Activating a Mossbridge Troll in response to the Aria seems plausible to win the game. You can use high-toughness Walls and/or Treefolk + Inside Out or similar spells.
It really depends. Lay Waste is mainly useful as a Cycler filler, but occasionally LD can be useful if you need a 23rd card. If I remember right Urza's Sealed is harsh on the creature count.
Ok so the more I think about it, Option C may simply be a "gentleman's rule" a.k.a. what has been happening with the friendly challenges between Aj and flippers. Nothing serious or concrete that has to be followed but rather something individuals can participate in at their choosing. Though these decklists will get posted just to showoff the creativity of the pilots.
A and B are the two left obviously. A looks good too me because it limits the occasional feelings of elves/wizards/skeletons/whatever are always winning and are overpowered. Though I could see someone alternating elves one week, then goblins, just to constantly win. On that note option B is more attractive. It imposes a baseline on all players and if someone is creative enough to find some horribly OP deck that fits within the description..well there is not much that can be done about that. Its a trial and error start.
Well just to address you directly as well as anyone else who may question the special formats. I will take price in mind when thinking of restrictions. I can guarantee Pauper will be a restriction one time, though probably banning goblins since I cant think of any tribal decks that could compete against that. Then zoo week would work you do have bears. Mostly they will be fun restrictions i will choose, maybe the occasional mono black no zombies week or something.
there are many more things I'd like to do on turn 4 that usually dont include stopping an echo creature since there are a lot of them that are much faster then turn 4
ahhh yeah that would do it. For some reason i heard the "broken" mechanic and brain________, automatically i went to a high tide deck which i why brain freeze popped up. And since you run cloudpost..are you running vesuva alongside it?
No, I mean Braingeyser. Untapping 35 lands, of which 3 or 4 produce 3 or 4 mana, is easily enough to point braingeyser at your opponent's head for more than the contents of his library.
As the others said Naya tends to be quick, particularly when you are dealing with guys who have a high power (5+) so Aria can be surplus (good when you are already winning), however it can also break a stalemated board. I like the deck though I think my decks rolled it when we played. That was early in its conception still though.
By the way I missed both of those events that AJ brought red stuff to but I played vs the first deck a bit in testing. Way not fun to lose all your guys when they die to massive deathtouch.
I loved the strength of the deck and it always looked strong enough to win without the enchantment.
I was only confused about one part of the article though. In game 2 when he had 5 life left and you had 4 guys to his empty board, he played howl and made the wolves. With Naya charm in hand, why didn't you use the other ability to tap all his guys dpwn and swing for the win? 5-0 would have been yours :)
Sphinx x more than 1 = Sphinges. :) Good luck pronouncing that. Thankfully the common man just says Sphinxes. Btw AJ you meant lethal Brain Geyser right?
Great deck, though you did hit on what seems to be the curse of Mayael's Aria. Its and enchantment in the 3 most aggressive colors in magic. Even trying to build around it like you did will still probably result in the creatures dealing far more damage than necessary long before the win condition on the aria is met.
To be honest I was always checking this site for the draft analysis of 'waiting for godot'.
But this article is great information. It is very nice to analyse someone else's plays and hear the commentary. I think it makes me better at analysing my own plays. Don't worry about making suboptimal plays everyone makes those.
Keep up the great work. Hope to see more like this.
Critical Mass style deck using Scute Mob...Scute Mob protected by counters and a shroud effect.
Activating a Mossbridge Troll in response to the Aria seems plausible to win the game. You can use high-toughness Walls and/or Treefolk + Inside Out or similar spells.
It really depends. Lay Waste is mainly useful as a Cycler filler, but occasionally LD can be useful if you need a 23rd card. If I remember right Urza's Sealed is harsh on the creature count.
LOLz @ sfin-jeez
Sex the night before is helpful also.
Ok so the more I think about it, Option C may simply be a "gentleman's rule" a.k.a. what has been happening with the friendly challenges between Aj and flippers. Nothing serious or concrete that has to be followed but rather something individuals can participate in at their choosing. Though these decklists will get posted just to showoff the creativity of the pilots.
A and B are the two left obviously. A looks good too me because it limits the occasional feelings of elves/wizards/skeletons/whatever are always winning and are overpowered. Though I could see someone alternating elves one week, then goblins, just to constantly win. On that note option B is more attractive. It imposes a baseline on all players and if someone is creative enough to find some horribly OP deck that fits within the description..well there is not much that can be done about that. Its a trial and error start.
Well just to address you directly as well as anyone else who may question the special formats. I will take price in mind when thinking of restrictions. I can guarantee Pauper will be a restriction one time, though probably banning goblins since I cant think of any tribal decks that could compete against that. Then zoo week would work you do have bears. Mostly they will be fun restrictions i will choose, maybe the occasional mono black no zombies week or something.
there are many more things I'd like to do on turn 4 that usually dont include stopping an echo creature since there are a lot of them that are much faster then turn 4
how is A pointless??
Of course. Also Tolaria West and Expedition Map.
ahhh yeah that would do it. For some reason i heard the "broken" mechanic and brain________, automatically i went to a high tide deck which i why brain freeze popped up. And since you run cloudpost..are you running vesuva alongside it?
No, I mean Braingeyser. Untapping 35 lands, of which 3 or 4 produce 3 or 4 mana, is easily enough to point braingeyser at your opponent's head for more than the contents of his library.
That would work,
You wouldnt get the effect, but youmake sure your opponent needs to trigger it and you can still play spells.
Pretty harsh on the mana, but a nice trick.
As the others said Naya tends to be quick, particularly when you are dealing with guys who have a high power (5+) so Aria can be surplus (good when you are already winning), however it can also break a stalemated board. I like the deck though I think my decks rolled it when we played. That was early in its conception still though.
By the way I missed both of those events that AJ brought red stuff to but I played vs the first deck a bit in testing. Way not fun to lose all your guys when they die to massive deathtouch.
I do believe the idea is you cast them again after bouncing them to lock/unlock the board.
STandstill + hestitation + Tradewind.
Looks good, but dont work.
Both hesitation ( check real text, not printed card) and Standstill say
Blablabla, sacrifice. If you do, then blablabla.
So bouncing those with the trigger on the stack will get you nothing.
Very good point, sometimes the most obvious solution is the hardest to see.
guess it depends on what you call overpowered
I loved the strength of the deck and it always looked strong enough to win without the enchantment.
I was only confused about one part of the article though. In game 2 when he had 5 life left and you had 4 guys to his empty board, he played howl and made the wolves. With Naya charm in hand, why didn't you use the other ability to tap all his guys dpwn and swing for the win? 5-0 would have been yours :)
B Sounds like a good option but is it going to stop the OP decks?
A pointless
c pointless
Sphinx x more than 1 = Sphinges. :) Good luck pronouncing that. Thankfully the common man just says Sphinxes. Btw AJ you meant lethal Brain Geyser right?
Hey Sebastian get well!
Great deck, though you did hit on what seems to be the curse of Mayael's Aria. Its and enchantment in the 3 most aggressive colors in magic. Even trying to build around it like you did will still probably result in the creatures dealing far more damage than necessary long before the win condition on the aria is met.
Good try with Mayael's Aria
Enjoyed the article it read like a battle report for a Warhammer game and make it more exciting ,,,, Good Job
First...and aj I'll admit...im jealous, though i think you mean brainfreeze and not brainstorm
To be honest I was always checking this site for the draft analysis of 'waiting for godot'.
But this article is great information. It is very nice to analyse someone else's plays and hear the commentary. I think it makes me better at analysing my own plays. Don't worry about making suboptimal plays everyone makes those.
Keep up the great work. Hope to see more like this.