Cloud or Elves or Faeries

beanbungo · Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 105

This will be my last post for the extended forums for a while now, just because one of the last PTQs that exist for this extended format is happening in 1 week, this coming saturday in orlando, fl.

If you had the opportunity to play a variant of Cloud or LoamRock, but with no Goyf (friend is using it for NLB) or Elves, or Faeries w/ only 2 Vendyllion Clique (probably Dark Faeries), which would you pick. I found some top lists below... Any feedback is appreciated, oh yea, and here's the thing, the meta is simply unknown, probably more Naya aggro and Faeries seeing that the last major tournament was won by Saito...

Elves-

http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=24480

Cloud n Loam (w/out goyf)

http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=24534

Dark Faeries-

http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=22107

So going into an unknown meta is rough, but if you know your deck well enough against the top tier decks, all you have to do is beat the round 1 guy, and you should face nothing but the expected Smile

but please let me know your opinions on which deck if played perfectly would be the best against deck X...

Madstrike · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 60

I like that style of death cloud deck, but not quite that list...

Ludz · Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 79

If you're able to pilot it, go with elves. It's the best deck.

Alvaro21k · Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 76

I concur with the elves thing, but only if you have extensively played it, since it is the hardest deck to play in the extended metagame.

I wouldnt use faeries with anything less than 4 vendilion cliques, and I prefer the cloudless version of loam, either BG or BGw for Paths and Reliquaries.

neosystems · Joined: 22 Feb 2009 Posts: 19

Despite what recent tournament results suggest, I think that Elves is really the best deck in Extended. It just needs someone very talented to play it (it's easy to go fish with, but takes a lot of talent to play when you have an actual opponent).