Comments on: Standard Spike: SOM Block Blue-Black

By: milegyenanevem

milegyenanevem — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 06:45:37 +0000

Oh, yes. The latest version seems much faster with the 4 Tezzeret, 4 Sphere of Suns, 2 Batterskulls.

By: _ShipItHolla

_ShipItHolla — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:57:13 +0000

I looked at the play in question, and it looks like I didn’t see the play. My rationale for playing Tezzeret and making a 5/5 Perilous Myr was that keeping the Germ token around would keep his Nexi at bay, and the 5/5 would keep the rest at bay. If I did sac the Germ and reequip, killing both of his creatures, I would then have to face 2 Nexi and a Germ with the Sword of War and Peace. The correct play isn’t completely clear to me, but without seeing the outcome (having forgotten it by now), I think you two are probably right.

As for the deck, and it being too slow, this is my latest version that I will probably be playing in the MOCS: http://decks.mtgoacademy.com/Decks.aspx?ID=33800

By: milegyenanevem

milegyenanevem — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:23:23 +0000

This deck seems extremely slow. I wonder what you could do against a good player with a fast deck. Also, I think you play around counterspells too much. If you have 4 Sphinx in your hand, just play one.

By: Plejades

Plejades — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:17:49 +0000

Interesting matches. I am curious to see how the meta develops or if WW will stay the top contender.
Also congrats on winning the PTQ!

By: Phobia

Phobia — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:46:26 +0000

sup dude.. took long enough

By: ACP

ACP — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:57:50 +0000

Most of the rounds it seemed you made very good mulligan decisions while the opponents pretty much never mulliganed and kept loose hands quite often. I’d say at least 2 of your wins came from opponents not properly utilizing mulligans.

Nice deck, it looks very interesting. Wish we’d have seen more of the popular aggro decks.

By: Someguy

Someguy — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:32:47 +0000

@Anon,

I don’t think it was just hindsight as I actually thought that was the play before he passed that turn.

I may just be giving the deck a bit too much respect at this point, but it really can do some sick things from seemingly out of nowhere.

TBH WW is probably the favorite in that match-up but from my perspective you outplayed him, it is probably a bit too early in the development of this metagame to say that definitively, but that is my impression thus far.

PS – My comment from this morning got stuck in ‘moderation hell’ while others have been posted, what gives?