I went with my best friend an of course we got paired in Round one against each other.
Most of the time it feels like 50:50 matchup.
This time I got really lucky, both games I got the early pressure rolling and he couldn´t find his removal in time. ( three maindeck terminus)
Side board for game 2 :
- 3 Visionary
- 2 Nettle Sentinel
+ 2 rec sage
+ 2 Ooze
+ 1 Relic
Match 2 :
RG Good Stuff 2:0
I keep a one lander with Cavern and 3 dorks in the dark. He bolts my first and second Dork. I don´t find my second land and he lands a blood moon on turn 3.
I find a nettle sentinel, he plays rabblemaster the next turn.
I keep blicking his 1/1s until i land a heritage druid and casting two Companys the folloing turns and a final swing for 40 seals game one.
sideboard:
- 2 nettle sentinel
- 1 lead the stampede
- 2 elvish visionary
+ 2 rec sage
+ 2 heroic intervention
+ 1 elvish champion
Game two I kept a pretty decent hand with archdruid on t2 into company turn 3.
he opens with hierarch into goyf. his follow ups (hazoret and sarkhan fireblood) aren´t good enough to stop my army of 2/2s and a shaman of the pack for 8 seals the deal.
Match 3 :
Storm 1:2
Probably our worst matchup I´d say.
Game one I mull to 5 and kept Dork , archdruid , company , land , land.
Since I was on the play, I open up with my dork, who survives. Turn 2 into Archdruid , who also survies, Turn 3 I play a heritage druid and pass with company up. My opponent tells me that he needs one peace to combo off but does not find it in his draw step. Company finds two Elite, I untap, draw ezuri and the rest is history.
I am still unsure how to side against storm so I decide to keep my thoughseize in the board.
- 3 lead the stampede
- 2 visionarys
+ 2 Damping Sphere
+ 1 relic
+ 2 essence warden
Game 2 was very weird. He kills all my first drops, with bold and abrade. A lot of the time draw, go, kill your guy, go. Until about turn 12 or 13 he topdecks past in flames and burns me out.
I decide to not change my board plan.
I keep a very fast hand with dorks shaman and two archdruids and prepare for a turn 4 kill.
Sadly he opens with a turn 2 baral into the turn three combo.
Match 4
UWR As foretold, Restore Balance 2:1
To keep it short, 3 maindeck Pyroclasms are backbreaking if you don´t know about them.
Game one I dump my hand on turn 2, he cleans it with a turn 2 Clasm. Jace and as foretold into restore Balance grind me into the ground.
Without any lands, creatures and only one card in hand I give it up and we go two game two.
Games two and three went pretty similar. He does not find his removal for my dorks and both games a swing + overrun with Ezuri seals the deal for me.
Short wrapup:
The deck felt very solid. Game two against storm was a coinflip. If I find a company from the top before he finds his past in flames I problably win the game.
Two canopies main felt so right, I highly recommend playing those. I did not miss Clancaller at any time in the games.
I might make some small sideboard adjustments, but I will let you know.
but i ask myself what does clancaller better than visionary.
Visionary is never a dead draw, but clancaller is in certain situations
Visionary draws into my wincons ( Ezuri to trample over or SotP for the final punch, comapny lead the stampede)
I often found myself in the situation while testing clancaller, that i rather tap my elves for mana than attacking for two or three because i wanted to cast a lead the stampede or company for example.
Clancaller gives the elves some more aggro where i don´t see my deck at the moment.
If you want to test Clancaller you have to Play 4 copies, no less.
You want to Take Advantage of the ability as much aus possible.
I also highly recommend 4 Elite.
I guess with this list you will find yourself in situations where you have to process a lot of decision making.
Chord/company/clancaller are all Instant interactions.
The right Timing might bei Key here.
Just a few words from my side.
Wish you the best luck!
A report would be awesome!!
I was playing the GW list at first but i missed the reach, which Shaman of the pack provides. Plus the combo did not feel that consistent, at least in my current meta.
Since I did not wanna lose the white sideboard cards I kept playing in Abzan colours.
Feeling Pretty confident so far with my current list.
You can check it out in my profile!
Ich have never tried BBE anderen never will. It's a Lot Like GLC.
It's a good Card in it's own but IT does Not Support our Main Game plan. You more or less always want to Cast Coco in t4. And you offen do end Up Not beeing able to Cast BBE because of the stretched Mana base.
Still a big Fan of the abzan build.
You do Not have to commit that much into the Mana Base to be able to Cast the White cards when you want to.
I personally never cared for Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and if you're going to run the 2 Boreal Druid you can probably afford to go down to 18 land.
Speaking of Boreal Druid, I think those two slots and the 19th land could be filled by some of the cards you are considering in the board. Maybe a mainboard Rec Sage and Selfless Spirit while keeping the 19th land or 1 Boreal Druid. That'll free up a slot in the board for another Rec Sage and Colossus.
To your post before, I did not take it that way, just admitted that I forgot to write them down.
Banlist says no changes.
So i am looking forward to put damping Sphere in my Sideboard.
Also I think i will put in Another Scooze for Grindy Matchups.
Hope to Attend a Tournament soon to get some feedback.
Too bad I did not have much time lately to join some.
@pheasanttail, what was your record @ GP Hartford?
I personally do not like Boreal Druid. Would also consider some protection against your local meta. For example Selfless spirit, if you play a lot against sweepers.
Pretty happy with it so far. But I am still working on the sideboard. I am more and more stepping away from the creature based SB, since i got rid of the last two chords.
For now I will continue playing with my Abzan build. White sideboards are simply too good not to play.
I think wirewood Symbiote is too busted to be unbanned. But I can see them reprinting Birchlore Ranger. Or even Quirion Ranger.
with the last few sets came a lot of exellent staples for the pauper cmdr format.
DOes this list still get updated?
You wont get him stronger than 2/2, maybe 3/3 during the game.
He has a beter place in Zoo Decks.
You have to Take aggressive mulligans against Humans. If you don´t se a turn one Dork witha follow up. Shuffle your cards back in.
My sideboard plan is to get rid of my Leads and some visionarys and add revoker, rec sages and the elvish champion.
With the GB list you are attacking from many different angles, that they "ussually" can not disrupt you enough with Freebooter and Meddling mage.
2 seems a reasonable number.
Still insane addition to the GB build.
Went to our Local Fnm Yesterday evening and ended up 3:1 , third place due to opp scores! (16 players)
This is the list i played.
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/members/215564-khalar89/decks
Match 1 :
Jeskai Control 2:0
I went with my best friend an of course we got paired in Round one against each other.
Most of the time it feels like 50:50 matchup.
This time I got really lucky, both games I got the early pressure rolling and he couldn´t find his removal in time. ( three maindeck terminus)
Side board for game 2 :
- 3 Visionary
- 2 Nettle Sentinel
+ 2 rec sage
+ 2 Ooze
+ 1 Relic
Match 2 :
RG Good Stuff 2:0
I keep a one lander with Cavern and 3 dorks in the dark. He bolts my first and second Dork. I don´t find my second land and he lands a blood moon on turn 3.
I find a nettle sentinel, he plays rabblemaster the next turn.
I keep blicking his 1/1s until i land a heritage druid and casting two Companys the folloing turns and a final swing for 40 seals game one.
sideboard:
- 2 nettle sentinel
- 1 lead the stampede
- 2 elvish visionary
+ 2 rec sage
+ 2 heroic intervention
+ 1 elvish champion
Game two I kept a pretty decent hand with archdruid on t2 into company turn 3.
he opens with hierarch into goyf. his follow ups (hazoret and sarkhan fireblood) aren´t good enough to stop my army of 2/2s and a shaman of the pack for 8 seals the deal.
Match 3 :
Storm 1:2
Probably our worst matchup I´d say.
Game one I mull to 5 and kept Dork , archdruid , company , land , land.
Since I was on the play, I open up with my dork, who survives. Turn 2 into Archdruid , who also survies, Turn 3 I play a heritage druid and pass with company up. My opponent tells me that he needs one peace to combo off but does not find it in his draw step. Company finds two Elite, I untap, draw ezuri and the rest is history.
I am still unsure how to side against storm so I decide to keep my thoughseize in the board.
- 3 lead the stampede
- 2 visionarys
+ 2 Damping Sphere
+ 1 relic
+ 2 essence warden
Game 2 was very weird. He kills all my first drops, with bold and abrade. A lot of the time draw, go, kill your guy, go. Until about turn 12 or 13 he topdecks past in flames and burns me out.
I decide to not change my board plan.
I keep a very fast hand with dorks shaman and two archdruids and prepare for a turn 4 kill.
Sadly he opens with a turn 2 baral into the turn three combo.
Match 4
UWR As foretold, Restore Balance 2:1
To keep it short, 3 maindeck Pyroclasms are backbreaking if you don´t know about them.
Game one I dump my hand on turn 2, he cleans it with a turn 2 Clasm. Jace and as foretold into restore Balance grind me into the ground.
Without any lands, creatures and only one card in hand I give it up and we go two game two.
Sideboard:
- 2 Nettle Sentinel
- 2 Elvish visionary
+ 2 rec sage ( i saw blood moon plus dsphere)
+ 2 Heroic Intervention
Games two and three went pretty similar. He does not find his removal for my dorks and both games a swing + overrun with Ezuri seals the deal for me.
Short wrapup:
The deck felt very solid. Game two against storm was a coinflip. If I find a company from the top before he finds his past in flames I problably win the game.
Two canopies main felt so right, I highly recommend playing those. I did not miss Clancaller at any time in the games.
I might make some small sideboard adjustments, but I will let you know.
Cheers,
Khalar
but i ask myself what does clancaller better than visionary.
Visionary is never a dead draw, but clancaller is in certain situations
Visionary draws into my wincons ( Ezuri to trample over or SotP for the final punch, comapny lead the stampede)
I often found myself in the situation while testing clancaller, that i rather tap my elves for mana than attacking for two or three because i wanted to cast a lead the stampede or company for example.
Clancaller gives the elves some more aggro where i don´t see my deck at the moment.
They do two completely different Things.
@Pe7er89
I would never Side Out Elite.
Even against heavy removal Decks it always leaves something behind.
I am still running 4 visionarys and Zero Clancaller.
I am Not Missing him.
Tried him for some time and it did not convince me
You want to Take Advantage of the ability as much aus possible.
I also highly recommend 4 Elite.
I guess with this list you will find yourself in situations where you have to process a lot of decision making.
Chord/company/clancaller are all Instant interactions.
The right Timing might bei Key here.
Just a few words from my side.
Wish you the best luck!
A report would be awesome!!
I was playing the GW list at first but i missed the reach, which Shaman of the pack provides. Plus the combo did not feel that consistent, at least in my current meta.
Since I did not wanna lose the white sideboard cards I kept playing in Abzan colours.
Feeling Pretty confident so far with my current list.
You can check it out in my profile!
Best regards
As far as I can see it pops up in some BG lists.
In our Deck it is often a one or two mana Slaughter games.
Can snap some key cards out of bad matchup decks (Oblivion Stone, anger of the gods, Supreme verdict
Sounds good to me so far.
Ich have never tried BBE anderen never will. It's a Lot Like GLC.
It's a good Card in it's own but IT does Not Support our Main Game plan. You more or less always want to Cast Coco in t4. And you offen do end Up Not beeing able to Cast BBE because of the stretched Mana base.
Still a big Fan of the abzan build.
You do Not have to commit that much into the Mana Base to be able to Cast the White cards when you want to.
To your post before, I did not take it that way, just admitted that I forgot to write them down.
Banlist says no changes.
So i am looking forward to put damping Sphere in my Sideboard.
Also I think i will put in Another Scooze for Grindy Matchups.
Hope to Attend a Tournament soon to get some feedback.
Too bad I did not have much time lately to join some.
@pheasanttail, what was your record @ GP Hartford?
I personally do not like Boreal Druid. Would also consider some protection against your local meta. For example Selfless spirit, if you play a lot against sweepers.
IT has Not Seen a Reprint because IT is too good.
Yes I forgot to write them down.
Of course they are in my list.
3 Shaman of the pack
4 Dwynen's Elite
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
4 Heritage Druid
4 Llanowar Elves
3 Nettle Sentinel
Instants & Sorceries:
4 Collected Company
3 Lead the Stampede
Lands:
3 Cavern of Souls
2 Horizon Canopy
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
2 Wooded Foothills
3 Forest
1 Chameleon Colossus
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Kitchen Finks
2 Rest in Peace
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Selfless Spirit
2 Shapers' Sanctuary
2 Thoughtseize
Pretty happy with it so far. But I am still working on the sideboard. I am more and more stepping away from the creature based SB, since i got rid of the last two chords.
For now I will continue playing with my Abzan build. White sideboards are simply too good not to play.
I think wirewood Symbiote is too busted to be unbanned. But I can see them reprinting Birchlore Ranger. Or even Quirion Ranger.