1st round jund
1st game got a reassembling skeleton to hold down the fort till i got 6 mana countered a couple things and doom bladed a ravine. then dropped a grave titan it was GG from there
2nd game turn 3 i drop a convertible turtle and proceed to smash face while countering key cards like blightning and thrinax. we both run out of cards and the board position is him with 2 leechs and me with 2 turtles. he activates his raging raving i agony warp it in response to the counter and negate one leech. finally drop a titan and its GG. Crystal ball really shined in this match.
round 2 jund
this guy is playing token jund really close game he has a persecutor and good board position holding 1 card he swings and i go to -10, hes at 7. he trys to terminate his persecutor and i mana leak to save my ass. i swing with conundrum sphinx and tar pits for the win
game 2 i gte mana screwed
game 3 he has stable stags and smashes me didnt draw any removal for it.
round 3 UW control
hes gets mana screwed and i roll over him
game 2 battle it out and he gets a jace on the board bad things happen from here and i lose
game 3 i get jace turn 4 i procede to go all the way to his ult but i make a play mistake and let a luminarch ascension reslove while jace is at 11. i ult he now has 7 cards but its enough with the ascension out. he ends up wining with 0 cards in his deck. this match should have been a win and its my fault it wasnt.
anyway i really like the list i ran made a couple changes pre tourney by adding agonywarps to the SB and taking out death mark.
ya know its a funny thing the price of mythics actually drove me to start playing legacy. i figured hell if im ganna pay 400-500 for a standard deck that rotates and loses almost all its value, i might aswell just buy good cards that will only raise in value.
standard is fun but paying 100+ for a playset of antyhing that wont retain value is not (im looking at you gideon)
one thing that i have done is taken out a ponder in favor of 1 helm of awakening for an alternate storm route. but yes ive also found the control matchup to be a bit difficult, not so much MBC but people siding in things like aura of silence really hurts, and Thorn of Amethyst.
force is always a problem but thats with every deck.
decks ive had most problems with have been UW tempo and Dreadstill
i may have to explain some choices here. i rate alot of cards on weather they have life outside of standard, and while these are in standard a good portion will see play outside of it.
i honestly wouldn't call polymorph combo, really the only true combo decks in standard are open the vaults and warpworld. well unearth is combo but very inconsistent
its decently healthy but alot of decks are really auto pilot.
guy at fnm was playing this type of deck except he was playing mind funeral for extra land screw. deck really pissed me off to play against it ill tell ya that
been playing this for a lil now at local 1.5 tourney and im liking the results i still have to get used to the piles and which ones to go for. honestly i find myself making mistakes with the math. seems one mistake can really screw ya. but i like it, definitely interesting to play
1st round jund
1st game got a reassembling skeleton to hold down the fort till i got 6 mana countered a couple things and doom bladed a ravine. then dropped a grave titan it was GG from there
2nd game turn 3 i drop a convertible turtle and proceed to smash face while countering key cards like blightning and thrinax. we both run out of cards and the board position is him with 2 leechs and me with 2 turtles. he activates his raging raving i agony warp it in response to the counter and negate one leech. finally drop a titan and its GG. Crystal ball really shined in this match.
round 2 jund
this guy is playing token jund really close game he has a persecutor and good board position holding 1 card he swings and i go to -10, hes at 7. he trys to terminate his persecutor and i mana leak to save my ass. i swing with conundrum sphinx and tar pits for the win
game 2 i gte mana screwed
game 3 he has stable stags and smashes me didnt draw any removal for it.
round 3 UW control
hes gets mana screwed and i roll over him
game 2 battle it out and he gets a jace on the board bad things happen from here and i lose
game 3 i get jace turn 4 i procede to go all the way to his ult but i make a play mistake and let a luminarch ascension reslove while jace is at 11. i ult he now has 7 cards but its enough with the ascension out. he ends up wining with 0 cards in his deck. this match should have been a win and its my fault it wasnt.
anyway i really like the list i ran made a couple changes pre tourney by adding agonywarps to the SB and taking out death mark.
4 drowned catacomb
3 creeping tar pit
2 halimar depths
8 island
7 swamp
creatures
3 grave titan
4 reassembling skeleton
4 conundrum sphinx
4 calcite snapper
3 jace, the mind sculptor
4 mana leak
3 preordain
2 deprive
4 doom blade
3 consuming vapors
2 crystal ball
3 negate
4 flash freeze
2 malakir bloodwitch
3 consume the meek
3 agony warp
gideon is prolly my least favorite
foil future sight
foil sensei's divining top kamigawa
foil brain freeze
these are special because the make up my favorite combo with helm of awakening
standard is fun but paying 100+ for a playset of antyhing that wont retain value is not (im looking at you gideon)
forgot the T meant knight of the reliquary. jace sees play in legacy, and once mirrodin rotates in extended BBE and the ladder will see play
force is always a problem but thats with every deck.
decks ive had most problems with have been UW tempo and Dreadstill
noble hierarch
BBE
blightning
emrakul
kor
baneslayer
iona
vampire nighthawk
i may have to explain some choices here. i rate alot of cards on weather they have life outside of standard, and while these are in standard a good portion will see play outside of it.
its decently healthy but alot of decks are really auto pilot.
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Arcane Sanctum
4 Sejiri Refuge
3 plains
2 island
3 swamp
creatures
1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
3 Sea Gate Oracle
4 Wall of Omens
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Liliana Vess
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
other
4 Everflowing Chalice
3 Spreading Seas
3 Oblivion Ring
3 Day of Judgment
3 Consuming Vapors
2 Martial Coup
2 Mind Spring
4 Meddling Mage
4 Path to exile
2 Mind Control
3 Telemin Performance
2 luminarch ascension