SCG T2 results... what do they mean?

Hank333 · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 212 Location: San Antoni

Damn fairies won agian. Judging by the top decks, i would say that Rg aggro is a great metagame call for hollywood. Or maybe some techy elf swarm deck. But you need to win the game in the first 3-4 turns in this format to beat fairies. Fairies win vs control and mid range almost everytime. But it can't deal with a good swarm of guys followed by some average removal. Thoughts?

Cranemaker21 · Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 70

Faeries is rlly good and will be more than half the meta... anyone who doesnt know what to play will play faeries, and the people who test will see that faeries is very good, so that leads few to the conclusion that something other than faeries is good... and those people will most likley play an anti faerie deck like merfolk or rg aggro... looking at the results, mirror matches is what determined who one... i would work on tech becasue mawcor gets killed before it does anything relevant.

Dannar · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 34

I haven't had much chance to test my latest deck build against faeries, but it has done pretty decent so far, and holds it's own in the meta against aggro and mid range, starts having difficulties against the b/r land destruction deck (rdw?)

Manipulation · Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 294 Location: Oxnard

I like the Wilt-leaf Liege/Mirrorweave deck. It's an even-to-negative matchup vs. Faeries in Game 1, but when you board in Firespout, it becomes very good.

Orlandu · Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 165

So boarding in 3-4 copies of one card makes it a great matchup? That's the thing people don't understand about faeries, one hate card isn't gonna cut it. They're just gonna counter it, and if it DOES resolve, you've probably only killed a couple tokens and maybe a spellstuter sprite, guess in response I'll flash in my mistbind clique, or just eot play a vendillion clique or scion, and if I've got one, put a token into play via bitterblossom.

Tms-Rock · Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 25

Yeah i top 8'd the 5k and 2k Saterday and Sunday playing Merfolk, faeries is prob the most ezymode match-up for the deck, in the swiss i played it 4 times, going 2-0 all but once which was a draw. and then sunday i played faeries 3 timesi n the swiss 2-0 twice then getting land screwed vs nuts faerie draw but no compliants overall though the decks insane. Vs just about everything theres always an insurance policy to keep all my creatures alive comming up on turn 4 thanks to curse Catcher followed by a ton of dmg usually leathal on turn 4. So it seems to be pimp

TugaChampion · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 351

lol anyone who thinks merfolks is an autowin vs faeries is just wrong. Faeries play 4 islands at most. Now with Sunken Ruins people will probably play 1 or 2 ruins and will play even less islands then before. Lord of Atlantis also boosts enemy mutavaults and makes those really unblockable. And faeries also has counters that are not instants and bypass Cursecatcher.

If you want and almost autowin vs faeries just play mono red burn.

Tms-Rock · Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 25

lol if your on the play and had a 1st turn Curse catcher vs faeries please let me know if u lose, because that just means your god awful at magic. + I played Aquatics will in the 5k and 2k, and prob never would change that descion.

Kai_ · Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 15

Where are the decklists?.

Link or post plz. Very Happy

rhaze · Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 62

Tms-Rock : what about the mana ramp matchup for merfolks? i heard its pretty terrible but i dont really know cause ive not tested it yet..

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 785

mana ramp isnt that hard of a matchup, like after turn 3 you dont rly have to play anything and just counter their sulf blasts or firespouts

Lucksak · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 74

I played G/R Manaramp at a recent Mox Tourney in, which the meta was Faerie/Merfolk/RDW mostly. I played Merfolk twice going 1-1, and I know this is obvious, but if Merfolk gets enough guys to stick with counter back up it wins. This was pre-Shadowmoor though, so I would think G/R has even more hate now, but Cursecatcher makes it slower, maybe have to put Shusher in the side. Since then I've turned to Faeries, and never looked back. As the deck is just simply a Tier above all the other decks in the format. It has a tough game against RDW for sure, which is heavily played around here. But most of the decks get hated out with all the Green / White mages playing Primal Commands and Finks.

TugaChampion · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 351

TwoTrees · Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 10

The main thing I get from the tourny

The same guy who won both the 5k and the 2k with the same list.
Runs 3 maindeck sower, which everyone has cut lately.

Interesting.

Lucksak · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 74

It was a great meta-call because it looks like tons of people were playing some form Green beats, which is where Sower shines. But I still don't like Sower in the main, though he prob deserves a slot in the SB, maybe as a 2 of. I guess it just depends if you expect lots of RDW, which is where Sower is practically a dead card as an overcosted 2/2 flyer.