1) CalvinSchwa - 3 - On the draw Braids comes down after Call the Bloodline and she only blocks one vampire each turn. On the play she prevents Call the Bloodline from being cast.
2) I don't feel like I'm progressing in this format.
3) ManyCookies :: Nix's Trinkets - 6 - On the draw Seal of Cleansing or Vessel of Malignity can be played but do nothing. On the play Braids stops everything from being cast.
4) Mogg - 3 - On the draw Runed Halo resolves and stops Braids from dealing damage. On the play nothing can be cast after Braids. Agreed
5) nerdyjoe - 3 - On the draw both Myth Realized and Vessel of Malignity can be cast, and Vessel can be sacrificed to Braids so Liliana can be played and kill Braids. On the play Myth Realized comes down before Braids but no counters can be put on it.
1) CalvinSchwa - 0 - Capsize lock goes live before Sorin.
2) I knew I was going to have a bad week this week when the "fastest" hand I found killed on turn seven. Dunno why I didn't run back any of my past 3CH LR hands.
3) ManyCookies :: Slow Rolling is BM - 0 - Agreed. Also thanks for telling me I can cast Sorin on turn 3, I honestly thought it was a turn slower.
4) Mogg - 0 - Anvil of Bogardan + Chain of Vapor forces me to discard Sorin.
5) nerdyjoe - 0 - If you play Kozilek on turn 1 you still get to annihilate my lands.
6) Superbajt :: Let's Do It Again! - 0 - Frog + K Command kill Sorin.
7) Tatterhood - 0 - I can't play Sorin into counter magic.
8) tomsloger - 0 - I can't play Sorin into counter magic.
1) CalvinSchwa - 3 - Agreed.
2) Convoy_Avenger - 0 - Vorinclex races.
3) I was expecting more lands. I think any mox would have been better than Encroaching Wastes.
4) ManyCookies :: Saproling Parade - 6 - LD is good when you expect a lot of lands.
5) MyNameIsFourteen - 0 - Hadana's Climb races.
6) nerdyjoe - 6 - Agreed.
7) Superbajt - 6 - I think this hand goldfishes a turn 6 kill on the play (explained below) and I goldfish a turn 5 kill on the draw. Plus I can answer any land and I think that foils your strategy.
8) Tatterhood - 0 - Vorinclex races.
T1: Savannah, BoP
T2: Hierarch, Hadana's Climb, counter on BoP
T3: counter on BoP, attack for 3, Legion's Landing
T4: counter on BoP flipping Hadana's Climb, attack with all for 4 flipping Legion's Landing
T5: attack with BoP, Winged Temple pumps it to 8/9
T6: attack with BoP, Winged Temple pumps it to 8/9 for lethal
If I had known that the two cards were a nonbo I would have played something else. Oh well, I guess I'll re-score.
EDIT: Turns out it only affects the matchup against Mogg. Everywhere else I either cast BSZ once to answer a threat or I alternate between casting BSZ for 1 to remove the counter and 2 to wipe the board and trigger undying.
1) CalvinSchwa - 2 - Either mode of Doomfall spells my doom. Agree.
2) Feyd_Ruin :: Scoundrels - 6 - BSZ answers Scoundrels and Geralf's Messenger races Shrieking Affliction.
3) I figured this round was lost since I couldn't find a deck that effectively wins on turn one. Plus my hand is weak to exile effects (especially vessel).
4) Mogg - 0 - On the draw Geralf's Messenger is one turn too slow. On the play it gets there before Sorin's Vengeance. BFZ and Undying didn't interact the way I thought they did. My hand is too slow on the play and on the draw.
5) ManyCookies :: Nix and Chips - 0 - On the draw Vessel exiles my hand. On the play Vessel exiles BFZ and a demon token eventually answers Geralf's Messenger.
6) MyNameIsFourteen - 3 - Ooo, the mirror. Whoever casts Geralf's Messenger first wins.
7) Personman - 2 - Anguished Unmaking answers Geralf's Messenger and BSZ answers Dark Salvation.
8) Superbajt - 0 - Anguished Unmaking answers Geralf's Messenger.
9) Tatterhood :: 2Threats.dec - 6 - BSZ answers both threats.
0) WhammeWhamme - 6 - BSZ answers Bitterblossom and Geralf's Messenger races Shrieking Affliction.
1) CalvinSchwa :: Gollum and the Ring - 3 - On the draw Daze stops the turn 1 lock and Goblin Settler keeps me off mana for the rest of the game. On the play the lock is set.
2) Convoy_Avenger - 6 - Ashen Rider only allows one land on the battlefield at a time.
3) I named my deck "Dr. Dare Rides Again" and I don't remember why anymore. Probably something about Ashen Rider and me saving my submission as a draft last week.
4) ManyCookies - 6 - Ashen Rider only allows one land on the battlefield at a time.
5) superbajt - 6 - Sol Ring and Oath of Gideon come down but Ashen Rider exiles Oath before it becomes a problem and races the tokens. The lock prevents Angrath from being cast.
6) Tatterhood - 6 - Ashen Rider only allows one land on the battlefield at a time.
7) tomsloger - 6 - Ashen Rider only allows one land on the battlefield at a time.
8) WhammeWhamme - 6 - Legion's Landing comes down but Ashen Rider exiles it before it becomes a problem and races the token. The lock prevents anything else from being cast.
[9]) Personman - 6 - Ashen Rider stops the combo.
I had submitted Shrieking Affliction but I quickly changed it to Dreadwing. I thought people might be playing one proactive spell and two reactive cards, which blanks Affliction. I don't think swapping to Dreadwing scored any better but it did make the round much harder for me to score. Ah well.
It never occurred to me to play something with protection from black even though it seems obvious now. Reanimator crossed my mind but I dismissed it after realizing the usual suspects were off the table. Plus maybe someone would be crazy enough to run graveyard hate.
Going forward I want to stop running reactive spells plus one threat. The hands that are all threats or all answers seem to be doing well. All-in hands seem to do even better in weeks where they're hard to disrupt.
Anachronity - 1 - I lose on the draw no matter what. On the play I can Countersquall Call the Bloodline and Anguished Unmaking Veilborn Ghoul in exchange for Dreadwing getting Maelstrom Pulse'd, which is a draw.
CalvinSchwa :: No Coherent Theme - 0 - I have two answers for three threats.
Feyd_Ruin :: That's the Spirit! - 3 - Agreed. On the draw I can't stop Exhume. On the play I can leave up Countersquall mana for Exhume, Anguished Unmaking Putrid Imp turn 5, and kill you with Dreadwing before Spirit of the Night can be cast.
Did you know that Shirely Temple served as the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Ghana, and her full name was Shirley Temple Black?
ManyCookies :: Sunshine and Lollipops - 2 - Agreed. I thought I had lost since I was trying to cast Anguished Unmaking to answer your threats and just forgot about Countersquall.
MyNameIsFourteen :: UB 1B Kenobi, But BB8 Is 3 More Than I Need - 1 - Agreed.
Personman - 0 - All three cards answer Dreadwing and I can only answer two of them.
Superbajt :: Do You Have A One-Drop? - 0 - I have a one-drop but I have the wrong one (drop).
WhammeWhamme :: Ixalan's Story - 0 - All three cards answer Dreadwing and I can only answer two of them.
It should not have taken me 2.5 hours to score this. I played out a lot of lines for several matches and I still only scored 5 points.
I meant to ask this last week. I saw some cards from Rivals of Ixalan in the sealed pool for PHM draft. Are they legal here too? Would they have been legal last week?
1) Anachronity - 6 - Progenitus races the Ascendants.
2) CalvinSchwa - 3 - On the play Progenitus comes down before Iona and wins the race. On the draw Iona naming green shuts off my entire hand.
3) Three is for me.
4) ManyCookies - 0 - Instant speed Voidstone Gargoyle naming Rude Awakening shuts off my entire hand.
5) MyNameIsFourteen - 0 - Render Silent shuts off my entire hand.
6) Superbajt - 0 - Disallow shuts off my entire hand. (Council's Judgement only shuts off Progenitus.)
7) Personman - 0 - Instant speed Voidstone Gargoyle naming Rude Awakening shuts off my entire hand.
8) WhammeWhamme - 0 - Disallow shuts off my entire hand.
I also like the discussion happening (even though I'm pretty late) so here are the other decks I tried out. Four Lotus Vales Verdant Touch was my first hand but that loses to even more submitted hands than the deck I landed on. I saw Mycosynth Lattice / Titania's Song on the Important Cards list but I couldn't cast both turn 1 and leaving half your combo on the board seemed like a losing plan.
I think my hand did worse. I agree with knobbodi's result and I think I lose another match:
8 - Convoy_Avenger gets mana for Capsize (with buyback) and Beacon of Destruction on turn 11. I get killed by turn 15 at the latest and I can't kill until turn 22.
2-2 -> 0-6
1) CalvinSchwa - 6 - Disagree - Scythe Tiger has shroud so you can't maze it or shock it. Tiger also outraces Words of War.
2) knobbodi - 2 - Disagree - Innocent Blood stops Stuffy Doll and Bridge stops Scythe Tiger. We draw.
3) I named my hand "Keep 'em Honest" as I only tested against land decks and this hosed most of them.
4) ManyCookies :: Swan Dive - 6 - I can activate Field of Ruin before Thespian's Stage both on the play and on the draw. Swan Song can't counter Scythe Tiger.
5) MyNameIsFourteen :: Depths is Gonna Wreck Me - 0 - Mental Misstep wrecks Scythe Tiger, Delirium Skeins removes my answer for Riftwing Cloudskate.
6) Personman - 0 - I had this in my gauntlet but I'm one turn too slow. I Innocent Blood the first Marit Lage and immediately play Scythe Tiger, Field of Ruin the second combo land once it comes down and still can't get lethal in time.
7) Superbajt - 0 - You don't quite stop me on turn 4 since I can sandbag all my cards until Scavenger is out. You do lock me out at some point though.
I also tried the Dark Depths deck this week as well as a Shelldock Isle deck. Shelldock lost to Depths and Depths usually lost or drew to the hand I submitted.
1) CalvinSchwa - 3 - On the draw Braids comes down after Call the Bloodline and she only blocks one vampire each turn. On the play she prevents Call the Bloodline from being cast.
2) I don't feel like I'm progressing in this format.
3) ManyCookies :: Nix's Trinkets - 6 - On the draw Seal of Cleansing or Vessel of Malignity can be played but do nothing. On the play Braids stops everything from being cast.
4) Mogg - 3 -
On the draw Runed Halo resolves and stops Braids from dealing damage. On the play nothing can be cast after Braids.Agreed5) nerdyjoe - 3 - On the draw both Myth Realized and Vessel of Malignity can be cast, and Vessel can be sacrificed to Braids so Liliana can be played and kill Braids. On the play Myth Realized comes down before Braids but no counters can be put on it.
1) CalvinSchwa - 0 - Capsize lock goes live before Sorin.
2) I knew I was going to have a bad week this week when the "fastest" hand I found killed on turn seven. Dunno why I didn't run back any of my past 3CH LR hands.
3) ManyCookies :: Slow Rolling is BM - 0 - Agreed. Also thanks for telling me I can cast Sorin on turn 3, I honestly thought it was a turn slower.
4) Mogg - 0 - Anvil of Bogardan + Chain of Vapor forces me to discard Sorin.
5) nerdyjoe - 0 - If you play Kozilek on turn 1 you still get to annihilate my lands.
6) Superbajt :: Let's Do It Again! - 0 - Frog + K Command kill Sorin.
7) Tatterhood - 0 - I can't play Sorin into counter magic.
8) tomsloger - 0 - I can't play Sorin into counter magic.
1) CalvinSchwa - 3 - Agreed.
2) Convoy_Avenger - 0 - Vorinclex races.
3) I was expecting more lands. I think any mox would have been better than Encroaching Wastes.
4) ManyCookies :: Saproling Parade - 6 - LD is good when you expect a lot of lands.
5) MyNameIsFourteen - 0 - Hadana's Climb races.
6) nerdyjoe - 6 - Agreed.
7) Superbajt - 6 - I think this hand goldfishes a turn 6 kill on the play (explained below) and I goldfish a turn 5 kill on the draw. Plus I can answer any land and I think that foils your strategy.
8) Tatterhood - 0 - Vorinclex races.
T2: Hierarch, Hadana's Climb, counter on BoP
T3: counter on BoP, attack for 3, Legion's Landing
T4: counter on BoP flipping Hadana's Climb, attack with all for 4 flipping Legion's Landing
T5: attack with BoP, Winged Temple pumps it to 8/9
T6: attack with BoP, Winged Temple pumps it to 8/9 for lethal
EDIT: Turns out it only affects the matchup against Mogg. Everywhere else I either cast BSZ once to answer a threat or I alternate between casting BSZ for 1 to remove the counter and 2 to wipe the board and trigger undying.
1) CalvinSchwa - 2 -
Either mode of Doomfall spells my doom. Agree.2) Feyd_Ruin :: Scoundrels - 6 - BSZ answers Scoundrels and Geralf's Messenger races Shrieking Affliction.
3) I figured this round was lost since I couldn't find a deck that effectively wins on turn one. Plus my hand is weak to exile effects (especially vessel).
4) Mogg - 0 - On the draw Geralf's Messenger is one turn too slow.
On the play it gets there before Sorin's Vengeance.BFZ and Undying didn't interact the way I thought they did. My hand is too slow on the play and on the draw.5) ManyCookies :: Nix and Chips - 0 - On the draw Vessel exiles my hand. On the play Vessel exiles BFZ and a demon token eventually answers Geralf's Messenger.
6) MyNameIsFourteen - 3 - Ooo, the mirror. Whoever casts Geralf's Messenger first wins.
7) Personman - 2 - Anguished Unmaking answers Geralf's Messenger and BSZ answers Dark Salvation.
8) Superbajt - 0 - Anguished Unmaking answers Geralf's Messenger.
9) Tatterhood :: 2Threats.dec - 6 - BSZ answers both threats.
0) WhammeWhamme - 6 - BSZ answers Bitterblossom and Geralf's Messenger races Shrieking Affliction.
1) CalvinSchwa :: Gollum and the Ring - 3 - On the draw Daze stops the turn 1 lock and Goblin Settler keeps me off mana for the rest of the game. On the play the lock is set.
2) Convoy_Avenger - 6 - Ashen Rider only allows one land on the battlefield at a time.
3) I named my deck "Dr. Dare Rides Again" and I don't remember why anymore. Probably something about Ashen Rider and me saving my submission as a draft last week.
4) ManyCookies - 6 - Ashen Rider only allows one land on the battlefield at a time.
5) superbajt - 6 - Sol Ring and Oath of Gideon come down but Ashen Rider exiles Oath before it becomes a problem and races the tokens. The lock prevents Angrath from being cast.
6) Tatterhood - 6 - Ashen Rider only allows one land on the battlefield at a time.
7) tomsloger - 6 - Ashen Rider only allows one land on the battlefield at a time.
8) WhammeWhamme - 6 - Legion's Landing comes down but Ashen Rider exiles it before it becomes a problem and races the token. The lock prevents anything else from being cast.
[9]) Personman - 6 - Ashen Rider stops the combo.
I had submitted Shrieking Affliction but I quickly changed it to Dreadwing. I thought people might be playing one proactive spell and two reactive cards, which blanks Affliction. I don't think swapping to Dreadwing scored any better but it did make the round much harder for me to score. Ah well.
It never occurred to me to play something with protection from black even though it seems obvious now. Reanimator crossed my mind but I dismissed it after realizing the usual suspects were off the table. Plus maybe someone would be crazy enough to run graveyard hate.
Going forward I want to stop running reactive spells plus one threat. The hands that are all threats or all answers seem to be doing well. All-in hands seem to do even better in weeks where they're hard to disrupt.
It should not have taken me 2.5 hours to score this. I played out a lot of lines for several matches and I still only scored 5 points.
1) Anachronity - 6 - Progenitus races the Ascendants.
2) CalvinSchwa - 3 - On the play Progenitus comes down before Iona and wins the race. On the draw Iona naming green shuts off my entire hand.
3) Three is for me.
4) ManyCookies - 0 - Instant speed Voidstone Gargoyle naming Rude Awakening shuts off my entire hand.
5) MyNameIsFourteen - 0 - Render Silent shuts off my entire hand.
6) Superbajt - 0 - Disallow shuts off my entire hand. (Council's Judgement only shuts off Progenitus.)
7) Personman - 0 - Instant speed Voidstone Gargoyle naming Rude Awakening shuts off my entire hand.
8) WhammeWhamme - 0 - Disallow shuts off my entire hand.
I also like the discussion happening (even though I'm pretty late) so here are the other decks I tried out. Four Lotus Vales Verdant Touch was my first hand but that loses to even more submitted hands than the deck I landed on. I saw Mycosynth Lattice / Titania's Song on the Important Cards list but I couldn't cast both turn 1 and leaving half your combo on the board seemed like a losing plan.
8 - Convoy_Avenger gets mana for Capsize (with buyback) and Beacon of Destruction on turn 11. I get killed by turn 15 at the latest and I can't kill until turn 22.
2-2 -> 0-6
1) CalvinSchwa - 6 - Disagree - Scythe Tiger has shroud so you can't maze it or shock it. Tiger also outraces Words of War.
2) knobbodi - 2 - Disagree - Innocent Blood stops Stuffy Doll and Bridge stops Scythe Tiger. We draw.
3) I named my hand "Keep 'em Honest" as I only tested against land decks and this hosed most of them.
4) ManyCookies :: Swan Dive - 6 - I can activate Field of Ruin before Thespian's Stage both on the play and on the draw. Swan Song can't counter Scythe Tiger.
5) MyNameIsFourteen :: Depths is Gonna Wreck Me - 0 - Mental Misstep wrecks Scythe Tiger, Delirium Skeins removes my answer for Riftwing Cloudskate.
6) Personman - 0 - I had this in my gauntlet but I'm one turn too slow. I Innocent Blood the first Marit Lage and immediately play Scythe Tiger, Field of Ruin the second combo land once it comes down and still can't get lethal in time.
7) Superbajt - 0 - You don't quite stop me on turn 4 since I can sandbag all my cards until Scavenger is out. You do lock me out at some point though.
I also tried the Dark Depths deck this week as well as a Shelldock Isle deck. Shelldock lost to Depths and Depths usually lost or drew to the hand I submitted.