thanks for the responses I think i will try a seconf pontif in the side only beacause its good against the mirror and decent against affinity plus theres some tokens decks in my meta. I was also wondering if i should run 3 abrupt decay main and 2 chord of calling instead of the opposite? it just seems abrupt is soo good right now vs deceiver, blood moon, goyf, ect? ( plus chord usually comes out after sideboarding anyways) and lastly how do I play against anger of the gods? i mean the one burrenton in the side is FOR that card but I dont always see him before they anger me. honestly its worse than grafdiggers cage cuz we can deal with that easier any tips?
Hey guys I have a question to Melira Pod players. Which card do you fear most out of SBs, torpor orb or grafdigger's cage? I hope you're willing to help an "enemy", I'm a European player who's trying to seal his SB for a couple of PTQs. Thanks to anyone who cares!
Hey guys I have a question to Melira Pod players. Which card do you fear most out of SBs, torpor orb or grafdigger's cage? I hope you're willing to help an "enemy", I'm a European player who's trying to seal his SB for a couple of PTQs. Thanks to anyone who cares!
Hey guys I have a question to Melira Pod players. Which card do you fear most out of SBs, torpor orb or grafdigger's cage? I hope you're willing to help an "enemy", I'm a European player who's trying to seal his SB for a couple of PTQs. Thanks to anyone who cares!
What deck are you playing? If you have access to red or white the best cards are Anger of the gets or Hallowed Burial since they stop the graveyard shenanigans and the beatdown plan. Hallowed Burial also hits the 4 toughness guys to get a complete wipe. :.
Jayman, I am playing Kibler's Naya.
Out of the SB I bring in 2 Aven, some number of Ancient Grudge, 1 Linvala, and there are 2 slots for orb/cage. I can't really play Anger or Burial in an aggro deck
Jayman, I am playing Kibler's Naya.
Out of the SB I bring in 2 Aven, some number of Ancient Grudge, 1 Linvala, and there are 2 slots for orb/cage. I can't really play Anger or Burial in an aggro deck
I think orb is the better card against pod when playing aggro
Well, I'm a convert to Restoration Angel. Played a version tonight with Sin Collector and Entomber Exarch with Restoration Angel SB. I brought it in during every match. It's a really good card. Entomber Exarch was also surprisingly effective MB.
so yea played a tourney last night.
round 1 pod vs burn 2-0
g1 vs burn: the player misplayed alot with his skullcracks and flames of the blood hand and I eventually comboed him
g2 I sided in my discard package thought seized his anti life gain cards beat him down( he wasnt a very good player showed him some tips after the game)
round 2 pod vs merfolk 2-1
game 1 I slammed the board with alot of beaters and abrupt decayed his spreading seas, hit pod went off with shriekmaw and redcap killing his stuff. BEATDOWN
game 2 he spreading seas'd me off of my only black mana source which I had tapped out for wall of roots with abrupt decay in my hand filled the board with lords and I died from island walk
game 3 a close ish game until I abrupt decayed his spreading seas and again on his grafdiggers cage= pod online. pathed his lords, podded into shriek maw and redcap killing his stuff and beating him down GG . hmm seems like abrupt decay as a third in my sideboard was a good idea
round 3 pod vs uwr midrange ( mclaren kiki/ resto angel control build ) 0-2
game 1 I had complete grip of the game and he was dead next turn oh wait whats this a resto flashed in to a kiki? gg damn...
game 2 used my discard to take his restos prob should have taken bolt or path because my only linvala who prevented his combo got killed with them. no paths showed up got comboed again....
round 4 pod vs affinity 2-0
game 1 had my back to the wall podded into the combo desperately wait I won that one? no galvanic blast? sweat!
game 2 podded into kitaki abrupt decayed his arcbound ravanger after he put all of his counters on it. opponent now has to pay for his mana base every turn or it dies to kitaki... he scoops
Overall I felt good in alot of those matchups although I found uwr midrange to be rough as hell to play against when they have a the kiki combo im running the standard melira pod list with this as my sideboard:
1 kitaki
1 scooze
1 thrun
1 abrupt decay
1 eidolon of rhetoric
1 entomber exarch
1 sin collector
1 harmonic sliver
3 path
4 thought sieze
If theres any tips on the kiki match up I would appreciate them Thanks
I said G1. And Melira Pod can definitely go off before Affinity does.
Yes it can, but a typical Affinity draw vs a typical Melira draw will not favor Melira. You really need a natural combo to have any sort of advantage over the angel pod deck.
Yeah, Melira is definitely still the underdog in G1 against affinity. The argument here though, is that compared to Angel Pod (which is basically 'unwinnable' G1 against affinity), Melira has a much better game.
i feel as if pod deck are much slower then rug or UR twin that are all in or tempo the % chance of pod beating a twin deck is like 15% to 85% why does twin always have a huge advantage and why is it better than this deck?
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Affinity was so big in my meta I almost put 3 Kataki in my sideboard, right now I have 2 and 1 extra Qasali Pridemage.
Also Fish and Blue Moon were big things in my meta (honestly close to 70% of the decks at my LGS are blue based tempo/control/combo) I added 3 Choke to my sideboard. Best decision of my life.
Game 2 against fish (last fnm):
Turn 1: OG Tomb, pass
Turn 2: Marsh Flats, pass. end of turn crack for Temple Garden.
Turn 3: Forest, Choke. Opponent didn't have the vial, wasn't drawing any lands and was stuck on 2 lands both of which were tapped when I played choke. 2 Turns later he conceded.
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Just saw the m15 spoilers. What do you guys think of Return to the Ranks? is it gonna be a good sideboard card choice?
What about Reclamation Sage? I think it's gonna replace Harmonic Sliver very well
Just saw the m15 spoilers. What do you guys think of Return to the Ranks? is it gonna be a good sideboard card choice?
What about Reclamation Sage? I think it's gonna replace Harmonic Sliver very well
The Sage is a strictly better Harmonic Sliver, that is clear. But I don't think that any other card spoiled so far is good. I could see Return to the Ranks replacing Chord, but I doubt it. Ob Nyxilis is a 6-drop beater, and that should be it. I would play Sun Titan first. But Chording for him in response to a fetch land would be so beautiful.
I've recently put together Melira Pod and I'm finding that there are times when I want to Ranger of Eos or Chord of Calling for 1 to get something more substantial than a mana dork or viscera seer. What I have done is gone from 3 Noble Heirarch to a 2/1 Noble Heirarch/Avacyn's Pilgrim split, and it has worked out reasonably well. However I would like to find something with a bit more impact.
From the primer, I have Dryad Militant for an option. I have also considered Student of Warfare, but he seems a bit mana-intensive. Has anyone had success with other 1-drops?
Two questions:
1. Is Melira Pod as competitive as Angel Pod? More? Less?
2. Is this the right thread to discuss Meliraless/Angel Pod lists? If not, where's the right thread and would we need a different primer?
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Tiny Leaders: BGW Doran BGU Leovold
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Topdecked anger of the gods is usually bad news
What deck are you playing? If you have access to red or white the best cards are Anger of the gets or Hallowed Burial since they stop the graveyard shenanigans and the beatdown plan. Hallowed Burial also hits the 4 toughness guys to get a complete wipe. :.
Out of the SB I bring in 2 Aven, some number of Ancient Grudge, 1 Linvala, and there are 2 slots for orb/cage. I can't really play Anger or Burial in an aggro deck
GWUB 4C Gifts Control
Commander:
GWU Derevi
BGW Ghave
BUG Muldrotha
Tiny Leaders:
BGW Doran
BGU Leovold
I think orb is the better card against pod when playing aggro
round 1 pod vs burn 2-0
g1 vs burn: the player misplayed alot with his skullcracks and flames of the blood hand and I eventually comboed him
g2 I sided in my discard package thought seized his anti life gain cards beat him down( he wasnt a very good player showed him some tips after the game)
round 2 pod vs merfolk 2-1
game 1 I slammed the board with alot of beaters and abrupt decayed his spreading seas, hit pod went off with shriekmaw and redcap killing his stuff. BEATDOWN
game 2 he spreading seas'd me off of my only black mana source which I had tapped out for wall of roots with abrupt decay in my hand filled the board with lords and I died from island walk
game 3 a close ish game until I abrupt decayed his spreading seas and again on his grafdiggers cage= pod online. pathed his lords, podded into shriek maw and redcap killing his stuff and beating him down GG . hmm seems like abrupt decay as a third in my sideboard was a good idea
round 3 pod vs uwr midrange ( mclaren kiki/ resto angel control build ) 0-2
game 1 I had complete grip of the game and he was dead next turn oh wait whats this a resto flashed in to a kiki? gg damn...
game 2 used my discard to take his restos prob should have taken bolt or path because my only linvala who prevented his combo got killed with them. no paths showed up got comboed again....
round 4 pod vs affinity 2-0
game 1 had my back to the wall podded into the combo desperately wait I won that one? no galvanic blast? sweat!
game 2 podded into kitaki abrupt decayed his arcbound ravanger after he put all of his counters on it. opponent now has to pay for his mana base every turn or it dies to kitaki... he scoops
Overall I felt good in alot of those matchups although I found uwr midrange to be rough as hell to play against when they have a the kiki combo im running the standard melira pod list with this as my sideboard:
1 kitaki
1 scooze
1 thrun
1 abrupt decay
1 eidolon of rhetoric
1 entomber exarch
1 sin collector
1 harmonic sliver
3 path
4 thought sieze
If theres any tips on the kiki match up I would appreciate them Thanks
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Not really. It depends entirely on how much sideboard hate you have. Neither combo is fast enough to matter much against a typical affinity draw.
Yes it can, but a typical Affinity draw vs a typical Melira draw will not favor Melira. You really need a natural combo to have any sort of advantage over the angel pod deck.
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Edric Spy and die
Azami the lady of the draw
Naya Zoo
Past decks
Orloro
sharuum the hegemond
Mono black control
splinter twin
Also Fish and Blue Moon were big things in my meta (honestly close to 70% of the decks at my LGS are blue based tempo/control/combo) I added 3 Choke to my sideboard. Best decision of my life.
Game 2 against fish (last fnm):
Turn 1: OG Tomb, pass
Turn 2: Marsh Flats, pass. end of turn crack for Temple Garden.
Turn 3: Forest, Choke. Opponent didn't have the vial, wasn't drawing any lands and was stuck on 2 lands both of which were tapped when I played choke. 2 Turns later he conceded.
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GW Bogles
RG Loam
UR Blue Breach
RBU Grixis Goryo
BRU Grixis Delver
GBR Jund
GBW Junk
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What about Reclamation Sage? I think it's gonna replace Harmonic Sliver very well
The Sage is a strictly better Harmonic Sliver, that is clear. But I don't think that any other card spoiled so far is good. I could see Return to the Ranks replacing Chord, but I doubt it. Ob Nyxilis is a 6-drop beater, and that should be it. I would play Sun Titan first. But Chording for him in response to a fetch land would be so beautiful.
From the primer, I have Dryad Militant for an option. I have also considered Student of Warfare, but he seems a bit mana-intensive. Has anyone had success with other 1-drops?
1. Is Melira Pod as competitive as Angel Pod? More? Less?
2. Is this the right thread to discuss Meliraless/Angel Pod lists? If not, where's the right thread and would we need a different primer?
GWUB 4C Gifts Control
Commander:
GWU Derevi
BGW Ghave
BUG Muldrotha
Tiny Leaders:
BGW Doran
BGU Leovold