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Salute to Vazdru

Started by Kassow-Rossing, 10-06-2010, 01:53:43 PM

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Kassow-Rossing

Made the front page on wizards homepage

http://wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/deck/469

I especially like the "he or she" in the end :)

grizzledmage

Woo hoo!! Way to go Vazdru... and congrats on a great tournament showing, too!

Mythrandir

COngrats!!! Another +1 to our format.
Good job buddy!

GoblinPiledriver

Congrats!! :)

I want the victoriusly Vazdru to refer about his great victory.

I would also be interested in the amount of players which had played the tournament and generally information about the tournament series and their meta.
Throw enough goblins at any problem and it should go away. At the very least, there'll be fewer goblins.

so_not

Yeah front page, cool!

You can find top8 decks of these weekly tournaments in the Decks of the Week archive under 100-card singleton:
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Archive.aspx?tag=Decks%20of%20the%20Week&description=Decks%20of%20the%20Week

There are about 25-30 players in these events. I'll start playing in them too when I get rest of the missing cards for goblins. I'll just have to grind some more pauper and standard first so I can buy rest of the stuff :D

Vazdru

#5
Thx ! Too much honor - it was just Singleton  ;)

In fact I've played 4 Online Singleton Tourneys with WW:

* 5-0, lost quarterfinal
* 4-1, lost semifinal
* Top 16
* fail

Meta is (B-)RDW-(Gobbos) ~ 30%, Aggro ~ 20% (Naya, GW, Boros), Survival ~ 15%, UB(W)-Control (some with Thopter-Combo) ~ 15%, Rogue (Elves, WW, Grixis, Combo...) ~ 20%.

There are at least 24 player for a tournament to begin, sometimes 30-40 participants.


It obviously a budget-deck because i don't want to spend much money in online cards.

Cards missing because they are too expensive:

* Armageddon (~ $ 5; Ravages are $ 2.5  ;))
* Figure of Destiny (~ $ 8.5)
* Elspeth (~ $ 25-30)
* $$-Slayer (~ $ 40)
* Wasteland (??)


Cards missing because they are not released yet:

* Tangle Wire
* Ramosian Sergeant
* Mother of Runes (soon  ;))
* Parallax Wave


Recent Changes:

* Student of Wayfare for Hyena Umbra
* Sb: Mana Tithe for Celestial Purge
* Sb <-> Mb: Crusade <-> Divine Sacrament


It's a bomb vs Aggro esp. RDW after sb -> Absolute Law, Forge-Tender, Rune: Red, Martyr of Sands, Firewalker, Wall of Reverance, Harm's Way, Honorable Passage

Vs control i need a good draw to stand it ;D An early Vial, Ankh, Orb, Ravages or Cataclysm are doing usually a good job.

Vs Survival it's 50:50.

Far below the earth
Where the demons hunt the souls of those that sleep
In the city of the Vazdru and the Drin
Where the black flame burns inside the palace fountain.

Kristian

Congratulations Vazdru.

I've also toyed with the idea of playing singleton on magic online :D. Do you know about wether or not Wizards plan to keep introducing old cards and if yes, which?
There can be only one!

Vazdru

#7
Quote from: Kristian on 11-06-2010, 11:26:03 AM
I've also toyed with the idea of playing singleton on magic online :D. Do you know about wether or not Wizards plan to keep introducing old cards and if yes, which?

Actually they release Urza's Block. Urza's Saga is already online, Urza's Legacy will follow soon.

They try to establish Legacy as online-format. Therefore they need older cards too otherwise they wouldn't attract many Lagacy rl player. So little by little the older sets will show up in online circus.

The online Master Editions are already including some older ones (Duals, Moat, Arabian Nights, Homelands, Portal Stuff).  
Far below the earth
Where the demons hunt the souls of those that sleep
In the city of the Vazdru and the Drin
Where the black flame burns inside the palace fountain.

Kristian

#8
Doesn't it suffer from the same problems like limited availability of the good stuff like Force of Will, duals, old fetches, goyf etc.?
There can be only one!

Vazdru

Latest version of my Singleton WW deck. After Swiss I've had 4-1 and reached the finals in which I've lost vs RDW after i crushed RDW 4 times earlier in the tournament last week.


Lands (35)
1,Eiganjo Castle
1,Flagstones of Trokair
1,Horizon Canopy
1,Karakas
1,Mishra's Factory
29,Plains
1,Tectonic Edge

CC1 (20)
1,Æther Vial
1,Bonesplitter
1,Cursed Scroll
1,Beckon Apparition
1,Figure of Destiny
1,Brave the Elements
1,Elite Vanguard
1,Enlightened Tutor
1,Goldmeadow Harrier
1,Harm's Way
1,"Isamaru, Hound of Konda"
1,Land Tax
1,Mana Tithe
1,Mother of Runes
1,Path to Exile
1,Savannah Lions
1,Soltari Foot Soldier
1,Student of Warfare
1,Suntail Hawk
1,Swords to Plowshares

CC2 (24)
1,Empyrial Plate
1,Winter Orb
1,Amrou Scout
1,Honor of the Pure
1,Kami of Ancient Law
1,Kor Skyfisher
1,Mistral Charger
1,Ronom Unicorn
1,Soltari Trooper
1,Stoneforge Mystic
1,Stormfront Pegasus
1,Azorius Guildmage
1,Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
1,Knight of Meadowgrain
1,Knight of the Holy Nimbus
1,Knight of the White Orchid
1,Kor Aeronaut
1,Leonin Skyhunter
1,Serra Avenger
1,Sigiled Paladin
1,Silver Knight
1,Soltari Monk
1,Soltari Priest
1,Whipcorder

CC3 (16)
1,Sword of Fire and Ice
1,Sword of Light and Shadow
1,Aven Mindcensor
1,Aven Riftwatcher
1,Kor Hookmaster
1,Kor Sanctifiers
1,Mirror Entity
1,Oblivion Ring
1,Soltari Champion
1,Stonecloaker
1,Kitchen Finks
1,Flickerwisp
1,Glorious Anthem
1,"Pianna, Nomad Captain"
1,Spectral Procession
1,Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers

CC4 (5)
1,Ranger of Eos
1,Ravages of War
1,Ajani Goldmane
1,Cataclysm
1,Wilt-Leaf Liege

Cut Exalted Angel - "too much" Bribery.
Elspeth will join the team soon.
Mutavault + Wasteland are still too expensive.

SB (15)

vs any kind of Aggro (w/o blue)
1,Baneslayer Angel
1,Exalted Angel
1,Martyr of Sands

vs RDW:
1,Absolute Law (best card vs RDW)
1,Burrenton Forge-Tender
1,Rune of Protection: Red
1,Paladin en-Vec
1,Kor Firewalker

vs non-white:
1,Crusade

vs Control:
1,Ankh of Mishra
1,Armageddon
1,Aura of Silence
1,Black Vise

vs Recursion:
1,Relic of Progenitus

vs Oath / Survival:
1,War Priest of Thune


Far below the earth
Where the demons hunt the souls of those that sleep
In the city of the Vazdru and the Drin
Where the black flame burns inside the palace fountain.

Mythrandir

Do SBs in there make for unfun 2nd games? or is it still balanced, since they SB too? Just wondering since SB make for totally different deck building strategies.

Because dropping absolute law just seems broken :P

Vazdru

Quote from: Mythrandir on 10-09-2010, 07:08:58 PM
Do SBs in there make for unfun 2nd games? or is it still balanced, since they SB too? Just wondering since SB make for totally different deck building strategies.

Because dropping absolute law just seems broken :P

First I was afraid of Flashfires and Anarchy. And indeed Anarchy cost me some games  ::) but in the end it's still fun. Multicolor-decks offer more SB-Options and aren't that vulnerable to special cards (Imagine Karma vs. MBC ;D). But on the other hand the consitency of my WW in addition with the lack of Spoils-Mulligan balance that somehow. I tried Boros and UW-Fish as well but WW is still my most successful deck.
Far below the earth
Where the demons hunt the souls of those that sleep
In the city of the Vazdru and the Drin
Where the black flame burns inside the palace fountain.