I decided to side Krakas because I haven't needed it in the last few events, and in testing against the BR Reanimator deck, it's not great. That new Reanimator deck is scary good! They can reanimate T1 quite frequently and have revealed a Chancellor so we can't do anything T1. Them reanimating a Chancellor tends to be the game. I am surprised how reliable that deck is with just 13 lands. They are light on basics though so locking them off mana is easy enough if they didn't keep a fast hand or had to mulligan.
I decided to SB Crucible and bring it in against decks playing surgical extraction. I missed the weekly Legacy event tonight, so hopefully Saturday goes well. I'll report back Saturday night.
The colored sources generally has not been an issue. I have loved Canopy in the deck, and I'm thinking about slotting in 1 Sensei's Divining Top. That card is amazing! On the opponents end step I can spin top and decide if I'm drawing or Loaming. I haven't lost a game in testing where I resolved a Top and played a Loam.
The deck feels very good against Miracles and DnT. I have a lot of other matchups to test yet, but the GQ's might just be better then Ports until people start running basics.
Game 2 of the Top 4 of Daryl playing Joe last night is a great example of why I dislike Chalice in our SB. He ended up hurting himself a lot more then Joe in that game locking himself out of the Crop Rotation and Gamble in his hand which I believe were far more valuable to him then the Chalice on 1, especially since it was a T2 Chalice on 1 instead of T1 and Joe got a Top into play on his first turn.
Lol, somehow completely missed your SB, my bad. There's so many cards I like in our SB's that I have a hard time deciding what I want. I don't think I'm willing to cut Punishing Fire's for the Sphere's. Maybe if I can qualify at our next IQ I'll try Sphere's in the main for the last IQ.
I did also forget to list Nissa, Vital Force in the list.
I'm not trying to be competitive with this deck. Just a synergistic fun deck. I'm think I may cut the Rhino's and possibly add Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver or some other walker.
what do people think about mainboarding the 4 Sphere of Resistance in the RUG version? We're not as focused on hitting the combo in G1 as the RG version, and I find myself bringing it in in almost every matchup anyways.
I first wanted to play with some walkers, and Atraxia happens to play well with them. Sure she's not the greatest, but I think it'll be a lot of fun to play.
Here's a more updated list now after some testing.
Creatures
4 Veteran Explorer
2 Siege Rhino
1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
1 Eternal Witness
1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
Planeswalkers
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Kiora, the Crashing Wave
Spells
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sylvan Library
1 Pernicious Deed
Still have a few flex spots to fill in. Birthing Pod ended up feeling wrong for the build. Thragtusk never felt like a card I wanted. I've been thinking of going to the full 4 A Decay. Have also considered Elspeth, Sun's Champion in the main.
Hi guys! I'm new here to Nic Fit, but have been playing Lands for a couple years. With Liliana, the Last Hope and Nissa, Vital Force being printed, I've decided to build Nic Fit. And then they printed Atraxa! So I'll be going 4 color. Might be greedy, but this is more so for fun really.
This is what I have so far:
Creatures:
4 Veteran Explorer
3 Siege Rhino
2 Atraxa, Praetor's Voice
2 Eternal Witness
2 Deathrite Shaman
1 Thragtusk
1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
Spells
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Abrupt Decay
3 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Birthing Pod
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sylvan Library
1 Pernicious Deed
I'm still trying to figure out the rest of the slots. Thinking about possibly MD'ing Thoughtseize.
My local meta contains a lot of Miracles, Shardless BUG, and Lands if those influence any possible selections.
I really enjoyed having the 3rd EE. I dredged over Nissa a couple times which didn't feel great, but I don't think I had any game where putting her into play would have felt bad.
I only got to play the Tireless Tracker against Esper Stoneblade, and it felt win more there, but that's an already favored matchup. I somehow dodged the 11 Miracles decks in the room, which is where I really wanted to play Trackers and Nissa.
Karakas was bad all day, mostly due to what I played against. I'll likely be moving it to the sideboard. There was only 1 Reanimator deck that I saw, and I feel like Bog is far more important in the mirror.
Any tips on playing against Painter Servant? Also, I know the mirror leans in favor of the RG version, but what should I be bringing in?
Against the Mirror I sided in Trackers and my 4 K Grips.
I played at a local 1k qualifier this weekend with 57 players. I ran Sparki's Ghost Quarter list with the addition of adding 1 Nissa, Vital Force and a slightly different SB.
Round 1 - Storm
So I quickly had recurring Ghost Quarters game 1 with an Exploration out and Loam. I kept Wuartering his lands on sight, and he ran out of basics quickly. I didn't put him on Storm before he went off because he didn't play anything but Ponder and Brainstorm before hand. I couldn't have done anything differently, I never dredged any combo pieces with Loam. Game 2 I played a T1 Sphere of Resistance. We were approaching time in game 2 and he attempted to go off when I had the combo out, he came up short and left me at 2 life. 2 swings from Marit Lage and we drew 1-1.
Round 2 - Jund Lands
Game 1 he had a quick mana bond and found a Loam before I could find a way to get Bog.
Game 2 I bogged his first 2 Loams and stripped away his green sources.
Game 3, we grounded for a while, but he was able to get the upper hand with an early Loam. Lost 1-2.
Round 3 - Abzan Nic Fit
Game 1 he searched up a Humility with Academy Rector in response to my Marit Lage. He scooped to my punishing fire and recurring Wastelands.
Game 2, it took me a while to find the combo pieces. He searched up an enchantment that made all lands 1/1's and I made Marit Lage in response, he scooped.
Round 4 - Elves
Game 1 I kept a mediocre hand and it didn't manage to go anywhere. He beat me down with the bunch of Elves he dumped T2. Game 2 I cleared his board with an EE on 1, then made Marit Lage T3. Game 3, I punished him hard for keeping a 1 land hand. I played double Sphere of Resistance and had Tabernacle out. Eventually I made Marit Lage and won.
Round 5 - Mono R Painter
I've never played this matchup and wasn't really sure what to do. He made T1 Helm and T3 Painter G1 to win. Game 2 I cleared away his first 2 helms with a EE, and killed his first Painter. I Gripped his Blood Moon and Ensnaring Bridge, but he managed to find a 2nd Bridge before Marit Lage could attack. I made a Nissa emblem. He surgical'd my EE when I attempted to Transmute for a 2nd. So I got Chalice instead and held back on slamming it for 1, big mistake. He played Welder next turn and won off that.
Round 6 - Esper Stoneblade
I never realized how easy this matchup is. He never really played magic, I won 2-0.
I finished just outside prizing and receiving an invite to the championship. There are 2 more qualifiers and I intend on qualifying in one of them.
I'm not sure how much I like the Quarters over Ports. They are absolutely brutal in some matchups, but so much worse then Port in others.
I played with Ghost Quarter over Ports this last weekend, and I lost my Painter matchup quickly due to having Quarters instead of Ports.
I don't think any of the Legacy threads are highly active. This is still a very played deck, I played in a 1.5k this weekend and there were 6 Lands decks in the room of 57 players.
I don't feel that Kaladesh influenced Lands at all. I played Nissa, Vital Force but I only got to play her once, which led to an emblem and it felt GOOD. I don't know if she will actually help any matchups though. The idea was to help against Miracles, but I haven't got to test that matchup much yet.
I personally got my Tabernacle through my local store owner who was able to obtain one for a great price to sell to me.
I'm gonna try a Traverse build with birds. After watching Hoogland last night, the deck was unable to get ahead of other decks. Traverse caught him up some games, but not always.
Have you missed having the Ports at all?? I'm not sure I can imagine not having Ports, but I guess the matches where your opponent doesn't have basics is almost an auto win now
I decided to side Krakas because I haven't needed it in the last few events, and in testing against the BR Reanimator deck, it's not great. That new Reanimator deck is scary good! They can reanimate T1 quite frequently and have revealed a Chancellor so we can't do anything T1. Them reanimating a Chancellor tends to be the game. I am surprised how reliable that deck is with just 13 lands. They are light on basics though so locking them off mana is easy enough if they didn't keep a fast hand or had to mulligan.
I decided to SB Crucible and bring it in against decks playing surgical extraction. I missed the weekly Legacy event tonight, so hopefully Saturday goes well. I'll report back Saturday night.
The colored sources generally has not been an issue. I have loved Canopy in the deck, and I'm thinking about slotting in 1 Sensei's Divining Top. That card is amazing! On the opponents end step I can spin top and decide if I'm drawing or Loaming. I haven't lost a game in testing where I resolved a Top and played a Loam.
4 Ghost Quarter
4 Wasteland
2 Taiga
2 Tropical Island
1 Forest
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
3 Thespian's Stage
3 Dark Depths
3 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
3 Maze of Ith
1 Academy Ruins
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Tolaria West
1 Glacial Chasm
1 The Tabernacle of Pendrell Vale
4 Exploration
4 Life from the Loam
4 Crop Rotation
4 Mox Diamond
3 Punishing Fire
3 Engineered Explosives
3 Gamble
1 Intuition
1 Manabond
1 Molten Vortex
4 Krosan Grip
4 Mox Diamond
3 Tireless Tracker
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Nissa, Vital Force
1 Molten Vortex
1 Karakas
The deck feels very good against Miracles and DnT. I have a lot of other matchups to test yet, but the GQ's might just be better then Ports until people start running basics.
I'm not trying to be competitive with this deck. Just a synergistic fun deck. I'm think I may cut the Rhino's and possibly add Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver or some other walker.
Creatures
4 Veteran Explorer
2 Siege Rhino
1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
1 Eternal Witness
1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
Planeswalkers
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Kiora, the Crashing Wave
Spells
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sylvan Library
1 Pernicious Deed
Still have a few flex spots to fill in. Birthing Pod ended up feeling wrong for the build. Thragtusk never felt like a card I wanted. I've been thinking of going to the full 4 A Decay. Have also considered Elspeth, Sun's Champion in the main.
This is what I have so far:
Creatures:
4 Veteran Explorer
3 Siege Rhino
2 Atraxa, Praetor's Voice
2 Eternal Witness
2 Deathrite Shaman
1 Thragtusk
1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
Spells
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Abrupt Decay
3 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Birthing Pod
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sylvan Library
1 Pernicious Deed
I'm still trying to figure out the rest of the slots. Thinking about possibly MD'ing Thoughtseize.
My local meta contains a lot of Miracles, Shardless BUG, and Lands if those influence any possible selections.
I only got to play the Tireless Tracker against Esper Stoneblade, and it felt win more there, but that's an already favored matchup. I somehow dodged the 11 Miracles decks in the room, which is where I really wanted to play Trackers and Nissa.
Karakas was bad all day, mostly due to what I played against. I'll likely be moving it to the sideboard. There was only 1 Reanimator deck that I saw, and I feel like Bog is far more important in the mirror.
Any tips on playing against Painter Servant? Also, I know the mirror leans in favor of the RG version, but what should I be bringing in?
Against the Mirror I sided in Trackers and my 4 K Grips.
Round 1 - Storm
So I quickly had recurring Ghost Quarters game 1 with an Exploration out and Loam. I kept Wuartering his lands on sight, and he ran out of basics quickly. I didn't put him on Storm before he went off because he didn't play anything but Ponder and Brainstorm before hand. I couldn't have done anything differently, I never dredged any combo pieces with Loam. Game 2 I played a T1 Sphere of Resistance. We were approaching time in game 2 and he attempted to go off when I had the combo out, he came up short and left me at 2 life. 2 swings from Marit Lage and we drew 1-1.
Round 2 - Jund Lands
Game 1 he had a quick mana bond and found a Loam before I could find a way to get Bog.
Game 2 I bogged his first 2 Loams and stripped away his green sources.
Game 3, we grounded for a while, but he was able to get the upper hand with an early Loam. Lost 1-2.
Round 3 - Abzan Nic Fit
Game 1 he searched up a Humility with Academy Rector in response to my Marit Lage. He scooped to my punishing fire and recurring Wastelands.
Game 2, it took me a while to find the combo pieces. He searched up an enchantment that made all lands 1/1's and I made Marit Lage in response, he scooped.
Round 4 - Elves
Game 1 I kept a mediocre hand and it didn't manage to go anywhere. He beat me down with the bunch of Elves he dumped T2. Game 2 I cleared his board with an EE on 1, then made Marit Lage T3. Game 3, I punished him hard for keeping a 1 land hand. I played double Sphere of Resistance and had Tabernacle out. Eventually I made Marit Lage and won.
Round 5 - Mono R Painter
I've never played this matchup and wasn't really sure what to do. He made T1 Helm and T3 Painter G1 to win. Game 2 I cleared away his first 2 helms with a EE, and killed his first Painter. I Gripped his Blood Moon and Ensnaring Bridge, but he managed to find a 2nd Bridge before Marit Lage could attack. I made a Nissa emblem. He surgical'd my EE when I attempted to Transmute for a 2nd. So I got Chalice instead and held back on slamming it for 1, big mistake. He played Welder next turn and won off that.
Round 6 - Esper Stoneblade
I never realized how easy this matchup is. He never really played magic, I won 2-0.
I finished just outside prizing and receiving an invite to the championship. There are 2 more qualifiers and I intend on qualifying in one of them.
I'm not sure how much I like the Quarters over Ports. They are absolutely brutal in some matchups, but so much worse then Port in others.
I played with Ghost Quarter over Ports this last weekend, and I lost my Painter matchup quickly due to having Quarters instead of Ports.
I don't think any of the Legacy threads are highly active. This is still a very played deck, I played in a 1.5k this weekend and there were 6 Lands decks in the room of 57 players.
I don't feel that Kaladesh influenced Lands at all. I played Nissa, Vital Force but I only got to play her once, which led to an emblem and it felt GOOD. I don't know if she will actually help any matchups though. The idea was to help against Miracles, but I haven't got to test that matchup much yet.
I personally got my Tabernacle through my local store owner who was able to obtain one for a great price to sell to me.