I brought trusty DnT, with a couple tweaks-
#1 I finally gave up on Remorseful Cleric. It pained me to do so because I hate graveyard recursion so much. However, the only bits to worry about currently were not the combo kill versions. So out it went.
#2 Brightling was dropped. *sigh* Just too much edict currently. More than 1 in a deck does not seem great right now.
#3 I put in Mangara of Corondor. Felt good with 3 Karakas to get values. Even if no Karakas, to remove ANY permanent is good, stupid Maze of Ith, or Marit Lage.... etc.
#4 I put in a Vryn Wingmare. I found Thalia to be good currently, so why not make things even more difficult? Tax away!
#5 *sigh* I tried Palace Jailer. Drew him twice, never came in to play. Still seems good in general.
#6 SB changes, Gideon in, Cataclysm in. Note, I honestly didn't realize that when he became a 5/5 critter, he then became a Legend as well- which sucked in my final game of the night.
Other notes- I find myself bringing in Rest in Peace almost every game from the SB. How naughty would it be to just keep them in main? So much graveyard re-use to be honest. From Snapcaster, to delve, to etc.
On with the matches.
Match #1 vs Rector/enchantments
Game 1- he bogs me down, gets combo, I scoop.
Game 2- I keep him off land, fly around his intended needed sac outlets, and win.
Game 3- See game 1.
Lesson learned here, I should have put in graveyard hate vs this deck. I had never played against it before to be honest, and was not prepared. I screwed the pooch. Came close to taking the match though. *shrug*
Match #2 vs Esper Stoneblade
Game 1- He smack talked about his deck getting no lands, then proceeded to get no lands. He scooped pretty hard.
Game 2- I drew WAY too many lands. I tried to make a fight of it, but just couldn't get going.
Game 3- I messed up with the Gideon. He had a Karakas, which honestly won him the game- along with my bonehead understanding of the new Gideon rules. The board state was all sorts of messed up at the end and I just punted away the match as I got frustrated and didn't see the proper lines. Oh, and I never got past 4 lands in play for like 15 turns. Which is silly considering I run 23.
Match #3 vs NOBODY! I got a bye for my frustrations.
Lessons learned for the night:
- Rector decks need graveyard hate
- I really like Mangara in the deck, and being able to fetch her up was super relevant.
- Not sure I like having Wingmare, might swap out for Brightling or 3rd Crusader.
- Revoker is still good, and 2 seems right.
- My artifact and enchantment removal package is super relevant in current meta, at least locally.
- I think Walking Ballista should be in my SB at least.
- Should have picked up that Titania. Maybe next week.
- I might need to stop using dice to track life totals.
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I have been very frustrated with my trading attempts on DeckBox recently. I've had to cancel over 50% of my offers to others because they never reply within 5-7 days. I am polite, make reasonable offers, include "lets try to make this work!" sort of messages, etc. Over the past month or so, just HORRIBLE results in getting even a response.
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I lost out on a recent auction. I thought I had won it, and attempted to contact the auction house like 3 times to get payment arranged. I wound up calling, and the guy was a little confused. Turns out, the on-line was proxy bidding for an live in house auction. No on-line bids won. *DOH!*
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Finance note of the day- how and why did Recruiter of the Guard become a $20 plus card?
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