Ok, so I went 3-3. I got a Bye, so its really kinda like 2-3. Anyways, I don't remember too too much about my matchups, but I know how they played out.
Match 1: Bye
I was really surprised that of all the people there, I was the one who got it. Honestly, I would have rather played this round because this was my first event with this deck and I would have liked to warm up with a random matchup rather than someone who has already played a game and won.
Match 2: Breachscape (Loss)
This guy was really cool and he was also a Living End player, but he chose to bring Breachscape instead. I lost 0-2. When we started, he said that his deck was probably the worst matchup for me. So yeah... That seemed fun. I remember that If I drew at least 1 more creature over the span of 5 or 6 turns, I would have won. But I didn't draw anything I needed :/ which will be a recurring thing in this report.
Match 3: Burn (Loss)
So I see that he was playing Burn and I immediately knew that it was just dumb luck here. How could I possibly be matched up against my worst matchups twice in a row? Well... just keep reading... Anyways, he destroys me in game 1 from what I remember. In game 2, I keep a hand with 1 SSG, a land, 2 Brindle Boar, 1 Gnaw, 1 Violent Outburst, and 1 Cycler. Almost perfect. So he proceeds to tell me that he draw meh, but he will keep it anyway. So I didn't draw another land the entire game and he kills me on something like turn 7. Burn... Turn 7...
At this point, I was really mad because I hadn't got to really show any skill or talent because the deck was simply inconsistent. Going over my games, I figured that the only thing that I did wrong up to that point was not fetch before cycling so that I had the least chances to draw a land. So I go into the 4th match on some major tilt.
Match 4: Burn
In an outrage, I begin with aggressively mulliganing. Basically everything I was doing was aggressive. Even writing down my life total. So I actually wind up winning game 1 on the back of Faerie Macabre Exiling a Swiftspear and then LEing back my stuff. Game 2 I came off tilt a little, but was still aggravated. So as a result, game 2 I kinda tortured my opponent the entire game by beating him down with Brindle Boars and leaving my Pale Recluse back to block. I activated Boar 4 Times that game.
Match 5: Fair Abzan
This guy was pretty cool too. He was joking about how his deck hated him up to this point and that he wasn't expecting much from this game. So game 1, I get an opening hand with 3 lands and some cyclers and decide to keep. I didn't hit a single cascade spell the entire game. However, I fought like hell the entire time to stay alive. He beat me 0-2, but I wasn't mad at this point because it was just inconsistency that had got me there at that point. It was actually becoming a little humorous.
Match 5: Jund
Absolutely blew Jund away. Jund has always been a deck that I am conditioned to fear because I play Infect, but this matchup is either extremely easy, or he drew absolutely horrible. I won 2-0.
So that's how the day went. I had stayed up until 4 that morning testing against various forms of Eldrazi, but didn't play a single copy of it. During the match of my Bye, I looked around at all the matches and I can tell you that I counted exactly 3 people playing Burn. Only 3... And I got paired against 2 of them. More than half of the people there were playing Eldrazi. Abzan was also pretty popular. There were a ton of Grixis control players there too. I found out that the Breachscape player was the only one there playing it. the Jund player was one of two people playing it also.
Overall, I am happy with my play, my choice of deck, and my build.
I am not happy with the consistency of the deck even though I think that it is absolutely solid. I am also not happy with the matchups, but I can't really complain about that because I gave it the best that I could.
If I were to do it all over again, I wouldn't change what deck I played though. It has a great matchup against both Eldrazi AND Abzan. Infect would have been a bad Idea in this particular tournament. My build is in my signature.
Could please someone extend on Olivia Voldaren?
I can't get it why is she so good in a big GP sideboard... She's 4 mana and still have to pay for activations!
I saw Eerie Interlude in the Shadows over Innistrad Spoilers. Would we have problems if this card would show up in an opponents sideboard?
That really depends what those creatures are. Keep in mind most of our stuff is bigger than most creature based decks and aside from it also triggering the occasional non-bo of Deadshot having to kill our own Macabre your still going to have better board position most of the time.
Also ask what deck would actually play this? Eldrazi, even if it is a deck after the fact, probably won't touch them outside of a sideboard because it is so specific. White Tokens deck cant use it. Thalia stax archetypes cant use it. There really is not much it can actually go into.
So I feel sad about this set because I feel like the deck did not get anything worth using, or at leat not anything prominent. The only cards that caught my attention were pretty somewhat situational:
Crawling Sensation
The self mill is very useful for obvious reasons, and it can easily put a creature into play every single turn in this list which at the least can help hold you over until you can resolve combo. The issue as I see it is that it does not help against things we are still weak against, like Rest in Peace, so it is not really much of an alternate win con so much as something that reenforces our current strategy, and I don't know that we need that right now.
Crow of Dark Tidings
Self mill on a body. I think this card and most of the cards in the set become a lot more compelling if we are trying to mill bigger things we normally couldn't cycle into our yard like Kozelik and Ulamog. That being said it is a non-bo with deadshot who is far more valuable to us so I think this is a non starter.
Bound By Moonsilver
I think this card is actually the biggest get in the set. I think it may actually be a very compelling reason to run white and easily could wind up being the 5th Beast within. When used on a creature your opponent plays it may actually be better than beast within because it does not put the creature in the yard just to have it come back when you trigger your combo and leaves you a demonic dread target. Unlike Beast it can also jump to more relevant creatures as needed and gives you a sacrifice outlet to get rid of any hardcast creature you have before you go off with your combo. It is not so great against creatures that are ability based (and does not work against the Origins transformers which is counter intuitive) but against decks that are playing a tempo game like Jund it is a great card. I'm not 100% certain it will show up in living end at the end of the day, though I think white tokes will actually love this card and I think the meta could go to a place where this winds up being amazing.
I saw Eerie Interlude in the Shadows over Innistrad Spoilers. Would we have problems if this card would show up in an opponents sideboard?
That really depends what those creatures are. Keep in mind most of our stuff is bigger than most creature based decks and aside from it also triggering the occasional non-bo of Deadshot having to kill our own Macabre your still going to have better board position most of the time.
Also ask what deck would actually play this? Eldrazi, even if it is a deck after the fact, probably won't touch them outside of a sideboard because it is so specific. White Tokens deck cant use it. Thalia stax archetypes cant use it. There really is not much it can actually go into.
Also, Ghostway exists and has never seen any play.
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My personal guess is that the two (teammates btw) figured that Living End was going to see a lot more play than usual at the GP and because of that, they need a failsafe for the mirror. Olivia kinda solves the problem by being the creature that breaks the stalemate that living end mirrors would become without mass GY hate. Getting to 6-7 lands is not unreasonable so having a mana sink that gets around the mirror is ideal.
more than likely i will try to run Arlinn Kord in my list, I like those creature boosts she offers. especially vigilance.
Pick the Brain may very well be the first discard spell that is viable for the deck.
kills off an entire answer to post living end board state. exiling all of my opponents path to exile would be an ideal outcome for example.
Angelic Purge and Anguished Unmasking both feel completely inferior to me compared to Beast within, especially if you have to splash. Even if I have maxed out on Beasts and wanted a 5th I think a more specialized card like bound by moonsilver or molten rain would be better off in my list.
Pick the brain is only really a slight upgrade over Perish the Thought, which really was not making the list for most players anyway. I don't think the upside of exiling and the almost impossible to enable delirium is nearly enough to make me want to run it at this point.
So, there's a rumor for a Spirit Guide ban. I'm kind of nervous about that. There are no efficient replacements for it.
SSG could get a ban but I don't think it will be this banlist update. I think DCI is interested in seeing the field without eldrazi dominating. So they'll most likely ban a land from the deck to relegate it to tier 1.5/2. Now after that ban in the subsequent update, I think we're going to see fast strategies being targeted because of the subtle nerf to blue decks with the twin ban. I know Forsythe was discussing a potential ancestral vision unban as a potential way to buff blue.
Even in the near future if SSG gets banned, i'l most likely open up for more flex slots, the reason to play SSG was to occasionally cascade on T2 or accelerate out the T2 LD, instead, I could see something like shriekmaw/ingot chewer being played that sorta deals with aggro creature decks on the first two turns. However, it will be an overall nerf to the deck as we don't have the surprise mana for shenanigans. Or we could hope for new cyclers and evokers. They aren't too high on the storm scale and it has been a while since we last saw those mechanics.
I don't think that Simian Spirit Guide will get a ban this update, but I imagine it is certainly on their list of cards to be watched. If it does end up getting a ban, i do believe that this deck gets much worse. Some match-ups that i would consider favorable, such as infect, get quite a bit more iffy. Simian spirit guide definitely wins games, sometimes a turn 2 cascade is necessary to fight off a scavenging ooze or relic. Other times its just devastating in blowing up control players lands turn 2 (esper, grixis, jeskai, uw). Turn 2 Fulminator is also one of the better ways to beat other combo matchups that are traditionally not so good such as goryo decks (probably also on a ban watch-list), scapeshift, ad nauseam, etc.
Aside from that I've been on quite the hot streak with living end. Went undefeated in both matches and games in my LGS's weekly modern event. Also top 8'd a GPT about a week ago. Been playing this list for a while, shriekmaws may shift once eldrazi gets the hammer.
Round 1 - vs Mardu Midrange 2-0
Didn't know much about the deck, didn't know what he was on, but turn 2 fulminator game one was pretty solid. Game 2 got hit by a damnation after resolving living end, he never saw a RIP and I had another cascade spell. Pretty Easy matchup
Round 2 - Grixis Delver 2-0
Game one, he had lots of pressure via 2 flipped delvers and then cast a tasigur to represent lethal on his following turn. Hadn't been able to find a 3rd land for the cascade. Needed to draw a land or die on my turn (he knew that as well through gitaxian probe). Drew a forest and quickly proceeded to win. Game 2 was grindy and I kept a 5 card hand that even had a living end in it. He had no early pressure, i flooded out and never found a cascade spell. Suspended a living end, and won off of it due to having 7 mana up and the opponent sitting with 2 mana leaks in hand.
Round 3 - Abzan Company 2-0
Typically a bad matchup, kept a hand with t2 fulminator both games. Figured my best path to victory if he has a seer is to have more creatures to get back than him. both games I go turn 2 fulminator into turn 3 fulminator into turn 4 cascade. Wrecks his day. He also screwed himself by grabbing non-basics with his fetches.
Round 4 - Infect 2-0
Game one he mulls to 5 and doesn't have much action, i have a shriekmaw for his blighted agent. He has no follow-up. Game 2 he leads with hierarch then inkmoth. Swings for 5 infect next turn with only green mana open. I cascade and he doesn't have much action afterwards.
Lots of luck was involved in this tournament. Kept lots of hands that already had a living end in them and didn't ever get too punished.
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If SSG goes the deck will drop a tier I am pretty sure. The only good news is a match up like pyromancer becomes a touch easier for us, though it may be because that deck goes away in total.
SSG is just to vital to fighting hate at this point.
My personal guess is that the two (teammates btw) figured that Living End was going to see a lot more play than usual at the GP and because of that, they need a failsafe for the mirror. Olivia kinda solves the problem by being the creature that breaks the stalemate that living end mirrors would become without mass GY hate. Getting to 6-7 lands is not unreasonable so having a mana sink that gets around the mirror is ideal.
**Didn't have a Stony Silence on me at the time. Ordered one that day and will replace my 2nd Kataki with it.
Match 1 vs RG Titan Breach 2-0
Game 1
I was able to turn 2 mage him. After that he said he drew only 1 more land and could did anything. I turn 4 a LE and won.
Game 2
I didn't sideboard anything in besides Pulse of Murasa. At the time I only saw him play 1 Valakut and I didn't really know what his deck was trying to do. In hindsight I should have at least put in 1 Slaughter for Scapeshift possibility. My starting hand didn't have a cascade spell but I kept anyways with 3 cyclers and 3 lands for sure. Turned out I had to hardcast my Pale Recluse turn 6 and won the game without ever seeing a cascade spell. It was a slow grind with me having 13 lands out on the field.
Match 2 vs Affinity 2-0
Game 1
Very typical of affinity to vomit their hand out. They got me down to 6 life before I cascaded with a full yard and swing for lethal.
Game 2
This time I wanted to try out Katari and see if it would be worth it. I took out all my LEs for 2 Katakis and also put in 3 Grips and 3 Ingot Chewers. Also took out my 3 Architects and 3 Shriekmaws. Again he got out fast and had me down to 4 life and was about to swing when I played Outburst. Before I could look for my Kataki he conceded on the spot.
Match 3 vs Colorless Eldrazi 0-2
Game 1 and 2
Just too fast and couldn't keep up. I lost both games on turn 3 or 4. He didn't even need his chalice or relic to slow me down.
Match 4 vs Jund 0-2
Game 1
Kept a pretty good hand and was able to get a decent yard by turn 4. However he played a Scavenging Ooze 3 and I wasn't able to cascade as big as I wanted too. I was able to wipe his field twice till he played Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet and another Ooze. That was game there.
Game 2
I brought in Murasas to hopefully save my critters in the grave before Ooze dealt with it. Also brought in my 4 Leyline of the Voids. I don't know if either of these were the right calls but I suppose it was better then nothing. I sided out 1 SSG, 3 Architects, 1 Jungle Weaver, and 1 Pale Recluse. My starting hand wasn't great and he turn 1 played Relic. I couldn't play enough cyclers or cascade before he played Kalitas again. I lost on turn 6.
I had a great night and enjoyed playing in paper again instead of behind a computer screen. I feel my list is doing pretty good however I might want to fix up my manabase just a little bit. I'm planning on bringing this list again next Thursday or I might play some legacy that night instead.
I am just getting into Living end and i have everything but the manabase currently.. Is there any concessions i can make on the manabase to replace black cleave and copperline until i can aquire them? I have the fetches and the shocks, so could i just up the blackcleaves to More Blood crypt?
I am just getting into Living end and i have everything but the manabase currently.. Is there any concessions i can make on the manabase to replace black cleave and copperline until i can aquire them? I have the fetches and the shocks, so could i just up the blackcleaves to More Blood crypt?
I use a few of the Checklands (Rootbound Craig and friends) in place of the Fastlands (Copperline, etc). They are similar enough-they make sequencing slightly more difficult sometimes but late game they are actually better.
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As WoTC writes, Eldrazi might remain somewhat viable...maybe in form of the processor decks that we saw before oath of the gatewatch was released. Those decks used to play 4 Relic of Progenitus, which made it far more uncomfortable to play against.
Ancestral Vision and Sword of the Meek will in turn make control decks more viable. Is it time to sideboard a Boil or two? What changes are you making to your decks?
I'll personally probably up my ricochet trap count from 2 back up to the 3 I had before the twin ban. Boil will certainly be up for consideration again, really depends on how the meta develops, but I also imagine faerie macabre will now be excellent as well, given the presence of more Snapcaster decks and the likely continuing presence of abzan company.
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almost done assembling this deck. but only have bloodstained mire as a budget version. what is the heirarchy of shocklands do you fetch? to gain maximum advantage color-wise?
also, how do you recover if you have accidentally drawn your 3 living ends?
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Match 1: Bye
I was really surprised that of all the people there, I was the one who got it. Honestly, I would have rather played this round because this was my first event with this deck and I would have liked to warm up with a random matchup rather than someone who has already played a game and won.
Match 2: Breachscape (Loss)
This guy was really cool and he was also a Living End player, but he chose to bring Breachscape instead. I lost 0-2. When we started, he said that his deck was probably the worst matchup for me. So yeah... That seemed fun. I remember that If I drew at least 1 more creature over the span of 5 or 6 turns, I would have won. But I didn't draw anything I needed :/ which will be a recurring thing in this report.
Match 3: Burn (Loss)
So I see that he was playing Burn and I immediately knew that it was just dumb luck here. How could I possibly be matched up against my worst matchups twice in a row? Well... just keep reading... Anyways, he destroys me in game 1 from what I remember. In game 2, I keep a hand with 1 SSG, a land, 2 Brindle Boar, 1 Gnaw, 1 Violent Outburst, and 1 Cycler. Almost perfect. So he proceeds to tell me that he draw meh, but he will keep it anyway. So I didn't draw another land the entire game and he kills me on something like turn 7. Burn... Turn 7...
At this point, I was really mad because I hadn't got to really show any skill or talent because the deck was simply inconsistent. Going over my games, I figured that the only thing that I did wrong up to that point was not fetch before cycling so that I had the least chances to draw a land. So I go into the 4th match on some major tilt.
Match 4: Burn
In an outrage, I begin with aggressively mulliganing. Basically everything I was doing was aggressive. Even writing down my life total. So I actually wind up winning game 1 on the back of Faerie Macabre Exiling a Swiftspear and then LEing back my stuff. Game 2 I came off tilt a little, but was still aggravated. So as a result, game 2 I kinda tortured my opponent the entire game by beating him down with Brindle Boars and leaving my Pale Recluse back to block. I activated Boar 4 Times that game.
Match 5: Fair Abzan
This guy was pretty cool too. He was joking about how his deck hated him up to this point and that he wasn't expecting much from this game. So game 1, I get an opening hand with 3 lands and some cyclers and decide to keep. I didn't hit a single cascade spell the entire game. However, I fought like hell the entire time to stay alive. He beat me 0-2, but I wasn't mad at this point because it was just inconsistency that had got me there at that point. It was actually becoming a little humorous.
Match 5: Jund
Absolutely blew Jund away. Jund has always been a deck that I am conditioned to fear because I play Infect, but this matchup is either extremely easy, or he drew absolutely horrible. I won 2-0.
So that's how the day went. I had stayed up until 4 that morning testing against various forms of Eldrazi, but didn't play a single copy of it. During the match of my Bye, I looked around at all the matches and I can tell you that I counted exactly 3 people playing Burn. Only 3... And I got paired against 2 of them. More than half of the people there were playing Eldrazi. Abzan was also pretty popular. There were a ton of Grixis control players there too. I found out that the Breachscape player was the only one there playing it. the Jund player was one of two people playing it also.
Overall, I am happy with my play, my choice of deck, and my build.
I am not happy with the consistency of the deck even though I think that it is absolutely solid. I am also not happy with the matchups, but I can't really complain about that because I gave it the best that I could.
If I were to do it all over again, I wouldn't change what deck I played though. It has a great matchup against both Eldrazi AND Abzan. Infect would have been a bad Idea in this particular tournament. My build is in my signature.
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I can't get it why is she so good in a big GP sideboard... She's 4 mana and still have to pay for activations!
That really depends what those creatures are. Keep in mind most of our stuff is bigger than most creature based decks and aside from it also triggering the occasional non-bo of Deadshot having to kill our own Macabre your still going to have better board position most of the time.
Also ask what deck would actually play this? Eldrazi, even if it is a deck after the fact, probably won't touch them outside of a sideboard because it is so specific. White Tokens deck cant use it. Thalia stax archetypes cant use it. There really is not much it can actually go into.
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Crawling Sensation
The self mill is very useful for obvious reasons, and it can easily put a creature into play every single turn in this list which at the least can help hold you over until you can resolve combo. The issue as I see it is that it does not help against things we are still weak against, like Rest in Peace, so it is not really much of an alternate win con so much as something that reenforces our current strategy, and I don't know that we need that right now.
Crow of Dark Tidings
Self mill on a body. I think this card and most of the cards in the set become a lot more compelling if we are trying to mill bigger things we normally couldn't cycle into our yard like Kozelik and Ulamog. That being said it is a non-bo with deadshot who is far more valuable to us so I think this is a non starter.
Bound By Moonsilver
I think this card is actually the biggest get in the set. I think it may actually be a very compelling reason to run white and easily could wind up being the 5th Beast within. When used on a creature your opponent plays it may actually be better than beast within because it does not put the creature in the yard just to have it come back when you trigger your combo and leaves you a demonic dread target. Unlike Beast it can also jump to more relevant creatures as needed and gives you a sacrifice outlet to get rid of any hardcast creature you have before you go off with your combo. It is not so great against creatures that are ability based (and does not work against the Origins transformers which is counter intuitive) but against decks that are playing a tempo game like Jund it is a great card. I'm not 100% certain it will show up in living end at the end of the day, though I think white tokes will actually love this card and I think the meta could go to a place where this winds up being amazing.
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more than likely i will try to run Arlinn Kord in my list, I like those creature boosts she offers. especially vigilance.
Pick the Brain may very well be the first discard spell that is viable for the deck.
kills off an entire answer to post living end board state. exiling all of my opponents path to exile would be an ideal outcome for example.
Pick the brain is only really a slight upgrade over Perish the Thought, which really was not making the list for most players anyway. I don't think the upside of exiling and the almost impossible to enable delirium is nearly enough to make me want to run it at this point.
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SSG could get a ban but I don't think it will be this banlist update. I think DCI is interested in seeing the field without eldrazi dominating. So they'll most likely ban a land from the deck to relegate it to tier 1.5/2. Now after that ban in the subsequent update, I think we're going to see fast strategies being targeted because of the subtle nerf to blue decks with the twin ban. I know Forsythe was discussing a potential ancestral vision unban as a potential way to buff blue.
Even in the near future if SSG gets banned, i'l most likely open up for more flex slots, the reason to play SSG was to occasionally cascade on T2 or accelerate out the T2 LD, instead, I could see something like shriekmaw/ingot chewer being played that sorta deals with aggro creature decks on the first two turns. However, it will be an overall nerf to the deck as we don't have the surprise mana for shenanigans. Or we could hope for new cyclers and evokers. They aren't too high on the storm scale and it has been a while since we last saw those mechanics.
Aside from that I've been on quite the hot streak with living end. Went undefeated in both matches and games in my LGS's weekly modern event. Also top 8'd a GPT about a week ago. Been playing this list for a while, shriekmaws may shift once eldrazi gets the hammer.
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Copperline Gorge
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Wooded Foothills
2 Swamp
2 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Stomping Ground
1 Blood Crypt
Creatures
2 Shriekmaw
3 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Fulminator Mage
2 Jungle Weaver
4 Monstrous Carabid
4 Architects of Will
4 Deadshot Minotaur
4 Street Wraith
4 Demonic Dread
4 Violent Outburst
3 Living End
3 Beast Within
4 Ingot Chewer
3 Faerie Macabre
2 Slaughter Games
2 Brindle Boar
2 Ricochet Trap
1 Jund Charm
1 Shriekmaw
My matches were as follows
Round 1 - vs Mardu Midrange 2-0
Didn't know much about the deck, didn't know what he was on, but turn 2 fulminator game one was pretty solid. Game 2 got hit by a damnation after resolving living end, he never saw a RIP and I had another cascade spell. Pretty Easy matchup
Round 2 - Grixis Delver 2-0
Game one, he had lots of pressure via 2 flipped delvers and then cast a tasigur to represent lethal on his following turn. Hadn't been able to find a 3rd land for the cascade. Needed to draw a land or die on my turn (he knew that as well through gitaxian probe). Drew a forest and quickly proceeded to win. Game 2 was grindy and I kept a 5 card hand that even had a living end in it. He had no early pressure, i flooded out and never found a cascade spell. Suspended a living end, and won off of it due to having 7 mana up and the opponent sitting with 2 mana leaks in hand.
Round 3 - Abzan Company 2-0
Typically a bad matchup, kept a hand with t2 fulminator both games. Figured my best path to victory if he has a seer is to have more creatures to get back than him. both games I go turn 2 fulminator into turn 3 fulminator into turn 4 cascade. Wrecks his day. He also screwed himself by grabbing non-basics with his fetches.
Round 4 - Infect 2-0
Game one he mulls to 5 and doesn't have much action, i have a shriekmaw for his blighted agent. He has no follow-up. Game 2 he leads with hierarch then inkmoth. Swings for 5 infect next turn with only green mana open. I cascade and he doesn't have much action afterwards.
Lots of luck was involved in this tournament. Kept lots of hands that already had a living end in them and didn't ever get too punished.
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SSG is just to vital to fighting hate at this point.
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4 Deadshot Minotaur
4 Fulminator Mage
1 Jungle Weaver
4 Monstrous Carabid
2 Pale Recluse
2 Shriekmaw
3 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Street Wraith
3 Architects of Will
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3 Beast Within
2 Kolaghan's Command
4 Violent Outburst
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3 Demonic Dread
3 Living End
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blood Crypt
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Copperline Gorge
1 Forest
1 Godless Shrine
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Mountain
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Polluted Delta
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Swamp
2 Wooded Foothills
3 Ingot Chewer
2 Kataki, War's Wage
3 Krosan Grip
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pulse of Murasa
1 Slaughter Games
**Didn't have a Stony Silence on me at the time. Ordered one that day and will replace my 2nd Kataki with it.
Match 1 vs RG Titan Breach 2-0
Game 1
I was able to turn 2 mage him. After that he said he drew only 1 more land and could did anything. I turn 4 a LE and won.
Game 2
I didn't sideboard anything in besides Pulse of Murasa. At the time I only saw him play 1 Valakut and I didn't really know what his deck was trying to do. In hindsight I should have at least put in 1 Slaughter for Scapeshift possibility. My starting hand didn't have a cascade spell but I kept anyways with 3 cyclers and 3 lands for sure. Turned out I had to hardcast my Pale Recluse turn 6 and won the game without ever seeing a cascade spell. It was a slow grind with me having 13 lands out on the field.
Match 2 vs Affinity 2-0
Game 1
Very typical of affinity to vomit their hand out. They got me down to 6 life before I cascaded with a full yard and swing for lethal.
Game 2
This time I wanted to try out Katari and see if it would be worth it. I took out all my LEs for 2 Katakis and also put in 3 Grips and 3 Ingot Chewers. Also took out my 3 Architects and 3 Shriekmaws. Again he got out fast and had me down to 4 life and was about to swing when I played Outburst. Before I could look for my Kataki he conceded on the spot.
Match 3 vs Colorless Eldrazi 0-2
Game 1 and 2
Just too fast and couldn't keep up. I lost both games on turn 3 or 4. He didn't even need his chalice or relic to slow me down.
Match 4 vs Jund 0-2
Game 1
Kept a pretty good hand and was able to get a decent yard by turn 4. However he played a Scavenging Ooze 3 and I wasn't able to cascade as big as I wanted too. I was able to wipe his field twice till he played Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet and another Ooze. That was game there.
Game 2
I brought in Murasas to hopefully save my critters in the grave before Ooze dealt with it. Also brought in my 4 Leyline of the Voids. I don't know if either of these were the right calls but I suppose it was better then nothing. I sided out 1 SSG, 3 Architects, 1 Jungle Weaver, and 1 Pale Recluse. My starting hand wasn't great and he turn 1 played Relic. I couldn't play enough cyclers or cascade before he played Kalitas again. I lost on turn 6.
I had a great night and enjoyed playing in paper again instead of behind a computer screen. I feel my list is doing pretty good however I might want to fix up my manabase just a little bit. I'm planning on bringing this list again next Thursday or I might play some legacy that night instead.
GWU Eldrazi
BRG Living End
WBG JunkFit
I use a few of the Checklands (Rootbound Craig and friends) in place of the Fastlands (Copperline, etc). They are similar enough-they make sequencing slightly more difficult sometimes but late game they are actually better.
EDH DECKS:
GBCatacomb Sifter Sac-Attack
I'll personally probably up my ricochet trap count from 2 back up to the 3 I had before the twin ban. Boil will certainly be up for consideration again, really depends on how the meta develops, but I also imagine faerie macabre will now be excellent as well, given the presence of more Snapcaster decks and the likely continuing presence of abzan company.
RBU
Splinter Twin (RIP)/DelverRBUUUUMono U TronUUU
GRGGR TronGRG
GWURKnight FallGWUR
Legacy
GWBDark MaverickGWB
--> EDH <--
BWUErtai, the CorruptedBWU
3 Ricochet trap
3 Faerie Macabre
2 Spike feeder
1 Pulse of Murasa/Gnaw to the bone
2 Slaughter Games
If i'm running only 3 ingot chewer, I might add in something like anger of the gods or a shriekmaw.
"I'll Ricochet Trap your Ancestral Vision onto myself."
also, how do you recover if you have accidentally drawn your 3 living ends?
"He traded sand for skins, skins for gold, gold for life. In the end, he traded life for sand."
—Afari, Tales