Just some reference materials while I wait for the SCG Memphis Top 16 to post. Indy is a Legacy Grand Prix the second weekend in March, and GP: Nashville is Sealed format the following weekend. I'm probably less free for the latter, and certainly less (read: not at all) interested in the main event.
I'd hoped for an actual Legacy side event in Nashville like last time, but it looks like silly old TNLG's idea of handling that is to run eight-mans as they're filled.
Colon, dash, slash.
:-/
Just to spell this out: it's frustrating to sleeve up a deck for me and a couple friends, have the organizer hold all our fees hostage, derdle around and I guess cube for potentially hours, all so we can most likely then be paired up against each other and have to screw teammates over immediately. These problems mostly go away if the organizer will just set a time and run an event with all of 20 or 30 guys. At a GP this isn't asking much, and it also improves the prize pool.
So again, re: Legacy eights-mans as-filled at GP Nashville: colon, dash, slash. :-/
On a brighter note, Steve Argyle will be there signing my four copies of Liliana of the Veil, and rk post will be upgrading a bunch of stuff for the cube.
And back to the matter of scheduling, expect me at SCG: Birmingham in April (Earth Day) and SCG: Nashville a month after that.
While the lists aren't up yet, from the profiles it looks like a bunch of Stoneforge Mystics (surprise) plus Elves, Red and MUD. I'm pretty sure the MUD player has Forgemasters and Welders, both of which I've wanted to love but found unreliable. You know lately I'm a 4x-Lightning-Greaves-kinda guy, right?
Anyway I'm hoping B/W Lingering Souls made top 16 (R4 feature match covered here) and today found myself daydreaming up a brew mixing in something along these lines. I also want someone to optimize a Nic Fit list. The deck is the definition of the Danger of Cool Things but last weekend Sterling and I were powering out stupid shit like Chandra Nalaar with it. Maybe now that the 10-ya-party happened I can move on to techier pastures like Bloodgift Demon in that slot...
God I'm a mess.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
...And a U/R planeswalker, too.
Really just an addendum to my earlier post now that tonight's results are up...
This is listed as a RUG deck, but there's no Nimble Mongoose, Tarmogoyf etc -- instead you have a list that's more in the vein of Andrew Shrout's stunning UR invention from a few months ago, but less aggressive and with a broader plan: for instance packing Magus of the Moon in lieu of Goblin Guide, and the indomitable Vendilion Clique over Fireblast. I'm a fan.
Adam Prosak's Faithless Dredge list exists, but I can't help feeling like this is still a few drafts away from what it could be. Would like to see more Ichorid and Therapy, but maybe the seeming lack of consistency there just becomes irrelevant when the cards flip your way.
Ryan sounds like he's fallen for this Esper Stoneblade list here; we're already talking minor adjustments. 24 land seems like a lot, so we were thinking about cutting the fourth Sea (Black isn't a lot of slots and BB is never needed) to mainboard the Jitte. That extra sideboard slot also allows a fourth Leyline of Sanctity, because Leylines seem to demand either 4 slots or 0, hey?
Outside that I just want to know where the D&T lists packing Thalia are... in the profiles Top 8 guys suggest it's around, so what's preying upon it?
Until next time, everybody get your transmission flushed, do oral and listen to metal please.
This is listed as a RUG deck, but there's no Nimble Mongoose, Tarmogoyf etc -- instead you have a list that's more in the vein of Andrew Shrout's stunning UR invention from a few months ago, but less aggressive and with a broader plan: for instance packing Magus of the Moon in lieu of Goblin Guide, and the indomitable Vendilion Clique over Fireblast. I'm a fan.
Adam Prosak's Faithless Dredge list exists, but I can't help feeling like this is still a few drafts away from what it could be. Would like to see more Ichorid and Therapy, but maybe the seeming lack of consistency there just becomes irrelevant when the cards flip your way.
Ryan sounds like he's fallen for this Esper Stoneblade list here; we're already talking minor adjustments. 24 land seems like a lot, so we were thinking about cutting the fourth Sea (Black isn't a lot of slots and BB is never needed) to mainboard the Jitte. That extra sideboard slot also allows a fourth Leyline of Sanctity, because Leylines seem to demand either 4 slots or 0, hey?
Outside that I just want to know where the D&T lists packing Thalia are... in the profiles Top 8 guys suggest it's around, so what's preying upon it?
Until next time, everybody get your transmission flushed, do oral and listen to metal please.
Pretend all you want but we're due for a G/W Planeswalker
I'll probably completely revise my list of Legacy-t3ch crushes if something bonkers-ish shows up in tonight's top 16, but before things get out of hand let's just admit some facts:
- Protecting Thalia with Mom and Karakas in a deck running 8 lands that deny mana on top of Aven Mindcensor is no way to make friends. No list yet, but speaking of WW remember that time I got distracted trying to build something along these lines? 2/76
- Veteran Explorer into Cabal Therapy lets you power out silly planeswalkers, titans and Abyssal Persecutors -- oh wait this is a Standard list. But seriously (G/B/r 1/24). Seriously (G/B 1/40).
- This deck's win condition is robbing you of the will to live.
Goblins is continuing a peculiar resurgence nobody wants to talk about, and continuing to not need a splash in the process. Also kicking it old school: Jack Elgin, rocking Parallax Wave and three Jittes in a Mavericky list sans Stoneforge.
I'm on the fence about whether SCG Memphis will happen for me. There's a Legacy GP in Indy next month that could be exciting, and I'm sure there'll be plenty of side-event fun at GP Nashville the week after.
It's interesting how even since the banning of Mental Misstep, there's still this question of whether the Bant list should bother with a legit counter-package or just party on your face. You'll recall James Rynko#asdf was a happier man for splitting the difference.
- Protecting Thalia with Mom and Karakas in a deck running 8 lands that deny mana on top of Aven Mindcensor is no way to make friends. No list yet, but speaking of WW remember that time I got distracted trying to build something along these lines? 2/76
- Veteran Explorer into Cabal Therapy lets you power out silly planeswalkers, titans and Abyssal Persecutors -- oh wait this is a Standard list. But seriously (G/B/r 1/24). Seriously (G/B 1/40).
- This deck's win condition is robbing you of the will to live.
Goblins is continuing a peculiar resurgence nobody wants to talk about, and continuing to not need a splash in the process. Also kicking it old school: Jack Elgin, rocking Parallax Wave and three Jittes in a Mavericky list sans Stoneforge.
I'm on the fence about whether SCG Memphis will happen for me. There's a Legacy GP in Indy next month that could be exciting, and I'm sure there'll be plenty of side-event fun at GP Nashville the week after.
It's interesting how even since the banning of Mental Misstep, there's still this question of whether the Bant list should bother with a legit counter-package or just party on your face. You'll recall James Rynko#asdf was a happier man for splitting the difference.
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