Nice work you two! I'd love to see both of your current lists especially since you run both GB and GW. I'd imagine not much has changed from VIPowL's 5-0 list and what you'd been streaming, Syreal, but I do like to keep up with your changes.
What do you think about the matchup vs. Burn? The reason why I'm asking is that Emma Handy of SCG did a video where she said that Elves is "favored."
I've played a lot of Elves in many formats and it seems that it usually has a rough time with Burn strategies. I have even had to use the Green Leyline during Standard to help mitigate that. Nowadays in Modern, it seems to me that the combination of Tempo in Burn with early creatures + burn, and endgame (burn) seems to give me a lot of trouble. Sure there are hands that get vomited out, especially with Heritage Druid, or multiple Dwynen's Elite + gas, or Coco into double Kitchen Finks after sideboard, but usually it's been a bit tough. I would put it slightly less than 50%, probably 47/53. What do you think? Do you agree with Emma Handy or have you seen differently?
I'm really curious because I tested it a lot and came to the conclusion that I can't do anything better than what I am already doing. Sure, I could change the SB and would if I noticed more Burn in the meta, but overall, I couldn't find those different lines (I did find some, but not enough) to sway the matchup. I'm guessing I was around 45/55 before finding those different lines.
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Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
What do you think about the matchup vs. Burn? The reason why I'm asking is that Emma Handy of SCG did a video where she said that Elves is "favored."
I've played a lot of Elves in many formats and it seems that it usually has a rough time with Burn strategies. I have even had to use the Green Leyline during Standard to help mitigate that. Nowadays in Modern, it seems to me that the combination of Tempo in Burn with early creatures + burn, and endgame (burn) seems to give me a lot of trouble. Sure there are hands that get vomited out, especially with Heritage Druid, or multiple Dwynen's Elite + gas, or Coco into double Kitchen Finks after sideboard, but usually it's been a bit tough. I would put it slightly less than 50%, probably 47/53. What do you think? Do you agree with Emma Handy or have you seen differently?
I'm really curious because I tested it a lot and came to the conclusion that I can't do anything better than what I am already doing. Sure, I could change the SB and would if I noticed more Burn in the meta, but overall, I couldn't find those different lines (I did find some, but not enough) to sway the matchup. I'm guessing I was around 45/55 before finding those different lines.
I agree with Emma's assessment. The matchup is easy enough to the point where I no longer have any sideboarded cards just for Burn. I firmly believe our Burn matchup is one of the great "incentives" into playing Elves.
The matchup itself is quite tricky on a raw theoretical basis as the difficulty is that the Burn player must commit spells to reduce our board. Any non-Searing Blaze spell committed to the board is one not pointed at our face.
Being constantly aware of your lifetotal and the cards they have in hand is critical. Every card in hand directly translates to 3 potential damage. Eidolon in particular catches newer Elves pilots in a bind. You can feasibly take up to 8 damage off an Eidolon to develop your board. Your board is worth the shock you recieve, as this is how we win the matchup.
Personally, I think its a 60/40 matchup and I'd love to play it all day if I could.
Interesting. It was odd to see her claim that Elves has a good matchup, but then lose to it. But that can happen with any matchup in Modern, as I know too well. I guess there's no explanation other than for me to "get good."
For reference, I was running Liam Lonergan's Invitational list nearly to the 75 (74 of 75 cards). I don't know if this changes anything. I realize that Elves with Shaman of the Pack is just better right now, so I just bought the 4 Gilt-Leaf Palace that I needed (kind of sucks because I sold the ones that I bought for $3 each to CFB for $10 each at a GP and now had to rebuy them at $12 each). At least I was able to bargain a bit, as most were around $15 right now.
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Legacy - Sneak Show, BR Reanimator, Miracles, UW Stoneblade
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
Interesting. It was odd to see her claim that Elves has a good matchup, but then lose to it. But that can happen with any matchup in Modern, as I know too well. I guess there's no explanation other than for me to "get good."
For reference, I was running Liam Lonergan's Invitational list nearly to the 75 (74 of 75 cards). I don't know if this changes anything. I realize that Elves with Shaman of the Pack is just better right now, so I just bought the 4 Gilt-Leaf Palace that I needed (kind of sucks because I sold the ones that I bought for $3 each to CFB for $10 each at a GP and now had to rebuy them at $12 each). At least I was able to bargain a bit, as most were around $15 right now.
I'm not sure whether GB is the best approach right now as GW has been the deck getting finishes. That might just be due to pilot strength (Martin Juza) or due to popularity. I think the GW might just be better in a non grindy meta while GB excels against GBx/DS. Different strokes for different folks.
Also as an addon, since people have been asking, my list for the PPTQ/this weekend and my list in the future when the Cradle comes out.
3 Forest
4 Blooming Marsh
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Gilt-Leaf Palace
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Pendelhaven
1 Westvale Abbey // Orhmendahl, the Profane Prince
3 Chord of Calling
1 (last week) Relic of Progenitus / (this week) Dismember / Growing Rites of I_______ (when it comes out)
4 Collected Company
Sideboard (in flux):
3 Thoughtseize
/0-1 Shaper's Sanctuary (testing when it comes out, season to taste)
0-2 Relic of Progenitus (season to taste)
1-2 Dismember (1 if one is main, 2 otherwise)
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
1 Reclamation Sage
1-2 Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed (season to taste)
1 Creeping Corrosion
1 Fracturing Gust
1 Nissa, Vital Force
0-1 Stain the Mind (season to taste)
0-1 Thragtusk (season to taste)
(Had to not use deck tags cause new cards and brackets)
Interesting. It was odd to see her claim that Elves has a good matchup, but then lose to it. But that can happen with any matchup in Modern, as I know too well. I guess there's no explanation other than for me to "get good."
For reference, I was running Liam Lonergan's Invitational list nearly to the 75 (74 of 75 cards). I don't know if this changes anything. I realize that Elves with Shaman of the Pack is just better right now, so I just bought the 4 Gilt-Leaf Palace that I needed (kind of sucks because I sold the ones that I bought for $3 each to CFB for $10 each at a GP and now had to rebuy them at $12 each). At least I was able to bargain a bit, as most were around $15 right now.
I'm not sure whether GB is the best approach right now as GW has been the deck getting finishes. That might just be due to pilot strength (Martin Juza) or due to popularity. I think the GW might just be better in a non grindy meta while GB excels against GBx/DS. Different strokes for different folks.
Also as an addon, since people have been asking, my list for the PPTQ/this weekend and my list in the future when the Cradle comes out.
3 Forest
4 Blooming Marsh
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Gilt-Leaf Palace
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Pendelhaven
1 Westvale Abbey // Orhmendahl, the Profane Prince
3 Chord of Calling
1 (last week) Relic of Progenitus / (this week) Dismember / Growing Rites of I_______ (when it comes out)
4 Collected Company
Sideboard (in flux):
3 Thoughtseize
/0-1 Shaper's Sanctuary (testing when it comes out, season to taste)
0-2 Relic of Progenitus (season to taste)
1-2 Dismember (1 if one is main, 2 otherwise)
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
1 Reclamation Sage
1-2 Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed (season to taste)
1 Creeping Corrosion
1 Fracturing Gust
1 Nissa, Vital Force
0-1 Stain the Mind (season to taste)
0-1 Thragtusk (season to taste)
(Had to not use deck tags cause new cards and brackets)
Thanks for the replies. It looks like the Vizier combo is accepted to be slightly better right now. I can attest to GB beating GDS, as a friend had been running it on MTGO quite a bit (even ran a league where he 4-1ed, going 3-1 vs. Shadow in that particular league).
I think I would like to just run GW without Vizier and Devoted Druid to start. I've run the combo before in GW pure Combo and Abzan Company (haven't tried Vizier Knightfall yet) and I feel that Elves is possibly better without it. I could certainly be wrong though.
*As a side note, congratulations at doing well at the PPTQ. So large! It sucks that Affinity took you out. Affinity is one of those decks that often can't be beaten, unless you're UR Twin before it got banned (but even then with the mainboard Spellskites). I would love to see the top 8/top 16 of that event if you can link it.
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Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
Definitely still a little triggered from the poor ID decision, but happy enough with a 5-1-1 finish.
I beat Affinity, Bant Eldrazi, GDS, GDS and Dredge. Lost to Eldrazi Tron and then accepted a poor ID to get edged out of Top 8. Deck feels great, highlight of the tournament was monstering a GDS player with the Prince himself.
Driemer my mainboard was exactly the same except for the extra canopy I have in paper. I also split Garruk with Nissa and ran a Colossus over a Mindcensor.
Thanks for the results you guys share with the elf community. I don't have a lot of time to test these days, but I love keeping up with the deck and having someone else do the leg work for me goes a long way in helping me crush the local scene.
"This card has the potential to both grab Ezuri and give you the mana you need to overrun the following turn" -EmberFlux
This times ten.
Unlike the Archdruid, it doesn't die to wraths. Unlike Gargantuan, it also ramps an extra land. Elves will have little trouble transforming it provided strong draw/dig power.
I've been reading a lot about Elves lately and am probably going to switch from Reliquary
Plan A is and will always be Ezuri, any less than 4 is a mistake. Legendary rule be damned, let them remove one.
The other aspect of the deck is its weakness to mass removal. I'm not sure here. Stampede seems best for this. Blue offers both Beck and plenty of draw X cards.
There's people who like vanilla and there's people that like chocolate.
Personally, I like chocolate and I look forward to testing this core, eventually:
The reason for Scooze is its really really really good against both burn(chump elfs, grow scooze, bye skred) and grave-hate
Throne of the God-Pharaoh seems really really good with Heritage Druid. Or even simply attacking. Is it overkill? Tapping Elves to play Elves to tap more elves can add up damage pretty quick.
Anyone toyed with Oak Street Innkeeper? Seems kinda fun to Coco for. But seriously Chord/Pharaoh/Heritage synergy. It could easily be a one-of in Chord Elves.
In a perfect world:
turn 1: mystic
turn 2: heritage, dwynen, itlimoc
turn 2.5: CoCo
Scoop.
"This card has the potential to both grab Ezuri and give you the mana you need to overrun the following turn" -EmberFlux
This times ten.
Unlike the Archdruid, it doesn't die to wraths. Unlike Gargantuan, it also ramps an extra land. Elves will have little trouble transforming it provided strong draw/dig power.
I've been reading a lot about Elves lately and am probably going to switch from Reliquary
Plan A is and will always be Ezuri, any less than 4 is a mistake. Legendary rule be damned, let them remove one.
The other aspect of the deck is its weakness to mass removal. I'm not sure here. Stampede seems best for this. Blue offers both Beck and plenty of draw X cards.
There's people who like vanilla and there's people that like chocolate.
Personally, I like chocolate and I look forward to testing this core, eventually:
The reason for Scooze is its really really really good against both burn(chump elfs, grow scooze, bye skred) and grave-hate
Throne of the God-Pharaoh seems really really good with Heritage Druid. Or even simply attacking. Is it overkill? Tapping Elves to play Elves to tap more elves can add up damage pretty quick.
Anyone toyed with Oak Street Innkeeper? Seems kinda fun to Coco for. But seriously Chord/Pharaoh/Heritage synergy. It could easily be a one-of in Chord Elves.
In a perfect world:
turn 1: mystic
turn 2: heritage, dwynen, itlimoc
turn 2.5: CoCo
Scoop.
Slow down. I get that you're eager, but you can't just throw away conventions that other people have been using for a while now.
You don't need 4 Ezuri in the GB lists - Shaman is a consistent game finisher to the point where Ezuri is a sideplan.
Throne of the God-Pharoah has been Throne of the God-Inconsistent and is awful outside of very limited situations.
I also have some growing pains about Growing Rites, which I addressed in a previous post on the page back. I don't think its the second coming of Gaea as people suggest it to be. It's simply another tool to use, which likely won't push us over the line.
I recommend starting with a stock list - especially in Modern. I would tend not to change my maindeck and only change one or two cards in my sideboard for maybe...3-6 months before I start to tinker with the main. Its a good habit to have and it teaches you why each card was picked for its role.
I think the potential upside for including 1 or 2 growing rites/cradle could feasibly outweigh the downsides.
I'll let you all know how this goes in testing of course. There's enough of an analogue with gaea's cradle to make me interested in seeing the results. The digging is relevant and the flip condition is trivial. Lead the stampede this is not, but do we care?
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When you gonna start streaming again man? I'm in a way different time zone, so usually I just watch your VODs, but you haven't streamed in a couple weeks now
EDIT: Same goes for Syreal, cmon guys I need some more elf action in my life.
When you gonna start streaming again man? I'm in a way different time zone, so usually I just watch your VODs, but you haven't streamed in a couple weeks now
EDIT: Same goes for Syreal, cmon guys I need some more elf action in my life.
I mean we both just got out of Nationals a week ago so...more time to stream soonish. Also, having ISP problems so I'm looking to move ISP's before streaming again (and I sorta need to buy the deck again online lol, burned a lot of tix practicing for nats).
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If you have a board state that can cast coco wait , wait and do it on your opponents EOT. This is the correct play 90% of the time.
I've played a lot of Elves in many formats and it seems that it usually has a rough time with Burn strategies. I have even had to use the Green Leyline during Standard to help mitigate that. Nowadays in Modern, it seems to me that the combination of Tempo in Burn with early creatures + burn, and endgame (burn) seems to give me a lot of trouble. Sure there are hands that get vomited out, especially with Heritage Druid, or multiple Dwynen's Elite + gas, or Coco into double Kitchen Finks after sideboard, but usually it's been a bit tough. I would put it slightly less than 50%, probably 47/53. What do you think? Do you agree with Emma Handy or have you seen differently?
I'm really curious because I tested it a lot and came to the conclusion that I can't do anything better than what I am already doing. Sure, I could change the SB and would if I noticed more Burn in the meta, but overall, I couldn't find those different lines (I did find some, but not enough) to sway the matchup. I'm guessing I was around 45/55 before finding those different lines.
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)I agree with Emma's assessment. The matchup is easy enough to the point where I no longer have any sideboarded cards just for Burn. I firmly believe our Burn matchup is one of the great "incentives" into playing Elves.
The matchup itself is quite tricky on a raw theoretical basis as the difficulty is that the Burn player must commit spells to reduce our board. Any non-Searing Blaze spell committed to the board is one not pointed at our face.
Being constantly aware of your lifetotal and the cards they have in hand is critical. Every card in hand directly translates to 3 potential damage. Eidolon in particular catches newer Elves pilots in a bind. You can feasibly take up to 8 damage off an Eidolon to develop your board. Your board is worth the shock you recieve, as this is how we win the matchup.
Personally, I think its a 60/40 matchup and I'd love to play it all day if I could.
For reference, I was running Liam Lonergan's Invitational list nearly to the 75 (74 of 75 cards). I don't know if this changes anything. I realize that Elves with Shaman of the Pack is just better right now, so I just bought the 4 Gilt-Leaf Palace that I needed (kind of sucks because I sold the ones that I bought for $3 each to CFB for $10 each at a GP and now had to rebuy them at $12 each). At least I was able to bargain a bit, as most were around $15 right now.
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)I'm not sure whether GB is the best approach right now as GW has been the deck getting finishes. That might just be due to pilot strength (Martin Juza) or due to popularity. I think the GW might just be better in a non grindy meta while GB excels against GBx/DS. Different strokes for different folks.
Also as an addon, since people have been asking, my list for the PPTQ/this weekend and my list in the future when the Cradle comes out.
3 Forest
4 Blooming Marsh
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Gilt-Leaf Palace
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Pendelhaven
1 Westvale Abbey // Orhmendahl, the Profane Prince
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Heritage Druid
4 Llanowar Elves
3 Nettle Sentinel
4 Dwynen's Elite
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Shaman of the Pack
2 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
3 Chord of Calling
1 (last week) Relic of Progenitus / (this week) Dismember / Growing Rites of I_______ (when it comes out)
4 Collected Company
Sideboard (in flux):
3 Thoughtseize
/0-1 Shaper's Sanctuary (testing when it comes out, season to taste)
0-2 Relic of Progenitus (season to taste)
1-2 Dismember (1 if one is main, 2 otherwise)
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
1 Reclamation Sage
1-2 Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed (season to taste)
1 Creeping Corrosion
1 Fracturing Gust
1 Nissa, Vital Force
0-1 Stain the Mind (season to taste)
0-1 Thragtusk (season to taste)
(Had to not use deck tags cause new cards and brackets)
Thanks for the replies. It looks like the Vizier combo is accepted to be slightly better right now. I can attest to GB beating GDS, as a friend had been running it on MTGO quite a bit (even ran a league where he 4-1ed, going 3-1 vs. Shadow in that particular league).
I think I would like to just run GW without Vizier and Devoted Druid to start. I've run the combo before in GW pure Combo and Abzan Company (haven't tried Vizier Knightfall yet) and I feel that Elves is possibly better without it. I could certainly be wrong though.
*As a side note, congratulations at doing well at the PPTQ. So large! It sucks that Affinity took you out. Affinity is one of those decks that often can't be beaten, unless you're UR Twin before it got banned (but even then with the mainboard Spellskites). I would love to see the top 8/top 16 of that event if you can link it.
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)BLiliana, Heretical HealerB| |GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
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How could I forget my favourite Human Shaman? E-Wit definitely in there, God Pharoah has been found wanting.
Edit:
T8-
Eldrazi Tron
U Tron
Affinity x 2
RUGShift
Dredge
Ad Nauseam
???
I beat Affinity, Bant Eldrazi, GDS, GDS and Dredge. Lost to Eldrazi Tron and then accepted a poor ID to get edged out of Top 8. Deck feels great, highlight of the tournament was monstering a GDS player with the Prince himself.
Driemer my mainboard was exactly the same except for the extra canopy I have in paper. I also split Garruk with Nissa and ran a Colossus over a Mindcensor.
BLiliana, Heretical HealerB| |GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
GWBDoom Plane EnchantressBWG
"This card has the potential to both grab Ezuri and give you the mana you need to overrun the following turn" -EmberFlux
This times ten.
Unlike the Archdruid, it doesn't die to wraths. Unlike Gargantuan, it also ramps an extra land. Elves will have little trouble transforming it provided strong draw/dig power.
I've been reading a lot about Elves lately and am probably going to switch from Reliquary
Plan A is and will always be Ezuri, any less than 4 is a mistake. Legendary rule be damned, let them remove one.
The other aspect of the deck is its weakness to mass removal. I'm not sure here. Stampede seems best for this. Blue offers both Beck and plenty of draw X cards.
There's people who like vanilla and there's people that like chocolate.
Personally, I like chocolate and I look forward to testing this core, eventually:
3 Lead the Stampede
2 Growing Rites of Itlimoc
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Heritage Druid
4 Dwynen's Elite
4 Elvish Visionary
2 Viridian Zealot
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
4 Shaman of the Pack
In a deck with so much explosiveness, I'd prefer to ram plan A and Plan B.
I'd like to iclude Eternal Witness, Scavenging Ooze. Worth cutting something, or Sideboard them?
The reason for Scooze is its really really really good against both burn(chump elfs, grow scooze, bye skred) and grave-hate
Throne of the God-Pharaoh seems really really good with Heritage Druid. Or even simply attacking. Is it overkill? Tapping Elves to play Elves to tap more elves can add up damage pretty quick.
Anyone toyed with Oak Street Innkeeper? Seems kinda fun to Coco for. But seriously Chord/Pharaoh/Heritage synergy. It could easily be a one-of in Chord Elves.
In a perfect world:
turn 1: mystic
turn 2: heritage, dwynen, itlimoc
turn 2.5: CoCo
Scoop.
Slow down. I get that you're eager, but you can't just throw away conventions that other people have been using for a while now.
You don't need 4 Ezuri in the GB lists - Shaman is a consistent game finisher to the point where Ezuri is a sideplan.
Throne of the God-Pharoah has been Throne of the God-Inconsistent and is awful outside of very limited situations.
I also have some growing pains about Growing Rites, which I addressed in a previous post on the page back. I don't think its the second coming of Gaea as people suggest it to be. It's simply another tool to use, which likely won't push us over the line.
I recommend starting with a stock list - especially in Modern. I would tend not to change my maindeck and only change one or two cards in my sideboard for maybe...3-6 months before I start to tinker with the main. Its a good habit to have and it teaches you why each card was picked for its role.
I'll let you all know how this goes in testing of course. There's enough of an analogue with gaea's cradle to make me interested in seeing the results. The digging is relevant and the flip condition is trivial. Lead the stampede this is not, but do we care?
EDIT: Same goes for Syreal, cmon guys I need some more elf action in my life.
I mean we both just got out of Nationals a week ago so...more time to stream soonish. Also, having ISP problems so I'm looking to move ISP's before streaming again (and I sorta need to buy the deck again online lol, burned a lot of tix practicing for nats).
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Heritage Druid
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Dwynen's Elite
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Shaman of the Pack
2 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
4 Chord of Calling
do you have a list that differs from this?
I found it here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gpdet16/dech-tech-elves-with-baeckstrom-and-nass-2016-03-06
It was a nice article that was an easy read.
Is there a reason GU Beck-Elves isn't as popular as the big 3 variants other than Pyroclasm/Anger?