I'd definitely run wall of tanglecord over steel wall right now with the Eldrazi dominating the field, the 4 toughness of steel wall makes it an ineffective blocker against the Eldrazi(thought knot seer, reality smasher, drowned of hope)
Hows everyone doing with the UR eldrazi match up? A lot of people say its good with the ghost quarters, spreading seas, and supreme verdicts mainboard, but I cant seem to consistently beat them. I usually end up too behind on my own mana because of the ghost quarters or not being able to land a supreme verdict before a thought knot seer knocks it out. Any suggestions?
I just got back from locals, went 2-2 with this list, any tips? (my sideboard is a bit janky because im missing some cards that i'm waiting for in the mail)
Round 1 Vs 5 Color Bring to light/Gifts Ungiven Combo 2-0
The guy's list was a mix of the gifts unburial rites combo and the kiki jiki restoration angel combo
Game 1: Theres alot of passing back and forth with him value gifting a few times and with me throwing out some walls and holding some counters until he eventually hard casted an elesh norn which I proceeded to path and get celestial colonade and restoration beats for the win.
Game 2: Mostly the same as the first game with some passing back and forth, some value gifting and me countering a bring to light for 5, until he gift unburial rites for Elesh Norn which gets met with a detention sphere and then I went for the restoration angel beats for game.
This was a very easy match as all I had to do was keep countering and drop some restoration angels here and there until I won. His deck was probably a bit clunky on his part.
Round 2 Vs UR Delver 2-0
This guy was making use of a few of the new cards from oath, the guy that draws for the second spell cast each turn and the flying haste prowess dude.
Game 1: Game 1 he wend for the usual delver shenanigans, with turn 1 delver, cantrips and swiftspears, at first this was pressuring my life total a great deal with delver hitting in the air, i eventually pathed it, threw out a finks, followed by gideon, went on the offensive and went for game with the help of cryptic to tap down his team to get gideon thorugh for the last 6.
Game 2: This was much of a repeat of game 1 minus the gideon, with him quickly dropping my life toal, but me eventually stablizing with some finks plus removal and getting finishing him off with Celestial Colonnade.
This match up felt heavily in my favor, as the finks and restoration lifegain was very powerful in swinging the match up and having supreme verdict as a panic button.
Round 3 Vs BG Elves 1-2
Game 1: His deck did its thing and swarmed me to death as paths and detention spheres can only do so much and I couldn't find the supreme verdict to blow him out.
Game 2: Once again his deck did its thing, but I had the supreme verdict this time to clear his board, he somewhat re cooperated as he held back a bit fearing the board wipe, but it wasnt enough and I closed out the game with Gideon and Colonnade.
Game 3: He had the nut draw this game but I had the verdict to kill off his board, then I drawstep Cliqued him, but he responded with collected company of the top, I ended up trading my Clique with his shaman of the pack, then I drawstep Cliqued him once again, and he responded with the co co off the top and got a shaman of the pack for game.
This felt like a very reasonable match up for me with the board wipes and other removal, but two top decked collected companys back to back was too much in the last game.
Round 4 Vs UR Eldrazi 0-2
These two games were about as bad as it could get, not soley based on the match up, which I feel is pretty even with the maindecked spreading seas, ghost quarters and supreme verdicts, but partially due to bad luck and me scrubbing out these were complete blow outs.
Game 1: I was on the play, and my opening hand was a plains, wall of omens, path, path, verdict, and two cards that were not lands, idk if that was the right choice in mulling this, but I didn't know what my opponent was playing and being on the draw I didn't want to risk it. Then I got a zero land hand which I obviously mulled, then I got two ghost quarters, a path to exile, and a wall of omens, and a detention sphere, I kept this thinking that if I drew a white source I could wall into another color and worse case scenario I ghost quarter myself for color to get the ball rolling, sadly, my opponent went eye of ugin into double mimic, passed turn and i missed land drop, then my opponent went for obligator attacked in for 6 and passed, i then missed my land drop and passed turn. Then my opponent went reality smasher for game with the mimics.
Game 2: My opening hand this game was similar to my first hand game 1, but with a flooded strand instead of a plains, seeing wall of omens to try to hit my land drops and plenty of removal, i kept it. My opponent on their turn, went cavern and passed, and on my turn, I hit my land drop and went for the wall of omens and I passed the turn back. My opponent then played eye of ugin into mimic and vile aggregate and ended. On my turn I missed land drop and passed back holding a path up. My opponent played a temple, into thought knot seer which i responded with path to kill of the vile aggregate, and he took my detention sphere, and then played a sky spawner and passed. Then I once again missed my land drop and was forced to pass back, and on my end had my wall dismembered. My opponent followed up with a reality smasher for game.
So these games were really frustrating for me, maybe it was due to bad judgement calls on my part, or just bad luck, but these games were completely one sided with my hands being unable to compete with any deck let alone these fast eldrazi draws. This final match kept me out of good prizes :(.
After thoughts: I may drop the mana leaks in favor of more spreading seas and maybe a condemn or a 4th verdict in the mainboard as the mana leaks felt really underwhelming throughout the tournament. I feel that condemn and spreading seas should be bumped up in the 75 somewhere though, also im thinking about adding elspeth suns champion or maybe a 26th land into the main. Any tips or suggestions would be much appreciated!
4x Kitchen Finks
2x Vendilion Clique
4x Restoration Angel
4x path to exile
2x Detention Sphere
3x Supreme Verdict
2x Spreading Seas
3x Spell Snare
3x Mana Leak
3x Cryptic Command
1x Gideon Jura
4x Celestial Colonnade
4x Flooded Strand
2x Mystic Gate
4x Ghost Quarter
4x Island
4x Plains
1x Glacial Fortress
2x Hallowed Fountain
2x Stony Silence
2x Sundering Growth
2x Negate
2x Dispel
1x FlashFreeze
2x Timely Reinforcements
2x Celestial Purge
1x Dismember
Round 1 Vs 5 Color Bring to light/Gifts Ungiven Combo 2-0
The guy's list was a mix of the gifts unburial rites combo and the kiki jiki restoration angel combo
Game 1: Theres alot of passing back and forth with him value gifting a few times and with me throwing out some walls and holding some counters until he eventually hard casted an elesh norn which I proceeded to path and get celestial colonade and restoration beats for the win.
Game 2: Mostly the same as the first game with some passing back and forth, some value gifting and me countering a bring to light for 5, until he gift unburial rites for Elesh Norn which gets met with a detention sphere and then I went for the restoration angel beats for game.
This was a very easy match as all I had to do was keep countering and drop some restoration angels here and there until I won. His deck was probably a bit clunky on his part.
Round 2 Vs UR Delver 2-0
This guy was making use of a few of the new cards from oath, the guy that draws for the second spell cast each turn and the flying haste prowess dude.
Game 1: Game 1 he wend for the usual delver shenanigans, with turn 1 delver, cantrips and swiftspears, at first this was pressuring my life total a great deal with delver hitting in the air, i eventually pathed it, threw out a finks, followed by gideon, went on the offensive and went for game with the help of cryptic to tap down his team to get gideon thorugh for the last 6.
Game 2: This was much of a repeat of game 1 minus the gideon, with him quickly dropping my life toal, but me eventually stablizing with some finks plus removal and getting finishing him off with Celestial Colonnade.
This match up felt heavily in my favor, as the finks and restoration lifegain was very powerful in swinging the match up and having supreme verdict as a panic button.
Round 3 Vs BG Elves 1-2
Game 1: His deck did its thing and swarmed me to death as paths and detention spheres can only do so much and I couldn't find the supreme verdict to blow him out.
Game 2: Once again his deck did its thing, but I had the supreme verdict this time to clear his board, he somewhat re cooperated as he held back a bit fearing the board wipe, but it wasnt enough and I closed out the game with Gideon and Colonnade.
Game 3: He had the nut draw this game but I had the verdict to kill off his board, then I drawstep Cliqued him, but he responded with collected company of the top, I ended up trading my Clique with his shaman of the pack, then I drawstep Cliqued him once again, and he responded with the co co off the top and got a shaman of the pack for game.
This felt like a very reasonable match up for me with the board wipes and other removal, but two top decked collected companys back to back was too much in the last game.
Round 4 Vs UR Eldrazi 0-2
These two games were about as bad as it could get, not soley based on the match up, which I feel is pretty even with the maindecked spreading seas, ghost quarters and supreme verdicts, but partially due to bad luck and me scrubbing out these were complete blow outs.
Game 1: I was on the play, and my opening hand was a plains, wall of omens, path, path, verdict, and two cards that were not lands, idk if that was the right choice in mulling this, but I didn't know what my opponent was playing and being on the draw I didn't want to risk it. Then I got a zero land hand which I obviously mulled, then I got two ghost quarters, a path to exile, and a wall of omens, and a detention sphere, I kept this thinking that if I drew a white source I could wall into another color and worse case scenario I ghost quarter myself for color to get the ball rolling, sadly, my opponent went eye of ugin into double mimic, passed turn and i missed land drop, then my opponent went for obligator attacked in for 6 and passed, i then missed my land drop and passed turn. Then my opponent went reality smasher for game with the mimics.
Game 2: My opening hand this game was similar to my first hand game 1, but with a flooded strand instead of a plains, seeing wall of omens to try to hit my land drops and plenty of removal, i kept it. My opponent on their turn, went cavern and passed, and on my turn, I hit my land drop and went for the wall of omens and I passed the turn back. My opponent then played eye of ugin into mimic and vile aggregate and ended. On my turn I missed land drop and passed back holding a path up. My opponent played a temple, into thought knot seer which i responded with path to kill of the vile aggregate, and he took my detention sphere, and then played a sky spawner and passed. Then I once again missed my land drop and was forced to pass back, and on my end had my wall dismembered. My opponent followed up with a reality smasher for game.
So these games were really frustrating for me, maybe it was due to bad judgement calls on my part, or just bad luck, but these games were completely one sided with my hands being unable to compete with any deck let alone these fast eldrazi draws. This final match kept me out of good prizes :(.
After thoughts: I may drop the mana leaks in favor of more spreading seas and maybe a condemn or a 4th verdict in the mainboard as the mana leaks felt really underwhelming throughout the tournament. I feel that condemn and spreading seas should be bumped up in the 75 somewhere though, also im thinking about adding elspeth suns champion or maybe a 26th land into the main. Any tips or suggestions would be much appreciated!