Have been trying out my Eldrazi Stompy deck recently. Did well last week, and I tweaked it slightly.
Right now, I like it because the meta hasn't shifted to the Blood Moon and Back to Basics answers to the 4c piles running around. They are coming my friends, much like winter.
Chalice and Thorn seem REALLY good right now. I am powering them out, hopefully, on turn 1 to really muck up the board for all those high efficient decks. Thanks Tomb and City! Also, just turning creatures sideways is always nice.
Thought- the player who removes a Mimic, I am super worried about. They know what I am doing and how powerful that card is.
I need to get a 3rd Thorn, which is over $20 currently. Gesh. If I earn some more credit next week at MTG First, I will pick it up. Leaning towards running this deck at the event at Titan in a couple weeks. Need to borrow two Caverns though.
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Packed up, went to MTG First for Thursday legacy, and I arrive to an empty parking lot. I knew something was wrong. I checked all the sources I could, nothing stood out. I messaged several people- turns out, the store lost power due to an epic hail storm earlier in the day. The downside to all that, all their social media account information was stored on computers in the store. *sad trombone*
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HOWEVER, because I live in an awesome area, I went to Game Hunters out in Fredrick for some Saturday afternoon Legacy. Woot! Had 10 people show up, which meant 4 rounds.
Round 1 vs Hogaak Depths
Game 1- Was on the draw, he drops a Urbog Tomb, Stitcher and puts a Hogaak in the bin, and I am WAY behind already. My feeble draw, Chalice on 1, go, was bad. He then proceeds to drop a Dark Depths, and a Vampire Hexmage turn two. F-me.
Game 2- Even worse, I mulligan twice because I had 1 land hands, and promptly got rolled again. Just a complete crap fest. He had it all.
We wound up playing a couple more games with my D&T, and game 1 was 100% longer than my entire match, I still lost. I felt I had a chance against it in any event.
Round 2 vs Pox (Travis)
Before hand I knew we were going to be paired because, that is what always happens when we are in an event together. Go figure. I was on the backfoot because if I lost again, I was basically out of the payout system.
I honestly don't recall how the games went. I believe I won the first game. Chalice and Torns was super oppressive.
Lost the second due to a very angry fish. Just couldn't turn the corner and he got me. Couldn't produce enough blockers for my Ratchet Bomb to grow big enough. Seven is a really bad CMC.
Last game I got him with an early Chalice, followed by Thought-Knots picking off critical pieces, and followed by a Smasher. And for the first time that day, my Walking Ballista was cast and won the match.
Round 3 vs Shadow?
I felt bad for her. A friend dragged her to the event, which she was not really interested in playing. But she had an interesting Shadow based deck. Theoretically she could have killed me on turn 3, but everything had to go right. She also wasn't aware of the complete criminality that is Legacy and how insane things can be.
Both games I just put out big bad Eldrazi and stomped. It wasn't even much of a match.
Round 4 vs Goblins.
Really nice guy, he was 2-1, and I was 2-1. He scooped me in to value town and we played it out for fun. His deck was playing EXTREMELY poorly, as I watched him flip twice from a Goblin Ringleader, and hit ZERO goblins. The odds of that, wow. After that happened he said, "I am just getting up and leaving my deck here... gawd!"
I think I won game 1? His deck was running cold, and I had some early Thought-Knots to pick apart his hand. Turned creatures sideways, and created problems.
Game 2 I know I lost, Gempalm is a bitch.
Game 3 he played loose to be honest. I kept throwing stuff at him to force blocks and kill off his creatures. I didn't want him to go wide. I knew if I kept creatures on the board at least 4/4, I could get there. Which did happen. I just wore down his ability to block my Eldrazi.
With my winnings I picked up the following: (they were out of both Torn and Force of Negation)
1x Teferi, Time Raveler
1x M13 Omniscience (needed a 4th of the same printing)
2x Grand Architect
2x Master of Waves
Why those last two cards? Cause I am a nut who has a deck problem and I want to run this Wizards deck for fun.
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