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Round 1 vs Mardu Midrange: 2-0 Round 2 vs Abzan Midrange: 2-0 Round 3 vs Temur Tempo: 0-2 (got 3 lands the first game, after taking a 3 scry land hand...so I did nothing game 1. I scryed 3 times and drew 4 cards, but still couldn't hit my 4th land drop. Game 2 was a good game that I legit lost. mill...

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I played Adrian's list for 74/75 cards at a recent small event but just couldn't figure out the meaning of Cranial Archive end put in a third Thoughtseize, care to explain me what purpose should it have? You play it against decks that run Thoughtseize and/or Hero's Downfall. Mainly black midrange, ...

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This archetype has top 8'd the last Pro Tour, and was the best performing deck of that tournament. It also got first place in the hands of Adrian Sullivan at a recently Grand Prix Super Sunday Series, so I figured it qualified as not developing. Here's his list: [deck]BU Chevy Control - Sullivan 2 D...

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Did really well with U/B Control last week( got 3rd), so I'm going to switch back to Mono Black to throw off all of those who are tired of me beating them. :P Here's the revised list. [deck]Creatures 4x Gray Merchant of Asphodel 4x Herald of Torment 4x Squelching Leeches 4x Master of the Feast 1x Mo...

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:aww: This is a control deck. It rarely matters if your bomb is a 5/5 or a 6/6, which is what the fountains would do on average. I think you just need to survive against boss Sligh, and land drops that gain you life might facilitate this. This deck is really good against Boss Sligh. If this became p...

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The most dominant deck in the previous format ran 18 or so XBB spells and 4 BBB spells with 4 colorless sources. Works just fine and will help against Jeskai and the aggro decks of the world. This is a very important aspect of the deck and I'll detail my take on it here. Old MBD had Mutavault to he...

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Congrats on the FNM win! Iv been looking at something similar but with 1 Liliana MB and 1 SB, and going topping off my curve with 2 Abhorrent Overlords and 1 Empty the Pits MB and another in the SB. I also play 8 fetches and 2 Urborg with a total of 25 land. I need to take it to an FNM and try it o...

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Thanks for the report. Good job. I've looked to see if I thought MonoBlack could work. Good to see some people are having success with it. Do you think Nykthos would have helped? That honestly is the question that I have received most, and my answer is no. I mean, feel free to test it, though. Howe...

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Are we complaining about standard already? It's been a month, and one can play a ton of decks and do well.
I'm sure we haven't even found everything yet.

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Round 1 vs Mardu Warriors Aggro: 2-1 This deck is a variant of Rabble Red that takes advantage of splashing black and white for other warrior creatures. It gets a better sideboard and sometimes Sorin for some reach. First game, my opponent mulliganed to 5 and still whooped me. I took a hand with so...

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I tried to write a tournament report with sideboarding guides, hit submit, and then it said I wasn't logged in and some SQL server error. :suckup: So I lost all of that. :( I'm too tired and frustrated at uncontrollable computer problems to even attempt to rewrite it all again. Maybe some other day....

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Yes. :symb: I know what you're thinking(, or at least have a good idea). "That again?" :sherlock: It's similar reaction to that of my opponents when they say things like "I can't believe devotion is still here". I don't blame them. I'm still surprised myself that it works well. I...

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Got 1st for the 3rd week in a row. This week was the M15 release, so I expected heavy aggro, and came prepared with a weenie-hate sideboard. I think the results speak for themselves. Round 1 vs G/W Hexproof: 2-0 Round 2 vs R/W Aggro: 2-1 Round 3 vs G/R Monsters: 2-0 Round 4 vs Boss Sligh (red aggro)...

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This has been AWESOME during testing. Liliana Vess is great. [deck]Land (25) 4x Mutavault 4x Overgrown Tomb 12x Swamp 4x Temple of Malady 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Enchantment (5) 4x Underworld Connections 1x Whip of Erebos Sorcery (4) 4x Thoughtseize Planeswalker (2) 2x Liliana Vess Instant (10) ...

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[deck] Instant (10) 2x Abrupt Decay 2x Bile Blight 2x Devour Flesh 4x Hero's Downfall Land (25) 4x Mutavault 4x Overgrown Tomb 13x Swamp 4x Temple of Malady Creature (16) 4x Desecration Demon 4x Gray Merchant of Asphodel 4x Lifebane Zombie 4x Pack Rat Enchantment (5) 4x Underworld Connections 1x Whi...

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http://www.starcitygames.com/article/28 ... icago.html

She just got 2nd at GP Chicago. She had the same "race a late game Blood Baron" strategy as me. 0 Devour Flesh, as scary as it sounds.

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'grats man! No BW in your meta? I see BBoV being a problem without Devour Flesh. He comes up in Junk and Esper decks sometimes, but Lifebane and Thoughtseize come down way too early for decks to run more than 2. To be honest, I've only faced the creature twice in tournaments, and won twice by racin...

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I didn't play Black aggro this week, like I said I would. I'm sorry, but as a metagame call, it was not a good idea. My store metagame, along with major tournaments, is mostly super aggro decks and control decks tuned against aggro. It's too easy for Black aggro to get hated out in these conditions,...

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Yeah, Master of the Feast is pretty bad against Black Devotion. Good sideboard cards are Thoughtseize, Duress, Dark Betrayal, Nighthowler, or Erebos. The matchup is good, as long as they don't splash green or expect you. If they run Pharika's Cure, Drown in Sorrow, or Golgari Charm, they can make yo...

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Got first at FNM tonight! I'm proud of myself because I beat a really good player( who top 8s GPs and SCG Opens) that normally beats me, playing a deck I normally lose to. :fourhorsemenoftheapocalypse: Round 1, 2-0 vs R/U Burn Round 2, 2-0 vs Mono Black Devotion Round 3, 1-2 vs G/W Hexproof (got rid...

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[deck]Creature (30) 4x Gnarled Scarhide 4x Herald of Torment 4x Mogis's Marauder 4x Pain Seer 4x Rakdos Cackler 3x Spiteful Returned 3x Thrill-Kill Assassin 4x Tormented Hero Instant (8) 2x Bile Blight 3x Hero's Downfall 3x Ultimate Price Land (22) 4x Mutavault 18x Swamp Sideboard (15) 4x Duress 2x ...

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Got 2nd with that B/G list again. U/W Control becomes a far easier matchup. Beat it twice in one night. Only loss was to Jund Monsters, which I've always had problems with. Still learning to sideboard for it.

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Blue and Red just aren't worth it unless you have a metagame of almost all U/W-based control decks. White is good against Mono Black dominated metagames. I find green good against everything except for maybe a Monsters/Mono Blue dominated metagame. But I don't think either metagame conditions exist ...

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Why do people not like Pack Rat in MBA? Pack Rat turns useful cards into aggression. It takes 3 mana a turn and 1 card. After done enough times, the ensuing rat tokens become profitable and far more valuable than any 3 mana for 1 card creature spell. However, we are already playing all aggressive c...

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(Erebos is bugging me with Deicide out) I only run 2, so having it in a post-Deicide world is no biggie. It just means that an Underworld Connections gets to live. Also, I run 4 thoughtseize and 4 duress, so I usually can take their singleton copy before they can use it. Either way, I think having ...

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I'll be honest: I've never tried Vraska out. Does she deserve her slot? I think she's very important against U/W based control decks, simply because she's another threat that Supreme Verdict can't get, forcing them to use more Banish Lights and D Spheres on her instead of Underworld Connections or ...

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Got really sick this weekend. Didn't get to play. Sorry for the lack of report guys.
Maybe this week..

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Abrupt Decay isn't even the best reason to splash green Golgari Charm is a bomb Also, having access to Vraska is cool since she's a pet card of mine :3 Yeah, I splashed green back in january just for 3 golgari charms within the deck. Takes out Detention Sphere( and these days far many more enchantm...

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[deck]Creature (30) 4x Gnarled Scarhide 4x Herald of Torment 4x Lifebane Zombie 2x Mogis's Marauder 4x Pain Seer 4x Rakdos Cackler 1x Nighthowler 3x Thrill-Kill Assassin 4x Tormented Hero Instant (7) 2x Bile Blight 3x Hero's Downfall 2x Ultimate Price Land (23) 4x Mutavault 19x Swamp Sideboard (15) ...

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With JOU, it is time to go Golgari.
Thoughtseize, HDF, and Abrupt Decay are meant to be played together.
Bye bye Chained, bye Sphere, bye Domri.

I have the lands...not sure why I don't feel compelled to do this, though.
Straight Black has been running great still, so-far.

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Do you guys think it's worth playing Pack rats in a meta filled to the brim with black devo and control decks? Something is telling me I might as well run a Lifebane/Specter split main and maybe a few copies of duress instead of the rats... Pack Rats are still fine. They shouldn't be your main stra...

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This is my list [deck]Creatures (28) 4 Gnarled Scarhide 4 Rakdos Cackler 4 Tormented Hero 4 Pain Seer 4 Brain Maggot 4 Rakdos Shred-freak 4 Spike Jester 4 Mogis's Marauder Spells (12) 4 Thoughtseize 4 Boon of Erebos 4 Madcap Skills Lands (20) 4 Mana Confluence 4 Blood Crypt 12 Swamp Sideboard 4 Dur...

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not a fan of more than two marauder. This too. Mogis's Marauder as a 2/2 haste provides too little tempo for 3 mana. At that point in the game, we want to win; which is possible with its ETB ability. Because of that, we definitely only want to see one per game. Compared to our other 3 drops( a 3/3 ...

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Keen observation, lol. That could certainly be right that we just have too many powerful cards. Master will be better in a monster/aggro metagame. He's fairly weak against UWx and MBD, so I'd be wary to play him ATM. But, we shall see what JOU can bring.

This.

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Brain Maggot is good in the U/W matchup.....that's all I got. He's a good 2 drop, which our archetype is still shaky on, but I don't think he's aggressive enough for us. Hear me out: I think our deck would rather kill someone quickly enough to make their card draws irrelevant due to overwhelming for...

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Has anyone considered running Nightviel Specter and Erebos main for potetially 10 sources of CA (and turning off lifegain G1)? Erebos costs a lot for someone who isn't always a creature. We don't really want his ability either. Not saying that they're bad. What I am saying is that as an aggro deck,...

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Had to drop, but Ashiok shined in every matchup. Notion Thief disappointed. Psychic Strike was a good surprise in U/W matches. My friend got 4th in the tourney, though. Had a lot of fun. Going forward, I hope to play an Ashiok deck in the future, but I think keeping Black Devotion mono black aside f...

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Had to drop, but Ashiok shined in every matchup. Notion Thief disappointed. Psychic Strike was a good surprise in U/W matches. My friend got 4th in the tourney, though. Had a lot of fun. Going forward, I hope to play an Ashiok deck in the future, but I think keeping Black Devotion mono black aside f...

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So I hear you don't like BBoV

Nope. Lifebane, Thougthseize, Ashiok, and Devour Flesh are all out to get him!

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Updated my list [deck]Sorcery (4) 4x Thoughtseize Land (25) 4x Mutavault 13x Swamp 4x Temple of Deceit 4x Watery Grave Creature (15) 4x Desecration Demon 4x Gray Merchant of Asphodel 3x Lifebane Zombie 4x Pack Rat Planeswalker (3) 3x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver Instant (10) 2x Bile Blight 4x Devour Fle...

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FNM 12/12/14

[Q&A] U/B Control

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Mono Black Devotion

1st place at FNM 7/19/2014

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1st place! 7/11/2014

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