yaw i am running false cure with kavu and i have won a few tourneys with this baby, but i am also packing in 2 berserks (1 alpha and 1 beta signed). i noticed that you didn't have birds or elves in your build? i am going to double check your list to see if you did. if not i highly recommend them.
you can win a lot of games by just putting rancor on a bird. also consider heavily into getting elvish spirit guides.
yaw i am running false cure with kavu and i have won a few tourneys with this baby, but i am also packing in 2 berserks (1 alpha and 1 beta signed). i noticed that you didn't have birds or elves in your build? i am going to double check your list to see if you did. if not i highly recommend them (add both elves and birds and if possible add elves of the deep shadow too). you can win a lot of games by just putting rancor on a bird.
also consider heavily into getting elvish spirit guides. you don't need dead draws and a lot of land since almost all of your spells are free to cast anyhow. i have 4 lotus petals and 4 spirit guides and only 9 lands ---> 4 bayous, 1 overgrown tomb, and 4 fetchlands.
the deck thrives on speed. if you get out turn 1 bob or turn 1 kavu then it is usually gg. a great example of this is like having a spirit guide in hand and go bayou + spirit guide and then play kavu. also still while on turn 1 if you have 2 skycutters and no false cures in hand then go ahead and cast the 2 cutters for free.
so at the start of turn 1 you have a 12/12 and 2 cutters in play. sure they are at 30 life, but you can swing for 16 next turn, and thus putting them on a 2 turn clock and it is a faster clock if you have a berserk. (you don't even need berserk to be very competitive)
I'm thinking of putting 3x Tarmogoyfs in, but I don't like the bad synergy with Grunt.
Vindicates may be taken out cause I think this deck needs 3 more creatures but can't find any better than Tarmo.
Have been thinking about Carnophage, River Boa, Mother of Runes, Wild Mongrel.....
Suggestions ......
Thanks
Ps Don't have the Berserks otherwise they would be in there
I finally found a tournament for legacy soon and I was curious... What are the main creatures to look out for right now? Is tarmo big in legacy (should I use terror)? Is akroma fast to come out (should I use edict)? etc...
Tarmogoyf is huge in legacy. Thresh, which took 4 of the top 8 slots at gencon champs, runs it, as do a lot of other decks.
I don't think Reanimator is played much, if at all. You may want to run edicts to deal with Nimble Mongoose, but most fat is just undercosted, not reanimated.
However, some welder survival builds can reanimate artifact creatures, like Duplicant quickly, which may be something to watch out for.
yaw i am running false cure with kavu and i have won a few tourneys with this baby... <snip>
Would you mind posting your decklist? From the other decks posted in this thread, I see no one else seems to be maindecking Doomsday other than the OP, which is understandable (but I do love Doomsday kills :3 ). Everyone who plays False Cure/Kavu is going for a beatdown kill if the combo kill doesn't reveal itself?
Jimmy: Well when you can easily get a massive kavu predator for no extra mana, beatdown kill seems like the natural backup plan if you can't get the false cure out.
Sorrel: Well the deck I run doesn't have any creature larger than 2/2 (minus the +1/+1 counters) so duplicant isn't a huge deal. So do you think it'd be better to have terror maindecked and the edicts for sideboard? (Actually I was thinking of using snuff out instead of terror as it's free, more or less)
you can win a lot of games by just putting rancor on a bird. also consider heavily into getting elvish spirit guides.
also consider heavily into getting elvish spirit guides. you don't need dead draws and a lot of land since almost all of your spells are free to cast anyhow. i have 4 lotus petals and 4 spirit guides and only 9 lands ---> 4 bayous, 1 overgrown tomb, and 4 fetchlands.
the deck thrives on speed. if you get out turn 1 bob or turn 1 kavu then it is usually gg. a great example of this is like having a spirit guide in hand and go bayou + spirit guide and then play kavu. also still while on turn 1 if you have 2 skycutters and no false cures in hand then go ahead and cast the 2 cutters for free.
so at the start of turn 1 you have a 12/12 and 2 cutters in play. sure they are at 30 life, but you can swing for 16 next turn, and thus putting them on a 2 turn clock and it is a faster clock if you have a berserk. (you don't even need berserk to be very competitive)
add in birds (to fix your mana base). good luck.
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I don't think Reanimator is played much, if at all. You may want to run edicts to deal with Nimble Mongoose, but most fat is just undercosted, not reanimated.
However, some welder survival builds can reanimate artifact creatures, like Duplicant quickly, which may be something to watch out for.
Would you mind posting your decklist? From the other decks posted in this thread, I see no one else seems to be maindecking Doomsday other than the OP, which is understandable (but I do love Doomsday kills :3 ). Everyone who plays False Cure/Kavu is going for a beatdown kill if the combo kill doesn't reveal itself?
Sorrel: Well the deck I run doesn't have any creature larger than 2/2 (minus the +1/+1 counters) so duplicant isn't a huge deal. So do you think it'd be better to have terror maindecked and the edicts for sideboard? (Actually I was thinking of using snuff out instead of terror as it's free, more or less)
4 Dark Confidant
1 Xantid Swarm
4 Kavu Predator
4 Skyshroud Cutter
Spells
2 Diabolic Edict
3 Dark Ritual
3 Desperate Research
1 Doomsday
4 Duress
4 False Cure
2 Invigorate
4 Land Grant
4 Reverent Silence
3 Summoner's Pact
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Sylvan Library
Artifacts
2 Lotus Petal
1 Sensei's Divining Top
Lands
4 Bayou
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Xantid Swarm
1 Doomsday
2 Invigorate
1 Regrowth
1 Summoner's Pact
2 Suppress
1 Elephant Grass
2 Seal of Primordium
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Lotus Petal
1 Null Rod
1 Tormod's Crypt
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