EPTMagic: The Gathering - Page 216
| Forum Index > General Games |
|
Risen
United States7927 Posts
| ||
|
slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
Even a sweet Azorious curve out is not overwhelming: Arrester or Fencing Ace into Skyknight into Skyknight plus Fairy Invaders bouncing Arrester? That's about as beastly as I can imagine it and, depending who's on the play, it doesn't even really blow Drudge Beetle, Crocodile, Indrik out of the water. EDIT: Also, Bloodfray Giant is a complete monster. | ||
|
Risen
United States7927 Posts
| ||
|
Risen
United States7927 Posts
Edit: For example, just pulled these two. Both decks were solid, in my opinion, but the Sel one didn't tend to run out of gas like the Azo one. Most matches (including those not testing these decks, was about 6-4 and both decks beat golg/izz/rak 7-3) had Azo getting Sel down to 6 life before Sel stabilized and then turned the game around. I think Sel having access to most of the same fliers (or even subpar fliers like the 1/3) is very relevant here. Sel deck + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/sQ1Cy.jpg) Azo deck + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/z8o03.jpg) Double Edit: The matches where Azo won it was b/c bounce on tokens is awesome, but Sel being able to splash pretty much any third color is awesome, where I find trouble splashing anything outside of green picking Azo (and it's risky even then) Comes down to consistency and I think Sel is more consistent. Changed from Azo back to Sel. | ||
|
Risen
United States7927 Posts
| ||
|
BlueBird.
United States3890 Posts
On September 29 2012 09:48 Risen wrote: Driving to Vegas now. I'll post the results of the midnight prerelease I'm going to. The Vegas magic scene is freaking awful... That;'s where I played paper magic when I played  . Have fun I guess lol. | ||
|
Risen
United States7927 Posts
On September 29 2012 10:45 BlueBird. wrote: The Vegas magic scene is freaking awful... That;'s where I played paper magic when I played . Have fun I guess lol. Yeah I live in flagstaff now where the scene is even worse (turnout is fine/maybe even high in vegas/flag in my experience, but people are just bad lol). Visiting my friends, though, so what can ya do XD | ||
|
Judicator
United States7270 Posts
| ||
|
Risen
United States7927 Posts
| ||
|
Judicator
United States7270 Posts
Edit: Good luck to you all. | ||
|
Risen
United States7927 Posts
| ||
|
Haasts
New Zealand4445 Posts
| ||
|
Risen
United States7927 Posts
Edit: there were some epic misplays on my part, though! Too tired. Writeup in the morning. Double Edit: Deck was mediocre, in large part, because three of my rares were the bg shock land, and the golgari promo dude. My one rare outside guild pack I managed to use was uw oring. Triple edit: to be clear. I pulled three gb shock lands, the regular at golg promo guy, and uw oring. My guild rare was... Whatever the worst guild rare for sol is. I'm so tied final update. | ||
|
last.resistance
Canada543 Posts
| ||
|
deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
| ||
|
EasyPush
Sweden70 Posts
| ||
|
Deleted User 3420
24492 Posts
didn't get home until 8:30... geeze | ||
|
Chiharu Harukaze
12112 Posts
What I don't like too much about RtR Sealed is that you're kinda forced to splash a fair amount unless you open a lot of good packs. Even with the Guild Promo pack I was really short on playables so I had to splash both Blue and Red. Luckily I had three Izzet Guildgates and a few Gatekeeper Vines to fix my manabase. But I still had games where I was struggling to play my cards from some of the double mana or specific colour combinations. (Although using Izzet Guildmage to copy Selenya Charm was one of the most satisfying plays I made the entire day lol) Selesnya's individual card power feels really good. When you're in top-deck mode, you tend to get cards which at least give you board presence or break stalled boards. But if you can't get any token making cards then all the populate cards lose a lot of value. If you have tokens though, Populate makes a lot of your cards two-for-ones which is sweet. Selenya might be a bit weak in Limited if you can't get the right cards but if you get it rolling it's really strong. It works nicely spalshing into Azorius or Golgari too. Azorius lets you durdle around until you hit your bombs, while Golgari lets you play a mid-range deck that just beats people. While I didn't get it, Elecutors gets a special mention since all you have to do is stall the board with tokens and detain and just wait to win lol. Rakdos is probably the scariest guild if people crack all the right on-colour cards. Turn 1 2/2 from Unleash into turn 2+3 unleash into turn 4 Desecration Demon/Rakdos is one of the sickest lines of plays I saw at the Prerelease. With the reliance on Gates for mana fixing (delaying you) and the lack of strong early drops in most decks, you just need to have answers in your first few turns or you just lose. My games against Rakdos were really brutal where we both ended up racing or it was a question about whether I had enough removal to stabilise and finally hit my bombs. (Thank goodness for top-deck Martial Law @_@) I also just want to mention that Skymark Roc straight up destroys a lot of Golgari. Overall not a bad day. Thanks to the packs I won I cracked a Jace (yay), an RB Shockland and a few other decent rares (like Cyclonic Rift). On September 30 2012 03:37 EasyPush wrote: Went 6-0 (12-1 i games) and won my prerelease. I played Selesnaya deck with a black splash for Vraska and some removal. The card that impressed me the most was the white +1/+0 first strike and lifelink for W. It was just ridiculously good, especially when people don't play around it. I wouldn't play multiple, but I found it one of the better combat tricks I had. Most people only seemed to pay attention when you have more than one mana open due to the charms. | ||
|
EasyPush
Sweden70 Posts
I wouldn't play multiple, but I found it one of the better combat tricks I had. Most people only seemed to pay attention when you have more than one mana open due to the charms. I played two of them and would probably have played a third if i had it. That said i had 17 creatures in my deck, most in the 2 or 3 drop slot. | ||
|
semantics
10040 Posts
| ||
| ||
