Hello all, I'm currently on the grixis shadow deck as the rest of you. I currently do the white splash for the souls and rangers in the side. One comment I I like to bring up on the whole milling over your white source is that, you typically open with 2 fetchs. If your fetch base is the 4 flooded, 4 blood, 4 polluted. your t1 thoughtsieze play can just be used with the shrine, while you get w/e land you need to get afterwords. With all the cantriping and k commands we run. finding ranger isn't typically a problem.
did a thing yesterday. My lgs was doing a win a NES classic. It was five rounds of swiss with cut to t4. I don't remember much because I didn't get much sleep with having to be into work early today.
round 1 2-1 mono blue delver ( I played Arthur Fusco, the creator of the deck. He's a local at my area so shouldn't be hard to figure out where I am).
game one he had double delver, he kinda got there.
I didn't really know how to side board so I just brought in chalice, ee, and sudden shock. I kept in angers since I knew he would bring in giest.
but in game 2 I kinda got lucky and just yoloed scapeshift and it got here.
game 3 same board plan. I casted a primetime in open mana because I had a second. the first resolved and I won.
The thing about this match up is that if he doesn't have the aggro start I can just play ramp spells and know he won't counter do to he has to counter titan/shift. Playing land go isn't a bad idea.
record 1-0
round 2 1-2 Naya burn.
game 1 was weird. We both had several outs but the game took a lot longer then it should. He eventually drew a burn spell and got me
bored was take out 3KHE and 3 shifts. Saddly I changed my bored to the point with only one baloth due to the local meta I thought would happen.
But game 2 I lead with suspend SFT, then chalice on 1 t2. Kinda went from there and won
game 3 was honestly weird. He kept a mono 2 drop hand and my chalice on 1 seemed dumb. He also had double edilon so happens
record 1-1
round 3. 2-1 bant spirits
game1. Honestly I cast primetime and I more than likely win. That's what happened.
I brought in anger, cage, some number of sudden shocks.
He didn't know how cage work with coco so that was cool.
game 2. I honestly don't remember what happened. I think the match was close and he just kinda saw 3 or 4 spell quellers. It wasn't good for me.
game 3 was close. I cast scapeshift and he quelled it. Next turn I drew bolt and didn't do anything with it. he EoT flashed in the captain, in response I bolted the queller with shift and won.
record 2-1
round 4 2-1 mono blue tron.
gamme 1 I almost got there when all I drew where lands and only had one valakut. I got him down to five and then he cast ulamog. I didn't draw anything relevant the turn he tapped out. Feels bad man.
board plan was grudge, tracker and 4 claims. took out anger and bolts.
game 2 I kinda felt bad because I cast scapeshift with 7 lands and he scooped. I was told afterwords he played a scapeshift before and he got killed by six lands. so I think dude had a omen or something. I don't know. I didn't say anything and I just looked at arthur who was next time and we kinda exchanged weird looks
Now for game three since I'm not on the play anymore there is some merit of taking out KHE. since he has to bounce it and time walk me or will have counter. but I didn't
but game 3 was grindy and I'm glad tracker is a card. It got there by letting me draw cards
record 3-1
round 5 deathshadow zoo.
game 1 I won the die roll and it matter. I won t4 or t5. I also got lucky into topdeck primetime into scapeshift
I brought in chalice, ee and sudden shock
game 2 He had a goyf for my chalice on 1. Oh well goyf got there
game 3 I went chalice on one ee on two and hit him with steve. I had virtual 5 mountains with steve, misty, and 3 actual mountains. I had double valakut and was just waiting. I got there.
record 4-1. Got top 4
round 1 of top 4 madcap moon 0-2
this is ironic because my main deck in modern is blue moon. I even took madcap moon to the rptq I played in at the start of the month and lost this match up as the madcapmoon player. It sucks when I don't see blood moon. Oh well
games 1 and 2 played out the same. blood moon into plat. oh well
only misplay I did about game 2. I could of natures claim the blood moon when he played it. pact for a tracker and gone from there. But didn't probably due to me being tired. Oh well if anyone wants to see a deck list please let me know. The S/b was configured for what I expected. the maindeck is pretty much the stock anger/KHE one.
I'd like to think blood moons main are pretty much a necessity in the current meta. I rarely side them out because they're so good. I'm not playing the prowess version of delver though. I have a newer list of delver I might try at SCG Open Indianapolis this weekend. They have a modern classic that I want to attend there.
So I went to GP Detroit with ur delver. I was a bolt away from making day two sadly. I've only been on the deck for about a month or so and only really been playing magic for about a year and a half so I think going 5-4 with delver right now was alright
Overall I felt good about the deck. I lost to robots twice which sucks. One game was my mistake saying I kept an all blue spell hand, and that's just not good. I was even on the draw. So that was my bad. I felt overall all day my play was solid. Since I did scrub out of day two. I did win an on demand modern side event and got spellskite playmat. If anyone wants to know anything else let me know.
round 1 2-1 mono blue delver ( I played Arthur Fusco, the creator of the deck. He's a local at my area so shouldn't be hard to figure out where I am).
game one he had double delver, he kinda got there.
I didn't really know how to side board so I just brought in chalice, ee, and sudden shock. I kept in angers since I knew he would bring in giest.
but in game 2 I kinda got lucky and just yoloed scapeshift and it got here.
game 3 same board plan. I casted a primetime in open mana because I had a second. the first resolved and I won.
The thing about this match up is that if he doesn't have the aggro start I can just play ramp spells and know he won't counter do to he has to counter titan/shift. Playing land go isn't a bad idea.
record 1-0
round 2 1-2 Naya burn.
game 1 was weird. We both had several outs but the game took a lot longer then it should. He eventually drew a burn spell and got me
bored was take out 3KHE and 3 shifts. Saddly I changed my bored to the point with only one baloth due to the local meta I thought would happen.
But game 2 I lead with suspend SFT, then chalice on 1 t2. Kinda went from there and won
game 3 was honestly weird. He kept a mono 2 drop hand and my chalice on 1 seemed dumb. He also had double edilon so happens
record 1-1
round 3. 2-1 bant spirits
game1. Honestly I cast primetime and I more than likely win. That's what happened.
I brought in anger, cage, some number of sudden shocks.
He didn't know how cage work with coco so that was cool.
game 2. I honestly don't remember what happened. I think the match was close and he just kinda saw 3 or 4 spell quellers. It wasn't good for me.
game 3 was close. I cast scapeshift and he quelled it. Next turn I drew bolt and didn't do anything with it. he EoT flashed in the captain, in response I bolted the queller with shift and won.
record 2-1
round 4 2-1 mono blue tron.
gamme 1 I almost got there when all I drew where lands and only had one valakut. I got him down to five and then he cast ulamog. I didn't draw anything relevant the turn he tapped out. Feels bad man.
board plan was grudge, tracker and 4 claims. took out anger and bolts.
game 2 I kinda felt bad because I cast scapeshift with 7 lands and he scooped. I was told afterwords he played a scapeshift before and he got killed by six lands. so I think dude had a omen or something. I don't know. I didn't say anything and I just looked at arthur who was next time and we kinda exchanged weird looks
Now for game three since I'm not on the play anymore there is some merit of taking out KHE. since he has to bounce it and time walk me or will have counter. but I didn't
but game 3 was grindy and I'm glad tracker is a card. It got there by letting me draw cards
record 3-1
round 5 deathshadow zoo.
game 1 I won the die roll and it matter. I won t4 or t5. I also got lucky into topdeck primetime into scapeshift
I brought in chalice, ee and sudden shock
game 2 He had a goyf for my chalice on 1. Oh well goyf got there
game 3 I went chalice on one ee on two and hit him with steve. I had virtual 5 mountains with steve, misty, and 3 actual mountains. I had double valakut and was just waiting. I got there.
record 4-1. Got top 4
round 1 of top 4 madcap moon 0-2
this is ironic because my main deck in modern is blue moon. I even took madcap moon to the rptq I played in at the start of the month and lost this match up as the madcapmoon player. It sucks when I don't see blood moon. Oh well
games 1 and 2 played out the same. blood moon into plat. oh well
only misplay I did about game 2. I could of natures claim the blood moon when he played it. pact for a tracker and gone from there. But didn't probably due to me being tired. Oh well if anyone wants to see a deck list please let me know. The S/b was configured for what I expected. the maindeck is pretty much the stock anger/KHE one.
Hey man I might be at the classic too also on u/r delver. If we run into eachother lets compare ideas and stuff?
4x island
2x mountain
3x sulfur falls
3x steam vents
4x scalding tarns
2x flooded strand
creaures
4x delver of secrets
4x young pyromancer
4x snapcastermage
1x grim lavamancer
1x v.clique
1x pia and kia
2x remand
3x mana leak
1x spell pierce
2x spell snare
1x deprive
1x thought scour
4x git probe
4x serum visions
2x bloodmoon
1x elctrolyze
4x lighting blot
2x forkedbolt
2x dispel
2x spell pierce
3x molten rain
2x roast
1x relic of progenitious
1x izzet staticaster
1x vandalblast
1x shatteringspree
1x hurkelys recall
1x spellskite
Overall I felt good about the deck. I lost to robots twice which sucks. One game was my mistake saying I kept an all blue spell hand, and that's just not good. I was even on the draw. So that was my bad. I felt overall all day my play was solid. Since I did scrub out of day two. I did win an on demand modern side event and got spellskite playmat. If anyone wants to know anything else let me know.