Comments on: Common Denominators: Storm

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:46:40 +0000

During your first on-screen game (your second actual game), you cast empty the warrens prior to casting your 2 bushwackers. if you had cast the bushwackers 1st, that would have been 2 more spells netting you 4 more warrens goblins, correct? we’re building this deck for a tourney in Ct in a few weeks. still trying to figure it all out ;P

By: Hill568

Hill568 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:44:36 +0000

Nerd

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:15:33 +0000

In the first game you review, his decision to attack with Palace Guard is just awful because he has you dead on board next turn even without attacking. On the other hand, kudos to you for not resigning and for predicting that he would make exactly that mistake.

By: Ranth

Ranth — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:02:23 +0000

okay just tested it in game and bearer does in fact only stop the first copy of grapeshot….ouch

By: RoninX

RoninX — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:58:30 +0000

Regarding storm hate. I wouldn’t call that a “huge” amount of storm hate. Discard only goes so far in hosing storm but is probably the most reliable solution. Counterspells are rather ticklish, since you often do not know if mana or card draw is the storm player’s bottle neck and you have to choose correctly of fail. We just saw a demonstration of the problems of relying on soul/essence wardens (and Palace Guard, and Standard Bearer[maybe?]) especially when many storm decks can win with either goblin or grapeshot kills.

Yes, yes, I know, all of the above is why storm is so resilient and powerful…

By: whatisfgh

whatisfgh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:31:10 +0000

Re: Standard bearer.

as I mentioned in my book, the oracle text of standard bearer isn’t printed on the card. What is printed is the original card text. I do not know how it is programmed.

Card text: If an opponent plays a spell or ability that could target a Flagbearer in play, that player chooses at least one Flagbearer as a target.

Oracle text: Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls is put onto the stack, if that spell or ability could target a Flagbearer on the battlefield but doesn’t, that opponent changes one of its targets to a Flagbearer.

If it is programmed as the oracle text states (as it should be) then the standard bearer does in fact hose storm.

By: Ranth

Ranth — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:04:36 +0000

@ jory according to the wording i think you might be technically right however i believe for quite a while it would force every copy of Grapeshot to target the bearer, i’ll hafta see if that’s changed. Either way thanks for the info on that one.

@ Roninx Inneutral pretty much hits the hate on the heads with his comment.

@ Inneutral as is seen at the start the deck really isnt mine i only changed ONE card in the sideboard and that was Mulldrifter to be Deep Analysis. My goal was to help shed some light on this underplayed and mis-understood deck. I’ll admit i’m guilty in that its not the deck that i normally will play however i do have a general understanding storm and how to run them so i took what i knew and ran with it (also to mention i think i took 17th in that tournament with the deck so i guess im not completely incompetent with it lol.) And so u know when i pull the bushwackers in i would take out the grapeshots. (the idea here was that usually if i showed game 1 grapreshot kill i could suprize them game2 with hasted goblins while they sided in the hate for the grapeshot.