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Apr 20, 2020JetterBetter posted a message on A New and Exciting BeginningThere was a huge hole in my soul when MtgSalvation went dark. Super excited to find it back, just wish I would’ve known sooner! Came back to look at an old deck list I had saved, and much to my surprise... new posts?!Posted in: Articles
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wilderness reclamation should help with savor the moment. Still let’s you untap EOT to start your extra turn with a fresh manabase.
I agree with the others on narset vs Jace. Bouncing a guy and setting up miracles is good. My biggest thing, Jace gets lands, and for me, missing land drops usually spell disaster. I also feel light on draw spells. But your build running narset and wilderness reclamation May be better.
Remand vs growth spiral, remand can buy a turn by keeping something off the field I don’t want on it Until I can cryptic, or go off and win. An extra land on the field can be huge though.
The list I took to the open
2 Search for Azcanta
4 Dictate of Kruphix Basic
1 Inkmoth Nexus
20 Island
2 Radiant Fountain
3 Gigadrowse
3 Boomerang
4 Remand
3 Cryptic Command
3 Exhaustion
4 Time Warp
3 Part the Waterveil
2 Temporal Mastery
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Thing in the Ice
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Ratchet Bomb
1 Spellskite 2 Torpor Orb
1 Gigadrowse
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Commandeer
I didn’t like narset in this build, she was a last second change. Another card that didn’t affect the board. Since I have swapped the 2 out for a GE Kefnet and a tempest djinn Main deck. I’m very interested in brewing more with her, I have some ideas.
Sad to see the site go... promised myself I wouldn’t cry...the good luck day site that keeps taking over this site has been very frustrating, I figured something was up.
Haven’t got to play much lately, been busy, and do a lot of prerelease activities. Not sure I’m digging the Azorius turns, I’m thinking about going back to mono U. I want to try some chalice of the void and new kefnet in the side. I might try UR turns. @timewalkin why did you use different fetches for UR turns list? Funny is I only have 2 tarns so mine will look just like that
J-Wielder turns sounds zesty, I like it! Keep me posted on how that comes along.
2 Search for Azcanta
4 Dictate of Kruphix
3 Flooded Strand
3 Glacial Fortress
2 Hallowed Fountain
1 Inkmoth Nexus
11 Island
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Prairie Stream
3 Gigadrowse
4 Remand
2 Cryptic Command
4 Serum Visions
3 Exhaustion
4 Time Warp
3 Part the Waterveil
4 Temporal Mastery
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Rest in Peace
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Spellskite
3 Path to Exile
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Timely Reinforcements
This is where we sit now, and I’m really enjoying it. I’ve added more white sources main, and tweaked the sideboard. The porphyry nodes have been great. Debating going up to 4. Feels like the answer I’ve been looking for with humans, spirits, goblins. Well, goblins is still rough, but I feel like I have a chance. Getting choked out twice on t3 today hurt my soul. Might need to find a good way to handle thought. Is there something that exiles artifacts and enchantments in UW?
@TimeWalkin thanks for the advice on the lands. I enjoyed reading your report, and your insight on Sideboarding helped me a lot.
Went 2-2 Wednesday night at the LGS. Mono R Phoenix got me round 1. Lost to amulet titan r4. Had some interesting interactions with hive mind and turns. Learned I got to take turns first. Also when PTW awakens, he gets to awaken also. Beat grixis control, and an artifact prison style deck. New sideboard didn’t get a huge test drive, and bad beats against a couple tough match ups. Chocking this one up as 1 of those nights.
Decided to finally try a color splash for my deck. 3 fetches, 2 shocks, and a basic plains. New SB, few old favs. What do you guys think?
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Search for Azcanta
4 Dictate of Kruphix
3 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
1 Inkmoth Nexus
15 Island
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 Plains
3 Gigadrowse
4 Remand
2 Cryptic Command
4 Serum Visions
3 Exhaustion
4 Time Warp
3 Part the Waterveil
4 Temporal Mastery
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Sideboard (15)
3 Path to Exile
2 Rest in Peace
2 Spreading Seas
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Dragon's Claw
2 Spellskite
5-2 record at the SCG IQ. 10th place out of 75. Lost to humans twice. Beat BW tokens, Mono R Phoenix, BG, Burn, and had a no show in the last round that I assume forgot to tell someone he dropped. Very happy with my performance. Sad I just missed out on top 8. I think I’m going to try a white splash for sideboard answers to problem match ups. Maybe only add 3 fetches and 3 shocks main, take out 2 radiant fountains and 4 islands. Bring hate out of the sideboard. Terminus, timely, path, rip, stony, EE probably?
Dark horse- Garruk. Not much bigger game to hunt then Bolas. And the peasants rejoice.
Wasn’t able to play much last week. Did a Sunday event, only 5 people. Finished 2-1. Beat Bant nexus 2-0. Beat BG deck 2-1. Swore I was going to lose that one, somehow survived an onslaught of thoughtseize and IoK to finally awaken an inkmoth for a poisonous death. Don’t know if I could’ve survived long enough to beat him with a normal land. He was smart enough to keep me away from dictates. Game 3 was not as much hand destruction, but i survived a surgical on time warp, then snap flashed back on PTW. after Bob, thoughtseize and his mana base did enough damage to him, with a few clutch gigadrowse and exhaustion my snap beat him down. Game 3... my buddy decided to build 8 Whack. Has me pulling my hair out. Lost 1-2 and almost had it. I actually won game 1, my hand curved out perfect, and he didn’t have the hella explosive start. Game 2 I mana flooded hard. G3 dictate flashed in before turn 4, 3 lands on board, cryptic, warp, PTW, in hand, and whiff on the 4th land. Oy, goblins.
Gotta rant for a second on stupid tie breakers. 5 people, someone had a bye every round. Tie breakers decided the 8 whack deck that defeated me, 2-1, with a bye for 1 win was good enough to take first??? I actually beat 2 opponents, and this bumped his points because he beat me and I had 2 actual wins. WTF?! Salty AF.
Taking my list to an SCG IQ this weekend! I’m excited, it’s my first go at something bigger then FNM. I’m looking to take a lot of turns
Round 1 1-2 Hardened scales affinity.
Closer then I expected. G1 I couldn’t find answers, and worker, scales, worker, Ravager, ballista did me in. G2 answers flowed and I won. Learned that if you cryptic command to tap team and bounce creature, and they sac targeted creature, tap portion fizzles as well. Good to know. G3 was really close, and I felt like I was ready to pull it out. I got a few turns going with a ratchet bomb on 2, ready to blow up his board of 2 Ravagers, overseer, hardened scales, and mox. Ran out of gas, he sacs everything to the ravagers, takes me to 5. I cryptic bounce his ravAgers, and drew turds until th ravager came back and killed me.
R2 2-0 RU prowess deck
I saw some swiftspears and a RU flying, haste, prowess wizard with electrolyze, opt and forked bolts. Other then that gigadrowse and exhaustion kept him from playing much before going off.
R3 2-1 Green devotion, tooth and nail
G1 He played a couple enchantments in a land, cast a spell, cryptic command, counter, bounce enchanted land. He tried to beat me down with BTE. G2 think I never got a dictate this game, he eventually got enough on board to tooth and nail me. G3 was like G1.
R4 mono B devotion
G1 he played a couple gifted aetherborn, I played some gigadrowse and exhaustion, take some turns. G2 he was stuck on 1 lands for a few turns, and he watched me take a bunch.
R5 UW control
G1 and 2 were pretty much the same. I put search for azcanta down t2, followed by some draw go for a few turns. I gigadrowse his lands during his end step when I’m ready to go off. He was playing on his phone the whole time, salty he didn’t get to play magic. Bro, you are playing straight control, how are you going to say anything?
Deck was great. Still trying to get reps and see as many match ups as I can, shape my sideboard. Maybe it’s time to finally get mtgo, for the experience.
It is a rare occasion where I flood with my colorless lands. It has happened though. I’ve won more games through my utility lands then lost from not having blue sources. Sometimes the turns run out, shorter clock, flying and ability to ignore life gain shenanigans on inkmoth is sometimes just needed. 4 colorless sources feel perfect. No gq, I can’t afford to sac my own land. FoR seems slow. Spreading seas is cheaper and draws a card. It’s worked well for me when used. Haven’t used it a ton. Devastation tide I haven’t been able to use much. It bought me a turn against dredge one game, and loaded their hand for a conflag the next. I was dead that game anyways. It’s a tough match. Looking to answers for decks that load the board fast like spirits, humans, hardened scales, green devotion, etc. when they outpace my gigadrowse it feels like a decent option.
@JPoJohsnon, congrats on the 3-0. Looks pretty solid.
@Timewalkin, checking out the Ub turns video now. Looks pretty sweet.
Not enough people showed up today for a modern event to fire :0(. Going to try FNM, the lgs usually has a good turn out. Spent some time trying to find trades for amulet titan im building, picked up a new emrakul for tron sideboard, and leyline of the void for GDS SB on trades.
Came across a sweet synergy between azcanta and JTMS... with no way to shuffle my library, I sometimes finding myself flooding lands, or other cards I don’t need, when brianstorming with Jace and it gets annoying. Search can let me yard 1 to help filter through, and sunken ruin can plow through the top 2, and check the next 2 for something needed.