Im more concerned with BBE rising up again, it was the card in Jund that I hated most during the early deck development... having a lock get destroyed by BBE cascading into Decay was about as sad as an upside down turtle...
I heavily agree. BBE and cascade will be this the current lantern’s demise. I have a feeling surgical extraction and welding jar will make bigger returns mb just to survive.
Great report, @Skitzafreak! And congrats on the finish.
FYI guys, as more and more Tezzies have been showing up in Lantern builds, we've been talking about Lantern / Tezzerator hybrids on the Tezzerator primer thread lately. And one guy (shout out @Molz7) took down a 2K tournament with his version of it. Thought you should be aware of this twist. Quoting him. Check it out:
The tournament was a ~2k for a handful of duals. I ended up winning with only a single game loss all day.
Round 1: boggles
Round 2: uw control
Round 3: 4 color control (K commands, counters, snaps, Rev)
Round 4: blue moon breach emrakul
Round 5: living end
Double draw
Quarterfinals: dredge
Semi finals: temur moon
Finals: red black goryo breach
Ancient stirrings was great. I mulliganed a lot to 5 and still won.
Many times I needed thopter combo to win through leyline/emrakul/gideons and lantern portion helped make my draws smoother and post board keep hate away.
Overall very impressed. Many decisions and a long tournament but I had a blast and clearly did very well. Losing 1 game to fused wear tear on my search/foundry and then snap wear tear + ashiok.
I'd suggest giving it a shot!
I ended up 4-0 at a small tournament with this exact list. First time running the thopter nonsense, and its backbreaking.
2-0 blue moon
2-0 etron
2-0 esper mill
2-0 Abzan stuff (I felt bad for this dude, bc I was his second lantern match of the night.)
I sloppily played most of the games and still won. For months I’ve been tinkering with new tech for the lantern, trying to make it faster and/or more resistant to the “punt and die” it does so gracefully. Words cant do this thing justice in my opinion, put this together!
I heavily agree. BBE and cascade will be this the current lantern’s demise. I have a feeling surgical extraction and welding jar will make bigger returns mb just to survive.
Any other suggestions about unboning ourselves?
Very interesting indeed.