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Top 8 is:
3 mono green
2 5color cascade
1 mono white
2 jund.
Mono Green with Nissa seems to be the surprise deck of the week-end !
Mono Green is interesting, but I'm not surprised by Nissa decks doing well. GR versions with Vol have been really good locally lately. Mono white is also really strong (recurring Baneslayers with Emeria ramped up from Paths/KotWO with stall tactics from Knight Captain of Eos. Ugh, that deck is a paaaaaain.)
At any rate, the meta is definitely expanding. So many archetypes that were mired in Tier 2 hell have tweaked themselves out to get card advantage to keep up with Jund and in a lot of cases, due to more stable mana, beat the piss out of it.
im already predicting... the mono green isnt elf based (but it plays nissa and some elves) and plays stuff like queen ant and boa with the artifact that makes stuff indestructible and flying =]
The mono green are very much elf based, they don't have any ant queens. They run nissa and garruk, and play like elfball to ramp out a ton of elfs then overrun, or they use eldarzi monument to win. Its a solid deck, and this morning before my frien went to the 5k, I texted him to watch put for nissa elves.
The mono green are very much elf based, they don't have any ant queens. They run nissa and garruk, and play like elfball to ramp out a ton of elfs then overrun, or they use eldarzi monument to win. Its a solid deck, and this morning before my frien went to the 5k, I texted him to watch put for nissa elves.
what elves does it ramp out, nissa's chose, elvish visionary, llanowar and elvish archdruid?
These tribal lords are being really underestimated, I haven't played any jund with it yet but my little goblin deck that looks real bad on paper is 12-0 vs net decked pro vamp lists, goblin chieftain being MVP.
I wonder how these green decks deal with sweepers and get CA when going against decks that can answer all their guys with spot removal.
I was trying to build monogreen too but I was apparently doing it completely wrong going the ramp route with Lotus Cobra and Thornling. I wonder why alot of people on this site weren't talking about Nissa Elves, where did all these pro elf players come from?
I was there. I took 37th out of 341 I think. I played America control, and went X-3. The top 4 finished as.
1st Mono green elves
2nd Cascade Control (mike flores list) (he gave the 1st place to the elf player, she was super exeited, they didn't play).
3rd G/w green elves
4th Jund
The elf decks that made it to the top 8 ran both Master of the Wild Hunt, Ant Queen, and Momenumt. They did not run overrun. Sorta cool.
The meta was a lot of Jund (of course), then bushwacker, then vampires, then mono white, and the rest was really up the air. It was really diverse actually. There was quite a few esper builds running artifacts, and then just esper control without artifcats. All versions of it failed to go anywhere though.
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I was there. I took 37th out of 341 I think. I played America control, and went X-3. The top 4 finished as.
1st Mono green elves
2nd Cascade Control (mike flores list) (he gave the 1st place to the elf player, she was super exeited, they didn't play).
3rd G/w green elves
4th Jund
The elf decks that made it to the top 8 ran both Master of the Wild Hunt, Ant Queen, and Momenumt. They did not run overrun. Sorta cool.
The meta was a lot of Jund (of course), then bushwacker, then vampires, then mono white, and the rest was really up the air. It was really diverse actually. There was quite a few esper builds running artifacts, and then just esper control without artifcats. All versions of it failed to go anywhere though.
Boros has a nightmare matchup in Nissa and Garruk. 2/3 walls go out early and stop all the shenanigans. We were testing the match up out and it's bad, way in favor of the elves. It's the huge toughness on everything that kills you. Oran Rief was just too much of a beating. Even in the Red and black splash versions, it's just too much for that weinie deck. You can get lucky and have the lynx and geopede early, but you better get real lucky from there.
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Top 8 is:
3 mono green
2 5color cascade
1 mono white
2 jund.
Mono Green with Nissa seems to be the surprise deck of the week-end !
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Mono Green is interesting, but I'm not surprised by Nissa decks doing well. GR versions with Vol have been really good locally lately. Mono white is also really strong (recurring Baneslayers with Emeria ramped up from Paths/KotWO with stall tactics from Knight Captain of Eos. Ugh, that deck is a paaaaaain.)
At any rate, the meta is definitely expanding. So many archetypes that were mired in Tier 2 hell have tweaked themselves out to get card advantage to keep up with Jund and in a lot of cases, due to more stable mana, beat the piss out of it.
what elves does it ramp out, nissa's chose, elvish visionary, llanowar and elvish archdruid?
These tribal lords are being really underestimated, I haven't played any jund with it yet but my little goblin deck that looks real bad on paper is 12-0 vs net decked pro vamp lists, goblin chieftain being MVP.
I wonder how these green decks deal with sweepers and get CA when going against decks that can answer all their guys with spot removal.
I was trying to build monogreen too but I was apparently doing it completely wrong going the ramp route with Lotus Cobra and Thornling. I wonder why alot of people on this site weren't talking about Nissa Elves, where did all these pro elf players come from?
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1st Mono green elves
2nd Cascade Control (mike flores list) (he gave the 1st place to the elf player, she was super exeited, they didn't play).
3rd G/w green elves
4th Jund
The elf decks that made it to the top 8 ran both Master of the Wild Hunt, Ant Queen, and Momenumt. They did not run overrun. Sorta cool.
The meta was a lot of Jund (of course), then bushwacker, then vampires, then mono white, and the rest was really up the air. It was really diverse actually. There was quite a few esper builds running artifacts, and then just esper control without artifcats. All versions of it failed to go anywhere though.
I guess that is a good strategy though, keep the opponent on their heels and they cant lay any threats themselves, then just overwhelm with swarm.
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Damn. I would think Boros would run enough spot removal to beast that matchup. Skyfishers also fly in..
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All boros has is path, lightning bolt and burst, not so much removal to deal with fatties or oran reifed 3/3 or 2/3.