Decklist: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/5218165
Introduction:
- Have a car for the week, so hitting up some modern. Haven't played since SCG Syracuse in July + Columbus in September
- Yorion ate a ban, so happy not to deal with those slog matchups.
Round 1 vs Phil M on 4C !U brew (2-1, 1-0)
So he's playing this neat brew... easiest just to list all the cards I saw:
- Faeburrow Elder
- Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
- Lightning Skelementals
- Athreos, God of Passage
- Unearth
- Aether Vial
- Skyclave Apparition
- Collected Company
- Grist, the Hunger Tide
Overall solid foundation for a brew - powerful enablers, clear synergy (except Aether Vial), and some interactive elements. SB Surgical is good, as is Consume the Meek.
Round 2 vs Steven B on "5C" Rhinos (2-0, 2-0)
Rhinos are scary but realistically the plan is that I only have 4 spells to answer, plus Teferis and Fury. I steal like 4 Rhinos across two games, though he Gones (Dead // Gone) them a few times. Tutor for Gearhulk because it has good stats into 4/4 Rhinos (5/5 with Ardent Plea), also doesn't get FoN'd, and we do some back and forth fighting on the board.
The deck plays all 5 basic types for Leyline Binding, and I have a fun turn in game 2, where I Assasin's Trophy a Teferi, then Snap-Trophy a Binding on my Gearhulk to cast some 4 drop spell off the Gearhulk.
Opponent has a super awkward hand in game 2 that I see with Surgical on Crashing Footfalls ... 2 Fury (without double red source), Blood Moon (without having seen fetches, also only two basics in the deck), and 1 Force of Negation (with no blue spell to pitch).
Round 3 vs Lindsay M on Rw Burn (2-0, 3-0)
Opponent is newer to the format. Kind of assumes that I'm playing legitimately (I am!). Game 1 runs me down to 3 life, but floods out & plays around bluffed? let's call them... loosely-represented counterspells with open mana. I steal a Goblin Guide with Archmage's Charm and my opponent isn't able to figure their way out past my hidden information.
Game 2 I drop some Fatal Push on the Swiftspear, get in front of a Sanctifier en-Vec with Snapcaster, and have a Fatal Push + Life Goes On waiting in the wings that I end up firing for a mere 4 life. Midgame I tutor for my Japanese Weather the Storm and a storm count of 4 puts me up 15 life to a healthy 27. Opp knows they're dead as hell and split my Fact or Fiction into 5-0 piles... twice. I graciously accept their offer by Blue Sun's Zenithing them for 36, after counting 25 cards across hand + battlefield + graveyard + exile (this wins the game for me).
Round 4 vs James on BR "Scam" (0-2, 3-1)
Three 3-0s going into this round, I'm at table 1. Game 1 I wait on Pushing Ragavan, only for it to get brought back to life twice (Undying Malice, Feign Death, Undying Evil stuff). Seasoned Pyromancer really pushes him over the top.
Game 2 I kill Ragavan on turn 1, no tricksies this time. He lands a Blood Moon the turn before I draw my first fetchland. I have a basic of each type on field/hand, but then he Boils the basic Island on board... and Seasoned Pyromancer seals the game again. I think I run a removal spell into revive-Pyromancer which is insane. Great example of how Blood Moon should be backed up by pressure.
Opponent compliments my play patterns & the sweet bling I've put into the deck (a Surgical Extraction happened at some point), which I appreciate.
