Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Smashing the living shit out of a couple decks in the competative practice room on MTGO.

Ramp so far is an auto-bye.  In three matches I've absolutely shit stomped them into a mud hole with land-d.  The one verson that did make it to game 3 was the one with Overgrown Battlement and Joraga Treespeaker.  I actually sided in Brittle Effigy and found myself wrecking Walls and Eldrazi tokens with it to keep the guy off of Titan mana.

Beat a U/B control deck.  Beat a U/W deck.  Lost to RDW.  Played 2 games where they quit when they saw turn 2 Liquimetal Coating... Not out of fear, but probably because they weren't willing to play against a rogue deck, figuring I'd be wasting their time...  I've done the same thing in the past.  Can't blame them for it, I mean you only get so much time to play Magic, and when you see a card that you know is jank it might be better to just quit than waste time.

Thinking about Destructive Force as a 2-of.  May test it out over Ruinblasters in the main.  May put in 2 Hoard-Smelter Dragons for the other spots that open up.  Ruinblaster is so damned good though.  Every deck in the format has a target for him, his body is just so small.  I guess the Manic Vandal is small too.  VindiSlinger or VindiKavu is better than Avalanche Riders, but Ruinblaster is always Avalanche Riders, while the other guys are sometimes dead in the hand.

Had one guy side in Ratchet Bomb against me as a knee jerk reaction to seeing multiple dudes hit the table or something.  That went bad for him.  He had Mimic Vats as well...Bad times for that guy all over the place.  I guess I'm trying to justify keeping the tricks.  Its really fun.

Koth does his job.

IS there a deck where Ruinblaster is bad?  Vs. RDW he's pretty bad.  Goblins he's bad.  Elves he's not terrible (Oran-Rief and Tectonic Edge).  How good is Hoard-Smelter Dragon in here?  How good is Destructive Force?  I'm gonna test it out and see.  Worth a try.

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