Which cards should I side IN/OUT against Tarmo Twin?
I tend to side too much stuff, because I have a lot of good cards in SB for this matchup.
But in this way I break my aggro plan and I lose speed and aggressiveness.
wow we run the same exact list, except for 3 thoughtcast in my list are 3 ensoul artifact.
Went Abzan splash red for some mardu cards in sealed GWBr and then second sealed went Mardu splash blue for finishers. WBRu both went undefeated and was solid.
Draft experiences, Abzan can be too slow sometimes, though if your playing aggro abzan (using mardu cards as well and temur combat tricks) you can pretty easily get in as a solid midrange.
Mardu is really fast and can kill you before you realize what hit you, especially with overwhelming board and card advantage with proper raid plays.
Jeskai can also be really really fast with prowess triggers and the right cards.
Temur plays a good midrange when it drafts the right tempo cards, but I feel with tempo cards you'd be better off stuffing them and playing jeskai.
Sultai is pretty bad. from all experience in draft and sealed so far.
Personal Preference (Mardu/Abzan, Jeskai, Temur, Sultai)
my store said wizards shorted them on product. which may just be a convenient excuse. they have never had this problem before. didn't know about this "problem" before after i was already committed to playing that store that night. weeeee 11 packs for getting 1st out of 57.
That doesn't seem right; 11 packs for 1st is quite small unless they were only charging like $20 for entry. The midnight prerelease at the first store is where they reward top 4 with the majority of the prize pool. The second store I went to is a flat payout based on your record. 15 packs for 4-0, 10 packs for 3-0-1, and 5 packs for 3-1.
My store does that too, except there's not only one "first" a few people can go 4-0 or 3-0-1. Another large handful 3-1-0
Favored Hoplite x4 CMC1 W Basic Heroic
Battlefield Thaumaturge x4 CMC2 U Spell Synergy Heroic, He wins you games
Battlewise Hoplite x4 CMC2 U/W Basic Heroic + Scy
Fabled Hero x4 CMC3 W Finisher
Sorcery
Launch the Fleet x3 CMC1 (X) W (Heroic across the board + more tokens)
Instant
Reap What is Sown x2(?) CMC3 G/W (3-6 power with heroics, 6-12 power with
scales)
Solidarity of Heroes x2-4(?) CMC2 G (Double Counters, gets crazy wuth scales even
on a fresh cast heroic [5 counters])
God's Willing x4 CMC1 W (Prot and Scry)
Icy Blast/Glimpse of the Sun God x4 CMC(X)U/W (Tap and scry/Freeze entire enemy
field, has ultility as you can also tap down your own creatures for heroic trigged end of enemy
turn. (Careful when doing so with Icy Blast) - Can act as God's willing 4-8 for Thaumaturge to
make sure he sticks.
Enchantments
Hardened Scales x4 CMC1 G (Makes heroics crazy)
Enchant Creature
Ordeal of Thassa x4 CMC2 U (Card Draw)
Planeswalkers
Ajani Steadfast x2 CMC4 W (+1 counters across the board + utility)
Ajani, Mentor of Heroes CMC5 G/W (Triple creature pump, with scales = 6 power,
helps dig for answers)
Maybe + Potential Other Sideboard Cards
Hero of Leina Tower x? CMC1 G (Basically another +1/+1 heroic with scales out, with
potential to be a mana sink late game)
Hero of Iroas x? CMC2 W (Makes Ordeals cost 1)
Hunt The Weak x? CMC4 G (Targets 2, so Thurmaturge = 1G / Can be Removal?)
Banishing Light x? CMC3 W (Removal for all)
Curse of the Swine x? CMC(X+2) U (With Thurmaturge UU, exile any number of enemy
creatures)
Warriors Lesson x? CMC1 G (2 creatures have deal dmg = draw a card)
Ranger's Guile x? CMC1 G (+1/+1 and Hexproof)
Ordeal of Nylea x? CMC2 G (Ramp and +1 counters
Ordeal of Heliod x? CMC2 W (Lifegame and +1 counters)
Aegis of the Gods x? CMC2 (You're Hexproof)
Clever Impersonator x? CMC4 (Copies a Permanent)
Sideboard
Ajani's Presence x3 CMC1 (Strive 2W) - Anti Board Wipe
Stubborn Refusal x3 CMC1 U (Spell Pierce/Negate) - Counter Kit
Soldier of the Pantheon x4 CMC1 W (Prot Multi-Colors) - Anti Future Tech
Reclamation Sage x3 CMC3 (Smash Artifact/Enchantments) - Arti/enchant Hate
I went 4-1 against the different "monoblack" versions (B/W, monoblack devo, B/G, ...), 3-0 against selesnya aggro but sadly went 0-2 against burn (my sideboard card were hiding themselves on the bottom of my deck), I'll play it again in the WMCQ with a little more hate against burn and rabblemaster, going back to 3 warleader's helix maindeck and putting a 4nd Nyx and archangel of thune in my sideboard.
I like this list a lot actually and might throw it together as well, which cards will you be taking out of the sideboard?
Not to interrupt you guys before we go through another five pages of the Telling Time vs. Peer debate, but I just got completely wrecked in a Daily by Amulet Combo. One minute I'm just doing my thing, suspending Searches and making snake guys and holding up Remand and humming a happy little tune, and then BOOM! 10-power, hasty Primeval Titans out of nowhere.
the thing about amulet combo is that its just... so slow when its not online. Them getting a turn 2 titan is basically magical christmasland for them. I've messed with the deck a decent amount and feel its hard for them to get consistancy. Usually around a t4 titan would be what you expect. Just make sure to hold up counter magic for Bloom or Azusa. Without them they get substantially slowly at pumping out their titan. Watch for when they hit their 4th land cuz its likely the next turn they'll make that 6
Yeah I played some scapeshift and then decided to test summer bloom because while I love killing with lands, I also missed my primeval titan. So I went back and tossed this deck together... it can pull off a turn 2 titan, but also sit and do nothing at other times. Sometimes its just too clunky and slow..... its very wish washy.
Back to pricing, Azusa and Titans are probably the only "expensive" cards in the deck yeah.
I'll fast fwd to Rd 6, even being new to the deck and never having played Modern I was 4-1 with my only loss being because I was so new that I didn't know 2 valakut 5 mtns was 0 triggers instead of 10
Also I encountered this post a page or two back and I'm really curious:
Also remember that you can combo off with <6 mountains in your library, if you use two Valakuts - as long as some mountains were in play. With Sowing Salt removing up to four of your total mountain, you still have the perfect amount of mountains in your deck - 6. You're delayed an additional turn, perhaps, but it's still a fringe scenario. Getting a starting hand without blue/green is not fringe.
Can anyone explain this?[/quote]
I'm a bit new to as well, can someone explain why + 5 mountains means 0 triggers? I was under the impression that its 5 OR MORE so that it should equal 5 triggers upon entered with valakut.
also I'm not sure about the thing, but what I'm guessing is that if you have 2 valakuts in play and even a few mountains, if they removed all your basic mountains, you can get at least 3 mountains (dual lands) into play at the same time its enough Valabolts to kill someone
So i have a chance to get around 10 more of these at MSRP... 36 USD + tax, should i just buy them all? Or just get myself a SDCC 2014 planeswalker set. I can't see the value ending up high, and there's a FTV Realms going to 50 USd at the same store but I don't know if I want to bother getting them
wow we run the same exact list, except for 3 thoughtcast in my list are 3 ensoul artifact.
Draft experiences, Abzan can be too slow sometimes, though if your playing aggro abzan (using mardu cards as well and temur combat tricks) you can pretty easily get in as a solid midrange.
Mardu is really fast and can kill you before you realize what hit you, especially with overwhelming board and card advantage with proper raid plays.
Jeskai can also be really really fast with prowess triggers and the right cards.
Temur plays a good midrange when it drafts the right tempo cards, but I feel with tempo cards you'd be better off stuffing them and playing jeskai.
Sultai is pretty bad. from all experience in draft and sealed so far.
Personal Preference (Mardu/Abzan, Jeskai, Temur, Sultai)
My store does that too, except there's not only one "first" a few people can go 4-0 or 3-0-1. Another large handful 3-1-0
Favored Hoplite x4 CMC1 W Basic Heroic
Battlefield Thaumaturge x4 CMC2 U Spell Synergy Heroic, He wins you games
Battlewise Hoplite x4 CMC2 U/W Basic Heroic + Scy
Fabled Hero x4 CMC3 W Finisher
Sorcery
Launch the Fleet x3 CMC1 (X) W (Heroic across the board + more tokens)
Instant
Reap What is Sown x2(?) CMC3 G/W (3-6 power with heroics, 6-12 power with
scales)
Solidarity of Heroes x2-4(?) CMC2 G (Double Counters, gets crazy wuth scales even
on a fresh cast heroic [5 counters])
God's Willing x4 CMC1 W (Prot and Scry)
Icy Blast/Glimpse of the Sun God x4 CMC(X)U/W (Tap and scry/Freeze entire enemy
field, has ultility as you can also tap down your own creatures for heroic trigged end of enemy
turn. (Careful when doing so with Icy Blast) - Can act as God's willing 4-8 for Thaumaturge to
make sure he sticks.
Enchantments
Hardened Scales x4 CMC1 G (Makes heroics crazy)
Enchant Creature
Ordeal of Thassa x4 CMC2 U (Card Draw)
Planeswalkers
Ajani Steadfast x2 CMC4 W (+1 counters across the board + utility)
Ajani, Mentor of Heroes CMC5 G/W (Triple creature pump, with scales = 6 power,
helps dig for answers)
Maybe + Potential Other Sideboard Cards
Hero of Leina Tower x? CMC1 G (Basically another +1/+1 heroic with scales out, with
potential to be a mana sink late game)
Hero of Iroas x? CMC2 W (Makes Ordeals cost 1)
Hunt The Weak x? CMC4 G (Targets 2, so Thurmaturge = 1G / Can be Removal?)
Banishing Light x? CMC3 W (Removal for all)
Curse of the Swine x? CMC(X+2) U (With Thurmaturge UU, exile any number of enemy
creatures)
Warriors Lesson x? CMC1 G (2 creatures have deal dmg = draw a card)
Ranger's Guile x? CMC1 G (+1/+1 and Hexproof)
Ordeal of Nylea x? CMC2 G (Ramp and +1 counters
Ordeal of Heliod x? CMC2 W (Lifegame and +1 counters)
Aegis of the Gods x? CMC2 (You're Hexproof)
Clever Impersonator x? CMC4 (Copies a Permanent)
Sideboard
Ajani's Presence x3 CMC1 (Strive 2W) - Anti Board Wipe
Stubborn Refusal x3 CMC1 U (Spell Pierce/Negate) - Counter Kit
Soldier of the Pantheon x4 CMC1 W (Prot Multi-Colors) - Anti Future Tech
Reclamation Sage x3 CMC3 (Smash Artifact/Enchantments) - Arti/enchant Hate
Land
Yavimaya Coast (U/G Pain)
Flooded Strand (U/W Fetch)
WindSwept Heath (G/W Fetch)
Temples TBD
I like this list a lot actually and might throw it together as well, which cards will you be taking out of the sideboard?
the thing about amulet combo is that its just... so slow when its not online. Them getting a turn 2 titan is basically magical christmasland for them. I've messed with the deck a decent amount and feel its hard for them to get consistancy. Usually around a t4 titan would be what you expect. Just make sure to hold up counter magic for Bloom or Azusa. Without them they get substantially slowly at pumping out their titan. Watch for when they hit their 4th land cuz its likely the next turn they'll make that 6
Back to pricing, Azusa and Titans are probably the only "expensive" cards in the deck yeah.
I'll fast fwd to Rd 6, even being new to the deck and never having played Modern I was 4-1 with my only loss being because I was so new that I didn't know 2 valakut 5 mtns was 0 triggers instead of 10
Also I encountered this post a page or two back and I'm really curious:
Can anyone explain this?[/quote]
I'm a bit new to as well, can someone explain why + 5 mountains means 0 triggers? I was under the impression that its 5 OR MORE so that it should equal 5 triggers upon entered with valakut.
also I'm not sure about the thing, but what I'm guessing is that if you have 2 valakuts in play and even a few mountains, if they removed all your basic mountains, you can get at least 3 mountains (dual lands) into play at the same time its enough Valabolts to kill someone
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