FNM Results Discussion

[Wally]

Got second with my mono black heartless deck. My only loss was to the guy who came first, who was rocking a {U}{W}{B} control and milling deck. He milled me out twice with  {Jace, Memory Adept} and  {Nephalia Drownyard} quicker than I could drop him to 0.

[Jdogtoocool]

I went 3-1 with my bant auras only loss was to the aristocrats for not having 3x {rest in peace}es in my sideboard.

[Kaleo42]

5-0 at fnm with 5 color control.
-Beat elven ramp fairly easy, one wrath and then turn aggro with kessig.
-Beat orzhov bleed with relative ease.
-Beat sylvan crypt. This was an interesting deck. The basic idea was {crypt ghast} and dork ramp into big dudes like {sylvan primordial}. The land destruction sub theme was threatening but some well played {slaughter games} and {snapcaster mage} got it.
-Beat werewolves. Lost game one to rush and then brought in extra creatures that were bigger than his to buy time into {terminus}. Games two and three were easy.
-Beat american control. This was difficult to play but over all a fairly easy match when you play carefully.
P.S. Oddly {rhox faithmender} made a huge impact on the games tonight. The extra life, the blocking, and the durability to survive and then get pumped with kessig.

Dennis and Danny from my team each got 4-1 with reanimator combo. Dillon got 3-2 or 4-1 (i didnt hear how his last match went) with Roach which is the esper token/ aristocrat build I developed. 

[Jdogtoocool]

This past Friday I went 4-1 with my bant auras so I top 4ed. Lost to Red Green agro. I've reconfigured my deck deck again and after main boarding a couple of {detention spheres}, {Garruk relentless}, and a 4th {gift of orzhova} I'm ready to try again this upcoming Friday.

[Kaleo42]

{feeling of dread} usually gets you enough time to get it in that match up.

[Jdogtoocool]

{feeling of dread} usually gets you enough time to get it in that match up.

I was going to go with feeling of dread and it's in the sideboard but it just didn't do enough to be main boarded. I was overwhelmed with too many creatures, usually of the same name. Plus the enchantments add to the synergy and the Garruk can also be a force against control.

[MtgRebel]

40 lost in the top 4 to junk reanimator I was playing my home brew deck bant {seance} / {parallel lives} life deck you can see the deck on my twitch channel @ twitchtv.com/mtgrebel1 one game I was at 160 life with 24 beasts go and watch it ;p

[Malachiracer]

Zombies, you kill it, I bring it back

[Wally]

Bah, second again. I needed good opening hands against the first place deck but didn't get them. Her deck was just too quick and I didn't have enough answers. A few more turns tho and it would have been a different story.
Oh well. Still happy with 2nd place again.

[Seth5000]

2-0-1

[The1337Magician]

Hey, I'm playing in my first Standard FNM next weekend. Any suggestions? I've heard tri color decks are better than mono or guilds.

[Wally]

It really depends on what everyone else is playing. Just build a deck that is fun to play, and go see what everyone else has.
Unless you can build a turn 3 win deck, then just do that. GL HF.

[Harmon74]

I went 3-2 last night with my bant midrange deck.  My 2 losses were to the same deck archetype, esper control.  This was a much larger fnm than I'm used to, and a different shop than I usually go to.  I needed  {Witchbane Orb}, and  {Psychic Spiral} in my sideboard, but esper control is never played at the little shop that I usually go to.  Much different meta there. :/

[JordanCirk]

I'd say 3 color decks are alot of fun. I started out using a mono red deck but got bored with no options, 3-4 colors gives you those options. My two favorite builds are Naya and Jund, check out my profile for a Naya-midrange build I'm playing this Friday!

[Kaleo42]

5-0 with werewolves this week. Ill explain and post a deck tech in the coming days.
I beat a jund aggro using high power golgari colored dudes with red burn and {madcap skills} and some rakdos color top end like {falkenrath aristocrat}. 2-0

Next was rakdos midrange. I thought it was aggro cause I saw {stromkirk noble} early but then he dropped all this burn and kill before playing a {desecration demon} that got there. So games two and three I out raced him knowing how I should play. 2-1

Game three I thought it was junk reanimator but I beat it two fast to tell. So I sideboarded incorrectly and lost game two. It turned out to be a junk utility (low cost, high impact cards like {deathrite shaman} and {vampire nighthawk}). Once I figured out how to sideboard properly for it I took it. 2-1

Wolf run bant. Shouldve been a hard match but I played around it properly game one since I know the archetype so well I could practically see his hand based on what and how he played. Game two I out raced the wrath with some good sideboarding. 2-0

Jund...my least favorite matchup. This guy stomped my 5CC last time we played and I wasnt sure how it would go. I rationed my threats well and forced awkward plays and blocks while maintaining a threating board presence that could deal damage every turn no matter how small. Game two I sided into a slight speed up but kept some top end so {thragtusk} and {garruk, primal hunter} couldnt bully me out. 2-0