Quote from mafteechrJust a note:
The list for Michael Bernat at GP Indianapolis was part of a grinder, not the main event (should read 32 players, then).
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gpind12/day1#0
Oh I didn't know that, thank you
-edit- Ok, I checked that over and it still says it's from the Indianapolis Legacy open.
-edit #2- ok I see now, he has more than one placing on the list and I looked at / checked the wrong one, ty, sorry for the confusion, & fixed.
If you're bored I'm streaming it as well, been streaming on twitch for about a month and a half now, using it to learn modern over the summer.
on the draw, 1 win 5 losses
on the play, 1 win 5 losses
Sideboard: (Burn deck sided out -4 Searing Blace, +4 Destructive Revelry)
on the play, 5 wins 10 losses with sideboard of -4 Gigadrowse, -3 Cryptic Command, -1 Remand / +4 Nourishing Shoal, +4 Autochthon Wurm
on the play, 3 wins 4 losses with sideboard of -4 Gigadrowse / +4 Leyline of Sanctity
on the draw, 2 wins 5 losses with sideboard of -4 Gigadrowse / +4 Leyline of Sanctity
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on the play, 3 wins, 5 losses with sideboard of -4 Gigadrowse / +4 Sun Droplet
on the draw, 3 wins, 5 losses with sideboard of -4 Gigadrowse, -4 Remand, -4 Exhaustion / +4 Spreading Seas, +4 Sea's Claim, +4 Convincing Mirage
Notes:
Eidolon of the Great Revel is the worst of their package, if 1 card can be answered it's this one for sure. Can do so much damage.
18 Island
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
1 Thassa, God of the Sea
4 Dictate of Kruphix
4 Ancestral Vision
4 Gigadrowse
4 Serum Visions
4 Remand
4 Exhaustion
3 Cryptic Command
4 Time Warp
2 Part the Waterveil
4 Temporal Mastery
Sideboard has been all over the place, experimenting a lot so i could list what ive done but it's, way more than 15 cards.
What I like about this setup is that artifact hate does nothing, and after 2 part the waterveil, there should be another kill condition "just in case" and thassa not only provides that, it's also a "pseudo mine" in that it at least scry's.
Have decked out once I believe, and I was a turn away when I did, I believe if i was paying more attention however that owuldn't have happened.
I don't know if visions over mine, or mine over visions is the right call, both have a positive for different reasons, and obviously mine is better after the 4th time you net a card from it. But Visions means another turn 1 play, open mana for remand turn 2 a lot or double vision if that happens for some crazy reason (Serum/Ancestral)
Gigadrowse / Exhaustion together are just insane! I don't know how I could do this deck without 4 Exhaustions, if you Exhaust after going off for a few turns, you'll likely have a counterspell up to counter whatever they do if they play a land and can sneak, or try to sneak in, a bolt or discard or whatever for 1.
Love how this version is basically immune to creature and artifact removal, i love playing decks that turn opponents cards off and make them dead.
Burn has been my biggest issue match wise, as I imagine it is on that list for most. Doing alot of messing around with the deck on modo and stream so more concrete conclusions will be made over the next month, gonna play the heck out of this deck after testing it for a few weeks against literally everything.
Another thing to note, other than the islands, gigadrowse, & exhaustion, everything in this deck draws a card, that's just awesome!
I also like Ancestral Visions as it doesn't help them, and for the first 3 draws of a Howling Mine, Visions is equal. There's so much card draw in the deck I've not had issues with running out, I've had issues with dying to burn & fast strategies as such, which seems to be a common problem.
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Snow-Covered Island
8 Island
1 Fetid Pools
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Gemstone Caverns
1 River of Tears
1 Watery Grave
2 Sunken Hollow
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 Inkmoth Nexus
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2 Fatal Push
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Cryptic Command
4 Gigadrowse
4 Serum Visions
3 Howling Mine
4 Dictate of Kruphix
1 Censor
1 Snapback
1 Commander
3 Exhaustion
4 Time Warp
3 Temporal Mastery
3 Part the Waterveil
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3 Chalice of the Void
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Collective Brutality
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
2 Thoughtseize
2 Thing in the Ice
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Commander
...& now he's in top 8 as the 7th seed, SWEET! (Grats Daniel if ya ever see this!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSeUUKxy8z4
I beat Miracles both times I went against it, but I lost to Jund, and Shardless Bug, which is usually favored since they don't have heavy counterspells. Other loss was to Elves once. Out of the 15 match ups, I think I went against Delver strategies twice. I also played against the Mono Red Sneak attack guy first round of day 2.
4 High Tide
4 Time Spiral
1 Turnabout
4 Candelabra of Tawnos
4 Merchant Scroll
3 Cunning Wish
4 Force of Will
3 Flusterstorm
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
3 Preordain
4 Sensei's Divining Top
6 Fetchland
12 Island
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Sideboard:
1 Blue Sun's Zenith
1 Brain Freeze
1 Turnabout
1 Intuition
1 Capsize
1 Rebuild
1 Wipe Away
1 Snap
1 Pact of Negation
1 Flusterstorm
1 Surgical Extraction
4 Counterbalance
I would play the same list right now. The only thing I toy with idea wise sometimes is -1 Candelabra for +1 Preordain / Sometimes I want a second Wipe Away so I can main 1 / side 1 against Miracles, the weakest spots in the sideboard are the 1 Surgical Extraction, & 1 of the counterspells in the sideboard, many times if I can get 1 to do the job, I can get the other and 85% of the time, which counterspell I get doesn't matter.
Well at the event, we met, he got the bolts, and then later on that day randomly when trading with someone, they mentioned their store had a deck that someone had lost/left there, and there were "feline alter bolts" in the deck. I was like "omg I think I know who that might be" and from there I got his information, and relayed it back to the person that lost the deck, though I didn't run into the person that lost their deck again till Sunday. I guess it was lost at a store called "Giga Bytes" if I am remembering correctly.
Long story short: Because I do alters, and someone traded for one of my alter set of bolts, it led to the recovery of someone's lost deck.