R1 - W Eldrazi 2-0
G1 - Pretty straight forward, got a crystalline down turn 2 with cavern and a tundra, then when on to land a 3 lords on the next turns, he misplayed trying to go with a TKS with a a eye and 2 plains, got a warning out of that but he saw my hand, couldn't play it and gone for a displacer, 2 attacks and he was down.
G2 - Same start as game 1, got a Crystalline down, this time he opened with mimic into TKS, down 14 (did a fetch) got 1 lord, next turn, he attacks with TKS and pass, then third lord and he plays a smasher but doesn't attack since I can trade him and he as 2 cards in hand, top deck a gale rider and beat for the win.
R2 - Colorless Eldrazi 1-2
G1 - He starts off with mimic into a reshaper, I go with mana into lord, drops another mimic and is stuck a a sol land a colorless one, i drop crystalline and 2 lords, he drops land and a TKS and I have nothing in hand, beats me, he is down to 18 from sol land, I topped a galerder, beat him to down to 13, and hold a few back to block, another lord and swing for the win.
G2 - he goes mimic, mimic, TKS, I had Crystalline into lord, can't gold the pressure.
G3 - last game I have 1 color land and 2 mutavaults, but I have managed, so I go for it, and play 1 lord, not drawing any lands I go for shard less and clear some lands from the top, got a few lords, and start drawing lands, no cavern, he plays a chalice, into 2 micros and later a reshaper, we trade some with the mimics, he drops TKS into smasher I phantasmal the smasher and don't draw gas, we trade TKS and smasher with lord and phantasmal, I keep 3 sliver in board he drops unless one for 6 pass, I draw land pass and he goes all is dust, and all is dust...
R3 - Grixis Delver 2-0
G1 - 2 delvers, no flips I play lord into crystalline, he can't do anything, I beat him down.
G2 - 4 delvers and no flips, he goes DRS, I have crystalline and lords, he can't take it.
R4 - Lands 2-0
G1 - He goes with land and mox into gamble for loam, gets a tabernacle on turn 4. and a thespian stage on turn 5, I go lord manaweft and 2 mutavaults and beat him while paying for lord and manaweft, got 2 other lands to beat him, he goes for crop to dark depth I FoW, he 2 more attacks he is dead.
G2 - he goes mox,mox and tabernacle, and gambles for something (no idea), he discarded a dark depths and a maze, I played vial into needle naming thespian, into a lord and a manaweft have 1 mutavault, he gambles twice and doesn't hit the discard he needed, can only generate 2 mana, no mana lands, he destroys my needle and then goes for crop for depths to combo, I FoW and beat for the win.
R5 - Leovold stoneblade 2-0
G1 - He goes land, I go cavern, he goes baleful strix, I go crystalline sliver and he draws a StP, I go lord lord, he get fire and ice, I trade strix on mutavault 1 of 2, he drops TNN, game goes into lock since I can kill on a swing even with a block, he equipes TNN, I draw galerider and swing for the win.
G2 - He drops stoneforge, I drop crystalline, and lord, he passes with mana open, I attack he chumps and drops a fire and ice (his mistake should've gotten batter skull), he drops a strix and I attack with mutavaults he doesn't block, goes don't go for the race, I drop 2 more lords, and beat him out.
R6 - ID into top 8
Top 8 - Mono Red Prison 1-2
G1 - He goes blood sun I need to find a forest, he drops spyglass and names aethervial, I find my source, drop manaweft, gale rider, he drops 2 bridges but still have 4 cards in hand, I drop crystalline into lord, and beat him down, he was taking 2 a drop because of Tomb.
G2 - he goes blood moon, into Chandra torch of defiance, I have crystalline and lord, when was gonna go for harmonic he drops fiery confluence, and wins
G3 - he goes spyglass for aether vial, after I drop vial, and then blood moon I already have a forest in play, he drops Chandra, I go managed into harmonic and galerider, he drops blood sun and attempts a fiery confluence which I FoW, he drops blood sun and pass, I swing to kill Chandra, he drops pyromancer and bridge, I don't have any drops, and pass he gets another confluence and wins.
Conclusion:
Pretty happy with the deck, just a few changes to sideboard since I'm missing some cards, but pretty happy.
I use 3 Bridges, but i also use 2x Grim Lavamancer. Between those two and jace, i have a mini-CA engine allowing me to hide behind a wall and ping them at the end of their turn. Draw my card for the turn, play it or tap Jace to get a better card, keep my hand empty and pass back. Jace never flips if you play this correctly and has been strong so far.
I feel like ensnaring bridge can be bad, considering Eldrazi (The Colorless Versions as well) are running 4x World Breaker and 4x Grove of the Burnwillows and 4x Karplussan Forest. Thoughts?
OBS.: I usualy play 2 Jace's in the main, but i lent one to a friend for a RPTQ (At least he is going to the PT) and i couldn't get it in time for the Tournament.
Round 1(Kiki-Chord)Loss 1-2
Die Roll - Lost
Game 1 - he goes T1 birds, T2 Voice, I bolt the voice on my turn, he plays 2 more birds, i don't draw any terminates, he takes the game a way with the token and GW Manland.
Game 2 - He has a slower start and i can control the board more, i drop a turn 3 Ashiok, and start taking all his creatures( one time i even had the Restoration, kiki combo under ashiok) i drop, Pia and Kiram on turn 2 to defend the air for a while since he droped a Restoration Angel, Ashiok goes out of control and he Scoops
Game 3 - Moderate start I control the board for a long while, kill his first restoraion angel, had to shoot down 3 birds, and the second restoration sticks, I'm at 8 life, and no kilk spells, go for Pia and Kiran for protection, leaving 3 mana open and only dispel and bolt in hand, he Chords for 3 and get Spellskite (Should've Dispelled i completely forgot about Chord since it didn't come game 1 or 2) he has kiki and hand, I have no outs. GG
Sideboard -
-1 Countersquall
-1 Gurmag Angler
-1 Serum Visions
-1 Spell Pierce
+1 Anger of the Gods
+1 Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver
+2 Rending Volley
Ruond 2 (BGw)Win 2-0
Die Roll - Lost
Game 1 - I control the board the whole game (Counter Goyf and kill 2 Oozes), took 2 inquisitions but I had redundancy in hand, she goes down to 2 cards and plays liliana, I discard a land she discards a goyf and has board control, I bolt the Ooze on the pass(She leaves no mana to activate it),Draw, play land and pass, She draws, try for a goyf I counter and she ups liliana, I discard a Spell Pirce, go for Snapcaster at the end of her Turn without flashbacking anything, Draw hit lili, pass and Kolaghans command her on her draw step, doing 2 to lili (she is down to 1 loyalty) she plays land, ups lili and pass,
I kill lili, play tasigur and pass. she plays finks, i kill it on the end of her turn and on my phase again, and swing with Tasigur Snap and Creeping tar for the Win.
Game 2 - She mulligans to 5 cards, and plays shock, and non colored mana generator (forgot the land) and stucks at 2 lands for a while, i take the game fast.
No sides, I have a good match up here.
Round 3 (Lantern)Win 2-0(couldn't believe i won but awesome games)
Game 1 - I counter some stuff, and cant keep countering for much longer, he plays a Bridge, I play a Pia and Kiran, he mills me and pass, i play Kolaghan's, destroy the bridge and kill with pia and Kiran. He had 2 lanterns and 2 bells so he could control for a while, but i played 2 K-commands and snaped one back once i was down to 20 cards on the deck.
Game 2 - Pretty much game one,He hits all 4 bidges during the game,I needle his ghoulcallers, he needles my Polluted Delta, since for the fear of the shuffle, He milled my hurkyl's, 2 of my Kolaghan andd 2 Snaps to the grave, he used Cranial on my Cryptic Command at the begning and the Hurkyl's later but i only play one of each,I play 1 tasigur remove all the spells i don't want from my grave,I activate it and mill the other one he gives me it, i remove more useless spells from the grave, and start activating Tasigur a few times and his only options became damage spells and Snapcaster and Artifact Destruction, he gave me bolt twice, he tries to mills my shatterstorm and reveals Snapcaster, Activate Lantern, reveals Kolaghan's he lanterns again we can't see the top now, i draw a bolt and goes to the face, pass, he draws land and another bridge off Seagate, i draw Snap, and go snap shatterstorm, and start hiit him down to 2, he top decks the last a Shredder and use it to bring back a bridge. i topdeck a Bolt and GG
Side
-2 Spell Snare
-2 Terminate
-1 Electrolyze
+1 Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver
+1 Keranos, God of Storms
+1 Hurkyl's Recall
+1 Shatterstorm
+1 Pithing Needle
Round 4(Heartless Eldrazi)Loss 2-0
Game 1 - he takes a while to develop a decent amount of lands, giving me time to build some lands and counters, he plays Thought Knot i counter it twice, he goes to 6 lands, plays the Oblivion Sower, hits 3 lands, and 2 off from the fetchs i blew and he Removed with relic, I terminate the Oblivion Sower, hits critical mass (10 mana) but he is down to 5 life, he plays Ulamog, hits one of my Creeping tar Pits, i had the other in hand, I play it and pass, he swings I go down to 2, I mill 20 but i still have 16 cards, and 2 bolts and a Kolaghans in the deck, i don't hit neither and Lose.
Game 2 - The Ridiculous game. He hits his lands very fast, has 2 temples an eye and Urborg in play, i don't draw my side nor thoughtseizes, he goes for turn 1 relic, turn 3 Thoughtknot i counter, turn 4 Oblivion Sower and hits my fetches, and turn 5 Ulamog. GG
Side
-2 Spell Snare
-1 Gurmag angler
-1 Dispel
+1 Keranos, God of Storms
+1 Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver
+1 Pithing Neeedle
+1 Crumble to Dust
Eldrazis is so non interactive with the triggers on cast and the fast eldrazi temples is rediculous.
My meta is VERY diversified, the only deck that wasn't there today was Affinity.
Really enjoyed your tournament breakdown, I'm glad to see Grixis has a fighting chance in this meta. What is your opinion of Ashiok? It seems like you bring him in very often, I always thought he was best against G/b/x decks and not great against anything else really.
I think Ashiok is great. It can take creatures from your opponents or important combo pieces and it is almost always a target of the opponent, buying you more time.
He is a very serious threat, on kiki-chord my opponent didn't give ashiok much, and he was overwhelmed by it. against Lantern Ashiok seens kind strange, but he is a powerhouse, the lack of removal on Lantern and the fact that if it sticks to the board i can mill him faster than he mills me made my Opponent mill it when he saw on the top of my deck.
In this tournamen I was testing Ashiok against most of my matches to sse how he goes. in my opinion overperformed against Kiki-chord, was a threat against Lantern, and didn't see it against Eldrazi.
I'm kinda lost about Jace AoT on the side, I can't seen to know when he is good to board in.
OBS.: I usualy play 2 Jace's in the main, but i lent one to a friend for a RPTQ (At least he is going to the PT) and i couldn't get it in time for the Tournament.
Round 1(Kiki-Chord)Loss 1-2
Die Roll - Lost
Game 1 - he goes T1 birds, T2 Voice, I bolt the voice on my turn, he plays 2 more birds, i don't draw any terminates, he takes the game a way with the token and GW Manland.
Game 2 - He has a slower start and i can control the board more, i drop a turn 3 Ashiok, and start taking all his creatures( one time i even had the Restoration, kiki combo under ashiok) i drop, Pia and Kiram on turn 2 to defend the air for a while since he droped a Restoration Angel, Ashiok goes out of control and he Scoops
Game 3 - Moderate start I control the board for a long while, kill his first restoraion angel, had to shoot down 3 birds, and the second restoration sticks, I'm at 8 life, and no kilk spells, go for Pia and Kiran for protection, leaving 3 mana open and only dispel and bolt in hand, he Chords for 3 and get Spellskite (Should've Dispelled i completely forgot about Chord since it didn't come game 1 or 2) he has kiki and hand, I have no outs. GG
Sideboard -
-1 Countersquall
-1 Gurmag Angler
-1 Serum Visions
-1 Spell Pierce
+1 Anger of the Gods
+1 Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver
+2 Rending Volley
Ruond 2 (BGw)Win 2-0
Die Roll - Lost
Game 1 - I control the board the whole game (Counter Goyf and kill 2 Oozes), took 2 inquisitions but I had redundancy in hand, she goes down to 2 cards and plays liliana, I discard a land she discards a goyf and has board control, I bolt the Ooze on the pass(She leaves no mana to activate it),Draw, play land and pass, She draws, try for a goyf I counter and she ups liliana, I discard a Spell Pirce, go for Snapcaster at the end of her Turn without flashbacking anything, Draw hit lili, pass and Kolaghans command her on her draw step, doing 2 to lili (she is down to 1 loyalty) she plays land, ups lili and pass,
I kill lili, play tasigur and pass. she plays finks, i kill it on the end of her turn and on my phase again, and swing with Tasigur Snap and Creeping tar for the Win.
Game 2 - She mulligans to 5 cards, and plays shock, and non colored mana generator (forgot the land) and stucks at 2 lands for a while, i take the game fast.
No sides, I have a good match up here.
Round 3 (Lantern)Win 2-0(couldn't believe i won but awesome games)
Game 1 - I counter some stuff, and cant keep countering for much longer, he plays a Bridge, I play a Pia and Kiran, he mills me and pass, i play Kolaghan's, destroy the bridge and kill with pia and Kiran. He had 2 lanterns and 2 bells so he could control for a while, but i played 2 K-commands and snaped one back once i was down to 20 cards on the deck.
Game 2 - Pretty much game one,He hits all 4 bidges during the game,I needle his ghoulcallers, he needles my Polluted Delta, since for the fear of the shuffle, He milled my hurkyl's, 2 of my Kolaghan andd 2 Snaps to the grave, he used Cranial on my Cryptic Command at the begning and the Hurkyl's later but i only play one of each,I play 1 tasigur remove all the spells i don't want from my grave,I activate it and mill the other one he gives me it, i remove more useless spells from the grave, and start activating Tasigur a few times and his only options became damage spells and Snapcaster and Artifact Destruction, he gave me bolt twice, he tries to mills my shatterstorm and reveals Snapcaster, Activate Lantern, reveals Kolaghan's he lanterns again we can't see the top now, i draw a bolt and goes to the face, pass, he draws land and another bridge off Seagate, i draw Snap, and go snap shatterstorm, and start hiit him down to 2, he top decks the last a Shredder and use it to bring back a bridge. i topdeck a Bolt and GG
Side
-2 Spell Snare
-2 Terminate
-1 Electrolyze
+1 Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver
+1 Keranos, God of Storms
+1 Hurkyl's Recall
+1 Shatterstorm
+1 Pithing Needle
Round 4(Heartless Eldrazi)Loss 2-0
Game 1 - he takes a while to develop a decent amount of lands, giving me time to build some lands and counters, he plays Thought Knot i counter it twice, he goes to 6 lands, plays the Oblivion Sower, hits 3 lands, and 2 off from the fetchs i blew and he Removed with relic, I terminate the Oblivion Sower, hits critical mass (10 mana) but he is down to 5 life, he plays Ulamog, hits one of my Creeping tar Pits, i had the other in hand, I play it and pass, he swings I go down to 2, I mill 20 but i still have 16 cards, and 2 bolts and a Kolaghans in the deck, i don't hit neither and Lose.
Game 2 - The Ridiculous game. He hits his lands very fast, has 2 temples an eye and Urborg in play, i don't draw my side nor thoughtseizes, he goes for turn 1 relic, turn 3 Thoughtknot i counter, turn 4 Oblivion Sower and hits my fetches, and turn 5 Ulamog. GG
Side
-2 Spell Snare
-1 Gurmag angler
-1 Dispel
+1 Keranos, God of Storms
+1 Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver
+1 Pithing Neeedle
+1 Crumble to Dust
Eldrazis is so non interactive with the triggers on cast and the fast eldrazi temples is rediculous.
My meta is VERY diversified, the only deck that wasn't there today was Affinity.
been a dedicated follower of Modern since it began - just sharing my own observation:
we're seeing a time in Modern with some of the most significant price spikes since the format began. this was happening before the ProTour, and it's a little weird.
i think I can pinpoint the start of this new spiky period down to the printing of Magic Origins. It's around the time Grixis Control was definitely a deck, Tier 1 contender and some people viewed it as being *too powerful* (yes, really). soon after, the deck dwindled into nothingness in terms of total metagame share (although many will recognise that it's still a fine deck to play at FNM).
is anyone able to suggest a particular card or couple of cards which may have tipped the scales towards spiking market trends? i could name the money cards from Origins of course, but I think there's something a bit deeper going on. it may have something to do with a particular deck or decks becoming popular (or being telegraphed as potentially being good down the line, so buyers spec on it).
also, I can see small price increases in the Elf deck taking place. (makes sense, elves is fairly well positioned against eldrazi, with 4 maindeck cavern of souls and a hideously quick clock when eldrazi only plays 3 or 4 removal spells)
4 Maindeck Cavern of Souls means nothing to eldrazi, they don't mind it at all. now the lack of removal and trample in the eldrazi decks (aside from UR which has flyers and trample) i can see elves going up, but they have some serious bad matches recently, and with the printing of spells like kozilek's return, anger of the gods and flaying tendrils,i can't see them as a good spec target.
What i can foresee (and mostly everyone) is a ban on piece or pieces of the eldrazi deck (most likely eye of ugin, since ti allows for explosive turn 1 and 2 plays) and that will make cards from decks like, kiki-chord and UWx control spike because they become alot better in that environment.
He posted that someone found out who leak user on reddit was, and got a retweet saying "Hi Travis"... makes me wonder what is happening, o man this drama, i will bring popcorn to work tomorrow so i can watch it.
I think that a Madland cycle would not get printed for the same reason that the Grove of the Burnwillows cycle won't be completed: different deck archetypes (and hence color combinations) would be much better than others. In the same way the U producing Groves would be 'too good', B producing Madlands would be too good.
It already has a name, nice.
Now to put it on a set: D
Indeed the madlands would be too good for modern and legacy (In specific decks), but what do we know? they printed stupidly broken eldrazis with eye of ugin and Eldrazi Temple out there. I don't doubt anything anymore.
And U Grove wouldn't be broken, good but not broken.
God please no more pain lands, at least not now, I'm sick and tired of that cycle.
The discard lands are even broken for legacy reanimators, turn 1 griselbrand or enrakul, off 1 land? simply ridiculous, but i can see them working on modern, they are good, but only 1 reanimator spell on modern that can be considered. Goryos.
Since we have two cycles each for allied (battelands and the OGW uncommons) and enemy (pain and manlands), I imagine we'll get a full cycle. If we get reprints, I would wager Checklands, since the enemy colors were in Innistrad originally and they work well with battlelands, though filterlands are a possiblity, since they work well with the strictly colorless Eldrazi and they are getting costly in price.
However, with Madness and Delirium in the set, I'm guessing at a new design:
Madland
Land
~ enters the battlefield tapped unless you discard a card.
T: Add R or G to your mana pool.
It would be a downside that could become an upside in graveyard and madness strategies.
These seem neat.
Very believable and balanced, very interesting with the block mechanics, yet simple and non-parasitic.
You made me want them.
They are maybe believable at lower rarity for limited purposes (limited need madness enabler, and often manafixing), though they seem better than the best lands we have at non-rare level (refuges and trilands).
That thought just made my reanimator decks tremble
Did some test games today, took a good beating of white weenies 2-1 and beat an Jeskai control (with ojutai), I've been thinking of adding 2 stubborn denials, and the 1 of languish mainboard helped me on the games against white winnies
The deck seens pretty well suited for Languish, you have plenty of 5 toughness.
this is making me want to sleeve up and try it on my meta,i will only cut 1 Mamatic for a Dig and 1 Dragonlord Kolaghan for a Fate Kolaghan, it reaps more benefits from a board with 2 or more creatures
Cool deck, i've been toying with grixis a while ago, the only problem i see with the list is removal, on such creature based meta, some form of board wipe is a must
1Utap: Put target instant or sorcery on top of your library.
Regatha Archive
Land : Add to your mana pool.
Spell Mastery - If you control two or more instants and or Sorceries, Regatha Archive has " : Target instant or sorcery in your graveyard gains flashback equal to its mana cost."
This would be awesome in limited.
That is as broken as snapcaster mage.
GIVE ME IT.
The first one I like it more, it would make Legacy Miracles straight up RIDICULOUS.
As marquisd said, the 5 lands are either uncommom, or have 2-3 rares in it, because we're missing 2 rare sin white, to complete the 9 rares (Cycle?) in each color.
I hope we get 2-3 nonbaisc uncommons lands and 2-3 rares, I think one of those lands is based of Vrynn, it just fit the theme i get from Vrynn so well.
4 Sinew Sliver
4 Predatory Sliver
4 Muscle Sliver
4 Crystalline Sliver
3 Hibernation Sliver
4 Galerider Sliver
3 Manaweft Sliver
1 Gemhide Sliver
2 Phantasmal Image
1 Shardless Agent
4 Aether Vial
Spells
4 Force of Will
Enchantments
2 Sylvan Library
Lands
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Mutavault
1 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
2 Tundras
1 Forest
1 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Pithing Needle
2 Containment Priest
1 Quick Sliver
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Rest in Peace
1 Darkheart Sliver
1 Golgari Amulet
6 Rounds:
R1 - W Eldrazi 2-0
G1 - Pretty straight forward, got a crystalline down turn 2 with cavern and a tundra, then when on to land a 3 lords on the next turns, he misplayed trying to go with a TKS with a a eye and 2 plains, got a warning out of that but he saw my hand, couldn't play it and gone for a displacer, 2 attacks and he was down.
G2 - Same start as game 1, got a Crystalline down, this time he opened with mimic into TKS, down 14 (did a fetch) got 1 lord, next turn, he attacks with TKS and pass, then third lord and he plays a smasher but doesn't attack since I can trade him and he as 2 cards in hand, top deck a gale rider and beat for the win.
R2 - Colorless Eldrazi 1-2
G1 - He starts off with mimic into a reshaper, I go with mana into lord, drops another mimic and is stuck a a sol land a colorless one, i drop crystalline and 2 lords, he drops land and a TKS and I have nothing in hand, beats me, he is down to 18 from sol land, I topped a galerder, beat him to down to 13, and hold a few back to block, another lord and swing for the win.
G2 - he goes mimic, mimic, TKS, I had Crystalline into lord, can't gold the pressure.
G3 - last game I have 1 color land and 2 mutavaults, but I have managed, so I go for it, and play 1 lord, not drawing any lands I go for shard less and clear some lands from the top, got a few lords, and start drawing lands, no cavern, he plays a chalice, into 2 micros and later a reshaper, we trade some with the mimics, he drops TKS into smasher I phantasmal the smasher and don't draw gas, we trade TKS and smasher with lord and phantasmal, I keep 3 sliver in board he drops unless one for 6 pass, I draw land pass and he goes all is dust, and all is dust...
R3 - Grixis Delver 2-0
G1 - 2 delvers, no flips I play lord into crystalline, he can't do anything, I beat him down.
G2 - 4 delvers and no flips, he goes DRS, I have crystalline and lords, he can't take it.
R4 - Lands 2-0
G1 - He goes with land and mox into gamble for loam, gets a tabernacle on turn 4. and a thespian stage on turn 5, I go lord manaweft and 2 mutavaults and beat him while paying for lord and manaweft, got 2 other lands to beat him, he goes for crop to dark depth I FoW, he 2 more attacks he is dead.
G2 - he goes mox,mox and tabernacle, and gambles for something (no idea), he discarded a dark depths and a maze, I played vial into needle naming thespian, into a lord and a manaweft have 1 mutavault, he gambles twice and doesn't hit the discard he needed, can only generate 2 mana, no mana lands, he destroys my needle and then goes for crop for depths to combo, I FoW and beat for the win.
R5 - Leovold stoneblade 2-0
G1 - He goes land, I go cavern, he goes baleful strix, I go crystalline sliver and he draws a StP, I go lord lord, he get fire and ice, I trade strix on mutavault 1 of 2, he drops TNN, game goes into lock since I can kill on a swing even with a block, he equipes TNN, I draw galerider and swing for the win.
G2 - He drops stoneforge, I drop crystalline, and lord, he passes with mana open, I attack he chumps and drops a fire and ice (his mistake should've gotten batter skull), he drops a strix and I attack with mutavaults he doesn't block, goes don't go for the race, I drop 2 more lords, and beat him out.
R6 - ID into top 8
Top 8 - Mono Red Prison 1-2
G1 - He goes blood sun I need to find a forest, he drops spyglass and names aethervial, I find my source, drop manaweft, gale rider, he drops 2 bridges but still have 4 cards in hand, I drop crystalline into lord, and beat him down, he was taking 2 a drop because of Tomb.
G2 - he goes blood moon, into Chandra torch of defiance, I have crystalline and lord, when was gonna go for harmonic he drops fiery confluence, and wins
G3 - he goes spyglass for aether vial, after I drop vial, and then blood moon I already have a forest in play, he drops Chandra, I go managed into harmonic and galerider, he drops blood sun and attempts a fiery confluence which I FoW, he drops blood sun and pass, I swing to kill Chandra, he drops pyromancer and bridge, I don't have any drops, and pass he gets another confluence and wins.
Conclusion:
Pretty happy with the deck, just a few changes to sideboard since I'm missing some cards, but pretty happy.
Swords to Plowshares
Daze
Flusterstorm
Rishadan Port
Show and tell
Won't Be Reprinted
Thoughtseize
Young Piromancer
Golgari Charm
Terminus
Pithing Needle
He is a very serious threat, on kiki-chord my opponent didn't give ashiok much, and he was overwhelmed by it. against Lantern Ashiok seens kind strange, but he is a powerhouse, the lack of removal on Lantern and the fact that if it sticks to the board i can mill him faster than he mills me made my Opponent mill it when he saw on the top of my deck.
In this tournamen I was testing Ashiok against most of my matches to sse how he goes. in my opinion overperformed against Kiki-chord, was a threat against Lantern, and didn't see it against Eldrazi.
I'm kinda lost about Jace AoT on the side, I can't seen to know when he is good to board in.
The Deck
1x Gurmag Angler
4x Snapcaster Mage
2x Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
1x Pia and Kiran Nalaar
Instants(24)
2x Thought Scour
3x Mana Leak
2x Spell Snare
2x Remand
1x Cryptic Command
3x Kolaghan's Command
3x Terminate
4x Lightning Bolt
1x Spell Pierce
1x Countersquall
1x Electrolyze
1x Dispel
4x Serum Visions
2x Thoughtseize
Lands (21)
4x Polluted Delta
4x Flooded Strand
2x Steam Vents
1x Watery Grave
1x Blood Crypt
2x Creeping Tar Pit
2x Sulfur Falls
3x Island
1x Swamp
1x Mountain
1x Shatterstorm
1x Hurkyl's Recall
1x Dispel
1x Anger of the Gods
1x Pyroclasm
1x Keranos, God of Storms
1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
1x Jace, Architect of Thought
1x Flaying Tendrils
2x Rending Volley
1x Izzet Staticaster
1x Pithing Needle
1x Kalitas, Traitor of Geth
1x Crumble to Dust
OBS.: I usualy play 2 Jace's in the main, but i lent one to a friend for a RPTQ (At least he is going to the PT) and i couldn't get it in time for the Tournament.
Round 1(Kiki-Chord)Loss 1-2
Die Roll - Lost
Game 1 - he goes T1 birds, T2 Voice, I bolt the voice on my turn, he plays 2 more birds, i don't draw any terminates, he takes the game a way with the token and GW Manland.
Game 2 - He has a slower start and i can control the board more, i drop a turn 3 Ashiok, and start taking all his creatures( one time i even had the Restoration, kiki combo under ashiok) i drop, Pia and Kiram on turn 2 to defend the air for a while since he droped a Restoration Angel, Ashiok goes out of control and he Scoops
Game 3 - Moderate start I control the board for a long while, kill his first restoraion angel, had to shoot down 3 birds, and the second restoration sticks, I'm at 8 life, and no kilk spells, go for Pia and Kiran for protection, leaving 3 mana open and only dispel and bolt in hand, he Chords for 3 and get Spellskite (Should've Dispelled i completely forgot about Chord since it didn't come game 1 or 2) he has kiki and hand, I have no outs. GG
Sideboard -
-1 Countersquall
-1 Gurmag Angler
-1 Serum Visions
-1 Spell Pierce
+1 Anger of the Gods
+1 Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver
+2 Rending Volley
Ruond 2 (BGw)Win 2-0
Die Roll - Lost
Game 1 - I control the board the whole game (Counter Goyf and kill 2 Oozes), took 2 inquisitions but I had redundancy in hand, she goes down to 2 cards and plays liliana, I discard a land she discards a goyf and has board control, I bolt the Ooze on the pass(She leaves no mana to activate it),Draw, play land and pass, She draws, try for a goyf I counter and she ups liliana, I discard a Spell Pirce, go for Snapcaster at the end of her Turn without flashbacking anything, Draw hit lili, pass and Kolaghans command her on her draw step, doing 2 to lili (she is down to 1 loyalty) she plays land, ups lili and pass,
I kill lili, play tasigur and pass. she plays finks, i kill it on the end of her turn and on my phase again, and swing with Tasigur Snap and Creeping tar for the Win.
Game 2 - She mulligans to 5 cards, and plays shock, and non colored mana generator (forgot the land) and stucks at 2 lands for a while, i take the game fast.
No sides, I have a good match up here.
Round 3 (Lantern)Win 2-0(couldn't believe i won but awesome games)
Game 1 - I counter some stuff, and cant keep countering for much longer, he plays a Bridge, I play a Pia and Kiran, he mills me and pass, i play Kolaghan's, destroy the bridge and kill with pia and Kiran. He had 2 lanterns and 2 bells so he could control for a while, but i played 2 K-commands and snaped one back once i was down to 20 cards on the deck.
Game 2 - Pretty much game one,He hits all 4 bidges during the game,I needle his ghoulcallers, he needles my Polluted Delta, since for the fear of the shuffle, He milled my hurkyl's, 2 of my Kolaghan andd 2 Snaps to the grave, he used Cranial on my Cryptic Command at the begning and the Hurkyl's later but i only play one of each,I play 1 tasigur remove all the spells i don't want from my grave,I activate it and mill the other one he gives me it, i remove more useless spells from the grave, and start activating Tasigur a few times and his only options became damage spells and Snapcaster and Artifact Destruction, he gave me bolt twice, he tries to mills my shatterstorm and reveals Snapcaster, Activate Lantern, reveals Kolaghan's he lanterns again we can't see the top now, i draw a bolt and goes to the face, pass, he draws land and another bridge off Seagate, i draw Snap, and go snap shatterstorm, and start hiit him down to 2, he top decks the last a Shredder and use it to bring back a bridge. i topdeck a Bolt and GG
Side
-2 Spell Snare
-2 Terminate
-1 Electrolyze
+1 Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver
+1 Keranos, God of Storms
+1 Hurkyl's Recall
+1 Shatterstorm
+1 Pithing Needle
Round 4(Heartless Eldrazi)Loss 2-0
Game 1 - he takes a while to develop a decent amount of lands, giving me time to build some lands and counters, he plays Thought Knot i counter it twice, he goes to 6 lands, plays the Oblivion Sower, hits 3 lands, and 2 off from the fetchs i blew and he Removed with relic, I terminate the Oblivion Sower, hits critical mass (10 mana) but he is down to 5 life, he plays Ulamog, hits one of my Creeping tar Pits, i had the other in hand, I play it and pass, he swings I go down to 2, I mill 20 but i still have 16 cards, and 2 bolts and a Kolaghans in the deck, i don't hit neither and Lose.
Game 2 - The Ridiculous game. He hits his lands very fast, has 2 temples an eye and Urborg in play, i don't draw my side nor thoughtseizes, he goes for turn 1 relic, turn 3 Thoughtknot i counter, turn 4 Oblivion Sower and hits my fetches, and turn 5 Ulamog. GG
Side
-2 Spell Snare
-1 Gurmag angler
-1 Dispel
+1 Keranos, God of Storms
+1 Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver
+1 Pithing Neeedle
+1 Crumble to Dust
Eldrazis is so non interactive with the triggers on cast and the fast eldrazi temples is rediculous.
My meta is VERY diversified, the only deck that wasn't there today was Affinity.
4 Maindeck Cavern of Souls means nothing to eldrazi, they don't mind it at all. now the lack of removal and trample in the eldrazi decks (aside from UR which has flyers and trample) i can see elves going up, but they have some serious bad matches recently, and with the printing of spells like kozilek's return, anger of the gods and flaying tendrils,i can't see them as a good spec target.
What i can foresee (and mostly everyone) is a ban on piece or pieces of the eldrazi deck (most likely eye of ugin, since ti allows for explosive turn 1 and 2 plays) and that will make cards from decks like, kiki-chord and UWx control spike because they become alot better in that environment.
It already has a name, nice.
Now to put it on a set: D
Indeed the madlands would be too good for modern and legacy (In specific decks), but what do we know? they printed stupidly broken eldrazis with eye of ugin and Eldrazi Temple out there. I don't doubt anything anymore.
And U Grove wouldn't be broken, good but not broken.
The discard lands are even broken for legacy reanimators, turn 1 griselbrand or enrakul, off 1 land? simply ridiculous, but i can see them working on modern, they are good, but only 1 reanimator spell on modern that can be considered. Goryos.
That thought just made my reanimator decks tremble
T: add 1 to your mana pool
T: add UR to your mana pool, you lose 2 life.
because WHY NOT?
Seriously, I want something fetchable.
this is making me want to sleeve up and try it on my meta,i will only cut 1 Mamatic for a Dig and 1 Dragonlord Kolaghan for a Fate Kolaghan, it reaps more benefits from a board with 2 or more creatures
That is as broken as snapcaster mage.
GIVE ME IT.
The first one I like it more, it would make Legacy Miracles straight up RIDICULOUS.
I hope we get 2-3 nonbaisc uncommons lands and 2-3 rares, I think one of those lands is based of Vrynn, it just fit the theme i get from Vrynn so well.