yeah they're doing the excapist expo in durham nc next weekend and they're holding several magic tournaments on Saturday morning! more specifically they are doing a mox sapphire prize for the standard constructed!
also video game tournaments, live zombie tag stuff, and all kinds of other cool things anime and video game so if your close by or just want to go, hmu and ill see you there!
http://www.escapistexpo.com/
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1) wish I lived closer and not in OK.
2) wish I got paid sooner.
I'd say take coffee's MBC deck as you can expect a ton of delver and wolf run decks to show up. You will need to destroy those and wory about the decks that are different. :)
Quote from: Wally on September 10, 2012, 10:22:07 AM
I'd say take coffee's MBC deck as you can expect a ton of delver and wolf run decks to show up. You will need to destroy those and wory about the decks that are different. :)
that may be a good idea, i posted two of my own decks in standard that say help for sapphire tourny but maybe just borrowing coffee's would be better
If you take my deck make sure to tweak it a bit. My deck is very versatile but has some weak points, because it is tuned to my meta. And every color has it's weak points no matter what.
Here are some tips for it:
Delver: The only card in delver that will give you issues is {Restoration Angel}, because you won't have the extra turn to kill it like normal creatures. You may want to add 1-3 spot removals (not sacrifice) to replace 1 sphere of the suns and maybe 2 sacrifice spells. Always leave 2 mana open at the end of your turn if they have 4 open.
Against delver also do not cast liliana unless
a) you need to make a creature die right away (like geist)
or b) you can +1 her without hurting your card advantage. Delver has a ton of draw spells, so wait to cast liliana until mid game when you killed all or most of their creatures and they are sitting on 3 or less cards. The sooner your opponent starts topdecking the sooner you have the advantage.
Against wolf run, you will want to drop sacrifice spells for Spot killspells. Nothing your opponent has will be hexproof (maybe jusy in case keep 1-3 tribute/verdict). If you make them sacrifice, they will just sac their undying stuff. Or activate inkmoth. Or sacrifice a mana dork.
I already have 3 {Sever the Bloodline} in the 75, so that helps against undying. There is one card in this deck that you will almost always side out game 2: {Phyrexian Metamorph} x2. It is good to have it as a precaution against legends and useful artifacts to copy. But game 2 it will likely be replaced by 2 black suns.
INFECT: you can win if you survive past turn 4. Just make sure you kill every creature right away when it hits the board. If they don't run wild defiance, keep staff of nin in game 2. Just one shuts down the whole infect deck because all they have is 1/1s and crusader. If they run defiance, get rid of nin. It will NOT help. Instead go for black suns, sorin markov, and other stuff. Make sure to side out 2 go for the throat, as they are useless vs. inkmoth.
ZOMBIES: this deck's main weak point. 4 severe would do against zombies. Also tragic slip is a must against falkenrath aristocrats. KILL THE BLOOD ARTIST WHEN HE HITS! Don't let him live. Also, this is important: Do not kill their first few creatures! They will only come back and you lose card advantage! Instead wait until they have 3 and use sever or black suns or something to set them back to square 1. You will be at like 14 life and they will have no board presence and a poor hand because they wasted alltheir stuff trying to be fast.
Who knows? Maybe the best thing would be to run 4 mutilate and 4 blacm suns mainboard and not have as much spot removal. Just make sure you are prepared to face what you expect to face and good luck no matter what deck ya use!
that is a great response from someone who has tuned his deck time and time again... i disbanded my main deck that i'd been working up till now since scars just because of the upcoming rotation. I didn't expect one last big tournament... oh well I appreciate you letting me leech your idea's temporarily and i'll let everyone know what i decide and how i do!
thanks again!
Finkel is gonna be there!!! My idol.
If you play Naya Post I will love you forever
im totally working B/W/G post
Post decks are incredibly fun to play.