So, have you ever tried to organize all of your team’s play-testing so that it would be easy to look at any match up? Ever wished that you had a bigger team, or that you could get some of the big names in the game to test with you? Well how about 316 of your closest friends (including LSV and Kibler!) battling it out for 9 rounds and a sortable spreadsheet of all of the results?
Done.
Welcome to the slimmed down, stripped down Too Much Information spreadsheet. Do you want to know how Jund fared against All American Control? Simply select Jund as the first archetype and All American Control as the Opponent’s Archetype. Bam! Every match-up between Jund and All American Control played in the entire event. Sort it if you want to. Go nuts.
For this event, the outside the box deck highlights Daniel Moore’s 19th place Pyromancer’s Ascension deck. You may have seen coverage of his feature match during round 8 vs. Avrom Oliver, but let’s dig a little deeper into Daniel’s performance on the day.
Creatures (2)
Lands (18)
Spells (40)
- 4 Lightning Bolt
- 3 Mountain
- 3 Island
- 3 Earthquake
- 4 Terminate
- 4 Flashfreeze
- 4 Ponder
- 4 Cruel Ultimatum
- 4 Double Negative
- 4 Divination
- 3 Pyromancer Ascension
Sideboard
|
Round |
Result |
Opponent |
Archetype |
|
1 |
Lost 0-2 |
Harris, Andrew S |
All American Control |
|
2 |
Won 2-1 |
Yang, Jason H |
Jund |
|
3 |
Won 2-0 |
Thomas, Kenneth |
Red Deck Wins |
|
4 |
Won 2-0 |
Duarte, Arnold |
Grixis Control |
|
5 |
Won 2-1 |
Haueter, Gregg |
All American Control |
|
6 |
Won 2-0 |
Blanco, Mauricio |
Jund |
|
7 |
Won 2-0 |
Sisk, Mike A |
Jund |
|
8 |
Lost 0-2 |
Oliver, Avrom AÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â |
Red Deck Wins |
|
9 |
Won 2-0 |
Tsang, Kit                 |
Jund |
Daniel’s day included match-ups against most of the top decks, including a clean sweep against four Jund decks. With Jund approaching a third of the field, it is fairly clear that it is becoming the dreaded “Play it or play something that beats it” deck. I’ve always preferred to go rogue and Daniel’s deck may be one of the metagame decks to bring to the table. It has a lot of the answers to Jund from All American Control but also has the ability to completely blow someone out with a double Cruel Ultimatum.
Check in tomorrow for the StarCityGames.com Legacy Open! As always, I welcome any suggestions in the forums.
-Jared