfolk. If there's anything else that I've missed or stated erroneously, feel free to correct me. I'm also only guessing on why these may be, because I've never encountered them.
Tron and Bloom give out monsters that are stronger than the removal available to this deck, but at the same time they rely on certain artifacts.
Do elves and Merfolk go wider than stompy can handle? In that case removing some Prey Upon might be a bad idea.
I'm not sure about Griselshoal. Stompy has Scavenging Ooze for graveyard hate, but it also has a creature that is hard to remove.
I'd like to try to "cover my bases" without killing what makes the deck good. The problem is that I can't really try the cards until I buy them, and I'd like to keep that kind of thing to a minimum.
Right now my list looks almost exactly like the OP's, with the following changes:
-1 Prey Upon
-1 Kitchen Fink
+1 Pithing Needle
+1 Dungrove Elder
Am I best off with Pithing Needle, or is Oxidize better here?
I don't have trouble with elves or merfolk, haven't played against Griselbrand yet. I can generally out race elves, due to them having to tap elves for their ramp, and merfolk I cast choke and they're hosed. Tron beast within their lands and choke help. Can usually out race them.
I'm thinking of adding 2 Spellskite and a third scavenging ooze' someone went far in a PPTQ in France with a couple of spellskite, and it looked interesting. Trying to figure out what to cut, also need to add in unravel the aether into the sideboard.
http://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=9946&d=257384&f=MO
23 LANDS
11 Plains
4 Ghost Quarter
3 Tectonic Edge
2 Horizon Canopy
1 Flagstones of Trokair
1 Eiganjo Castle
1 Mutavault
28 CREATURES
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Dryad Militant
4 Leonin Arbiter
3 Flickerwisp
3 Blade Splicer
3 Serra Avenger
2 Spellskite
2 Kitchen Finks
2 Aven Mindcensor
1 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
5 INSTANTS and SORC.
4 Path to Exile
1 Dismember
4 OTHER SPELLS
4 Æther Vial
SIDEBOARD
1 Mark of Asylum
3 Stony Silence
2 Rest in Peace
2 Mirran Crusader
2 Kor Firewalker
2 Wilt-Leaf Liege
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Disenchant
I was also thinking, switching out the Serra Avengers for another flickerwhisp and Restoration Angels.
Went 2-2
Lost 1-2 to Blue Tron, won game 1, but games 2 and 3 he turn 2'd chalice of the void for 1.
Won 2-1 against a strange Simic leviathan deck, kept whelming waving me.
Lost 1-2 against storm
Won 2-0 against U/B Faeries
Yeah, if a play set didn't cost $280 I'd run them, lol.
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Windswept Heath
3 Temple Garden
3 Wooded Foothills
2 Brushland
2 Plains
1 Forest
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Slippery Bogle
4 Gladecover Scout
3 Kor Spiritdancer
4 Ethereal Armor
4 Hyena Umbra
4 Rancor
4 Daybreak Coronet
3 Spider Umbra
3 Spirit Link
2 Keen Sense
1 Spirit Mantle
1 Unflinching Courage
3 Path to Exile
Sideboard:
4 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Rest in Peace
3 Stony Silence
2 Gaddock Teeg
2 Supression Field
1 Path to Exile
I run 2 Beast within sideboard. Game 1 I usually can kill them before tron gets going, then I bring in chokes, beast within, and depending on their deck, various amount of artifact/graveyard hate.
Also, just played against Bloom Titan for the first time tonight. Without sideboard ing he won 1-2, but if we'd sideboard, I'd probably would have won.
forestx20
treetop villagex2
experiment onex4
dryad militantx4
avatar of the resolutex4
strangleroot geistx4
scavenging oozex2
leatherback balothx4
dungrove elderx4
rancorx4
vines of vastwoodx4
aspect of hydrax2
dismemberx2
Sideboard is...
thrun, the last trollx1
bow of Nyleax1
chokex1
creeping corrosionx2
relic of progenitusx2
skylasherx2
grafdigger's cagex2
obstinate balothx2
nature's claimx2
I'm thinking of adding 2 Spellskite and a third scavenging ooze' someone went far in a PPTQ in France with a couple of spellskite, and it looked interesting. Trying to figure out what to cut, also need to add in unravel the aether into the sideboard.