Hey everyone, I'm planning on playing a Blue Moon variant at an up coming Team Modern GP. I'm struggling on deciding on what list to play. I have access to basically any version I want and all u/r cards are at my disposal. I have been playing the Breach version for the last month or so but im just not sold on it completely. Some match ups with it just feel helpless at time (burn in particular.) I expect the meta to be fairly wide open but being a team event i can imagine there will be a lot of tron as its basically free to slot into a line up.
I'm thinking that either the titi version or the version Rob Pisano piloted to a 21st place finish at GP Phoenix last week might be a better choice than breach. I was just wondering if those who have played either version as well as breach could give some insight into what they believe to be the stronger deck and how their match ups have been across the board but particularly with tron and jund. Cheers guys
Hey everyone, Ive been playing the deck for around a month now with some amazing results. Consistently 4-0 or 3-1 at locals, Won a tournament for a foil Mox Opal and two GPT top 8's (Conceded to a friend in the top 4 as I am unable to attend the GP). Ive been amazed with the consistency of the deck and also the surprising amount of resilience it possesses. Ive won many games under crazy circumstances.
I just wanted to get some opinions on a hand I kept in game 3 of a win and in on the weekend. I was playing against burn and mulled to 6 where I see a hand containing 2x Sleight, Unlife, Pentad, Spoils and Leyline. I kept the hand hoping I would be able to find a land in the first couple of turns and believing that is was unlikely that id find a better 5, I didn't and I lost pretty badly to 2x Eidolon. At the time I felt the keep was fine but would love to get the opinions of others who are more experienced.
Hey guys, I've been having some trouble against Grixis Twin. Does anyone else have problems with this match up? If anyone has any tips for the match up in regards to how to navigate the game or side boarding options it would be much appreciated.
Against jund, anything that draws extra cards is good. Mikoro, center of the sea seems to be the new thing, esper charm is another common one. The BIG one is a playset of leyline of sanctity. Pretty important.
Against infect, besides letting you know that all hope is lost...drown in sorrow, favor of the mighty, darkness, night of souls betrayal.
Affinity, darkness and a disenchant is all I bring in and I just shoot to keep fast hands and be on the play. you may also like hurkyl's recall in some number but I think its overkill.
Thanks, yeah infect seems very difficult but one of the players at my local is always playing it so I want to give myself some hope. Thanks for all the suggestions ill pick it all up during the week and see what works for me. Do you think Mikokoro, Center of the Sea should be MB or SB?
Hey Everyone, I am a long time reader of the thread and finally finished my main board today and got to play my first local event tonight with Ad Nauseam. Unfortunately I didnt have a side board so that was a bit of a pain but I managed to finish 3-1.
Round 1 - VS JUND
Knew my opponent was on Jund so I figured it was going to be a rough match especially without a side board.
Game 1 - I keep a great hand with double lotus bloom, ad nauseam and grace. I win on turn 4 without much issue.
Game 2 and 3 - I Mull to 6 both games and keep hands that are not great, he played turn 1 thoughtseize both games into turn 3 Liliana, I have no real way to recover.
0-1
Round 2 - Burn
Figured this will be hard as well without a board.
Game 1 - My opponent has no clue what is going on and I win on T4.
Game 2 - Dig pretty deep for the combo but never find it.
Game 3 - See Game 1.
Games went much better than I expected. Lucky to get 2 clean T4 kills I guess.
1-1
Round 3 - Weird Choke Deck
My opp was playing some weird choke deck with speading seas and root maze.
Game 1 and 2 - I get kept off mana to play the combo for quite a long time but they have no real clock on me and i just win with Pentads and Blooms.
2-1
Round 4 - Melira CoCo
Playing against my best mate so we know each others decks very well.
Game 1 - I keep a pretty solid hand but my opps hand is better, im forced to pact a chord to keep him off going infinite but i cant go off due to having to pay for the pact he has another chord and goes infinite so i scoop.
Game 2 - He plays and early Spellskite but im able to go off T4 with slaughter pact
Game 3 - I keep a great hand of Bloom, Ad Nauseam, Unlife, Sleight, Visions and 2 Land. Its turn 3 and I think im about to kill him next turn when he plays Eidolon of Rhetoric which I thought would be just about game over but i top deck my one of Slaughter Pact, he was not impressed.
3-1 Finish.
All in all had a great time playing the deck and ill be looking to finish the side board hopefully during the week as I have 2 bigger tournaments on the weekend and would absolutely love to be able to play Ad Nauseam at them.
On a side note, Im looking to make my board as strong as possible against Infect, Jund and Affinity. I know these are some of our rougher match ups and any advice anyone could give on side board tools as well as how to approach the match ups would be fantastic.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to hopefully contributing more in the future.
I'm thinking that either the titi version or the version Rob Pisano piloted to a 21st place finish at GP Phoenix last week might be a better choice than breach. I was just wondering if those who have played either version as well as breach could give some insight into what they believe to be the stronger deck and how their match ups have been across the board but particularly with tron and jund. Cheers guys
I just wanted to get some opinions on a hand I kept in game 3 of a win and in on the weekend. I was playing against burn and mulled to 6 where I see a hand containing 2x Sleight, Unlife, Pentad, Spoils and Leyline. I kept the hand hoping I would be able to find a land in the first couple of turns and believing that is was unlikely that id find a better 5, I didn't and I lost pretty badly to 2x Eidolon. At the time I felt the keep was fine but would love to get the opinions of others who are more experienced.
Thanks, yeah infect seems very difficult but one of the players at my local is always playing it so I want to give myself some hope. Thanks for all the suggestions ill pick it all up during the week and see what works for me. Do you think Mikokoro, Center of the Sea should be MB or SB?
Round 1 - VS JUND
Knew my opponent was on Jund so I figured it was going to be a rough match especially without a side board.
Game 1 - I keep a great hand with double lotus bloom, ad nauseam and grace. I win on turn 4 without much issue.
Game 2 and 3 - I Mull to 6 both games and keep hands that are not great, he played turn 1 thoughtseize both games into turn 3 Liliana, I have no real way to recover.
0-1
Round 2 - Burn
Figured this will be hard as well without a board.
Game 1 - My opponent has no clue what is going on and I win on T4.
Game 2 - Dig pretty deep for the combo but never find it.
Game 3 - See Game 1.
Games went much better than I expected. Lucky to get 2 clean T4 kills I guess.
1-1
Round 3 - Weird Choke Deck
My opp was playing some weird choke deck with speading seas and root maze.
Game 1 and 2 - I get kept off mana to play the combo for quite a long time but they have no real clock on me and i just win with Pentads and Blooms.
2-1
Round 4 - Melira CoCo
Playing against my best mate so we know each others decks very well.
Game 1 - I keep a pretty solid hand but my opps hand is better, im forced to pact a chord to keep him off going infinite but i cant go off due to having to pay for the pact he has another chord and goes infinite so i scoop.
Game 2 - He plays and early Spellskite but im able to go off T4 with slaughter pact
Game 3 - I keep a great hand of Bloom, Ad Nauseam, Unlife, Sleight, Visions and 2 Land. Its turn 3 and I think im about to kill him next turn when he plays Eidolon of Rhetoric which I thought would be just about game over but i top deck my one of Slaughter Pact, he was not impressed.
3-1 Finish.
All in all had a great time playing the deck and ill be looking to finish the side board hopefully during the week as I have 2 bigger tournaments on the weekend and would absolutely love to be able to play Ad Nauseam at them.
On a side note, Im looking to make my board as strong as possible against Infect, Jund and Affinity. I know these are some of our rougher match ups and any advice anyone could give on side board tools as well as how to approach the match ups would be fantastic.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to hopefully contributing more in the future.