thanks for your answers. It comfort me to go with a mono-B deck.
I tested WB on xmage and I have been sanctioned immediately by a blood moon.
I see that even affinity is playing blood moon.
Just reporting in, I got a Torment of Hailfirekill last night and had it do some decent work in two separate games. I know giving the opponent choices isn't really ideal, but sometimes you just win either way with it which is nice.
Way back when I bought a runed halo to run in my abzan elves deck. I completely forgot about the card until it's price spike recently and was wondering how it would do as a 1 of in the SB. What are the prime targets for it in the current META?
I reaffirm myself, I think the white color can be very viable for the cover. I do not talk about playing flagstones. But four concealed four fetchlands and a godless shrine can not be bad at all. We won with the revolt of the fatal push. And in the sideboard we won with fragmentize, disenchant, explosives, stony silence, lingering souls. It is very frustrating when you play a white line and you can not do anything. We won a lot with white, especially against lantern, affinity, add nauseam, rg scapeshift, decks with chalice . Etc. without speaking of lingering against grixis shadow.I prefer to suffer alone against blood moon. Not against artifacts and enchantments that will not let us play or will make our life impossible.
I just made the move from mono-black w/white sideboard to BW mainboard and it's made a big difference in answers during game 1. Still getting stomped by Ad Nauseum though
Just added the 3rd Bontu's Last Reckoning but went 4-1 in the last 2 comp leagues I did. I don't have any surgical which is why I run Extirpate. Leyline of the Void is amazing against GY decks and I will often mulligan once or twice to get one vs dredge since we only help them.
Let us know how it goes! I like the list and have been looking for a change to my mono-black.
I ran 2 copies of torment of scarabs this past Friday and it went pretty well. I replaced the remaining two Wrench Mind I had in my deck with them. Didn't miss the wrench mind one bit.
In other news, counters company and death's shadow were tough matchups for me. What is the play on those decks?
I've been testing Torment of Scarabs in the mainboard and it has worked pretty well. When you throw that onto the battlefield with rack(s) already in play, it seems to overwhelm the opponent during upkeep, because it's at the top of the stack and what they choose between 3 damage, sac or discard directly affects the next rack on the stack. I know the first thought is "4cmc, to slow" or "will never get out due to smallpox", but it hasn't been left dead in my hand yet.
I'm new to 8rack, but played a similar deck back around the Future Sights time. Back then Megrim was a good card to include, but I'm not seeing it anywhere in modern these days. Is it just too slow for modern?
I'm brewing a Gb elves deck in standard and run him in conjunction with Walking Ballista. T1 is drop a forest/blooming marsh, drop ballista with 0 counters, triggers revolt, play Narnam for T1 2/3 deathtouch. It's been working out well in testing. The deck revolves around counters for the most part, so it ramps pretty quick.
This is correct. Also, Shrieking affliction still gets through as well.
If you're playing mono-black to avoid blood moon, why are you playing fetches?
I had a good win with it as well.
I just made the move from mono-black w/white sideboard to BW mainboard and it's made a big difference in answers during game 1. Still getting stomped by Ad Nauseum though
I'd still keep one fraying in the SB for things like kitchen finks and other reanimator stuff.
Let us know how it goes! I like the list and have been looking for a change to my mono-black.
In other news, counters company and death's shadow were tough matchups for me. What is the play on those decks?
Decklist for this week's FNM: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/682289
4 The Rack
4 Thoughtseize
2 Torment of Scarabs
2 Dismember
4 Fatal Push
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Liliana of the Veil
4 Raven's Crime
4 Shrieking Affliction
4 Smallpox
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Polluted Delta
4 Mutavault
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
12 Swamp
2 Bontu's Last Reckoning
1 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Flaying Tendrils
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Leyline of the Void
1 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Nyxathid
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Surgical Extraction
excuse my newbness, but why the fetches if mono-black?
Great write up! I've been hitting mulligan situations lately and this helped clear things up
Maybe a board wipe and then rebuild from the graveyard with Yahenni's Expertise or into Westvale Abbey / Ormendahl, Profane Prince?