Comments on: Standard Spike: 1/23/2011 Extended PTQ, Part 2

By: Plejades

Plejades — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:49:54 +0000

Congrats for winning the CF Standard 5K and beating Louis Scott Vargas on the way to the final. Way to go!

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:25:54 +0000

My bad, actually found out it was your friend Ricky Sidher that won 1st. Still though, gratz on your top 4 finish, really hope to see some vids of this deck.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:29:22 +0000

Congratulations on your PTQ win! The deck you played was so sick. Really hope to see some videos of the rounds you played. Good luck in Nagoya.

By: Just Helping

Just Helping — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:10:04 +0000

All Go For The Throat does is make jund a little worse (they can already play terminate, or this if they choose) Steel Artifacts a little better, and makes the faerie mirror and Wurmcoil slightly different. Elves doesn’t care, scapeshift doesn’t care, UW control doesn’t really care, same with naya/bant/mythic.

Green Sun’s Zenith however is going to have a huge impact on the format. It can tutor for GSS, Pridemage, fauna shaman and every other elf, KotR, Finks, chameleon colossus, cloudthresher, primeval titan – basically every playable creature.

By: CSeraph

CSeraph — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:06:49 +0000

The Sun Titan/Jace B engine is one of the most absurdly resilient card advantage engines since witness/slide.

That said, 6 mana is a LOT in extended.

By: _ShipItHolla

_ShipItHolla — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:42:05 +0000

Saying the deck is dead now that GFTT is around is a slight exaggeration, but I feel like it’s enough of a blow to the deck that I will be moving on to something else. Most other UW players have been running Sun Titan, which is much better against removal than Baneslayer is. I just don’t like the card too much.

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:18:40 +0000

@Kuriboh b/c no one is playing doom blade right now b/c of the meta (faeries, jund) … but once GFT is legal, it replaces grasp of darkness etc