Dies to Removal

Well, off to school then the Convention Center for GP Phoenix... Good luck to anyone playing this weekend, I likely wont be on much again till Monday! May all our Enemies Die in a Fire!

I mostly wanted those to respond to the BBoV that they, at least locally, are usually sideboarding in against me. Maybe for that only 1 or two?

All good points, I probably will end up without the peak eruptions, but I really like the tempo they can provide, and the occasional color screw they cause.... hmm

*sigh* time for me to decide on a semi final list so that I can play in the Last chance qualifiers tomorrow here in Phoenix.... This is my current list/sb and strategy... Thoughts? things that are totally wrong? all that fun stuff... [deck]3x Shock 3x Chained to the Rocks 4x Young Pyromancer 4x Magm...

That reaction was brilliant. I really want to cause that to a few people I know haha!

[deck]4 shock 3 Chained to the rocks 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Magma Jet 2 Searing Blood 4 Lightning Strike 4 Skullcrack 4 Boros Charm 4 Chandra's Phoenix 4 Warleaders Helix 23 Land still up for debate Sideboard 2-3 Assemble the Legion 3 Missium Mortars 3 Peak Eruption 3 Toil/Trouble 1 Chained to the Roc...

Im definitely gonna be there... Should be interesting

Yea I know... wishful thinking, but its worth thinking about at least

messing around with a manabase like this. The extra scrylands is cool and putting pressure on your opponent to put you on certain cards is always fun lol. still a work in progress though. 4 Temple of Triumph 4 Sacred Foundry 8 Mountain 2 Mutavault 2 Boros Guildgate 1 Temple of Malice 1 Temple of Ab...

So whats the opinion on the extra scrys then? are they in regardless of toil//trouble? or are they only for the black mana?

Pictures like that make me sad that I have yet to actually ever cast assemble yet.... It always gets seized or I just never draw it...

Oh I definitely like the pyromasters, I just need to practice with it some more. Luckily enough, I still have a few more days to do it in! Ill see how I do tomorrow with my playgroup

Im just not sure if itll make much of any difference, its just 1 card, but its worth testing. I really do want to do well at GP phoenix, so Im gonna try everything lol

Im gonna try that out and see if its any good in testing tomorrow

Makes me want to find room for the 4th shock, just for faster and more tokens... but where to find the room?

LIVING THE DREAM!!!

Im actually amused testing the idea from the article about using a temple of enlightenment as a 1-of random white scry land just for the confusion you can cause. Its already gotten some good looks in my testing group

http://www.starcitygames.com/article/28 ... otice.html
Thoughts? I kinda like his take on it and will be testing out different variants on it for a bit myself

I have to say, I had a slightly bad time tonight at FNM, faced 3 b/w opponents and more whips of erebos than id care to ever see in my life combined with obzedat and bbov.... I hate my life haha, still managed a 3-2 record though, got lucky in one of the b/w matchups... Is there something Im just mi...

As much as I hate to say it, should we be considering toil/trouble for esper again? I mean Im watching the standard Metagame analysis for the Invitational and they are talking about how bad the matchup is for the esper player having to consider all these things coming at their face. I don't currentl...

So I have to ask, What do my fellow burn players think of Craig Wescoe's Article today about tuning a burn list?

So planning to beat up on those planning to beat esper is what I got out of that, but to be ready for anything. This is gonna be interesting. Time to start tweaking my list for FNM this week and the GP next week, Ill probably post something in the morning about how that comes out. Thanks!

As a long time lurker and burn player, I have to ask this now then, How do you predict a meta of a larger tournament, like say GP Phoenix which is what I personally am preparing for, in order to build you deck with the proper meta changes? Sorry if that's a bit off topic, but I am really not that ex...