Is Volt Charge worth playing, even if it was only 2 or 3? Between Shrine and Koth, it would add up. Then again, without something to proliferate to its just an overcosted bolt.
What are this deck's weaker match ups? I'm currently playing merfolk and recently got trounced by this deck. BUG sticks a Pernicious Deed, and I've got to hold back or get blown out. I try to reassemble my forces after that, but at that point BUG has a Jace, the Mind Sculptor going, or they're recurring Wasteland for my man lands with a crucible (and recurring fetches to get up on land, which makes Daze worthless). I brought in Pithing Needle for Jace and Deed (or their man lands), but unfortunately never drew them.
Nice deck! Could we get a look at your latest changes? I've been playing Boros in standard and have been looking to put together a Jor Kadeem deck for EDH.
Is there any need to run something like Precursor Golem (or even Molten-Tail Masticore) for decks running Mirran Crusader? Seems like you have to ramp to Wurmcoil Engine or Massacre Wurm to deal with it.
Keep in mind there was also draft and extended portions to this thing. Someone with a better or perfect standard deck may have done poorly at draft or extended, thus not making the top 8. So this isn't the end all to what the top standard decks are.
WotC only gives a number of promos based on the stores normal attendance and track record with the company. Most stores only get 36 promos unless they have regular attendance that is over a certain number.
Moral of the story take more friends to other non pre-release events at your LGS and they will get more support from WotC for the players.
This also happened at my LGS but I also know how these things work as I have ran multiple pre-releases in my judging days.
From what I understand, WotC uses attendance for the prior prerelease to determine how much product (booster boxes and promo cards) to send. Our LGS got screwed as well, they didn't have enough product to run any side events, and had to limit the number of sign ups for the last couple events of the weekend, otherwise they wouldn't have had enough product and prize support for that.
Their complaint was that typically core set prereleases have lower turn out than first set block prereleases, so WotC should have used their Zendikar numbers to determine how much product to send, rather than M11.
Game 3, we're shuffling up, and I see a Teramorphic Expanse from Game 2 sitting beside his life total sheet. I calmly shuffle thoroughly and present my deck. He puts his deck down, resets the life totals to 20-20, brushes his Teramorphic with his arm, and continues to shuffle. I don't think my legs have bounced faster in my life. As soon as he let go of that deck, presenting it to me, I instantly, grab the table judge's attention and point to the Teramorphic Expanse, apologizing to my opponent for winning in such a way. The guy takes it better than I could ever imagine. He tells me to win the entire thing, congratulates me, and goes on his way.
Did you also tell him that you saw it the entire time he was shuffling for game 3, but figured you'd let him present without it to get an auto win?
Guess he didn't make enough writing for CFB, stole cards from the inventory and was caught selling them on ebay.
From what I understand, WotC uses attendance for the prior prerelease to determine how much product (booster boxes and promo cards) to send. Our LGS got screwed as well, they didn't have enough product to run any side events, and had to limit the number of sign ups for the last couple events of the weekend, otherwise they wouldn't have had enough product and prize support for that.
Their complaint was that typically core set prereleases have lower turn out than first set block prereleases, so WotC should have used their Zendikar numbers to determine how much product to send, rather than M11.
Did you also tell him that you saw it the entire time he was shuffling for game 3, but figured you'd let him present without it to get an auto win?