Hey there everyone! New to the forums, and newish to Nic Fit, but I went 4-0 yesterday at a 32-person event (that people generally take seriously enough, since its credit in prizes and not packs), and am really excited to talk about my list.
This was week 3 of me showing up with 4x Veteran Explorer in my deck. The first week, I was on full-brew mode, and play a Turbo Death Cloud deck with 4x Cloud and 4x Cull the Week. It went OK - 2-2 but with some luck involved.
Week 2 I brought in a slightly more traditional Nic Fit, still with Death Cloud though, instead of Pernicious Deed. That went less good. But by now, I started really loving using GSZ to fetch out Thragtusk, and I was hooked.
So finally, this week, I bought all the real Nic Fit pieces, including Pernicious Deed. Little did I know that card literally makes the deck.
Game 1 he messed up - I caballed his Burning Wish, then he tried to go off... and forgot he didn't have the Wish anymore. Woops!
Game 2 we traded some discard, then I found a GSZ for Gaddock Teeg. Game!
Round 2 vs UR Delver Burn Prowess... Deck
Game 1 I had a slow hand on the draw and he absolutely murdered me - delver into swifty into burn my face to death.
Game 2 I had the push for his swifty turn 1, then on my turn 2, I did the Cabal / Vet Explorer thing, into Grim Flayer. he had to use a Bolt for the flayer. Follow up flayer had Delirium on, and he couldn't handle that one. Eventually got a Thragtusk too.
Game 3 Was unfortunate for my opponent. His T2 Delver failed to naturally flip and then got eaten by Liliana the Last Hope. I found a Scavenging Ooze and went to town, getting way out of range.
Round 3 vs Dredge
Game 1 he went pretty hard turn 1 with LED's and Faithless Looting. The saving grace is he took too long to find Dread Return. I managed to stabilize at 2 life, with an active death rite. At some point I needed to top deck a Deed to kill all the zombie tokens, which I did. Death rite kept eating the Ichorid's. When he found Dread, death rite kept it on lockdown. He did have a second Dread Return, but it happened to be in the bottom 2 cards of his library, and he had to naturally draw it with no way to bin it. Grim Flayer gets credit as a good blocker during this game. Close win...
Game 2... My hand was 4x Lands, Surgical and Spellbomb. I won because he couldn't do anything.
Round 4 vs Junk
I forget Game 1, but I think he had deathrite shamans and they killed me.
Game 2 he played right into a Pernicious deed, which I did for 5 getting a Batterskull. We were top-deck mode after that, and I found a Library fairly quick to filter and put away the game. Thragtusk won it.
Game 3, again I had an amazing deed that I worked very hard to set up. It involved making a bunch of awkward plays, including Golgari Charming my own Vet Explorer when he Swords it (it killed nothing on his side)... getting me to exactly 6 mana. I also had a Thrun in play. His board was 2x Swords (GB and UR), Jitte, 2x Stoneforge, 1x Bob, 1x Deathrite Shaman. He attacked me down to 6, I had to discard my Nissa Vital Force, and keep my last card in hand... Pernicious Deed. Untap, slam it, do it for 3, wipe his whole board. Unfortunately, he found another Bob, and the game kept grinding. I found Nissa, Vastwood Seer, immediately flip her, and proceed to play the value game. I kill the bob... keep ticking Nissa up to 7, and ultimate her. You can look up her ultimate because you don't know what it does. Hell, I didn't. Anyways, it wins the game.
This was week 3 of me showing up with 4x Veteran Explorer in my deck. The first week, I was on full-brew mode, and play a Turbo Death Cloud deck with 4x Cloud and 4x Cull the Week. It went OK - 2-2 but with some luck involved.
Week 2 I brought in a slightly more traditional Nic Fit, still with Death Cloud though, instead of Pernicious Deed. That went less good. But by now, I started really loving using GSZ to fetch out Thragtusk, and I was hooked.
So finally, this week, I bought all the real Nic Fit pieces, including Pernicious Deed. Little did I know that card literally makes the deck.
2x Thoughtseize
4x Cabal Therapy
2x Fatal Push
2x Abrupt Decay
2x Traverse the Ulvenwald
3x Green Sun's Zenith
Enchantment (5)
2x Sylvan Library
3x Pernicious Deed
Creatures (12)
4x Veteran Explorer
3x Grim Flayer
1x Deathrite Shaman
1x Fierce Empath
1x Thragtusk
1x Thrun, The Last Troll
1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer
1x Emrakul, The Promised End
2x Nihil Spellbomb
Planeswalkers (3)
2x Liliana the Last Hope
1x Nissa, Vital Force
Lands (22)
4x Verdant Catacombs
2x Phyrexian Tower
1x Bayou
1x Dryad Arbor
6x Swamp
8x Forest
2x Pithing Needle
2x Lost Legacy
2x Golgari Charm
1x Reclamation Sage
1x Gaddog Teeg
1x To The slaughter
2x Carpet of Flowers
2x Collective Brutality
2x Surgical Extraction
Here's a breakdown of the rounds:
Round 1 vs TES:
Game 1 he messed up - I caballed his Burning Wish, then he tried to go off... and forgot he didn't have the Wish anymore. Woops!
Game 2 we traded some discard, then I found a GSZ for Gaddock Teeg. Game!
Round 2 vs UR Delver Burn Prowess... Deck
Game 1 I had a slow hand on the draw and he absolutely murdered me - delver into swifty into burn my face to death.
Game 2 I had the push for his swifty turn 1, then on my turn 2, I did the Cabal / Vet Explorer thing, into Grim Flayer. he had to use a Bolt for the flayer. Follow up flayer had Delirium on, and he couldn't handle that one. Eventually got a Thragtusk too.
Game 3 Was unfortunate for my opponent. His T2 Delver failed to naturally flip and then got eaten by Liliana the Last Hope. I found a Scavenging Ooze and went to town, getting way out of range.
Round 3 vs Dredge
Game 1 he went pretty hard turn 1 with LED's and Faithless Looting. The saving grace is he took too long to find Dread Return. I managed to stabilize at 2 life, with an active death rite. At some point I needed to top deck a Deed to kill all the zombie tokens, which I did. Death rite kept eating the Ichorid's. When he found Dread, death rite kept it on lockdown. He did have a second Dread Return, but it happened to be in the bottom 2 cards of his library, and he had to naturally draw it with no way to bin it. Grim Flayer gets credit as a good blocker during this game. Close win...
Game 2... My hand was 4x Lands, Surgical and Spellbomb. I won because he couldn't do anything.
Round 4 vs Junk
I forget Game 1, but I think he had deathrite shamans and they killed me.
Game 2 he played right into a Pernicious deed, which I did for 5 getting a Batterskull. We were top-deck mode after that, and I found a Library fairly quick to filter and put away the game. Thragtusk won it.
Game 3, again I had an amazing deed that I worked very hard to set up. It involved making a bunch of awkward plays, including Golgari Charming my own Vet Explorer when he Swords it (it killed nothing on his side)... getting me to exactly 6 mana. I also had a Thrun in play. His board was 2x Swords (GB and UR), Jitte, 2x Stoneforge, 1x Bob, 1x Deathrite Shaman. He attacked me down to 6, I had to discard my Nissa Vital Force, and keep my last card in hand... Pernicious Deed. Untap, slam it, do it for 3, wipe his whole board. Unfortunately, he found another Bob, and the game kept grinding. I found Nissa, Vastwood Seer, immediately flip her, and proceed to play the value game. I kill the bob... keep ticking Nissa up to 7, and ultimate her. You can look up her ultimate because you don't know what it does. Hell, I didn't. Anyways, it wins the game.