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Deck Comments / Re: Kirin Boom - Comments

« on: October 16, 2022, 01:51:13 pm »

2022-10-15, some friendly tests.

- 0-5 vs. Grapeshot
‑ 3-2 vs. Lotus Field

Most of the ancillary cards here proved completely useless.

Will try to add some mana.

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Deck Reviews / Re: Rate my Wombats plz

« on: August 16, 2022, 01:26:18 am »

Just realised I'd lost pretty quickly to surgical extraction, lol.

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Deck Comments / Re: Mono‑White Humans - Comments

« on: August 06, 2022, 07:25:14 pm »

Revision 10

Team Trios at WarChest, personal 3-1-1 (no personal ranking in this event)

2-0 vs. Lotus Field
1-2 vs. Azorius Spirits
1-1 vs. Niv to Light
2-0 vs. Azorius Control
1-1 vs. Azorius Control

- Ok so being chill and sticking to a meta deck might be a good call.
- Still, I really would have needed Settle the Wreckage in the side against Spirits, it's the only thing that could have saved me. I'll need to add that.
- With this list, all of the lands worked properly as intended. I sided out a Mutavault once, when I also sided out the Wedding Invitations, as there was less mana required. It kind of worked.
- I'm totally defenceless against Farewell. Pretty good against other removals too.
- Brutal Cathar is risky against Niv to Light to do their removals and ETB triggers, but I still prefer it over Skyclave Apparition.
- Declaration in Stone might be what is needed against Niv to Light and similar decks.
- Portable Hole wasn't too useful tbh.

In general very satisfied with both the deck and me playing it, didn't make many mistakes, was never discouraged, so most of the game is in our heads.

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Deck Comments / Re: Mono‑White Humans - Comments

« on: August 05, 2022, 11:42:19 pm »

Revision 9

Friday at Warchest, 0-3-0, 10th/10

0-2 Vs CC spirits
1-2 Vs G eldrazi
0-2 Vs Lotus Field

This is shit.

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Deck Comments / Re: Mono‑White Humans - Comments

« on: August 01, 2022, 10:11:26 pm »

Revision 5

Tuesday at GamersWorld, 0-2 drop

1-2 vs. Niv to Light
0-2 vs. Izzet Phoenix

- Mana screwed game 2 and 3 in match 1, so it really wasn't so bad. Still, might need to fix the mana a bit.
- Oppo played super strictly in match 2, which was very unexpected and unwelcome, especially since he would've won anyway, and since this was a super low profile event. Asshole.
- Got a bye for match 3, couldn't bother to wait one hour so I dropped off for the first time. As a consequence, won't add this event to the stats.
- Really fucking need the fucking missing fucking cards.
- Elite Spellbinder is not that significant, for 3 mana.
- The mana base is fucked up, you can't have Mutavault together with cards that cost {W}{W} FFS.
- Law-Rune Enforcer is quite good, no clue why he isn't in the original list!
- While Estraction Specialist is definitely not bad, 3 mana is quite a lot for this deck.
- Cycling lands maybe?

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Deck Comments / Re: Mono‑White Humans - Comments

« on: July 30, 2022, 01:06:22 am »

Revision 4

Friday at WarChest, 1-2-0, 7th/10

0-2 vs. Embercleave Torbran
1-2 vs. Angels
2-0 vs. Rakdos Sacrifice

- Really need the missing Luminarch Aspirant and Portable Hole.
- Not sure I see the point of Tomik, Distinguished Advokist – maybe it was there to counter a specific thread in that current meta, but I say no use for that at all. Or maybe it's just there because it's a 2/3 Flying for 2 mana, fair.
- Intrepid Adversary isn't really suited for this deck or format.

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Deck Comments / Re: Red Aggro Embercleave - Comments

« on: July 21, 2022, 10:44:44 pm »

Revision 18

Thursday at Underworld, 0-3-0, 4th/4

0-2 Vs. Izzet Phoenix
0-2 Vs. Golgari stompy
0-2 Vs. Rakdos sacrifice

Literally the worst performance since I've started playing again, save for the brief Pauper stunt.

Deck is disbanded. Will likely try Burn.

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Deck Comments / Re: Red Aggro Embercleave - Comments

« on: July 19, 2022, 12:38:59 am »

Revision 18

Monday at GamersWorld, 1-1-0, 4th/7

0-2 vs Orzhov Auras
2-0 vs Arclight Phoenix

- Match 1 was a complete trainwreck, both games ended super quickly, the whole thing lasted less than 15 minutes.
- Quite glad I finally managed to beat a phenix.
- In this revision I added Sticky Fingers, but I never got to use it in the whole (short) event.
- Rampaging Ferociodon might indeed be better vs lifegain than Roiling Vortex, simply for the amount of damage it can do itself. But it's also more fragile so dunno. And Roiling Vortex also affects other decks.

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Deck Comments / Re: Invisible Dancer - Comments

« on: July 13, 2022, 12:16:01 am »

Revision 21

Tuesday at GamersWorld, 0-3-0, 11th/12

0-2 vs devoted druid keldra compleat walking ballista mashup
0-2 vs mono green valakut
1-2 vs Azorius control

- This is pontless, deck is disbanded.

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Deck Comments / Re: Red Aggro Embercleave - Comments

« on: July 12, 2022, 12:21:42 am »

Revision 17

Monday at GamersWorld, 1-3-0, 8th/10

1-2 vs Arclight Phoenix / Thing in the Ice
1-2 vs Azorius Control / Shark Typhoon
2-0 vs BUG Control / Planeswalkers
1-2 vs Green Devosion

- In all three matches the third game has been extremely close.
- In the first two matches I've lost the third game due to last‑turn distractions, and this was super disappointing.
- In the last one, despite it was also close, I don't really know I could have done anything better.
- Overall the deck performed reasonably well, and the problem thus is there are no obvious improvements.
- Maybe the side could be better? Maybe Leyline of the Void, or anyway more graveyard hate? Maybe Settle the Wreckage, or other specific wipes? Is it worth to splash black or white? Is it even possible?

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Deck Comments / Re: Invisible Dancer - Comments

« on: July 10, 2022, 01:04:23 pm »

Revision 19

Modern store championship Warchest, 2-3-0, 18th/25

0-2 vs UW Affinity
2-1 vs Obosh Burn
1-2 vs Boros Burn
1-2 vs Devoted Druit
2-1 vs Izzet Grapeshot

- Unlicensed Hearse is not crewable in a deck with not many creatures, Rest in Peace works better.
- Slip Out the Back rarely proved useful.
- Having both Invisible Stalker and Slippery Bogle proved super useful against Blast Zone, given their different mana cost. As a consequence, the GW version of the deck will need to include Silhana Ledgewalker.
- Leyline of Sanctity would have been good against Burn. Again. Let's add it for real now.
- The Reality Chip wasn't super useful.
- Need to add Spirit Link.

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Deck Comments / Re: Red Aggro Embercleave - Comments

« on: July 08, 2022, 11:17:20 pm »

Revision 16

Friday at Warchest, 2-1-0, 1st/4 🥇

2-1 Vs Bard class
2-0 Vs Green Energy
1-2 Vs blue spirits

- no match was easy (some games have been)
- losses were close, some victories also
- Hall Monitor was excellent again
- confirmed what said before regarding the other 1 drops. Will likely try Monastery Swiftspear or Fervent Champion.
- only drew a single Embercleave, which was countered
- Anax worked several times, while there was no way to resolve Torbran. The other 3 drops were amazing as always.

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Deck Comments / Re: Invisible Dancer - Comments

« on: July 06, 2022, 12:38:51 am »

Revision 16

Tuesday at GamersWorld, 1-2-0, 15th/24

0-2 vs Burn
0-2 vs Reanimator
2-1 vs Liliana prison

- Keep Safe is actually completely useless.
- While Soul-Guide Lantern is nice, no reason to use that instead of Rest in Peace I guess.
- Really need to up Slip Out the Back to 4x, that's a super strong defence against the few things that hurt the hexproof creatures.
- Oddly enough, Invisible Stalker never got to benefit from being unblockable.
- I mean Banishing Slash is fine and everything, but never got to use it against a creature, so Revoke Existence or Disenchant could be a better fit.
- In some matchups kinda felt a drawing engine was missing, dunno whether to re-add Kor Spiritdancer or not.
- Hyena Umbra is good, Security Bypass is not really usefull (especially if Kor Spiritdancer isn't here), Spirit Mantle is only partially good.
- Spell Pierce is situationally useful, while You See a Guard Approach is also not super useful without a Kor Spiritdancer in.
- Both The Reality Chip and the Witching Well were cool.
- Leyline of Sanctity would have been good against Burn.

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Deck Comments / Re: Red Aggro Embercleave - Comments

« on: July 02, 2022, 06:18:33 pm »

Revision 16

Pioneer summer open at Underworld, 3-1-0, 1st/10

2-0 vs Lotus Field
2-0 vs izzet prowess
2-1 vs green devotion
0-2 vs niv to light

- The deck worked very well, except the trainwreck afaint Niv to Light. The problem there is that I have no clue how could I fix that. Give that I won the overall event anyway, it's fine.

Neither Village Messenger nor Legion Loyalist managed to use their special abilities, but there aren't many interesting alternatives.
- Increasing Hall Monitor behond 2x isn't great, given that they don't really stack (they do, but they don't because I don't have that sort of mana).
- Fanatical Firebrand is nice but it's not so nice, or I wouldn't have removed it previously.
- Fervent Champion and Goblin Javeliner could have minor applications.
- Monastery Swiftspear despite not triggering prowess much in this deck is a 1/2 instead of 1/1 which might give her an edge.
- Reinforced Ronin maybe.
- Tin Street Dodger is not awful but not gamebreaking either.
- Finally Torch Courier is quite meh.
And that's about the full list of red one drops with haste, save from the utter crap.

Among those who do not natively haste we can list: Fireblade Charger, Foundry Street Denizen (that we already removed), Frenzied Goblin, Goblin Banneret, Goblin Glory Chaser, Goldhound, Rigging Runner, Scorch Spitter, Simian Sling, Voldaren Epicure, Voldaren Stinger, Weaselback Redcap.

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Deck Comments / Re: Red Aggro Embercleave - Comments

« on: July 01, 2022, 11:01:07 pm »

Revision 15

Friday at Warchest, 2-1-0, 2nd/4

2-1 vs Burn
0-2 vs UW control
2-1 vs Bard class combo

- Vs control was a trainwreck
- I have way too many lands, need to remove 2
- Nothing else to report, the rest went reasonably well!