1. knobbodi - Mental Misstep-proof Magus Chancellor of the Tangle / Chrome Mox / Mountain / Magus of the Moon / Ratchet Bomb When I ran turn 1 trinisphere, I realized that engine would be a great way to cast magus of the moon and be immune to mental misstep, and this week seemed like a good week to test it out. Not a single person played mental misstep, but magus of the moon was still a solid choice for the round.
2. Draco9 - Drawing on a Cloud Cloudpost / Cloudpost / Inkmoth Nexus / Avarice Totem / Tel-Jilad Stylus I loved your combo. It was obviously relatively powerful as well, considering your score. You're definitely scoring an extra point towards PotM with this beast.
3. Antonia - Mayor-Go Pendelhaven / Island / Mana Leak / Mayor of Avabruck / Leyline of the Void Mayor is great, and leyline of the void was relevant twice, but the fact that you couldn't cast your threat and keep your counterspell up meant that you just kinda sat there sometimes.
4. Heart of Draco - Now Let's Ban Smallpox! Dreadship Reef / Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth / Smallpox / Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre / Echoing Truth When you said in your message that you only lost to leyline of the void and magus of the moon I actually laughed out loud, and then laughed some more when I got a second deck with leyline of the void submitted. Still, smallpox-ulamog is a powerful strategy and your finish reflected that.
5. Hinotama - Scullduggery Tidehollow Sculler / Leyline of the Void / Dismember / Arcane Sanctum / Plains Turn 2 sculler was a solid play, and having a removal spell was nice as well, but sometimes you were just outclassed or outraced. Leyline of the Void was also relevant a few times, but might have been better off as something else.
6. Feyd_Ruin - 0cc Control Commandeer / Snapback / Leyline of Singularity / Inkmoth Nexus / Mutavault Commandeer didn't really do a whole lot this round, but leyline got you a win, and I really like how you have options as far as your win conditions go.
9. Thundersnow - Stylus Control Tel-Jilad Stylus / Smallpox / Bloodghast / Swamp / Swamp Stylus-bloodghast was a pretty cool combo, and being able to smallpox on turn 2 in addition to that meant that you beat a lot of decks. However, you couldn't win while there was a leyline of the void in play, you got outraced a few times, and the other smallpox deck had more inevitability. Still, nice deck!
X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
1 X 6 6 6 2 0 6 6 0 32
2 0 X 6 0 6 2 3 6 0 22
3 0 0 X 2 1 6 0 6 2 17
4 0 6 2 X 2 6 3 6 6 30
5 2 0 4 2 X 3 0 1 4 15
6 6 2 0 0 3 X 0 6 2 18
7 0 3 6 3 6 6 X 3 3 26
8 0 0 0 0 4 0 3 X 6 12
9 6 6 2 0 1 2 3 6 X 25
So, it looks like I'm the winner for this round, but the matches are close enough that if I got even a single one wrong it might change the winner. We had a nice mix of decks this week, with lots of creativity.
Regardless of who wins PotM, next week is going to be Double Dip Week. Whenever a player activates an ability, a copy of that ability is put on the stack. The player may choose new targets for the copy. This copies mana abilities, but not mana abilities from nonland sources. Also, this week you are not allowed to make infinite mana before your opponent's first turn. Decks are going to be due by next sunday.
Modern 5CB is identical to vintage 5CB, except for the following:
-The cardpool is limited to cards that have been printed since 8th edition and mirrodin (counting both of those), ie anything printed in the new card frame (but also including timeshifted cards, and not including cards printed in duel decks or the from the vault series)
-No one may submit a deck that can cause their opponent to move a card in their hand to a different zone before that player's first turn. That is, no turn 1 discard. Also, no one can submit a deck that can win on its first turn
-The banned list is:
Ghost Quarter
Meddling Mage
Vampire Hexmage
Chancellor of the Annex
Laboratory Maniac
Blazing Shoal
I love my deck's interaction with Feyd's. "I Commandeer your Avarice Totem. Tel-Jilad Stylus says nope!" and "I Commandeer your Tel-Jilad Stylus. I'll trade you my Avarice Totem for it! Sure!"
I love my deck's interaction with Feyd's. "I Commandeer your Avarice Totem. Tel-Jilad Stylus says nope!" and "I Commandeer your Tel-Jilad Stylus. I'll trade you my Avarice Totem for it! Sure!"
But we should still tie.
Totem can't hit my lands, so if either swings, we trade. Or you stylus your inkmoth back in, and then we're where we started, rinse & repeat.
Actually, it's worse than a tie. Mutavault + land > Inkmoth Nexus + CIPT land.
Mutavault always swings on turn 2, Inky swings on turn 3, so Inky loses the race (both take ten swings) AND is too small to block Mutavault (it's a chump block).
So it's actually 6-0 for Feyd_Ruin, as you managed to blank each other's non-land cards.
In regards to next week, can you not make infinite mana on the first turn, or is your deck not allowed to be able to make infinite mana on the first turn? Just clarifying.
Actually, it's worse than a tie. Mutavault + land > Inkmoth Nexus + CIPT land.
Mutavault always swings on turn 2, Inky swings on turn 3, so Inky loses the race (both take ten swings) AND is too small to block Mutavault (it's a chump block).
So it's actually 6-0 for Feyd_Ruin, as you managed to blank each other's non-land cards.
The funny part is, I totally expected knobbodi, or perhaps someone else, to run the Trinisphere deck, which I beat while at 9 poison when I'm on the draw. Then he swaps out 1 card and it instead wrecks my deck hardcore.
I'm actually quite satisfied with giving up my title this month. I had a great month (5th, 1st, 3rd, 2nd), but knobbodi had a crazy good month (2nd, 2nd, 1st, 1st).
Nice!
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Chancellor of the Tangle / Chrome Mox / Mountain / Magus of the Moon / Ratchet Bomb
When I ran turn 1 trinisphere, I realized that engine would be a great way to cast magus of the moon and be immune to mental misstep, and this week seemed like a good week to test it out. Not a single person played mental misstep, but magus of the moon was still a solid choice for the round.
2. Draco9 - Drawing on a Cloud
Cloudpost / Cloudpost / Inkmoth Nexus / Avarice Totem / Tel-Jilad Stylus
I loved your combo. It was obviously relatively powerful as well, considering your score. You're definitely scoring an extra point towards PotM with this beast.
3. Antonia - Mayor-Go
Pendelhaven / Island / Mana Leak / Mayor of Avabruck / Leyline of the Void
Mayor is great, and leyline of the void was relevant twice, but the fact that you couldn't cast your threat and keep your counterspell up meant that you just kinda sat there sometimes.
4. Heart of Draco - Now Let's Ban Smallpox!
Dreadship Reef / Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth / Smallpox / Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre / Echoing Truth
When you said in your message that you only lost to leyline of the void and magus of the moon I actually laughed out loud, and then laughed some more when I got a second deck with leyline of the void submitted. Still, smallpox-ulamog is a powerful strategy and your finish reflected that.
5. Hinotama - Scullduggery
Tidehollow Sculler / Leyline of the Void / Dismember / Arcane Sanctum / Plains
Turn 2 sculler was a solid play, and having a removal spell was nice as well, but sometimes you were just outclassed or outraced. Leyline of the Void was also relevant a few times, but might have been better off as something else.
6. Feyd_Ruin - 0cc Control
Commandeer / Snapback / Leyline of Singularity / Inkmoth Nexus / Mutavault
Commandeer didn't really do a whole lot this round, but leyline got you a win, and I really like how you have options as far as your win conditions go.
7. WhammWhamme - Werewolf Control
Thoughtseize / Mayor of Avabruck / Daybreak Ranger / Gruul Turf / Savage Lands
Turn 2 discard plus an extremely high threat density meant that you won quite a few games. Your only weakness was your lack of speed.
8. XScorpion - Chancellors of the Forges
Chancellor of the Forge / Chancellor of the Forge / Chancellor of the Forge / Chancellor of the Forge / Chancellor of the Forge
You did about as well as one could expect from running an all-in strategy like this. I don't think something like this will catch very many people with their pants down generally, but maybe what happened once will happen again.
9. Thundersnow - Stylus Control
Tel-Jilad Stylus / Smallpox / Bloodghast / Swamp / Swamp
Stylus-bloodghast was a pretty cool combo, and being able to smallpox on turn 2 in addition to that meant that you beat a lot of decks. However, you couldn't win while there was a leyline of the void in play, you got outraced a few times, and the other smallpox deck had more inevitability. Still, nice deck!
X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
1 X 6 6 6 2 0 6 6 0 32
2 0 X 6 0 6 2 3 6 0 22
3 0 0 X 2 1 6 0 6 2 17
4 0 6 2 X 2 6 3 6 6 30
5 2 0 4 2 X 3 0 1 4 15
6 6 2 0 0 3 X 0 6 2 18
7 0 3 6 3 6 6 X 3 3 26
8 0 0 0 0 4 0 3 X 6 12
9 6 6 2 0 1 2 3 6 X 25
So, it looks like I'm the winner for this round, but the matches are close enough that if I got even a single one wrong it might change the winner. We had a nice mix of decks this week, with lots of creativity.
Regardless of who wins PotM, next week is going to be Double Dip Week. Whenever a player activates an ability, a copy of that ability is put on the stack. The player may choose new targets for the copy. This copies mana abilities, but not mana abilities from nonland sources. Also, this week you are not allowed to make infinite mana before your opponent's first turn. Decks are going to be due by next sunday.
Player of the Month Standings:
1. knobbodi - 17.67
2. Heart of Draco - 16.05
3. Draco9 - 14.2
4. WhammWhamme - 12.62
5. benbuzz790 - 9.73
6. Feyd_Ruin - 9.59
7. XScorpion - 6.73
8. Thundersnow - 6.44
9. Own3d - 5.89
10. Error1 - 5.37
11. Antonia - 2.9
12. Hinotama - 2.45
Modern5CB rules:
-The cardpool is limited to cards that have been printed since 8th edition and mirrodin (counting both of those), ie anything printed in the new card frame (but also including timeshifted cards, and not including cards printed in duel decks or the from the vault series)
-No one may submit a deck that can cause their opponent to move a card in their hand to a different zone before that player's first turn. That is, no turn 1 discard. Also, no one can submit a deck that can win on its first turn
-The banned list is:
Ghost Quarter
Meddling Mage
Vampire Hexmage
Chancellor of the Annex
Laboratory Maniac
Blazing Shoal
-Cards to be watched:
Chrome Mox
I love my deck's interaction with Feyd's. "I Commandeer your Avarice Totem. Tel-Jilad Stylus says nope!" and "I Commandeer your Tel-Jilad Stylus. I'll trade you my Avarice Totem for it! Sure!"
But we should still tie.
Totem can't hit my lands, so if either swings, we trade. Or you stylus your inkmoth back in, and then we're where we started, rinse & repeat.
No longer staff here.
Mutavault always swings on turn 2, Inky swings on turn 3, so Inky loses the race (both take ten swings) AND is too small to block Mutavault (it's a chump block).
So it's actually 6-0 for Feyd_Ruin, as you managed to blank each other's non-land cards.
Nice!