I moved here about 2 years ago down from Nashville, and Austin does have a pretty nice MtG scene. It is competitive and friendly for the most part.
There are a few places to play, cardtraders, Wonko's, Juniors in South Austin, but the main hideout would be Pat's Games. Thats all they do, its a store dedicated to MtG. They do weekly drafts almost every night along with Standard, Legacy, and Modern sometimes. They are hosting the PtQ this weekend at the Marriot South as well.
Sideboard
3 Day of Judgement
3 Flashfreeze
3 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Runed Halo
2 Negate
2 Wall of Reverence (but thinking about swapping for O-rings)
It has been doing excellent against the field of testing mostly WW and RB, Jund is definetly not an easy matchup about 50/50 preboard, after board it gets much better
Plays very similiar to the former archmage UW slayer control, but braves are being used simply as more slayer protection
Sphinx has been awesome in testing and am also considering adding in a 4th
Runed halo is Shadowmoor and thus not post-zendikar legal for your sideboard.
You've basically cut utility spells for it. This is a Rock variant, you don't want to cut utility to add Ramp.
Cut the Growths, add in the 4th Pulse, the 4th Leech, the 4th Knight and another Elspeth.
I originally had Birds in, but figured that the Rampant Growth would be better as its less suspect to removal. I agree with the rest but the third Elspeth. I'll have to try it out and see.
I am working on the following build myself. I really think Duress needs to be mainboard somewhere. I have also been mulling over the idea of Sign in Blood for some CA.
Let me know what you think. I've been playtesting and it can be really explosive, and seems to be ok otherwise I feel that Luminarch Ascension needs to be in the sideboard somewhere as well.
I am going to the PTQ in Cincinatti this weekend and I was looking for a bit of advise on my build. It is similar to the one posted above with a few personal choice differences.
Any advice would be great, especially matchup specific ones. I haven't been able to thoroughly playtest as much as I would like simply do to my work schedule.
Also, if you steal someone else's artifacts out of their decks, just throw those at them instead.
I prefer to just Spell Crumple and tick them, though.
Damnation, Blasphemous Act, Oblivion Stone, Jokulhaups (rather cruel..) just to list a few.
I moved here about 2 years ago down from Nashville, and Austin does have a pretty nice MtG scene. It is competitive and friendly for the most part.
There are a few places to play, cardtraders, Wonko's, Juniors in South Austin, but the main hideout would be Pat's Games. Thats all they do, its a store dedicated to MtG. They do weekly drafts almost every night along with Standard, Legacy, and Modern sometimes. They are hosting the PtQ this weekend at the Marriot South as well.
www.patsgames.com for more info.
There is a pretty decent EDH crowd there, so stop by and check it out.
Runed halo is Shadowmoor and thus not post-zendikar legal for your sideboard.
I originally had Birds in, but figured that the Rampant Growth would be better as its less suspect to removal. I agree with the rest but the third Elspeth. I'll have to try it out and see.
3 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Dauntless Escort
3 Baneslayer Angel
2 Rampaging Baloth
1 Ob Nixilis, The Fallen
2 Garruk
1 Elspeth
3 Day of Judgement
3 Path to Exile
3 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Rampant Growth
4 Harrow
4 Verdant Catacombs
9 Forest
4 Swamp
4 Plains
4 Duress
2 Identity Crisis
3 Great Sable Stag
3 Infest
3 Quasali Pridemage
Let me know what you think. I've been playtesting and it can be really explosive, and seems to be ok otherwise I feel that Luminarch Ascension needs to be in the sideboard somewhere as well.
I am going to the PTQ in Cincinatti this weekend and I was looking for a bit of advise on my build. It is similar to the one posted above with a few personal choice differences.
4 Merrow Reejerey
4 Silvergill Adept
4 Stonybrook Banneret
2 Wake Thrasher
3 Sygg, River Guide
4 Merfolk Sovereign
3 Reveillark
4 Cryptic Command
3 Harm's Way
2 Path to Exile
4 Sage's Dousing
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Mutavault
4 Wanderwine Hub
2 Mystic Gate
8 Island
1 Plains
Side Board
2 Sleep
2 Path to Exile
2 Sower of Temptation
4 Burrenton Forge-Tender
2 Vendillion Clique
3 Glen Elendra Archmage
Any advice would be great, especially matchup specific ones. I haven't been able to thoroughly playtest as much as I would like simply do to my work schedule.
Thanks!