Round One I get paired against the same guy I ALWAYS get paired against Round One-- he's a regular, and I can never seem to beat him. He hadn't been around for a few months or so, but whenever he and I enter the same tournament, I ALWAYS face him round one and lose. I don't know if there's something about his and my DCI numbers or what.
Lost round two as well, despite getting double Sea Gods both games I just didn't have a finisher. Rounds three and four my opponents are no-shows. I look again at my pool and realize there's good White cards, but it's all good Heroic stuff and I don't really have enough Heroic/Aggro in any other color. Realizing B/U isn't working for me, I build a W/r Heroic deck (I had three Red Heroes, but no Red enablers besides a single Fall of the Hammer) A practice game against someone else whose opponent no-showed makes me think this was the deck I should've built.
Round Five I face a guy who went 0-4... and lost to him. I had a ton of Heroes but barely any spells to trigger them, and he had turn one Hopeful Eidolon all three games. Also I misread Acolyte's Reward and forgot my devotion to white was only 2 at the time-- not that it mattered, since he had a counter-trick anyway.
I should also mention that I didn't pull a single God in any color, so I think I can do better tomorrow. I'll probably pick Blue or White and hope for a Heroic deck I can actually work with.
The problem with having card like Cure, Strike, and Voyage's End as the cards that answer voltrons is that they're all high picks. There's little that you can do to draft a deck that's specifically good against the strategy, nor anything you can side in. You just have to take high picks highly, and hope.
If a strategy is good and relatively easy to draft, then any card that deals with it will be a high pick. If Born reprints Claustrophobia and Pacifism, will they be picked any less highly than Cure, Strike, or End? Of course not.
Magic: the Gathering has been trying to make stacking Auras on your own creatures a viable strategy ever since 1993, but the card disadvantage has always stymied them. Now it finally is, and people want a silver bullet tailor made for stopping it?
I said in my first post on this thread that I wanted some Walls, so that people had a chance of answering Prowler's Helm. If said Walls have a toughness high enough to block a creature wearing a few Nymphs, then that could "answer" the Voltron strategy without discouraging people from playing Auras. I suspect that's part of the reason Guardians of Meletis and Pheres-Band Centaurs were printed-- so it would be fairly easy to find creatures that can hold off a Nymph-wearing Bear.
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Round One I get paired against the same guy I ALWAYS get paired against Round One-- he's a regular, and I can never seem to beat him. He hadn't been around for a few months or so, but whenever he and I enter the same tournament, I ALWAYS face him round one and lose. I don't know if there's something about his and my DCI numbers or what.
Lost round two as well, despite getting double Sea Gods both games I just didn't have a finisher. Rounds three and four my opponents are no-shows. I look again at my pool and realize there's good White cards, but it's all good Heroic stuff and I don't really have enough Heroic/Aggro in any other color. Realizing B/U isn't working for me, I build a W/r Heroic deck (I had three Red Heroes, but no Red enablers besides a single Fall of the Hammer) A practice game against someone else whose opponent no-showed makes me think this was the deck I should've built.
Round Five I face a guy who went 0-4... and lost to him. I had a ton of Heroes but barely any spells to trigger them, and he had turn one Hopeful Eidolon all three games. Also I misread Acolyte's Reward and forgot my devotion to white was only 2 at the time-- not that it mattered, since he had a counter-trick anyway.
I should also mention that I didn't pull a single God in any color, so I think I can do better tomorrow. I'll probably pick Blue or White and hope for a Heroic deck I can actually work with.
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If a strategy is good and relatively easy to draft, then any card that deals with it will be a high pick. If Born reprints Claustrophobia and Pacifism, will they be picked any less highly than Cure, Strike, or End? Of course not.
Magic: the Gathering has been trying to make stacking Auras on your own creatures a viable strategy ever since 1993, but the card disadvantage has always stymied them. Now it finally is, and people want a silver bullet tailor made for stopping it?
I said in my first post on this thread that I wanted some Walls, so that people had a chance of answering Prowler's Helm. If said Walls have a toughness high enough to block a creature wearing a few Nymphs, then that could "answer" the Voltron strategy without discouraging people from playing Auras. I suspect that's part of the reason Guardians of Meletis and Pheres-Band Centaurs were printed-- so it would be fairly easy to find creatures that can hold off a Nymph-wearing Bear.