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[DECK]
2 Blood Crypt
4 Cavern of Souls
2 Clifftop Retreat
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Sacred Foundry
3 Stomping Ground
3 Sunpetal Grove
3 Temple Garden
4 Woodland Cemetery
4 Angel of Glory's Rise
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Fiend Hunter
3 Huntmaster of the Fells
4 Undercity Informer
4 Faithless Looting
3 Farseek
4 Grisly Salvage
3 Mulch
4 Unburial Rites

4 Abrupt Decay
3 Centaur Healer
2 Purify the Grave
3 Restoration Angel
3 Thragtusk
[/DECK]

I tweaked mine a bit to mirror the focus that this deck has. After a few matches the power of the deck is clear and most of the hate is taken care of by abrubt decay with the exception of witchbane orb but lab maniac plays right through that. I only have 2 Thragtusks and Resto Angels so I cut that package, added another Purify the grave in anticipation of increased popluarity of reanimator decks, and added the High Preist of Penance to put the brakes on the the hyper aggressive strategies. The preist is yet untested.

Heres what I've settled on for now:

[DECK]
4 Mulch
3 Farseek
4 Unburial Rites
4 Grisly Salvage
3 Faithless Looting
4 Fiend Hunter
4 Angel of Glory's Rise
4 Undercity Informer
3 Huntmaster of the Fells
4 Sunpetal Grove
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
3 Blood Crypt
1 Stomping Ground
4 Rootbound Crag
2 Woodland Cemetery
1 Godless Shrine
3 Temple Garden
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Sacred Foundry
2 Cavern of Souls

Sideboard
1 Laboratory Maniac
3 Purify the Grave
3 Duress
4 Abrupt Decay
4 High Priest of Penance
[/DECK]

I'm playing in the 1100 AM standard daily with it today although I'm still unsure of the sideboard.
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[DECK]
2 Blood Crypt
4 Cavern of Souls
2 Clifftop Retreat
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Sacred Foundry
3 Stomping Ground
3 Sunpetal Grove
3 Temple Garden
4 Woodland Cemetery
4 Angel of Glory's Rise
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Fiend Hunter
3 Huntmaster of the Fells
4 Undercity Informer
4 Faithless Looting
3 Farseek
4 Grisly Salvage
3 Mulch
4 Unburial Rites

4 Abrupt Decay
3 Centaur Healer
2 Purify the Grave
3 Restoration Angel
3 Thragtusk
[/DECK]

I tweaked mine a bit to mirror the focus that this deck has. After a few matches the power of the deck is clear and most of the hate is taken care of by abrubt decay with the exception of witchbane orb but lab maniac plays right through that. I only have 2 Thragtusks and Resto Angels so I cut that package, added another Purify the grave in anticipation of increased popluarity of reanimator decks, and added the High Preist of Penance to put the brakes on the the hyper aggressive strategies. The preist is yet untested.

Heres what I've settled on for now:

[DECK]
4 Mulch
3 Farseek
4 Unburial Rites
4 Grisly Salvage
3 Faithless Looting
4 Fiend Hunter
4 Angel of Glory's Rise
4 Undercity Informer
3 Huntmaster of the Fells
4 Sunpetal Grove
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
3 Blood Crypt
1 Stomping Ground
4 Rootbound Crag
2 Woodland Cemetery
1 Godless Shrine
3 Temple Garden
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Sacred Foundry
2 Cavern of Souls

Sideboard
1 Laboratory Maniac
3 Purify the Grave
3 Duress
4 Abrupt Decay
4 High Priest of Penance
[/DECK]

I'm playing in the 1100 AM standard daily with it today although I'm still unsure of the sideboard.
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I won't get into how I came to play the game and my history with it now but I did want to set up and have a place to post results and keep track of thoughts and results after each tournement.

I've been hoping to try my Junk Tokens build in a daily today. I see most of the decks running mana dorks, Thragtusks, and Restoration Angel. My take is a little different

[DECK]
4 Farseek
1 Ultimate Price
1 Plains
2 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
2 Gavony Township
1 Vault of the Archangel
2 Collective Blessing
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Rootborn Defenses
4 Selesnya Charm
4 Lingering Souls
2 Forest
2 Isolated Chapel
1 Grove of the Guardian
3 Garruk Relentless
3 Parallel Lives
1 Plains
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Swamp
3 Sunpetal Grove
1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
1 Sunpetal Grove
4 Intangible Virtue
1 Plains
4 Midnight Haunting
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Temple Garden

Sideboard
3 Knight of Glory
2 Thragtusk
3 Rest in Peace
2 Sever the Bloodline
2 Sundering Growth
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Rootborn Defenses
[/DECK]

My hope is to play farseek t2 into a planeswalker or parallel lives t3, although t2 Intangible virtue into Lingering souls/midnight haunting is a fine line of play in most matchups. It has efficient removal in selesnya charm/abrubt decay/ultimate price. Rootborn defenses at always good when I cast it and I may want to sqeeze another copy in. I havn't touched the mana base since I threw the deck together so i should probably reevaluate it.

Logging in this morning I checkec the scheduled events. I really like playing limited but have decided to stick to contructed for a while as my budget for magic has shrunk considerably. I saw a RTR block constructed starting soon. I havn't played much of that. I netdecked a Rakdos deck that I had most of the cards for.

[DECK]
4 Rakdos Cackler
2 Civic Saber
3 Traitorous Instinct
1 Mountain
4 Mizzium Mortars
1 Mountain
4 Gore-House Chainwalker
2 Swamp
4 Rakdos Shred-Freak
4 Blood Crypt
2 Desecration Demon
1 Rakdos Guildgate
2 Mountain
1 Rix Maadi Guildmage
6 Mountain
3 Swamp
3 Dreadbore
4 Ash Zealot
4 Hellhole Flailer
2 Rix Maadi Guildmage
2 Mountain
1 Annihilating Fire

Sideboard
2 Slaughter Games
2 Rakdos Keyrune
1 Rakdos Keyrune
3 Underworld Connections
3 Pack Rat
3 Stab Wound
1 Annihilating Fire
[/DECK]

I ran it in practice a couple times but missed the start time. Wasn't paying enough attention. So I went back to the events page and saw pauper starting soon. I had played a few tourneys before and had cards for a couple decks. I ckecked recent results and zoned in on a metalcraft affinity build that I had most of the cards for.

[DECK]
2 Great Furnace
1 Vault of Whispers
1 Seat of the Synod
4 Ancient Den
4 Tree of Tales
2 Great Furnace
2 Frogmite
1 Auriok Sunchaser
3 Auriok Sunchaser
3 Seat of the Synod
4 Carapace Forger
3 Chromatic Star
4 Galvanic Blast
1 Chromatic Star
3 Rancor
4 Atog
4 Chromatic Sphere
2 Terrarion
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Vedalken Certarch
4 Thoughtcast

Sideboard
4 Raze
1 Duress
2 Krark-Clan Shaman
3 Deep Analysis
1 Echoing Decay
1 Echoing Decay
3 Pyroblast
[/DECK]

I ran it as is since I didn't have any knowledge of the metagame. Although I did notice that I didn't see any RG decks to utilize ancient grudge against me. But I didn't do much research.

I won against Mono U and G stompy r1,2 and then lost to Mono U and Mono W

I know that I made several mistakes but I havn't watched the replays yet. I know that that will be key to getting better so I'll come back to them later today......

I made a few changes to the deck after my experience.


[DECK]
4 Ancient Den
4 Vedalken Certarch
4 Thoughtcast
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Myr Enforcer
4 Carapace Forger
3 Atog
4 Chromatic Sphere
3 Chromatic Star
4 Galvanic Blast
1 Vault of Whispers
3 Somber Hoverguard
4 Tree of Tales
1 Chromatic Star
4 Great Furnace
1 Atog
4 Rancor
4 Seat of the Synod

Sideboard
2 Krark-Clan Shaman
3 Ancient Grudge
2 Pyroblast
4 Electrickery
3 Duress
1 Pyroblast
[/DECK]

The games I won i felt like I just had the bigger creatures like carapace forger so I swapped the frogmites for myr enforcers and the Sunchasers for Hoverguards although I'm less sure about that one it might be worth it to have a white flyer rather than a blue one but the hoverguard doesn't shrink when you make an atog attack. In every single match I faced key 1 toughness creatures and I'm looking at Krark clan shaman like wtf? Electrickery seems like a superiour solution to board control. The ancient grudge is for the mirror match.

Thats it for now.







Record

Pauper
-Metalcraft affinity
--2-2
---1-1 v. Mono U
---1-0 v. G stompy
---0-1 v. W agro
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]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:44:37 -0600 http://community.wizards.com/nickknock00/blog/2013/01/14/monday_jan._14th http://community.wizards.com/nickknock00/blog/2013/01/14/monday_jan._14th
I won't get into how I came to play the game and my history with it now but I did want to set up and have a place to post results and keep track of thoughts and results after each tournement.

I've been hoping to try my Junk Tokens build in a daily today. I see most of the decks running mana dorks, Thragtusks, and Restoration Angel. My take is a little different

[DECK]
4 Farseek
1 Ultimate Price
1 Plains
2 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
2 Gavony Township
1 Vault of the Archangel
2 Collective Blessing
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Rootborn Defenses
4 Selesnya Charm
4 Lingering Souls
2 Forest
2 Isolated Chapel
1 Grove of the Guardian
3 Garruk Relentless
3 Parallel Lives
1 Plains
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Swamp
3 Sunpetal Grove
1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
1 Sunpetal Grove
4 Intangible Virtue
1 Plains
4 Midnight Haunting
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Temple Garden

Sideboard
3 Knight of Glory
2 Thragtusk
3 Rest in Peace
2 Sever the Bloodline
2 Sundering Growth
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Rootborn Defenses
[/DECK]

My hope is to play farseek t2 into a planeswalker or parallel lives t3, although t2 Intangible virtue into Lingering souls/midnight haunting is a fine line of play in most matchups. It has efficient removal in selesnya charm/abrubt decay/ultimate price. Rootborn defenses at always good when I cast it and I may want to sqeeze another copy in. I havn't touched the mana base since I threw the deck together so i should probably reevaluate it.

Logging in this morning I checkec the scheduled events. I really like playing limited but have decided to stick to contructed for a while as my budget for magic has shrunk considerably. I saw a RTR block constructed starting soon. I havn't played much of that. I netdecked a Rakdos deck that I had most of the cards for.

[DECK]
4 Rakdos Cackler
2 Civic Saber
3 Traitorous Instinct
1 Mountain
4 Mizzium Mortars
1 Mountain
4 Gore-House Chainwalker
2 Swamp
4 Rakdos Shred-Freak
4 Blood Crypt
2 Desecration Demon
1 Rakdos Guildgate
2 Mountain
1 Rix Maadi Guildmage
6 Mountain
3 Swamp
3 Dreadbore
4 Ash Zealot
4 Hellhole Flailer
2 Rix Maadi Guildmage
2 Mountain
1 Annihilating Fire

Sideboard
2 Slaughter Games
2 Rakdos Keyrune
1 Rakdos Keyrune
3 Underworld Connections
3 Pack Rat
3 Stab Wound
1 Annihilating Fire
[/DECK]

I ran it in practice a couple times but missed the start time. Wasn't paying enough attention. So I went back to the events page and saw pauper starting soon. I had played a few tourneys before and had cards for a couple decks. I ckecked recent results and zoned in on a metalcraft affinity build that I had most of the cards for.

[DECK]
2 Great Furnace
1 Vault of Whispers
1 Seat of the Synod
4 Ancient Den
4 Tree of Tales
2 Great Furnace
2 Frogmite
1 Auriok Sunchaser
3 Auriok Sunchaser
3 Seat of the Synod
4 Carapace Forger
3 Chromatic Star
4 Galvanic Blast
1 Chromatic Star
3 Rancor
4 Atog
4 Chromatic Sphere
2 Terrarion
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Vedalken Certarch
4 Thoughtcast

Sideboard
4 Raze
1 Duress
2 Krark-Clan Shaman
3 Deep Analysis
1 Echoing Decay
1 Echoing Decay
3 Pyroblast
[/DECK]

I ran it as is since I didn't have any knowledge of the metagame. Although I did notice that I didn't see any RG decks to utilize ancient grudge against me. But I didn't do much research.

I won against Mono U and G stompy r1,2 and then lost to Mono U and Mono W

I know that I made several mistakes but I havn't watched the replays yet. I know that that will be key to getting better so I'll come back to them later today......

I made a few changes to the deck after my experience.


[DECK]
4 Ancient Den
4 Vedalken Certarch
4 Thoughtcast
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Myr Enforcer
4 Carapace Forger
3 Atog
4 Chromatic Sphere
3 Chromatic Star
4 Galvanic Blast
1 Vault of Whispers
3 Somber Hoverguard
4 Tree of Tales
1 Chromatic Star
4 Great Furnace
1 Atog
4 Rancor
4 Seat of the Synod

Sideboard
2 Krark-Clan Shaman
3 Ancient Grudge
2 Pyroblast
4 Electrickery
3 Duress
1 Pyroblast
[/DECK]

The games I won i felt like I just had the bigger creatures like carapace forger so I swapped the frogmites for myr enforcers and the Sunchasers for Hoverguards although I'm less sure about that one it might be worth it to have a white flyer rather than a blue one but the hoverguard doesn't shrink when you make an atog attack. In every single match I faced key 1 toughness creatures and I'm looking at Krark clan shaman like wtf? Electrickery seems like a superiour solution to board control. The ancient grudge is for the mirror match.

Thats it for now.







Record

Pauper
-Metalcraft affinity
--2-2
---1-1 v. Mono U
---1-0 v. G stompy
---0-1 v. W agro
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