Comments on: Standard Spike: Innistrad Block Constructed PE

By: Bryan Fry

Bryan Fry — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:25:35 +0000

I was definitely cringing at the end of match 3 game 1 because I thought you forgot to factor in the Unholy Fiend damage, but sure enough it’s on the beginning of the end step. Doesn’t get much closer than that.

By: TrippyWormS

TrippyWormS — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:09:30 +0000

(For Frites deck list, you can look at youbun’s deck, for example, or mine (Bazoocam) )

By: TrippyWormS

TrippyWormS — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:08:41 +0000

Yeah I tried this deck and his weakness made me stop trying … As it is it’s a worse version of boros with a better mirror match … Boros is still (by far) the most represented deck in daily and premier events, but you can’t beat dredge, you’ll have really bad match up against RBG control, against jund, against UR delver stalker noble, etc …

I’m playing frites in block and it’s actually pretty cool, match up against boros is hard but you can do it and some draws are really fun to play with … (Unfortunately people are starting to catch up and there is more and more graveyard hate post sb. It’s still more than playable, though).
I know all of those decks are irrelevant since AVR goes live in 8 days, but you should give it a try if you have time to spare.

Congratulation on your PTQ second place by the way, I was kinda sad for you

By: TERROl2

TERROl2 — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:35:05 +0000

I have played in a lot of DE’s, and I have always run into and lost to Ship it Holla, and wondered who it is. Now it’s you. Well at least I know who I have lost to, haha.

If I am 2-0, I always end up playing you and going 2-1. Thanks bud

By: Mad_3570

Mad_3570 — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:34:33 +0000

I’ve been playing this deck for awhile and the only change i made was to drop a wolf run and add a second grotto. Wolf Run is good, but too many times I would draw it, or have it in my opening hand and wish it was a mountain or a forest.

With 26 land and plenty of mana guys, dawn treader elk seems like too much ramp. Daybreak ranger is a must kill creature for boros and zombies. If the ranger flips, you can sit back a kill just about everything and even if doesn’t, it can pick off those pesky midnight haunting tokens. The elk just end up chump blocking something for more land.

I’m hoping that AVR will spice things up a bit, but I fear that it will only make R/W humans better. most of the good cards in the set are red or white (and let’s throw in cavern of souls and the r/w +2/0 hast land for good measure). Graftdiggers cage will also shut down most reanimator strategies that may show up. I guess we’ll find out this weekend!

By: cseraph

cseraph — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:44:45 +0000

A high land count + 8 mana dorks is going to contribute to some pretty terrible topdecking/inconsistency, though your draws here were clearly exceptionally poor. 1-2 Faithless Looting would be awkwardly out of place in a ‘good’ draw, but would go a long way to smoothing the bad ones + getting you out of land clumps.

All fairly irrelevant with AVR on the rise, though!

By: Abon

Abon — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:56:24 +0000

Oh, okay. Though I failed to rtfc, I appreciate pointing out the obvious.