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5 years ago ::
Apr 23, 2008 - 5:47AM
#1291
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Date Joined:
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If you really want to run bounce you should play Consign to Dream  .
No offence but I rather use Cryptic Command
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5 years ago ::
Apr 23, 2008 - 8:16AM
#1292
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Date Joined:
Mar 23, 2008
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I've been playing Faeries for about a month now. I had stepped away from the game for about 5-6 years and came back just recently. I did a lot of research on my deck choices and ended up with faeries. I played a budget version for awhile, and have graduated to this list: Decklist
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I'm an online only player, so my MUs are all over the place. The ones that give me the most trouble are RDW, elves-aggro, and fast burn. I guess I'm just looking for a little advice for beating these types of decks. Should I be saving my counters for the big threats and letting the smaller ones through? What about opening hands? What would some of you consider the best opening hand? (# Lands, Creatures, Spells). I find myself keeping hands that I think will be great, but they end up costing me in the long run. I also think my sideboard needs slight adjustment. The MU I use extirpate for most often is Lark, which I usually beat anyway. I also never seem to side-in Thoughtseize... any suggestions for MU's that I should be using this? Thanks in advance! I hate to distract you all from Cyrus, but I figured this type of post was more relevant to the thread 
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5 years ago ::
Apr 23, 2008 - 9:38AM
#1293
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Date Joined:
Sep 29, 2007
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Round 1: Elves
This was just a nasty, nasty round for me. Standard elves are tough enough, but when you throw in some of the older ones (I'm looking at you, Ambush Commander  ) it's incredibly difficult. I ended up losing hard game one, but I won game 2 thanks to a topdeck Damnation  . I cannot emphasize this card enough against aggro. What won the game for me was once the Damnation resolved, my Mistbind Clique went to the graveyard - and my other faerie came back - which happened to be a Mistbind Clique. Having a 4/4 on your side with nothing on your opponent's was very nice. I ended up losing game 3 thanks to him having 2 Elvish Champions and an Imperious Perfect in play. I just wasn't able to stop enough of his threats regardless.
Record: 0-1
Just thought you should know that the clique should have died too, as when it comes into play, if it can't champion, it has to be sacced.
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5 years ago ::
Apr 23, 2008 - 10:28AM
#1294
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Date Joined:
May 27, 2005
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I'm an online only player, so my MUs are all over the place. The ones that give me the most trouble are RDW, elves-aggro, and fast burn. I guess I'm just looking for a little advice for beating these types of decks. Should I be saving my counters for the big threats and letting the smaller ones through? What about opening hands? What would some of you consider the best opening hand? (# Lands, Creatures, Spells). I find myself keeping hands that I think will be great, but they end up costing me in the long run.
I also think my sideboard needs slight adjustment. The MU I use extirpate for most often is Lark, which I usually beat anyway. I also never seem to side-in Thoughtseize... any suggestions for MU's that I should be using this?
Thanks in advance! I hate to distract you all from Cyrus, but I figured this type of post was more relevant to the thread
Best hand, something with around 2 answers (counters/removal), bitterblossom, ancestrial vision, and 3 land. That is pretty much our god-draw.
Anyway, for elves I really like damnation so I'd get 1 or two more for the sb if you can afford it. If they curve out damnation wins the game and if they try to play conservativly we'll win in the long run.
The ONLY way I've ever beaten burn is by playing ultra conservativly and taking out the blossoms and cliques game 2. I would definaltly run 4 flashfreeze in the sb because it helps alot against burn.
For the extra sb space I'd lose extirpate. Its best against lark and we should have an easy time with lark by simply countering there big spells.
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5 years ago ::
Apr 23, 2008 - 12:50PM
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I've been playing Faeries for about a month now. I had stepped away from the game for about 5-6 years and came back just recently. I did a lot of research on my deck choices and ended up with faeries. I played a budget version for awhile, and have graduated to this list:
Decklist
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I'm an online only player, so my MUs are all over the place. The ones that give me the most trouble are RDW, elves-aggro, and fast burn. I guess I'm just looking for a little advice for beating these types of decks. Should I be saving my counters for the big threats and letting the smaller ones through? What about opening hands? What would some of you consider the best opening hand? (# Lands, Creatures, Spells). I find myself keeping hands that I think will be great, but they end up costing me in the long run.
I also think my sideboard needs slight adjustment. The MU I use extirpate for most often is Lark, which I usually beat anyway. I also never seem to side-in Thoughtseize... any suggestions for MU's that I should be using this?
Thanks in advance! I hate to distract you all from Cyrus, but I figured this type of post was more relevant to the thread
When I play online, only thing I see is Elves, Burn, and Big Mana. Hardly see any Lark or faeries. So I would add +1 Flashfreeze and Deathmark in SB and get rid of Peppersmoke. Extirpate also isn't needed. Personally I see so much green and red type decks online that I MD Flashfreeze and Deathmark. Side boarded runesnag and I think some Pestermite can't remember havn't been online in awhile.
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5 years ago ::
Apr 23, 2008 - 6:11PM
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Just thought you should know that the clique should have died too, as when it comes into play, if it can't champion, it has to be sacced.
haha, yeah... forgot about that. Didn't catch it, and neither did my opponent, I guess. oops?
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5 years ago ::
Apr 24, 2008 - 12:13PM
#1297
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Date Joined:
Feb 27, 2007
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No offence but I rather use Cryptic Command
Of course. I was referring to bounce in addition to the Command.
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5 years ago ::
Apr 24, 2008 - 3:33PM
#1298
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Date Joined:
May 19, 2007
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Ok, so I keep reading both here and on the Big Mana thread that faeries has a very favorable matchup against Big Mana. However, at my local FNM we have a pretty skilled player base, and our Big Mana player has only lost a best of three to faeries a couple of times.
So, I'm not sure if it's something myself or other faeries players have been doing wrong, or if it's something he's doing right, but I don't see how faeries could possibly have a favorable matchup against his deck.
That being said, what do you guys have as a strategy when you go against Big Mana? What key plays do you look for? What do you save permission for? And any other help would be appreciated (Not even sure if it can be helped. I'm almost certain that the large majority of the Big Mana playing world doesn't know how to combat faeries, or is running an inferior build.).
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5 years ago ::
Apr 24, 2008 - 4:30PM
#1299
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2003
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You play Flash guys to apply pressure throughout the game and you counter their Cloudthreshers. That's about all there is to it.
It's really not even about giving niche cards to black.
It should be about giving black cards to Niche.
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5 years ago ::
Apr 24, 2008 - 4:40PM
#1300
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Date Joined:
May 19, 2007
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He runs 'threshers, skreds, siege-gangs, and sulfurous blasts maindeck. And after sideboarding, you can add pyroclasms to that list.
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