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Blacklotuscf

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a word in edge wise
Posted on: 6/25/2012 5:00 PM By Blacklotuscf


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  Ladies and gentlemen i am black lotus,

I am hear today to discuss the growing power of the five colors in the standard (type 2 ) format.

in the recent months ive played a lot of tournements and avidly  kept up my collection, i appears to me that

the decks that get played and win are all the same brew 

4 delver 

4 giest of traft 

4 swords 

fill in blanks

or 

4 wolfrun 

4 inkmoth 

4 headhunter

ect...

a new deck surfaced in my home town and many people brought it, it was a zombie infestation reanimator deck 

featureing gristlebrand. i never got a chance to play it but it cleared top 1-4. i leads me to belive that we should pack

our side boards in our main deck and side them out on second game. in fact its almost as if we should create a 

deck capable of ruining all the top 10 decks of the time. now with that being said mirrodin beseiged will be gone along 

with m12 and we should gear up for a more tribal oriented battle. i talking of course about vampires. with 4 lords

and the abiltiy to buff them selfs i belive theyll hit the scene hard... unfortunately for the blood suckers the power of 

snapcastor mage and the one sided board wipe of bonfire will persist. the cavern of souls will only dnumb the pain

and with our swords of war and peace leaving we turn to another way to win. im speaking about black control 

... 

ladies gentlemen we have DURESS back we have APPITITE for brains, Dispise we have tribute to hunger! and 

we have a tribe that buffs better thtan zombies we need to do this deck right good luck world and remeber you

heard the idea here!!!

 


Comments: (11)
Fergusisthebest


6/25/2012 6:29 PM
You know delver will live through this right?
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KeirandtheWhale


6/25/2012 7:13 PM
2 Things:

1) 4 Delver, 4 Geist, 4 Restoration Angel and 4 Snapcaster. Snapcaster and Restoration are way better than Geist, don't leave them out. Also, anyone running 4 swords is doing it wrong. 4!?! That's WAY too many!

2) Wolf Run Ramp decks are dying. Titan Ramp is dying. They're both good, but need to set themselves up which takes time

You want to beat Delver? Play Naya Aggro or Naya Pod. So good! Everyturn is better than the last! Reanimator decks are too easy to disrupt and need to find an Unburial Rites to work at all.
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obsidian2fireheartrr


6/25/2012 7:27 PM
http://www.mtgdeckbuilder.net/Decks/ViewDeck/151943
black control just like you asked
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obsidian2fireheartrr


6/26/2012 1:18 AM
actually replace 2 grave titans w/ 2 barter in bloods
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RoarMaster


6/26/2012 3:13 AM
Oh right, "we should create a deck capable of ruining all the top 10 decks of the time." of course, why didnt I think of that!!
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Subject16


6/26/2012 3:57 AM
I agree with Keir, Naya Aggro wrecks Delver.
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KeirandtheWhale


6/26/2012 6:27 PM
I wouldn't say wrecks Delver, but it is one of the only decks available that has a strong match up vs Delver, while not losing anything against the other archetypes available. The key is that between Cavern making a chunk or your deck uncounterable, Angel being able to flicker your guys past vapor snags, and Splicers and Huntmasters making multiple bodies, you aren't hurt much by them trying to tempo you.
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Vakyoom


6/27/2012 11:52 AM
Door to nothingness anyone? It's coming back out of the vaults for M13, so 5 color decks will be popular again. I really do hope its return to ravnica, then there will be lots of multicolor options to stop people from playing the same 4 decks at FNM. At least its not Archangel ascension/JTMS anymore.... that sucked so much. But that was an 800$ deck sooo....

Anyways, remember that delver only works really well in spell heavy decks... As soon as you see him you should know what kind of deck you're up against, what not to play and, most important, when to play it.

Always sideboard as if you're expecting to face the top 5 decks... include, surgical extractions, cloudshifts, divine reckoning, turn aside, grafdigger's cage, etc... If you're prepared and play your first game smart you'll always have a better chance.
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KeirandtheWhale


6/28/2012 12:01 AM
@Vakyoom

Door to Nothingness is so bad. If anyone actually uses this to beat you, you're playing this game very very wrong. It takes 5 mana to play (turn 4,5 are they most important in the meta right now, and will be the deciding factor in who wins), doesn't change the board at all, and will likely never be activated on account of the mana requirements. If it were 10 colourless to activate, then maybe, maybe, some fringe control deck would run a 1-of. But there is no way to fix your mana like that in the current format, besides maybe Primeval Titan attacking 3 times, and if your plan for Primeval's trigger is to use it to grab the mana you need for Door, you're gonna lose.
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Fergusisthebest


6/28/2012 10:32 AM
I have no idea what is happening here so I'll just say this
Add 4 gut shots and mental missteps
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Fergusisthebest


6/28/2012 10:35 AM
Also reanimator isn't THAT outside the box in standard right now we have zombie infestation defy death/unburial rites norn and avacyn/Gisela/That one with birds in its name
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