Had a decent run tonight (2/24/17) My dumb stream cut out twice, so it's in 3 videos. But I ran my list and went 4-1 in the comp league. So, just in case anyone doesn't know, I stream on MTGO now when I can.
I often read somewhere, that Faeries could be at least Tier 2 if and only if more people would work on decklists together. We got at least three different types in our thread ("Classic Fae", "Copter Fae" and "Aetherborn Fae"(w(/o) Kalitas). If only some work together is needed, I would want to start this now:
First of all I guess we all should list the greatest Problems we face playing different kind of decks. I haven't played a tournament since I started playing again, so I can't really add much to this discussion (played some games on cockatrice, but that was against Tier 3 only and I don't think you'll face many of those decks in a real tournament) and would like to skip this part for now.
So it would be appreciated if you all could list what makes games hard for you playing different decks, and maybe what cards you really like in those matches.
Had a decent run tonight (2/24/17) My dumb stream cut out twice, so it's in 3 videos. But I ran my list and went 4-1 in the comp league. So, just in case anyone doesn't know, I stream on MTGO now when I can.
How have you liked liliana being in the deck? I haven't been a fan of using veil + Cryptic.
I really love Lili. I was on the fence for a long time. I tried LLH, Ashiok, LotV, Sorin, but mostly I ran none of those. Finally I landed at 2 Lili and she's staying. She did really good things for me at the GP and performs well in the MTGO comp leagues. It's a little different play style. You gotta learn to be ok chucking good cards and ok not using her a turn if you need.
But she kills creatures, eats cards, ults for a win. But she also forces your opponent to play differently. If they are in top deck mode they will just have to jam out anything they draw instead of hold for a good time.
I often read somewhere, that Faeries could be at least Tier 2 if and only if more people would work on decklists together. We got at least three different types in our thread ("Classic Fae", "Copter Fae" and "Aetherborn Fae"(w(/o) Kalitas). If only some work together is needed, I would want to start this now:
First of all I guess we all should list the greatest Problems we face playing different kind of decks. I haven't played a tournament since I started playing again, so I can't really add much to this discussion (played some games on cockatrice, but that was against Tier 3 only and I don't think you'll face many of those decks in a real tournament) and would like to skip this part for now.
So it would be appreciated if you all could list what makes games hard for you playing different decks, and maybe what cards you really like in those matches.
That's a pretty controversial topic lol. Some people really like to play draw-go style, some like to get in there quick... so, maybe one is better than the other, but people's play style preference will always dictate which version they play. For instance, grixis control is probably overall a stronger deck than faeries, but I like playing faeries. So, playing the strongest deck isn't why we all came to fae.
I am getting close to my ideal list though... I have bounced between 20 different lists in the last couple months alone, but I'm really close... if I can start getting some 5-0s in comp league.. I'll know I'm there.
I often read somewhere, that Faeries could be at least Tier 2 if and only if more people would work on decklists together. We got at least three different types in our thread ("Classic Fae", "Copter Fae" and "Aetherborn Fae"(w(/o) Kalitas). If only some work together is needed, I would want to start this now:
First of all I guess we all should list the greatest Problems we face playing different kind of decks. I haven't played a tournament since I started playing again, so I can't really add much to this discussion (played some games on cockatrice, but that was against Tier 3 only and I don't think you'll face many of those decks in a real tournament) and would like to skip this part for now.
So it would be appreciated if you all could list what makes games hard for you playing different decks, and maybe what cards you really like in those matches.
I'd also ask you to check out the faerie discord server. It's much more active than this forum, and there is a lot of conversation about results and card choices. It's gotten a little swollen since fatal push cam out; there was a lot of sudden interest in faeries but a lot of that has died off.
Like Narduang said, there are a few different ways to play faeries: Control w discard, control w card draw, and tempo or sometimes called aggro control. I think there are a few pretty optimal lists at his point, and a lot of the core cards of the deck are the same between builds. I haven't seen many people running copter for quite some time now.
We still struggle against dredge or any graveyard based creature decks, and Tron is a worse match up of you play straight control. Otherwise I feel most math ups are pretty decent, with us being favored against most combo-style decks.
Had a decent run tonight (2/24/17) My dumb stream cut out twice, so it's in 3 videos. But I ran my list and went 4-1 in the comp league. So, just in case anyone doesn't know, I stream on MTGO now when I can.
Had a decent run tonight (2/24/17) My dumb stream cut out twice, so it's in 3 videos. But I ran my list and went 4-1 in the comp league. So, just in case anyone doesn't know, I stream on MTGO now when I can.
Does anybody use a more tribally version, using Scion of Oona? I'm going to make that build. Making 2/2's with shroud every turn seems really solid and, it has flash so, they path and i counter it with a creature. It's more control-aggro then all of you guys, I loved my friends Esper Spirits deck and Faeries seem similar. We have a pretty much strictly better lord. I mean shroud can cause issues but flash makes up for it. Any opinions?
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Had a decent run tonight (2/24/17) My dumb stream cut out twice, so it's in 3 videos. But I ran my list and went 4-1 in the comp league. So, just in case anyone doesn't know, I stream on MTGO now when I can.
How have you liked liliana being in the deck? I haven't been a fan of using veil + Cryptic.
Well, you clearly never bounced a Batterskull and pressed the discard button Liliana in the same turn .
That's cute but it's hard to sell me on the idea of being able to cast liliana which is BB where cryptic is UUU. That's hard to due with mutavault and with blood moon running around.
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Does anybody use a more tribally version, using Scion of Oona? I'm going to make that build. Making 2/2's with shroud every turn seems really solid and, it has flash so, they path and i counter it with a creature. It's more control-aggro then all of you guys, I loved my friends Esper Spirits deck and Faeries seem similar. We have a pretty much strictly better lord. I mean shroud can cause issues but flash makes up for it. Any opinions?
There is momo blue Fae thread in the deck creation area and its more aggro/control or tempo based. The big difference is that you run far more creatures than this thread would ever think of as this brand of UB Fae is primarily control.
I got 3rd at TCGPlayer states California playing UB Faeries and will post an updated list with details tomorrow. I went undefeated until the semis where I picked up my only loss which knocked me out.
This deck is good. Im very happy with its results as of late and this performance was the icing on the cake.
Expect some small writeups and sideboard strats when I get the chance tomorrow.
I got 3rd at TCGPlayer states California playing UB Faeries and will post an updated list with details tomorrow. I went undefeated until the semis where I picked up my only loss which knocked me out.
This deck is good. Im very happy with its results as of late and this performance was the icing on the cake.
Expect some small writeups and sideboard strats when I get the chance tomorrow.
Does anybody use a more tribally version, using Scion of Oona? I'm going to make that build. Making 2/2's with shroud every turn seems really solid and, it has flash so, they path and i counter it with a creature. It's more control-aggro then all of you guys, I loved my friends Esper Spirits deck and Faeries seem similar. We have a pretty much strictly better lord. I mean shroud can cause issues but flash makes up for it. Any opinions?
There is momo blue Fae thread in the deck creation area and its more aggro/control or tempo based. The big difference is that you run far more creatures than this thread would ever think of as this brand of UB Fae is primarily control.
I know, I want to play U/B for bitterblossom but still have a fair amount of creatures. How many creatures would you all suggest?
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Does anybody use a more tribally version, using Scion of Oona? I'm going to make that build. Making 2/2's with shroud every turn seems really solid and, it has flash so, they path and i counter it with a creature. It's more control-aggro then all of you guys, I loved my friends Esper Spirits deck and Faeries seem similar. We have a pretty much strictly better lord. I mean shroud can cause issues but flash makes up for it. Any opinions?
There is momo blue Fae thread in the deck creation area and its more aggro/control or tempo based. The big difference is that you run far more creatures than this thread would ever think of as this brand of UB Fae is primarily control.
I know, I want to play U/B for bitterblossom but still have a fair amount of creatures. How many creatures would you all suggest?
Round 1 Burn 2-0
Kept hands in both games with Kalitas and Collective Brutality which essentially is an instant win.
Sideboarded in 2 Dispel 1 Negate taking out all AV
Round 2 BG Infect 2-1
Game 1 was heavily in my favor due to having a lot of removal, and I eventually won with manlands.
Sideboarded in 2 dispel 1 Fatal Push
Game 2 I had lethal on board, but he topdecked like a boss and got this game from me.
Game 3 was essentially game 1 with better cards because I actually had a sideboard. Extra fatal push came in clutch here.
Round 3 Dredge 2-1
Game 1 was heavily in his favor as this was the only game I mulliganed super hard. I went down to 4, he started off insanely aggresively, and after showing him 2 lands and a removal spell, I scooped to go to the next game.
Sideboarded in 2 Grafdigger's Cage 1 Damnation 1 Surgical
Game 2 was heavily in my favor as I started off with a cage, countered early faithless lootings, and took the game over with kalitas.
Game 3 essentially had the same thing happen, with the exception of keeping a sketchy hand but it had cage and damnation. Started off with only two lands, watched the guy overcommit, wrathed the board, and then slammed Kalitas to win again.
Round 4 Collected Company 2-1
Game 1 was in my favor tremendously as he mulled to 6, kept a 4 land two spell hand, and I kept a discard heavy hand which he could never recover from.
Sideboarded 1 Fatal Push 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Damnation
Game 2 was heavily in his favor as he started off fast and I got mana screwed with damnation in hand.
Game 3 was a flashback to game 1 a bit, but I was low on threats and he eventually got around to playing some stuff, which I had the removal for. Man lands won me the game in the end.
I was a lock at this point even with a loss and a tie, but got paired down against a 3-1 so I had to play him.
Round 5 Skred Red 2-1
Game 1 I make him discard a blood moon on turn 1, and he can't fight through the removal plus kalitas and bitterblossom.
Sideboarded in 2 Dispel 1 Lost Legacy 1 Negate
Game 2 I did my best to keep him off of moon, but he ended up topdecking one on his 4th turn after I tore his hand apart. He proceeded to beat my face as I had only one basic island in play with a lot of black cards in hand.
Game 3 I clique on his turn 3 and tuck a blood moon, even though I had two islands in play already. I needed the black as the rest of his hand was weak to removal, which I took full advantage of and eventually slammed Kalitas for the win.
Round 6 ID to top8
Before it's posted for the world to see, our top8 was awesome. This is what it ended up looking like before we started top8:
1st - UB Faeries
2nd - Mono Green Tooth and Nail
3rd - Skred Red (Different guy than the one I played)
4th - BW 8 Rack
5th - Jund
6th - Jund
7th - Bant Spirits
8th - Bant Spirits
Round 7 Bant Spirits 2-1 (FIRST ROUND OF TOP8)
Game 1 was back and forth, but I eventually got there between Brutality and Snapcaster-ing Fatal Pushes.
Sideboarded in 1 Fatal Push 1 Damnation 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
Game 2 was in his favor as he just tempoed me with quellers and I wasn't able to recover quickly.
Game 3 I tore his hand apart and noticed he wasn't drawing colors well, so after making him discard his only mana fixer (hierarch) I ghost quartered him and he had to choose a plains to keep himself in the game. He didn't draw much of anything from there and I took the game away quickly.
Round 8 Bant Spirits (Again) 0-2 (SEMIS)
Game 1 I kept a sketchy mull to 5 and got stomped super quickly.
Sideboarded in basically the same as the last match.
Game 2 I attempted to come out strong with AV's and a lot of removal, but I got quellered 3 times in a row and I wasn't able to recover from it at all.
This deck is amazing. I had compliments from tons of people who said that my deck was definitely the talk of the tournament, as it was the only copy of Faeries there and I was doing incredibly well with it.
If you guys want more detailed things or have questions about anything please feel free to message me or quote me on this post. I'd be glad to answer any questions you guys might have.
Does anybody use a more tribally version, using Scion of Oona? I'm going to make that build. Making 2/2's with shroud every turn seems really solid and, it has flash so, they path and i counter it with a creature. It's more control-aggro then all of you guys, I loved my friends Esper Spirits deck and Faeries seem similar. We have a pretty much strictly better lord. I mean shroud can cause issues but flash makes up for it. Any opinions?
There is momo blue Fae thread in the deck creation area and its more aggro/control or tempo based. The big difference is that you run far more creatures than this thread would ever think of as this brand of UB Fae is primarily control.
I know, I want to play U/B for bitterblossom but still have a fair amount of creatures. How many creatures would you all suggest?
Went 3-1, losing in the finals :(.
My matches were:
Round 1: Death Shadow Jund 2-0
Easy win, we are geared to smash these kind of MUs. 2-0 not even really close. Opponent flooded 2nd game but still, went quite smoothly.
Round 2: BG home brew 2-0
Not much to say, he mainly had creatures and tried to exploit counters. Won 2-0 on the back of 2 damnations post board.
Round 3: Eldrazi Taxes 2-1
Super close MU. I loved Ceremonious Rejection post board. Could possibly had won 2-0 but he topdecked quite well when I was with only lili on the board.
Round 4: AdNauseum 1-2
Well, lost game 1 relatively easily, didn't draw that well. Game 2 was an easy win with Multiple SSSs. Game 3 was extremely close, he top decked two negation pacts on my 2 land top decks, managed to go through my 2 counters and won eventually. Had I had 1 more counter I would had won cause of lethal BB tokens. I feel confident that the MU is good. Could had played a bit better for sure.
List felt super solid overall. Didn't really drawn too many Gifted Aetherborns so I can't say how useful they were, but with that configuration Lili was pretty sweet. I can see cutting an Aetherborn for something, not sure yet what that something could be.
Thanks very much for your tournament report Daut! Your list looks nice and I'm tempted to try it at the next chance I get
Only question I have is for evaluation purposes: Have you ever tried playing Gifted Aetherborn?
For sure! This has always been my favorite deck to olay, so finally putting a great tournament record behind it feels great.
To answer your question about aetherborn, yes, I have. He is VERY good depending on your meta. My hometown meta is a lot of burn (there were approximately 11 burn-style decks [including 2 skred decks] at this tournament) so the extra 1 toughness is a huge difference. I don't think there were any matches where I said "man, if this was an aetherborn instead of kalitas" because Kalitas just makes such a huge impact on the game.
If I wasn't in the meta I was in, I'd be running aetherborn. But I think Kalitas is significantly better from a wide-range standpoint (being able to hit multiple decks like dredge, burn, company) and you can see from my tournament report that he won me a lot of my games. If you're in a meta with an oversaturated amount of delve creatures (Tasigur and the like) then I'd recommend the aetherborn every time.
How have you liked liliana being in the deck? I haven't been a fan of using veil + Cryptic.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
First of all I guess we all should list the greatest Problems we face playing different kind of decks. I haven't played a tournament since I started playing again, so I can't really add much to this discussion (played some games on cockatrice, but that was against Tier 3 only and I don't think you'll face many of those decks in a real tournament) and would like to skip this part for now.
So it would be appreciated if you all could list what makes games hard for you playing different decks, and maybe what cards you really like in those matches.
I really love Lili. I was on the fence for a long time. I tried LLH, Ashiok, LotV, Sorin, but mostly I ran none of those. Finally I landed at 2 Lili and she's staying. She did really good things for me at the GP and performs well in the MTGO comp leagues. It's a little different play style. You gotta learn to be ok chucking good cards and ok not using her a turn if you need.
But she kills creatures, eats cards, ults for a win. But she also forces your opponent to play differently. If they are in top deck mode they will just have to jam out anything they draw instead of hold for a good time.
That's a pretty controversial topic lol. Some people really like to play draw-go style, some like to get in there quick... so, maybe one is better than the other, but people's play style preference will always dictate which version they play. For instance, grixis control is probably overall a stronger deck than faeries, but I like playing faeries. So, playing the strongest deck isn't why we all came to fae.
I am getting close to my ideal list though... I have bounced between 20 different lists in the last couple months alone, but I'm really close... if I can start getting some 5-0s in comp league.. I'll know I'm there.
I'd also ask you to check out the faerie discord server. It's much more active than this forum, and there is a lot of conversation about results and card choices. It's gotten a little swollen since fatal push cam out; there was a lot of sudden interest in faeries but a lot of that has died off.
Like Narduang said, there are a few different ways to play faeries: Control w discard, control w card draw, and tempo or sometimes called aggro control. I think there are a few pretty optimal lists at his point, and a lot of the core cards of the deck are the same between builds. I haven't seen many people running copter for quite some time now.
We still struggle against dredge or any graveyard based creature decks, and Tron is a worse match up of you play straight control. Otherwise I feel most math ups are pretty decent, with us being favored against most combo-style decks.
Well, you clearly never bounced a Batterskull and pressed the discard button Liliana in the same turn .
DECKS:
UB Faeries [Midrange/Tempo]
RWUGB Affinity[Aggro]
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That's cute but it's hard to sell me on the idea of being able to cast liliana which is BB where cryptic is UUU. That's hard to due with mutavault and with blood moon running around.
Decks I'm playing in Modern right now:
URB Grixis Reveler (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-grixis-reveler/)
UB Faeries (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/ub-fae-2/)
UW Azorious Control (http://www.mtgvault.com/supast4r7/decks/modern-ojutai-control-2/)
There is momo blue Fae thread in the deck creation area and its more aggro/control or tempo based. The big difference is that you run far more creatures than this thread would ever think of as this brand of UB Fae is primarily control.
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This deck is good. Im very happy with its results as of late and this performance was the icing on the cake.
Expect some small writeups and sideboard strats when I get the chance tomorrow.
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DECKS:
UB Faeries [Midrange/Tempo]
RWUGB Affinity[Aggro]
FAERIES TOO STRONK!!!1111
- Fae Prophecy, 201
5678I know, I want to play U/B for bitterblossom but still have a fair amount of creatures. How many creatures would you all suggest?
3 Vendilion Clique
3 Mistbind Clique
4 Spellstutter sprite
2 Snapcaster Mage
0-1x Kalitas
DECKS:
UB Faeries [Midrange/Tempo]
RWUGB Affinity[Aggro]
FAERIES TOO STRONK!!!1111
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5678Overall Record: 6-1-1 3rd/61
Maindeck:
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Fatal Push
2 Collective Brutality
2 Go for the Throat
1 Murderous Cut
3 Ancestral Vision
1 Mana Leak
2 Spell Snare
3 Cryptic Command
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Thoughtseize
4 Mutavault
4 Polluted Delta
4 Island
1 Swamp
1 Drowned Catacomb
4 Creeping Tar Pit
2 Watery Grave
3 Darkslick Shores
1 Ghost Quarter
Sideboard:
2 Negate
1 Lost Legacy
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Dispel
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Fatal Push
2 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Surgical Extraction
Round 1 Burn 2-0
Kept hands in both games with Kalitas and Collective Brutality which essentially is an instant win.
Sideboarded in 2 Dispel 1 Negate taking out all AV
Round 2 BG Infect 2-1
Game 1 was heavily in my favor due to having a lot of removal, and I eventually won with manlands.
Sideboarded in 2 dispel 1 Fatal Push
Game 2 I had lethal on board, but he topdecked like a boss and got this game from me.
Game 3 was essentially game 1 with better cards because I actually had a sideboard. Extra fatal push came in clutch here.
Round 3 Dredge 2-1
Game 1 was heavily in his favor as this was the only game I mulliganed super hard. I went down to 4, he started off insanely aggresively, and after showing him 2 lands and a removal spell, I scooped to go to the next game.
Sideboarded in 2 Grafdigger's Cage 1 Damnation 1 Surgical
Game 2 was heavily in my favor as I started off with a cage, countered early faithless lootings, and took the game over with kalitas.
Game 3 essentially had the same thing happen, with the exception of keeping a sketchy hand but it had cage and damnation. Started off with only two lands, watched the guy overcommit, wrathed the board, and then slammed Kalitas to win again.
Round 4 Collected Company 2-1
Game 1 was in my favor tremendously as he mulled to 6, kept a 4 land two spell hand, and I kept a discard heavy hand which he could never recover from.
Sideboarded 1 Fatal Push 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Damnation
Game 2 was heavily in his favor as he started off fast and I got mana screwed with damnation in hand.
Game 3 was a flashback to game 1 a bit, but I was low on threats and he eventually got around to playing some stuff, which I had the removal for. Man lands won me the game in the end.
I was a lock at this point even with a loss and a tie, but got paired down against a 3-1 so I had to play him.
Round 5 Skred Red 2-1
Game 1 I make him discard a blood moon on turn 1, and he can't fight through the removal plus kalitas and bitterblossom.
Sideboarded in 2 Dispel 1 Lost Legacy 1 Negate
Game 2 I did my best to keep him off of moon, but he ended up topdecking one on his 4th turn after I tore his hand apart. He proceeded to beat my face as I had only one basic island in play with a lot of black cards in hand.
Game 3 I clique on his turn 3 and tuck a blood moon, even though I had two islands in play already. I needed the black as the rest of his hand was weak to removal, which I took full advantage of and eventually slammed Kalitas for the win.
Round 6 ID to top8
Before it's posted for the world to see, our top8 was awesome. This is what it ended up looking like before we started top8:
1st - UB Faeries
2nd - Mono Green Tooth and Nail
3rd - Skred Red (Different guy than the one I played)
4th - BW 8 Rack
5th - Jund
6th - Jund
7th - Bant Spirits
8th - Bant Spirits
Round 7 Bant Spirits 2-1 (FIRST ROUND OF TOP8)
Game 1 was back and forth, but I eventually got there between Brutality and Snapcaster-ing Fatal Pushes.
Sideboarded in 1 Fatal Push 1 Damnation 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
Game 2 was in his favor as he just tempoed me with quellers and I wasn't able to recover quickly.
Game 3 I tore his hand apart and noticed he wasn't drawing colors well, so after making him discard his only mana fixer (hierarch) I ghost quartered him and he had to choose a plains to keep himself in the game. He didn't draw much of anything from there and I took the game away quickly.
Round 8 Bant Spirits (Again) 0-2 (SEMIS)
Game 1 I kept a sketchy mull to 5 and got stomped super quickly.
Sideboarded in basically the same as the last match.
Game 2 I attempted to come out strong with AV's and a lot of removal, but I got quellered 3 times in a row and I wasn't able to recover from it at all.
This deck is amazing. I had compliments from tons of people who said that my deck was definitely the talk of the tournament, as it was the only copy of Faeries there and I was doing incredibly well with it.
If you guys want more detailed things or have questions about anything please feel free to message me or quote me on this post. I'd be glad to answer any questions you guys might have.
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You could run the Scion if you do something like:
2 Vendilion Clique
3 Mistbind Clique
4 Spellstutter sprite
2 Snapcaster Mage
3 Scion of Oona
Went 3-1, losing in the finals :(.
My matches were:
Round 1: Death Shadow Jund 2-0
Easy win, we are geared to smash these kind of MUs. 2-0 not even really close. Opponent flooded 2nd game but still, went quite smoothly.
Round 2: BG home brew 2-0
Not much to say, he mainly had creatures and tried to exploit counters. Won 2-0 on the back of 2 damnations post board.
Round 3: Eldrazi Taxes 2-1
Super close MU. I loved Ceremonious Rejection post board. Could possibly had won 2-0 but he topdecked quite well when I was with only lili on the board.
Round 4: AdNauseum 1-2
Well, lost game 1 relatively easily, didn't draw that well. Game 2 was an easy win with Multiple SSSs. Game 3 was extremely close, he top decked two negation pacts on my 2 land top decks, managed to go through my 2 counters and won eventually. Had I had 1 more counter I would had won cause of lethal BB tokens. I feel confident that the MU is good. Could had played a bit better for sure.
List felt super solid overall. Didn't really drawn too many Gifted Aetherborns so I can't say how useful they were, but with that configuration Lili was pretty sweet. I can see cutting an Aetherborn for something, not sure yet what that something could be.
UB Faeries (15-6-0)
UWR Control (10-5-1)/Kiki Control/Midrange/Harbinger
UBR Cruel Control (6-4-0)/Grixis Control/Delver/Blue Jund
UWB Control/Mentor
UW Miracles/Control (currently active, 14-2-0)
BW Eldrazi & Taxes
RW Burn (9-1-0)
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Only question I have is for evaluation purposes: Have you ever tried playing Gifted Aetherborn?
For sure! This has always been my favorite deck to olay, so finally putting a great tournament record behind it feels great.
To answer your question about aetherborn, yes, I have. He is VERY good depending on your meta. My hometown meta is a lot of burn (there were approximately 11 burn-style decks [including 2 skred decks] at this tournament) so the extra 1 toughness is a huge difference. I don't think there were any matches where I said "man, if this was an aetherborn instead of kalitas" because Kalitas just makes such a huge impact on the game.
If I wasn't in the meta I was in, I'd be running aetherborn. But I think Kalitas is significantly better from a wide-range standpoint (being able to hit multiple decks like dredge, burn, company) and you can see from my tournament report that he won me a lot of my games. If you're in a meta with an oversaturated amount of delve creatures (Tasigur and the like) then I'd recommend the aetherborn every time.
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