Subject: [STRATEGY] Re: [MAGAUS] LA PTQ in Canberra?
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 15:59:23 +0900 (JST)
From: David Low <dlow@kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: strategy@magic.net.au (MAGAUS Strategy List)

>>           David (who won't have an Extended deck due to cards being
>>                  in-transit, but reckons that playing a T2 one won't
>>                  affect his expectation result significantly :-)).
>
>   Just take StOmPy-SaN, replace the Ghazban's with
> River Boa's and voila! Instant scrub beater!

       The brick wall noted above is the "won't have the cards with me, and
       won't play with someone else's" one :-)  But then, I'll buy a starter
       and play sanctioned T2 with it, so I guess I'm slightly strange as far
       as that goes :-)  I just like scaring people who take their rating
       seriously ("Yeah, I'm playing a kind of real deck today for a change
       - guess that gives you a 40% chance of losing thirty points, hey?!")
       :-)

       If for nothing but that, I love the ratings game :-)

       Strategy notes: haven't had Ghazbans in a Stompy deck since people
       started forgoing CPost for Burn (and will certainly preach that
       line); and Boas are suboptimal unless you've going heavy-critter.
       Far too much takes them out these days, and IMHO you lose more than
       you get.  If anything, sideboard against U-heavy (I may have done
       that last time?), but next weekend finds Meerkats and a Scragnoth in
       the spots instead.  This is the one I mentioned to you the other
       day:

GREEN: Llanowar Elf(4), Quirion Ranger(4), Rogue Elephant(4),
       Jolrael's Centaur(2), Rootwalla(4), Stampeeding Wildebeests(3),
       Briar Shield(3), Giant Growth(3), Overrun(2), Emerald Charm(3),
       Eladamri's Vineyard(3):
ARTIFACT: Winter Orb(3), Cursed Scroll(4), Disrupting Scepter(2);
LAND: Forest(17);
SIDEBOARD: Winter Orb(1), Hall of Gemstones(2), Emerald Charm(1),
           Creeping Mold(2), Lhurgoyf(2), Heartwood Treefolk(2),
           Scragnoth(1), Jolrael's Centaur(2), Karoo Meerkat(2).

       Needs another Vineyard, and is in "non-presideboarded" mode at
       present.  Obviously sideboards heavily versus bounce or burn: I'll
       probably flip a coin and pre-sideboard one way or the other before
       the event :-)  Need to find out what happened at the Japanese T2
       Championships - all I know at the moment is that "mono Blue control
       finished 15th" :-/  Still tossing up Mold versus T-Domain versus
       T-Grove.  Orangutans and Dervishes just don't make the cut anymore,
       the former on "who cares?" grounds and the latter for similar reasons
       to Boas (too many popular main-deck-standard ways of killing them).

       I should probably cut a Briar Shield or something, maybe add a land,
       but that's why I'm not a good player :-)  Note that the above has
       never actually been played (in fact, not even shuffled....) in that
       form yet, but I haven't playtested a deck in a long, long time [ditto
       last phrase of first sentence of paragraph :-)]

       The cookie-cutter Extended version adds BotH and Bears, probably
       Wasteland; a mix goes out (ends up up-crittered).  Cheap, fun,
       effective (10-1 in sanctioned T1.x and won both events, but the
       environment is perhaps not the most cutthroat/up-tech...heck, Rogues
       versus Bolts/StP/...?! :-)), what more can you ask? :-)

           Regards,

               David ("Good players don't use Perish" :-)).

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{ David J. Low                     |             dlow@kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp }
{ JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow         | http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~dlow }
{ Radio Atmospheric Science Center |    "The words of the Prophets are     }
{ Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611 |    written on the subway walls...."   }

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