Is your meta playgroup pretty balanced in power? Looking at the other decks you mentioned, it almost sounds like anyone else might have won but simply didn't go off enough while you had issues. Or, is this Selvala's approach head and shoulders above?
I ask because I have a friend with a Sneak Attack deck, using Eldrazi Lords. If he ever bothered to tune it up, it would be hard to bring down without actively stalking it and alpha striking as a group, so I know how vicious that archetype can be, as well as the "dump everything in the graveyard and reanimate" deck. Another friend has had one of those for probably a decade+. Cool story, thanks for sharing.
Would it work in a three player (friendly mayhem) meta?
My guess is "yes".
Anything you would change in the deck or are you happy as it is?
In theory, it would work in a three-player FFA, but would just be slower. You'd likely have to make your creatures the cream of the crop. Stampede is one of those cards that scales really, really well (but gets worse with fewer players as a consequence).
Haven't seen anything I'd change yet. Not dropping the Stampede until Turn 6 first-time out was a concern, but it still ramped into solutions, survived and won, so I can't complain.
Is your meta playgroup pretty balanced in power? Looking at the other decks you mentioned, it almost sounds like anyone else might have won but simply didn't go off enough while you had issues. Or, is this Selvala's approach head and shoulders above?
I ask because I have a friend with a Sneak Attack deck, using Eldrazi Lords. If he ever bothered to tune it up, it would be hard to bring down without actively stalking it and alpha striking as a group, so I know how vicious that archetype can be, as well as the "dump everything in the graveyard and reanimate" deck. Another friend has had one of those for probably a decade+. Cool story, thanks for sharing.
My meta is fairly balanced, yeah. To be fair, the Gruul deck I mentioned was on its first run and completely failed to fire, so it's off to be tuned again (I believe it's a potentially nasty Mirrorwing Dragon / Wild Defiance / cheap cantrips deck that just couldn't tutor for its pieces. But the rest were all legit.
I tend to think this might be better than reanimator, mostly because in FFA, you're only getting one creature really early, and you then have to play politics with it. Same with the others, I think. Stampede circumvents that by putting a threat on the table for each player - I probably won because the other players were all busy considering each other as threats as well as me. The fact that some of the guys I put on the table are capable of completely disabling decks as they enter just adds to the ability of Stampede to handle everyone at once.
I ask because I have a friend with a Sneak Attack deck, using Eldrazi Lords. If he ever bothered to tune it up, it would be hard to bring down without actively stalking it and alpha striking as a group, so I know how vicious that archetype can be, as well as the "dump everything in the graveyard and reanimate" deck. Another friend has had one of those for probably a decade+. Cool story, thanks for sharing.
In theory, it would work in a three-player FFA, but would just be slower. You'd likely have to make your creatures the cream of the crop. Stampede is one of those cards that scales really, really well (but gets worse with fewer players as a consequence).
Haven't seen anything I'd change yet. Not dropping the Stampede until Turn 6 first-time out was a concern, but it still ramped into solutions, survived and won, so I can't complain.
My meta is fairly balanced, yeah. To be fair, the Gruul deck I mentioned was on its first run and completely failed to fire, so it's off to be tuned again (I believe it's a potentially nasty Mirrorwing Dragon / Wild Defiance / cheap cantrips deck that just couldn't tutor for its pieces. But the rest were all legit.
I tend to think this might be better than reanimator, mostly because in FFA, you're only getting one creature really early, and you then have to play politics with it. Same with the others, I think. Stampede circumvents that by putting a threat on the table for each player - I probably won because the other players were all busy considering each other as threats as well as me. The fact that some of the guys I put on the table are capable of completely disabling decks as they enter just adds to the ability of Stampede to handle everyone at once.
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