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Summa wrote:

Attended GP Rotterdam this weekend and after dropping from the main event I won a pickup 8-man standard tourney. Here's my list:Spoiler: Show

Demigod Blossoms:

Creatures:
4x Figure
4x Mogg Fanatic
4x Boggart Ram-Gang
4x Demigod of Revenge
=16
Other spells:
4x Bitterblossom
3x Terror
3x Incinerate
2x Volcanic Fallout
1x Banefire
4x Flame Javelin
4x Blightning
= 21
Land:
4x Graven Cairns
4x Sulfurous Springs
2x Auntie's Hovel
2x Ghitu Encampment
1x Reflecting Pool
10x Mountain
= 23
SB:
3x Everlasting Torment
4x Infest
4x Chaotic Backlash
3x Magma Spray
1x Loxodon Warhammer

Alrighty. I'd like to say that my list is nowhere near optimal. I've been playing some WW lately and thus had transformed it into a burn-ish deck while my figures were elsewere.

Not optimal but I think it preserves the general sense of the deck: here's some tips, if you'd like.

1. Playing demigod is a solid choice, but keep in mind his weaknesses. I've personally been leaning away from big 5-drops in preference of 4-cost persist in Redcap. I used to dislike those guys alot, but they really are a versatile creature. I would look to your meta when making the choice.

2. I've been earnestly playtesting singleton banefire versus 2-of, vs. 3 in SB. and I have to say, putting a single banefire in your deck is the magic equivalent of rolling a dice to see if you win. I would put three either SB or MB (again depending on meta), and make it more consistent.

3. MB terror is another gamble, that could end up very well, or not-so-well. I've found it is a really good card vs. ramp decks (assuming they aren't running a card with black in it as teh win condition). It is very nice to be able to answer that EOT cloudthresher easily. I personally run tarfire MB in that slot (also makes it easier to keep hovels open), and side the terror in against cloudthresher and it's ilk. Also, consider running eyeblight's ending instead, as that answers many other big threats ( hellkite overlord , (partially answers) broodmate dragon , and don't forget demigod of revenge )

4. As far as your SB, if you shift to get more / sources, you could consider stillmoon cavalier . If this guy hits the board vs. B/W tokens, your win chance goes up immensely. its a constant, unblockable, unkillable threat to them. It is the same versus kithkin (which is another tough matchup)

5. this deck really needs 24 land, imo. If I miss that third land drop, i lose three times in five.

6. the final two suggestions i'll give you is to try hellspark elemental instead of the mogg fanatics, and try out profane command . 2 hellspark can deal 12 damage (6 of which is uncounterable), as well as being excellent profane targets. This is, at least, what i'm testing. So far i've been rather impressed.

Lemme know what you think.

Summa wrote:

So I quickly threw some stuff together and this was the result. Here's how it faired:
matchups Show

Round 1 vs. Nova Chaser jank.dec:

Seeing as we had quite a bit of waiting time before the tourney started, I had found out what this guy was playing beforehand. He pretty much played a crappy deck and I proceeded to destroy him through killing of smokebraiders. Got surprised by a briarhorn, but really wasn't much of a challenge.
2-0

Round 2 vs. BW Tokens:

This is pretty much what I consider the hardest matchup for my deck, but fortunatly the guy behind wasn't the best player ever. As an example at one point he played a Knight of the White Orchard and didn't find a plains although I was up a land. Game 1 I don't remember much of except winning it with a banefire for 7.
Sideboarding time! I actually decided to only board in infest and took out terror.. obviously because I had forgotten about BFT. I also took out some blightnings (since I don't like the card) for some magma spray and a hammer.
He had a pretty dangerous opening with windbrisk into double knight of meadowgrain and another windbrisk. Luckily I had an infest on my hand. Although it killed my own figure and a bitterblossom token, I'm pretty sure it was the correct play. The glorious anthem he played next turn would pretty much have meant GG if I hadn't done it. The game was pretty close as he got 2 BFTs down and Path to Exiled my Demigod. In his last turn he was at 3 and he played an Ajani to attack me down to 4 (soon to be 3 from BB). His board was 1 BFT and a faerie rogue token both of which were 3/3s from Ajani and Glorious Anthem - I had gotten rid of a BFT by blightning+flame javelining him for lethal.
I had various ways to win the game. I played a volcanic fallout which he had to prevent (due to BB), which made me able to attack for lethal.

2-0 - I was pretty psyched with this one!

Round 3 againt Lifegain.dec:

He played something similar to what a friend of mine was playing, so I wasn't too unfamiliar with the matchup. He did lack manafixing in form of fetid heath etc., which might've cost him the game. I lost the first game through small beats from gwyllion and soul syphon amongst others (the big threats were answered instantly). Embarassing, I know. The next game I had everlasting torment in. As he attempted to batwing brume me to avoid lethal I reminded him that damage couldn't be prevented and we were on to game 3.
The last one was a bit too exciting. He opened with nip gwyllion and I hesitated a bit before I played an auntie's hovel tapped. The following edge of the divinity made me regret I didn't keep mana open for magma spray instead. That misplay was close to costing me the game as I couldn't answer the gwyllion before t3 with a flame javelin. 16 point life-swing and a bitterblossom on my side was a dangerous race. Thankfully demigod of revenge was up for the challenge. I decided to play it safe around a potential batwing brume which it turned out he didn't have, but I won the game anyway. He didn't have soul syphon mana, though I'm not sure if that would have affected the game. I'd just have played it less safely and eventually swung for lethal instead of slowrolling it.

The prize was 5 conflux boosters which were filled with jank and a noble hierarch. Jay!

First, Thanks a lot for coming here to make a write up! stuff like this is going to be very informative when people come here looking for a play choice!

I personally like playing with 4 stigma lasher SB, just because a turn 2 stigma makes alot of decks cry. that divine-1up deck you mention, folds if you hit them with a stigma turn 2 and clear the way t3 with a shock or w/e. Everlasting torment is a good alternative (but removable).

Your B/W token game came pretty close, which makes me think you might need to run 2 volcanic fallout SB also. That has the added benefit of immensely strengthening your Fae matchup.

xWkDcLwNx wrote:

Bitterblossom is too slow for this deck, yes it provides a little late-game reinsurance, but unless the deck gains over 20 life by turn 4-5 its gone. I rather run extra reach because it takes 1 turn for Incinerate to do 3 damage while it takes 4 for Bitterblossom to do so, get the picture.

I have to say i'm tending to agree with you here. I'm going to playtest 4 fallout main instead of 4 BB's.