by Eldariel on 2008-04-17 17:36 EST

What the heck is up with late drops nowadays? In the last week's trials, we've regularly had at least one drop per trial after round 4. This one had 2. What're you guys doing?

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by Eldar on 2008-04-17 17:56 EST

2nd. Interesting deck choices.

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by Lynolf on 2008-04-17 17:59 EST

Stuffy Doll? Pyrohemia? Only 1 Nantuko Husk? O_O

WTF? Go tech! :D

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by KerZia on 2008-04-17 17:59 EST

No faeires on top3 ?... oh they all droped before xD

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by Eldariel on 2008-04-17 18:15 EST

Pyrohemia is a bomb against Faeries, so it's pretty self-explanatory. Doll, on the other hand, works fine against anything aggro and we seem to have a lot of it, so it kinda makes sense.

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by Finntroll on 2008-04-17 18:49 EST

Pyrohemia is a bomb as long as you can get it to stick. I'm surprised Reveillark decks aren't making it seeing as how there's not as much hate, I mean GR Ramps best out against them is to drop an Akroma and race.

And Kurse, you made last minute changes, so you can't blame me for losing :P

As for people dropping, could be because some might have certain time constraints or just want to boost/keep their rating so they'll be invited to the Master.

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by Kurse on 2008-04-17 20:03 EST

Nah, I don't blame you for losing. I blame bad luck. I didn't draw any Grave Pacts in all 3 games of the finals. And he boarded in Stuffy Doll because "it blocks my Gargadon". -_- The pyrohemia woulda been extremely good versus me as I have no way to get rid of it. I coulda cared less about Stuffy Doll. All I needed was a Grave Pact or a Profane Command to kill the dumb thing. But, alas, he double Skred'd me out of the game. Damn, 6 damage Lightning Bolts...

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by meloku79 on 2008-04-17 20:36 EST

pyrohemia is awesome against faeries, as for stuffy doll...i mainly have it in there for the mirror. its very good in the mirror match, plus it isnt bad against certain aggro decks. In the finals, i boarded it in against Kurse because gm 1 he beat me with a husk w/ fear and i knew the deck played gargadon. so, in came the dolls against the gargadons and the profane commanded husks! Besides in gm 3 he hit me w/ 3 earwig squads taking my threshers, colossus', and my siege gangs out of my deck. so i dont understand why he couldnt win that game :/

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by Lantero on 2008-04-17 21:26 EST

@Eldariel: Party :lol:

4 Siege Gang Comander + 4 Sulfurous Blast = Go go sinergy.
Is not Molten disaster much better than Pyrohemia on SB? (better vs all non-faerie pairings) Vs faeries, the bombs must have instant speed or split second, and u maindecked the 8 best.

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by gypsy on 2008-04-17 22:20 EST

why do people always assume that theyre spells will never resolve agaisnt faeries. and reveilark isnt played that much because it sucks and is very overrated

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by Kurse on 2008-04-17 23:14 EST

The husk that dealt you 18 points of damage in one swing was game 2. Game 1 was where I mull'd to five and despite having 2 Grave Pacts and 3 Marsh Flitters in hand, I never hit 4 land. There were people posting on here that 25 land is to much, but I am seriously thinking 26 is the correct number. Or else adding Mind Stones. I have seen some lists that play 3 mindstones and 24 land.

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by Malice on 2008-04-17 23:42 EST

Way to go meloku, you're just lucky that I'm not around anymore..... ;)

edit- you're right poopascoopa, i am in college which is the reason i am not on, maybe if you spent more time with life and less time prowling magic-league for grammar errors, you wouldn't have so much spare time.

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by poopascoopa on 2008-04-18 01:28 EST

It's "you're." Not your.

You're is the contraction of 'you are.'

Maybe you should put down the cell phone and pay more attention in school, kid.

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by sgtpepper87 on 2008-04-18 04:05 EST

gratz to top 3

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by ismaelmtg on 2008-04-18 04:51 EST

=\ mull for 2 in semi-final...
and stuffy doll are really tech =D

gj for all

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by Eldariel on 2008-04-18 06:18 EST

Finntroll: The way to win against Faeries is having enough game-ending bombs to run them out of their counters. Between Cloudthresher, Pyrohemia, Sulfurous Blast, Siege-Gang Commander et co. you've got a large number of absolutely must-respond threats half of which are instant speed allowing you to play their game. Really, it's one of the better plans I've seen for the match-up.

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by gypsy on 2008-04-18 06:52 EST

its funny how everytime a deck top4s here they are always called something different even if its the same base deck

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by TugaChampion on 2008-04-18 08:18 EST

LOL manaramp with 8 maindeck hate cards vs. faeries and 5 more in the SB! Not even dredge was devoted that much hate!

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by gypsy on 2008-04-18 09:01 EST

except blast isnt a hate card vs faeries its just one of the best cards in t2 right now

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by Lantero on 2008-04-18 09:11 EST

Both cards are very good for itself:
Sulfurous blast is one of the best cards in T2, as Gypsy said.
Cloudthresher is a good fattie (Flash, good P/T) and owns flyers.

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by Kurse on 2008-04-18 13:28 EST

Fae has to answer siege-gang commander? It produces 3 tokens, all of which bitterblossom alone takes care of by itself, not to even mention Scion. Perhaps I am giving Fae to much credit, but I really don't think Siege-Gang is GG for the Fae deck, not like how a Pyrohemia can be.

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by Shagrath on 2008-04-18 13:49 EST

Pyrohemia was good, when it was a surprise... now ppl are going to expect it , so it will become bad as well, so pyroclasm and sulfurous blast are again better weapons against faeries.

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by gypsy on 2008-04-18 15:22 EST

while seige gang is good its not that good vs faeries

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by meloku79 on 2008-04-18 15:23 EST

Playing against faeries i usually side out the siege gangs anyhow.I side in the colossus, pyrohemia, and squall line in place of the seige gangs and harmonizes.

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by TugaChampion on 2008-04-18 17:02 EST

LaNTeRo and gypsy: I know that. I said that half serious half joking. Still Ramp used to play Hellkite until faeries became popular and they switched to 4 cloudtreshers taking out all hellkites.
Most lists usually didn't play sulfurous blasts maindeck. Yes they're also good against elves, merfolks, kithkins (there's always someone playing kithkins), goblins, warriors and even against reveillark it's decent. But it started seeing maindeck play because of faeries.
Squall Line and Pestilence are clearly faeries hate.

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by Lantero on 2008-04-18 17:54 EST

Sulfurous Blast is also fine in the mirror, dealing with 2 important threats, Garruk and Siege-Gang.

In fact one of the cards i´m not sure about to play is the Siege-Gang.

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