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CREATURES (24) 4 Doomed Traveler 3 Gideon's Lawkeeper 2 Grand Abolisher 2 Leonin Relic-Warder 3 Fiend Hunter 3 Geist of Saint Traft 3 Mirran Crusader 4 Hero of Bladehold | SPELLS (12) 2 Dismember 4 Honor of the Pure 3 Mana Leak 3 Oblivion Ring LAND (24) 4 Glacial Fortress 1 Island 3 Moorland Haunt 12 Plains 4 Seachrome Coast | SIDEBOARD (15) 3 Timely Reinforcements 2 Dismember 2 Sword of War and Peace 1 Leonin Relic-Warder 2 Day of Judgment 2 Ratchet Bomb 1 Grand Abolisher 2 Surgical Extraction |
Just to sort of run through sort of what I see in my meta and why I did some of the things I did. We have sort of the following:
U/W Humans: Myself now and one other player. The other player has all of the cards for the list but he still makes a lot of play mistakes that cost him more often than not.
G/W Tokens 2-3 people with this. I havent seen it a lot yet but I know a lot of people have been moving it arround as an option. I will need to S/B for this knowing it is out there and I tried some test games against it which went poorly pre sideboard.
Red Deck Wins 1 person. There are a few U/R varients but I havent really had a problem with this coming from my U/W control list as long as I keep the Timely sideboarded.
Wolf Run Ramp 0-2 I know of at least 3 people who can make this deck but I have only seen one person play it and he didnt like it so as of right now I am not expecting it in my meta but I know it can sort of pop up whenever someone feels like bringing it in. I will sideboard for it once I see it. Until then nobody seems to like running it.
Solar Flare 1-2 there has been one or two people brining this in. One of them has a homebrew that is really really counter heavy so I need to sort of expect some heavy counterspell options against this.
Illusions 0-1 To my knowledge nobody is running it yet. I think there is one person who has been assembling it but he has like 4 other standard decks and I dont know how viable he was looking to make it. If he does get it pieced together I will work on it then.
Tempered Steel 0 I think there was someone looking to make a homebrew but I was honestly the person who used to run this so I am not going to worry about it right now. I dont think I will be seeing it soon.
U/B/x Control U/W is just more popular where I am. I see more U/W or Solar Flare so I will gear for that.
Mono-B Infect 0-3 I havent seen anyone actively running this of late however there have been a few lists in the past so it could pop back up but currently I am not seeing much of it.
U/W/x Blade Decks 0-1 I am mainly the person who was running this but there is one other person who can run this and occasionally does. I know he is currently on a 4c pod list that he has been running though so I wont worry about this at the moment.
U/B Tezzeret one player that I know runs this. It isnt that impressive though and I beat him well with my old U/W control list so I am not going to worry about it too much right now.
Bant Pod one player running a pod deck currently. I know a few others who had mentioned interest though so this could pick up.
U/W/x Control I was the main person here but there was 1-2 other decks that looked sort of similar.
So going forward I am sort of going to concentrate on the control, tokens, and sort of a RDW strategy of sideboarding. This can always change but currently that is sort of what I am facing.
Anyways I played this deck the last 2 FNM events and found that I just dislike the deck for some reason. When I loose games it is really bad jank stuff that usually involves me having no answers which irritates me.
The deck was doing really good and both weeks I just swept the competition and made it to the top 8. The first week I beat up on a U/R Delver deck 2 games in a row then I went to top 8 and played him again. In the top 8 he managed to openign hand Delver both games and flip it on turn 2. He just managed to have counterspells and burn for everything I did from there and I died to the delver 2 games in a row.
The second week I got to the top 4 and played against an Esper control deck. Game one I curb stomped him, game 2 I got 11 lands and 1 creature the whole game so I died to a single Gideon as I just got wrecked on my draws. Game 3 I got blue mana screwed and he answered all my threats with me stuck with a Moorland Haunt I couldnt activate, a Geist and a mana leak in hand and he starts dropping titans... it was bad.
Anyways I am retiring the deck as I just am not liking how it plays. Perhaps I will pick it back up another time but for now I think I am going to put it away.