Ladies & Gentlemen.
I present you Chromantic Midrange. have been 7-2 with it on Cockatrice, losing to a Phenax Mill Deck and Rw Devotion.
Overall it has been working pretty awesome and I love people's reactions to when I bestow the Core
Current MU results:
2-0 vs. GW Hexproof
2-0 vs. Some weird combo deck running Ajani's Chosen and Inspired creatures that puts tokens
1-2 vs. Phenax mill
2-1 vs. Esper Ephara (The one Mihara built)
0-2 vs. Rw Devotion
2-0 vs. RG Monsters
2-1 vs. Naya Midrange/Monsters
2-1 vs. Rakdos Midrange/Control
i was running a set of think twice back then, but got problems with them, instead of casting this or that, i was think twicing. remember our deck are alwasy a turn late, so relying on terminus on our turn or hard casting terminus is the better option. but you got a point there. id rather have fog effects and let my opponent overcommit all their creats for a sweet sweeper. i havent got any problems running the list. but as you said i was lacking draw effects.
I wanted to buy sphinx revelation for this deck but unfortunately its too costly for me at the moment. you think our deck got a shot post rotation? i love to try your list with spot removal heavy.
hope some more maze end player shares their experience here.
I see your point on wanting your opponent to overcommit the board but skilled players wouldn't overcommit without a backup plan knowing that a sweeper is coming for them. If you don't want to run Think Twice then i suggest Augur of Bolas, it blocks while fetches more fogs effect / sweepers most times. Another card that a few people were talking about on a Turbo Fog list was Gideon, Champion of Justice. If well played, that card itself is a pretty strong wincon by itself (how many decks can still win when having all of his permanent wiped away?) but remember that he is a tricky card and that you need to know WHEN to play it cause there are sometimes where you'll rather Verdict / Terminus your opponent's board than cast Gideon.
Removal-heavy versions tends to have a worse aggro MU (Bant Auras for example becomes a nightmare) but gains consistancy against Midrange decks. Control MU is unaltered since it tends to be an favorabe MU for us. The main advantage I see on this version is being able to deal with painful creatures (such as Hellrider and Blood Artist) more easily.
Most of this deck's issues goes away with Innistrad: Hasty-annoying creatures (Thundermaw, Hellrider, Falkenrath Aristocrat, Strangleroot Geist), Undying and recurring creatures (the only one that comes to my mind that will stay is Voice of Resurgance), Junk Reanimator, Acidic Slime... So i see some potential to this deck post-rotation on both incarnations. But it'll depend of what will come to us and to other decks in Theros, this deck may simply become unplayable if we either get a pretty strong LD or if the format's speed becomes too fast for an slow deck such as Maze's End become playable. With the current cards, I'd say that I expect the deck to be Tier 1.5 at least.
Also of note was that Wizards applied for a trademark 'Theros' a week earlier with the same description ("Card games, trading card games, playing cards, and accessories for use therewith.")
I'm calling it now:
New block's first set: Theros
2nd set: Journey into Nyx
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I present you Chromantic Midrange. have been 7-2 with it on Cockatrice, losing to a Phenax Mill Deck and Rw Devotion.
Overall it has been working pretty awesome and I love people's reactions to when I bestow the Core
Current MU results:
2-0 vs. GW Hexproof
2-0 vs. Some weird combo deck running Ajani's Chosen and Inspired creatures that puts tokens
1-2 vs. Phenax mill
2-1 vs. Esper Ephara (The one Mihara built)
0-2 vs. Rw Devotion
2-0 vs. RG Monsters
2-1 vs. Naya Midrange/Monsters
2-1 vs. Rakdos Midrange/Control
4 Temple of Plenty
2 Temple of Malice
2 Temple of Mistery
3 Stomping Ground
3 Blood Crypt
3 Overgrown Tomb
2 Temple Garden
1 Breeding Pool
1 Steam Vents
4 Sylvan Caryatid
4 Courser of Kruphix
3 Voyaging Satyr
3 Polukranos, World Eater
3 Reaper of the Wilds
2 Chromanticore
2 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
2 Sylvan Primordial
1 Xenagos, God of Revels
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
2 Putrefy
4 Domri Rade
2 Garruk, Caller of Beasts
1 Xenagos, the Reveler
3 Slaughter Games
2 Golgari Charm
2 Turn // Burn
2 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
1 Fog
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
Suggestions are Welcome
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I see your point on wanting your opponent to overcommit the board but skilled players wouldn't overcommit without a backup plan knowing that a sweeper is coming for them. If you don't want to run Think Twice then i suggest Augur of Bolas, it blocks while fetches more fogs effect / sweepers most times. Another card that a few people were talking about on a Turbo Fog list was Gideon, Champion of Justice. If well played, that card itself is a pretty strong wincon by itself (how many decks can still win when having all of his permanent wiped away?) but remember that he is a tricky card and that you need to know WHEN to play it cause there are sometimes where you'll rather Verdict / Terminus your opponent's board than cast Gideon.
Removal-heavy versions tends to have a worse aggro MU (Bant Auras for example becomes a nightmare) but gains consistancy against Midrange decks. Control MU is unaltered since it tends to be an favorabe MU for us. The main advantage I see on this version is being able to deal with painful creatures (such as Hellrider and Blood Artist) more easily.
Most of this deck's issues goes away with Innistrad: Hasty-annoying creatures (Thundermaw, Hellrider, Falkenrath Aristocrat, Strangleroot Geist), Undying and recurring creatures (the only one that comes to my mind that will stay is Voice of Resurgance), Junk Reanimator, Acidic Slime... So i see some potential to this deck post-rotation on both incarnations. But it'll depend of what will come to us and to other decks in Theros, this deck may simply become unplayable if we either get a pretty strong LD or if the format's speed becomes too fast for an slow deck such as Maze's End become playable. With the current cards, I'd say that I expect the deck to be Tier 1.5 at least.
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I'm calling it now:
New block's first set: Theros
2nd set: Journey into Nyx
Is it possible?