I'm going to be very surprised if Blue Moon makes it out of the Quarterfinals. Its mana denial isn't going to work, and neither are its bolts.
While this is true, it does have a high amount of counterspells.
I've been testing blue moon, mostly because I wanted to see how rough the zoo matchup is... (short answer, I hope this gets hated out.) But hes [playing against all in twin. If he doesnt draw the right card, he loses. His deck is mostly Zoo hate with counters. Blue moon isnt actually great against alot of these decks its going to face, espeically with the deck list out and surprise factor over. I think it has a hard time, regardless of matchups.
This may be a dumb question but how much time on average is there between the quarterfinals, semis and finals in the average pro tour. i want to watch mostly the finals but live in the western us and am not staying up all night so i want to estimate what time they might be at.
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Legacy: UWxuwr miracles and stonebladeUWx
Commander: UWRShu Yun/Ruhan SmashUWR
Best Pro Tour in a looong time. However, the success of combo does leave me a little worried... Last time combo was this dominating, wizards banned rite of flame, ponder, preordain and blazing shoal. Hopefully twin and pod survive the next ban rounds.
Best Pro Tour in a looong time. However, the success of combo does leave me a little worried... Last time combo was this dominating, wizards banned rite of flame, ponder, preordain and blazing shoal. Hopefully twin and pod survive the next ban rounds.
I honestly don't see them getting banned. Neither t3 wins (pod can infinite life but not usually win t3) which is what wizards hated. Not to mention pod, twin, storm, nauseum, etc are all very beatable decks in my opinion at least.
Combo did well at this tournament because only 6 people played Faeries.
Quote from Joel Larsson: "I don't want to say all of the combo decks are a bye," said Larsson, who actually lost to a combo deck, "but it's pretty close to a bye. All of the control decks are very good match-ups too."
The tools for beating combo are all there, it's just up to whether anyone plays them. Very few people chose to do that this PT (presumably they were scared of Zoo, a bad MU for Faeries), so the combo decks got away with it.
Combo did well at this tournament because only 6 people played Faeries.
Quote from Joel Larsson: "I don't want to say all of the combo decks are a bye," said Larsson, who actually lost to a combo deck, "but it's pretty close to a bye. All of the control decks are very good match-ups too."
The tools for beating combo are all there, it's just up to whether anyone plays them. Very few people chose to do that this PT (presumably they were scared of Zoo, a bad MU for Faeries), so the combo decks got away with it.
That is because there isn't a consensus on how faeries needs to be. There's too much up in the air between going more aggro or more control. There hasn't been one in modern, but it's slowly getting the kinks worked out. By next year, I'm sure we'll see faeries showing up in tourneys. It's a deck that has its fanboys who will eventually find the correct form of the deck for modern.
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Modern: UWUW TronUW
Legacy: WDeath N TaxesW CEldrazi C
If you couldn't tell I hate greedy blue decks.
This may be a dumb question but how much time on average is there between the quarterfinals, semis and finals in the average pro tour. i want to watch mostly the finals but live in the western us and am not staying up all night so i want to estimate what time they might be at.
In the past each round was ~1.5 hours apart (5 games each, no timer) however the new format is best of 3 rather than best of 5 so individually it will be quicker. The thing is though they're doing something new this time and showing every top 8 match on camera and commentating it, which means it's probably more like 4 hours for the quarters, 2 hours for the semi's, and then the final. That's what I would guess atleast. Worst case scenario you miss it and watch it on twitch anyways.
Combo did well at this tournament because only 6 people played Faeries.
Quote from Joel Larsson: "I don't want to say all of the combo decks are a bye," said Larsson, who actually lost to a combo deck, "but it's pretty close to a bye. All of the control decks are very good match-ups too."
The tools for beating combo are all there, it's just up to whether anyone plays them. Very few people chose to do that this PT (presumably they were scared of Zoo, a bad MU for Faeries), so the combo decks got away with it.
The problem, is that regardless of how well combo ended up doing, the starting field was dominated by Zoo, which pushed any faeries contention out of the standings.
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Hey, you have 2 shackles on the table and a bunch of mana open? Okay, I guess it's time to put some Deceiver Exarchs on the table so you can steal them!!
I really don't understand why Lee Shi didn't untap at least one of his Shackles. I get that the Exarchs block the Master profitably, but that just cuts off so many outs to answering the combo.
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It's not your job to win games of Magic where you're mana screwed.
It's your job win every game of Magic where you're not.
Love it. Alkio just says go, Lee Shi then gets priority and can't do anything; he either loses his mana and Alkio comboes in beginning of combat, or he attempts to shoot Kiki-Jiki and Alkio combos in response. Masterful play by Alkio - loved that match.
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It's not your job to win games of Magic where you're mana screwed.
It's your job win every game of Magic where you're not.
UR twin is such a great deck with so many approaches to win. I am glad to see Moon knocked out, though major props to the creative metagaming that was done to create and tune the deck.
I've been testing blue moon, mostly because I wanted to see how rough the zoo matchup is... (short answer, I hope this gets hated out.) But hes [playing against all in twin. If he doesnt draw the right card, he loses. His deck is mostly Zoo hate with counters. Blue moon isnt actually great against alot of these decks its going to face, espeically with the deck list out and surprise factor over. I think it has a hard time, regardless of matchups.
Time will tell though.
Modern:
RUGScapeshift[RUG...Occasionally with goyfs
RUGTarmotwinRUG(RIP)
Legacy:
UWxuwr miracles and stonebladeUWx
Commander:
UWRShu Yun/Ruhan SmashUWR
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I honestly don't see them getting banned. Neither t3 wins (pod can infinite life but not usually win t3) which is what wizards hated. Not to mention pod, twin, storm, nauseum, etc are all very beatable decks in my opinion at least.
Quote from Joel Larsson:
"I don't want to say all of the combo decks are a bye," said Larsson, who actually lost to a combo deck, "but it's pretty close to a bye. All of the control decks are very good match-ups too."
The tools for beating combo are all there, it's just up to whether anyone plays them. Very few people chose to do that this PT (presumably they were scared of Zoo, a bad MU for Faeries), so the combo decks got away with it.
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Big Johnny.
That is because there isn't a consensus on how faeries needs to be. There's too much up in the air between going more aggro or more control. There hasn't been one in modern, but it's slowly getting the kinks worked out. By next year, I'm sure we'll see faeries showing up in tourneys. It's a deck that has its fanboys who will eventually find the correct form of the deck for modern.
Modern:
UWUW TronUW
Legacy:
WDeath N TaxesW
CEldrazi C
If you couldn't tell I hate greedy blue decks.
Vintage
WWhite Trash
Current post- Grand Prix KC Modern Postmortem (7/7/13)
In the past each round was ~1.5 hours apart (5 games each, no timer) however the new format is best of 3 rather than best of 5 so individually it will be quicker. The thing is though they're doing something new this time and showing every top 8 match on camera and commentating it, which means it's probably more like 4 hours for the quarters, 2 hours for the semi's, and then the final. That's what I would guess atleast. Worst case scenario you miss it and watch it on twitch anyways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMZPeqEX6jw
The problem, is that regardless of how well combo ended up doing, the starting field was dominated by Zoo, which pushed any faeries contention out of the standings.
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Anssi
Fennel (if he doesn't punt hard)
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"The problem isn't when Scissors says Rock is overpowered, it's when Paper says it is."
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Someone throw a pie.
The only punt we've seen is Lee Shi not untapping the Shackles on his turn.
It's your job win every game of Magic where you're not.
It's your job win every game of Magic where you're not.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Reprint Opt for Modern!!
FREE DIG THOROUGH TIME!
PLAY MORE ROUGE DECKS!
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
It's your job win every game of Magic where you're not.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Reprint Opt for Modern!!
FREE DIG THOROUGH TIME!
PLAY MORE ROUGE DECKS!