Comments on: Simon Says #42: Refuse to Lose (GTC 8-4)

By: Nerou

Nerou — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:18:47 +0000

I’ve been bumping into the same issues haha, thanks for putting this out there!
Great stuff to watch when MTGO is down for maintenance ^^.

By: EdwardGein

EdwardGein — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:40:52 +0000

@Martin:
The thing with Simon Says is that he explains much of his thought process and that’s both fullof insight and just plain genius sometimes in predicting moves and planning accordingly. It doesn’t matter how good his opponents at one given moment are because it’s not a show-down video but rather educational.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:22:43 +0000

Oh, and I’m still not sure about your evaluation of Razortip Whip

I can see the argument for bringing them in against the Orzhov mirror, but it still seems quite weak. It’s a cheap spell for extort and it grinds them a little, sure. Zarichi Tiger seems like a much more reasonable sb card since it negates a lot of the opponent’s extorting and blocks the small Orzhova creatures quite well.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:19:32 +0000

Wow, people are really blown away by this content. It’s fine, don’t get me wrong. Your opponents weren’t the strongest, though. You pointed this out yourself at least in the first match. And in the second, Shadow Alley Denizen is already a very marginal card that you’d almost never play. And he kept them in after sideboarding as vanilla 1/1s. I guess we can all get short on playables.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:18:15 +0000

In the final game of match two was there a reason not to use Death’s Approach on his Guardian of the Gateless? It becomes a 1/1 and then your Ballustrade Spy can attack into it. If he moves the Riot Gear over to the Guardian the next turn then you can attack in with your Deathcult Rogue and if he ever double blocks he makes his Guardian a 0/1 even with the Riot Gear.

Maybe it’s slightly worse to Orzhov Charm, but it was unlikely that he had that with one or zero cards in hand and having not used it before then.

By: beardo

beardo — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:29:13 +0000

Wow, Simon, you’re a pretty smart guy!
Great content as usual. Thank you.

By: manfred

manfred — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:57:50 +0000

When I first saw you sideboarding in Game 1, I thought you went absolutely crazy. You seemed to follow a presumption that Dormi is the only threat you need to deal with. I would rather just hope he will not draw it than siding three cards that appart from dealing some damage to Domri will do only a little work for you.
When I think about it again your approach was probably correct, especialy since the rest of his deck was really mediocre. Not 100% sure about Executioner’s Swing though.