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I’d like to try and go UW aggro. In this pack the triland seems to be the best card for that archetype.
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For once I’m willing to pass this card but there is nothing I can decently pick over it.
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I could pick the Capsule and go Five-Color Control but I don’t care about the Ultimatum that much. Akrasan Squire is one of the cards I wanted the most.
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The last two picks almost guarantee that me going white was indeed the right choice.
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Strix is a better card but I want my deck and its draws to be solid.
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Better since the introduction of the Borderposts in the format.
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Shouldn’t be too hard a splash as I already have one Arcane Sanctum and I’ve good chance to be pased Darklit Gargoyle.
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Rupture Spire is just too slow for this type of deck while Ziggurat could be good but Sanctum Gargoyle/Faerie Mechanist/Sludge Strider make me want to have as many artifacts as possible now. Also the Ziggurat won’t help me pump a Gargoyle.
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Usually I’d pick Lapse over it but I’d like to be able to cast Sludge Strider and Visions could help.
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Outlander would be great but I guess a removal spell won’t hurt.
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My curve is already good enough I don’t really need any more fours.
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That’s what I’d call a nice surprise.
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Pretty good in the deck even though a few more artifact guys could make it even better!
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It hurts a little to pass that many good cards but it’s still a pretty fine pick.
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Beatdown evasion and card advantage I can’t ask for much more!
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I’m unlikely to splash it unless I receive a pair of UB Borderposts but I don’t see myself running any of the other cards in the pack not even the 3/6 which is just too slow in my deck both as a guy and as a fixer.
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I already have a lot of early drops and the card seems able to win games on its own.
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8 Plains
6 Island
1 Swamp
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Fieldmist Borderpost
2 Akrasan Squire
1 Court Homunculus
1 Ethercaste Knight
1 Esper Stormblade
1 Sighted-Caste Sorcerer
1 Darklit Gargoyle
1 Knight of the White Orchid
1 Vedalken Outlander
1 Ethersworn Shieldmage
2 Talon Trooper
1 Sludge Strider
1 Sanctum Gargoyle
1 Esper Cormorants
1 Faerie Mechanist
1 Messenger Falcons
1 Glassdust Hulk
1 Cloudheath Drake
1 Celestial Purge
2 Lapse of Certainty
1 Traumatic Visions
This is an extremely solid deck. It’s fast and consistant and it should get me at least a 2-1.
Sideboard
1 Plains
1 Swamp
1 Mountain
1 Violent Outburst
1 Savage Hunger
1 Cruel Ultimatum
1 Molten Frame
1 Rhox Bodyguard
1 Double Negative
1 Soul Manipulation
1 Captured Sunlight
1 Skill Borrower
1 Rotting Rats
1 Jhessian Lookout
2 Island
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Worldly Counsel
1 Anathemancer
1 Bant Sojourners
1 Yoked Plowbeast
Round 1: Esper
In the first game he totally takes control of the board with the Tower Gargoyle/Shield of the Righteous combo. However my deck seems faster and more consistent than his. As I don’t see the feared 4/4 in the next two games I take them pretty easily with fast draws.
Round 2: Jund
If I had to explain to someone why I like UW so much in this format I’d show him my game 1 of this match: turn 1 Akrasan Squire turn 2 Esper Stormblade turn 3 Aven Trooper turn 4 Messenger Falcons and another pair of guys on turn 5 to which he concedes.
In game two he plays turn 2 Goblin Outlander and is overconfident about it as he keeps on racing with his 2/2 against my pair of 1/1 exalted guys. Was he relying on the Extractor Demon he was holding to give me the finishing blow? Maybe so but when I played Purge on the 5/5 the way was surprisingly clear and the match was only two turns from being over. If he had kept his Oultander in defence though that game would have been a LOT more difficult.
Round 3: Five-Color Aggro
I’m always amazed when I see how much trouble I have playing two-color-plus-a-splash decks to see how some players seem to consider having good draws with Five-Color Aggro as simply normal.
Here I open a fine hand with five lands Squire and Sight-Caste Sorcerer. I concede on turn 6 having drawn only more more spell (Esper Stormblade) but having to face a pretty nice draw (Jund Hackblade Bloodhall Ooze Crystalization on the 3/2 flyer) in the first 4 turns to kill me almost before I even started playing.
I come back to 1-1 after a super fast draw and then for the first time we have good draws at the same time in game 3. This time my win is the result of a strongest synergy between my cards as Jund Hackblade Etherium Abomination and Monstrous Carabid attack into my three artifact creatures plus the Etherium Shieldmage I play before blockers. I therefore deal with two creatures with only one card a card that even stayed in play as a 2/2. Just to make sure no misunderstanding happened I removed his last guy with Celestial Purge and added creatures 5 and 6 on the board. Two turns later he can’t do much but concede.
Until Friday…
Oli