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Bloodsoaked Champion doing loads of work.
Azban midrange looking strong early doors but fading later. Sarkhan doing even better than expected. Lots of G devotion.
Azban midrange looking strong early doors but fading later. Sarkhan doing even better than expected. Lots of G devotion.
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Posted the following on QS, First day SCG NJ summary :
Top 8 :
The top 8 are even split - four decks being heavy green and four heavy red.
Four of the top 8 are running heavy Green with full play sets of Elf/Caryatid/Courser and 3 of those using 8 Hornet Queen between them. These decks are running 26, 31, 33 and 35 creatures with 3 of them main decking 3, 4 and 4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx to pump Polukranos, World Eater with all four running a full playset in their main deck !
The other top four are all running Goblin Rabblemaster, three main decking full play sets and Jon Goss with 3 in his sideboard in Mardu Midrange. All four red decks start with at least two Sarkhans main decked. Two are running Stormbreath Dragon in their side board.
Interesting screenies I put together :
THE FOUR RED DECKS
THE FOUR GREEN DECKS
What didn't make it :
Abzan not doing great, not one through to the second day, with the 6 decks running it coming in 15, 17, 21, 26, 29, 30.
Heavy black decks did not make their anticipated impact, with only 3 in the top 32 coming in at 14, 22, 32.
Honorable mention :
Chandra, Pyromaster in four out of the top 8 decks.
Note that although Nissa is in four of the decks three of them are only running 1.
Top 32 deck :Magic Deck Search Result!
The quarter finals are :
Jeskai Tempo vrs Mono Green Devotion (Jones v Manner)
G/B Devotion vrs G/R Devotion (Merriam vrs Kvartek)
G/R Monster vrs R/W Control (Martinez vrs Fulk)
Mardu Midrange vrs Jeskai Tempo (Goss v Klomparens)
Coverage from 8am EST :Live Coverage of StarCityGames.com Open Series: New Jersey | StarCityGames.com
Top 8 :
The top 8 are even split - four decks being heavy green and four heavy red.
Four of the top 8 are running heavy Green with full play sets of Elf/Caryatid/Courser and 3 of those using 8 Hornet Queen between them. These decks are running 26, 31, 33 and 35 creatures with 3 of them main decking 3, 4 and 4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx to pump Polukranos, World Eater with all four running a full playset in their main deck !
The other top four are all running Goblin Rabblemaster, three main decking full play sets and Jon Goss with 3 in his sideboard in Mardu Midrange. All four red decks start with at least two Sarkhans main decked. Two are running Stormbreath Dragon in their side board.
Interesting screenies I put together :
THE FOUR RED DECKS
THE FOUR GREEN DECKS
What didn't make it :
Abzan not doing great, not one through to the second day, with the 6 decks running it coming in 15, 17, 21, 26, 29, 30.
Heavy black decks did not make their anticipated impact, with only 3 in the top 32 coming in at 14, 22, 32.
Honorable mention :
Chandra, Pyromaster in four out of the top 8 decks.
Note that although Nissa is in four of the decks three of them are only running 1.
Top 32 deck :Magic Deck Search Result!
The quarter finals are :
Jeskai Tempo vrs Mono Green Devotion (Jones v Manner)
G/B Devotion vrs G/R Devotion (Merriam vrs Kvartek)
G/R Monster vrs R/W Control (Martinez vrs Fulk)
Mardu Midrange vrs Jeskai Tempo (Goss v Klomparens)
Coverage from 8am EST :Live Coverage of StarCityGames.com Open Series: New Jersey | StarCityGames.com
First tie, Klomparens vrs Goss starting :Live Coverage of StarCityGames.com Open Series: New Jersey | StarCityGames.com
In the battle of Green devotions Merriam beats Kvartek 2-1 which the combination of Pharika, God of Affliction pumping out +1/+1 deathtouch snake tokens and Nylea, God of the hunt giving them trample and +2/+2. Crucially he is also playing Eidolon of Blossoms which gives him a card draw every time he has an enchantment enters the field - with both Pharika and the snake tokens being enchantment creatures.
Jones pulls 4 Mantis Rider and two Disdainful Stroke in his first 11 cards in the second game of the semi against Merriam. Jones Jeskai Tempo beats Merriams G/B devotion in the first semi. Goss Mardu beats Martinez G/R monsters in the other semi.
Final is Jeskai tempo vrs Mardu midrange. Both main decking 4 Rabblemasters and 2 Sarkhan. Butcher of the Horde vrs Mantis Rider.
First game Jones pulls 2 Mantis in his first 9 cards, Goss Thoughtseizes one of them. Seeker of the Way does some work and incoming Sarkhan takes the first game. 1-0 Jones Second game Goss goes turns 4-7 without being able to play a land. Final is over 2-0 Jones with 21 minutes on the clock.
Winning deck :
Mantis Rider is without doubt the breakout card of the tournament and getting bought out everywhere right now.
Jones pulls 4 Mantis Rider and two Disdainful Stroke in his first 11 cards in the second game of the semi against Merriam. Jones Jeskai Tempo beats Merriams G/B devotion in the first semi. Goss Mardu beats Martinez G/R monsters in the other semi.
Final is Jeskai tempo vrs Mardu midrange. Both main decking 4 Rabblemasters and 2 Sarkhan. Butcher of the Horde vrs Mantis Rider.
First game Jones pulls 2 Mantis in his first 9 cards, Goss Thoughtseizes one of them. Seeker of the Way does some work and incoming Sarkhan takes the first game. 1-0 Jones Second game Goss goes turns 4-7 without being able to play a land. Final is over 2-0 Jones with 21 minutes on the clock.
Winning deck :
Mantis Rider is without doubt the breakout card of the tournament and getting bought out everywhere right now.
Mantis Rider being bought out to the surprise of no one, said Lightning Angel fans everywhere. I should've just drafted Jeskai last night after opening it AND a foil Jeskai Ascendancy (in two different packs).
Dig Through Time seeing play makes R&D happy, I'm sure. There's an amusing discussion about it vs. Treasure Cruise on MTGSalvation still.
Dig Through Time seeing play makes R&D happy, I'm sure. There's an amusing discussion about it vs. Treasure Cruise on MTGSalvation still.
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I grabbed 4 foil Mantis Riders when I saw the nonfoil ones spiking. Got them at 5 dollars, gonna be trading them at like 15-20 by next week I'm sure.
The card has serious legs in standard for the next 18th months I'm sure, but I've been looking at various Modern brews with it. I think it's good enough despite the lack of a 4th toughness. Trading 1 for 1 with bolts isn't the end of the world.
The card has serious legs in standard for the next 18th months I'm sure, but I've been looking at various Modern brews with it. I think it's good enough despite the lack of a 4th toughness. Trading 1 for 1 with bolts isn't the end of the world.
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I didn't buy Mantis Rider when it was 1.50 and felt dumb about it but went ahead and bought a set for 10 yesterday after watching a Jeskai burn a Mana Confluence aggro deck right out of the game in the fourth round of the tournament. In the span of like thirty minutes on eBay all of the Rider playsets at 8 disappeared, then the ones at 9 disappeared, but there was still support at the 10 dollar range.
Should have bought two playsets at 6 each like my gut told me to.
edit - fuck, didn't even think to check out foils while the regulars were popping. Curse my noobness!
Should have bought two playsets at 6 each like my gut told me to.
edit - fuck, didn't even think to check out foils while the regulars were popping. Curse my noobness!
Heylel
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Turns out it's really good. It might not look like it, but it's pretty much a Goblin Guide. Swinging with a 2/3 is trivially easy, and he survives quite a bit. That extra point of toughness is pretty much.
edit: Holy shit at Glittering Wish up to $20. Either that's going to be Fist of Suns 2.0 or we're looking at a new modern combo deck.
edit: Holy shit at Glittering Wish up to $20. Either that's going to be Fist of Suns 2.0 or we're looking at a new modern combo deck.
Apparently there is a new turn 2 kill deck in Modern with:
T1: Mana Dork
T2:Jeskai Ascendacy+Gitaxian Probe/ other cantrips.
Not sure if it is any good or how fragile it is, but cool non the less.
T1: Mana Dork
T2:Jeskai Ascendacy+Gitaxian Probe/ other cantrips.
Not sure if it is any good or how fragile it is, but cool non the less.
Xarpolis
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I told a friend about this post, and he didn't have the best review of it.
"standard sucks, they're talking about standard with a little legacy. I play modern"
He's a huge Magic nerd, so I wanted him to chime in on your discussion, but he doesn't like what you're talking about. Well, Wuyley just mentioned modern, but he hasn't seen much else. He invested $400 on new cards last night for his next deck. He builds decks constantly. I asked his favorite card, and he said it's too broad a question, but if he had to guess it would be Birthing Pod.
His favorite type of deck is "usually the non interactive decks like eggs, storm, or burn i have the most fun playing but if i want my opponent to actually play the game something like melira pod or delver is better. they are super interactive. they're going to say i'm a bad person because of eggs storm and burn, but whatever."
"standard sucks, they're talking about standard with a little legacy. I play modern"
He's a huge Magic nerd, so I wanted him to chime in on your discussion, but he doesn't like what you're talking about. Well, Wuyley just mentioned modern, but he hasn't seen much else. He invested $400 on new cards last night for his next deck. He builds decks constantly. I asked his favorite card, and he said it's too broad a question, but if he had to guess it would be Birthing Pod.
His favorite type of deck is "usually the non interactive decks like eggs, storm, or burn i have the most fun playing but if i want my opponent to actually play the game something like melira pod or delver is better. they are super interactive. they're going to say i'm a bad person because of eggs storm and burn, but whatever."