Comments on: Dime a Dozen #22: Stomp of Approval

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:41:00 +0000

Malum – I really enjoyed the match as well, we’ll have to play more in the future!

PB – I appreciate your advice, a lot of great information there!

By: PB

PB — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:20:10 +0000

anon is correct ont the origin of the name, although rogue elephant is no longer played in the deck. The ghazban ogre mentioned earlier in the thread was similarly a part of the deck in the early days, but its drawback is way too harsh and we’re not really hurting for good one drops, especially with young wolf now.

The biggest omission I see from your list is 4x scattershot archers in the sidebaord, which should be auto-includes in the current delver-dominated meta. There are few sidebaord cards which can turn a matchup around as well as that one does, it absolutely justifies its slot. I’ve never been a fan of anything 3 CMC in the 75, I wouldn’t run thermocasts. You beat post decks early or you don’t beat them at all, ‘kast is too slow to be relevant in the match.

There’s only two real decisions to make with the maindeck imo – what 2 drops to use and whether to run vault skirge. Skirge is amazing agains the mirror and (to a lesser extent) burn, but hideous against delver and many other strategies. I’ve never been a fan but it makes its way into a lot of lists.

There’s a plethora of options at 2CMC. garruk’s companion is the most naturally agressive, ledgewalker and safehold are great in a UR post-meta (which isn’t the case atm), while river boa is better in a blue meta (delver, fissure). Mongrel and rootwala are good if you want to win attrition battles, eg. vs the mirror or WW.

By: Malum

Malum — Wed, 15 May 2013 23:27:23 +0000

Yup you said my name right. Thanks for asking for my help Was a real fun match and the dice roll with these two decks can really make the difference.

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:31:40 +0000

anon – That’s pretty cool actually!

By: anon

anon — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:53:36 +0000

Stompy was the nickname of Rogue Elephant

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:35:04 +0000

Matt – Awesome info! Very insightful.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:55:31 +0000

I don’t know why it’s called stompy, but the original stompy deck was actually called “señor stompy” it was a mono-green standard deck during the tempest block era standard, it had rogue elephant, harvest warm, sometimes fallow warm, mana dorks, the aforementioned ghazban ogre, some number of lhurgoyf and jolraels centaur, giant growth, bounty of the hunt etc.

Check out the magic dojo archives for a deck list, it’s a real interesting look into mtg’s past. I actually posted a bunch of (silly) decks myself on the site (under my full name Matt Battaglia). I was in like junior high back then, that was when I was my most active playing, and I spent all my free time playing magic and studying that sight/iirc mtg chats etc.

Great article as usual!