FNM Winning Decks

[The Boss]

What are the winning decks now at your fnm?

[rctan9]

From the last standard tournament I've been too, my local winning decks are any and all Pickles variants (Tron, Mono Blue, U/B). Next standard for us is when PC will be legal, so there might be a couple of new decks in the scene.

[The Boss]

Project X has been doin decently at fnm the past 2 weeks. i'm personally not a fan of it though. My bro loves it...

[rctan9]

What's the current Project X list look like? I would run it but my meta-game is full of people who looooove counterspells.

[GiveUsBackTheBridge]

well, right now my local meta is stuck between 2 decks, blackfire (my deck) and dralnu (when i dont attend)

sounds arrogant but i dont think i could have built a deck thats a worse matchup for dralnu if i tried, and dralnu dominates my area by numbers.

[The Boss]

What's the current Project X list look like? I would run it but my meta-game is full of people who looooove counterspells.



1 Golgari Rot Farm
3 Forest
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Brushland
4 Temple Garden
3 Godless Shrine
4 Overgrown Tomb
2 Gemstone Mine
1 Pendelhaven
1 Llanowar Wastes

1 Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper
4 Saffi Eriksdotter
4 Dark Confidant
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Soul Warden
2 Elves of Deep Shadow
3 Crypt Champion
4 Wall of Roots
2 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
1 Nekrataal
4 Loxodon Hierarch

4 Chord of Calling
1 Congregation at Dawn
2 Mortify



Something like that...


well, right now my local meta is stuck between 2 decks, blackfire (my deck) and dralnu (when i dont attend)

sounds arrogant but i dont think i could have built a deck thats a worse matchup for dralnu if i tried, and dralnu dominates my area by numbers.


What the hell is a blackfire deck? Decklist?

[sainkaa]

[QUOTE=usernamede;5790913]1 Golgari Rot Farm
3 Forest
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Brushland
4 Temple Garden
3 Godless Shrine
4 Overgrown Tomb
2 Gemstone Mine
1 Pendelhaven
1 Llanowar Wastes

1 Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper
4 Saffi Eriksdotter
4 Dark Confidant
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Soul Warden
2 Elves of Deep Shadow
3 Crypt Champion
4 Wall of Roots
2 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
1 Nekrataal
4 Loxodon Hierarch

4 Chord of Calling
1 Congregation at Dawn
2 Mortify


so this just swarms?

[KingJames]

no you use the crypt champion with saffi (don't pay red) and infinite come/leave play (soul warden, teysa, Sek'kuar)

[sainkaa]

no you use the crypt champion with saffi (don't pay red) and infinite come/leave play (soul warden, teysa, Sek'kuar)

:/


oh, magic is getting ridiclous

[ShadowZ]

:/


oh, magic is getting ridiclous

a 3 card combo spanning 3-4 colors is not ridiculous

[The Boss]

a 3 card combo spanning 3-4 colors is not ridiculous

Solidarity is ridiculous ;)

Ill be playing boros tonight. Decieded to play a real deck :)

[hiei_yasha]

our fnm is quite variable. out of the the past 4 weeks i've finished 2nd (splitting for first) 3 times with angelfire (which i call superman), which is nice cuz we see quite a bit of aggro decks (mono green, scryb, boros). there's a tiny bit of dragonstorm, dralnu, glare, snakeblink, uw tron, and the rest is just jank that the nubbies make.

[The Boss]

I'm going to go into my meta now. Say 35 People showed up (about the average amount for where I go). Here are how many people play each of the main decks (from mtg.com plus a few more).

Mono Green Aggro 2-3
Dralnu du Louvre 0 :confused:
Dragonstorm 4-5
Project X 2-4
W/B Control 2
Boros Deck Wins 1-2
U/W Urzatron 2
GhaziGlare 3-4
Angelfire variants 1
Ignite the Warrens 0
U/G PickleTron 1
U/G Scryb & Force 2
G/B Dredge 0 :confused: ( I was going to play this next week )
Panda Connection 0
Black Rack Discard 1
Gruul- 2-3
U/W CounterMesa 0
R/B Gargadon 0
W/B Rack Discard 1
U/b Pickles 1
SnakeBlink 1
U/W/G Control 0-1
Crappy newb decks 6-7 (I hate these people, well their decks really. First round bye usually)



So. The major decks are: Dragonstorm, Project X, GhaziGlare, U/W Urzatron, and Mono Green Aggro. I WAS going to play BDW this week, but I'm really sick. Ill probably let someone there borrow it (my bro is goin).

We have on average about 6-10 REALLY good people there. Closer to 10 usually, these are people who have been on the pro tour or are just really good. They play these decks: Dragonstorm, Project X, U/W Tron, MUC and some kinda unusual, but good blink deck.

(This is at the store I go to FNM at. I have been going to another place in addition on thursdays.)

[sainkaa]

a 3 card combo spanning 3-4 colors is not ridiculous

i meant, that you can use 3-4 colors to have an extremely good and consistant combo. I am not a real big fan of type 2 anymore(and thats all i have). Just to much of the same it seems now :/

[The Boss]

Yea. I kind of agree that its a bit ridiculous that it acctually works and is a really good deck...

[rctan9]

So how does Project X fare against Dralnu/Pickles/Tron? Those are 3 most counter heavy decks out there (Tron being "counter heavy" via Spellburst lock) and I want to take P-X this Monday to CityChamps if testing posts good results. I'm just afraid of 4 Rewind, 4 Mana Leak/Rune Snag, Spellburst, etc. etc.

[sainkaa]

all your guys are cheap so you will be able to throw out 2-3 creatures a turn around turn 6. also if your bob hits, your pretty much going to auto win

sb 2-4 defense grids :/

[The Boss]

The deck is soo tricky though. It'll combo out when you least expect it (like at the end of it's opponents turn.

I dont know how it does against dralnu since there isnt any dralnu decks in my meta really. It does pretty good against pickles. The key to playing against it (if you have countermagic) is NEVER EVER tap out.

[scion_of_evil666]

hey, so elves and G aggro (after planar chaos) have been big decks in my local FNM.... any ideas as to how a goblin storm deck will do against elves? (i plan on taking 1 to this fridays FNM)

[GiveUsBackTheBridge]

well, the most heavily played decks in my meta have been dralnu, BDW, MGA, UW tron, and Project X...i won the last 4 tournaments with either blackfire (my RWB angelfire list) or my Scryb and Force...right now im leaning toward scryb and force as the best deck in the format, as, properly built, it has favorable matchups against pretty much the entire field, barring some stupid draw from UR tron wildfire...which is also really good (just not played a ton near me).

[The Boss]

At local fnm this week I got second w/ my bdw deck ,only loss was to the bro :/

The deck that's been REALLY popular around me (mainly city champs and not fnm) is UW tron. Thats what won fnm. We'll see how I do tomorrow.

[AnimasPain2006]

Oh wow, we have a bit of everything from T2 ... several Tron variations, a few mono Green, U/G Spectral Force/Scryb Ranger combo, there's a R/B sands, Countless Dralnu and Dragonstorms. My G/F runs a U/G/W countermesa (pretty good), There a few other Countermesa as well, and one guy runs SnakeBlink, A few Zoo decks, I personally run B/W/R Angels (firemane and despair) and I've won the past 2 times

[yomamA12354]

ive been running dragonstorm for about 4 weeks now and its doing pretty solid :D

[sainkaa]

Oh wow, we have a bit of everything from T2 ... several Tron variations, a few mono Green, U/G Spectral Force/Scryb Ranger combo, there's a R/B sands, Countless Dralnu and Dragonstorms. My G/F runs a U/G/W countermesa (pretty good), There a few other Countermesa as well, and one guy runs SnakeBlink, A few Zoo decks, I personally run B/W/R Angels (firemane and despair) and I've won the past 2 times

whats snakes do you blink? besides mystic

[KingJames]

coiling oracle sometimes

[hiei_yasha]

angelfire is still my deck of choice. the last 4 weeks at our local using angelfire:

07-03-1206096, Friday Night Magic: 2007-03-16 1
4 Adam Ramsey Win 1862
3 Randy Pea**** Win 1859
2 brian reynolds Win 1856
1 Amanda Schwartz Win 1855

07-03-1206091, Magic: Standard-2007-03-15-spokane: 2007-03-15 1
3 Nathan Sallee Win 1853
2 Timmiejane A. Carter Win 1847
1 Remy S. Heimbach Win 1843

07-03-1206094, Friday Night Magic: 2007-03-02 1
5 dusty wetzler Tie 1838
4 Sung-Mook Kim Win 1839
3 Adam Ramsey Win 1835
2 Randy Pea**** Win 1832
1 Ryan Quintana Win 1829

07-02-1185901, Friday Night Magic: 2007-02-23 2
5 Steven C. Harris Win 1828
4 Rory Mcdowell Win 1824
3 Jared Pillow Win 1822
2 John D. Dernoncourt Win 1820
1 Travis Bublitz Win 1819

07-02-1185900, Friday Night Magic: 2007-02-16 2
5 Eric Ervin Tie 1817
4 Warren Wittrock Win 1818
3 Jacob C. Huss Win 1814
2 Daniel Moberg Win 1809
1 Randy Pea**** Win 1806

[sainkaa]

coiling oracle sometimes

rofl... why in the hell would you want to blink that lol.. maybe it works, but ic ant imaging it could.

[The Boss]

if your mana screwed it could be useful sainkaa.

[hiei_yasha]

there are times where you may have a blink that's dead in your hand. blinking an oracle is less than ideal in most situations, but it gets through your deck by 1 so it's usually always a 1-for-1 tradeoff. and say they go to wrath and you have nothing to deal with it. blink your oracle and you may draw into the remand or mystic snake or whatever.

[sainkaa]

if your mana screwed it could be useful sainkaa.

so your mana screwed if you have a white green and a blue source on the field? more then likely some of them are duals :O

[KingJames]

true, but you might not have enough total mana.

[The Boss]

I'm gonna play azorious tron this fnm. Ill let everyone know how it goes.

[hiei_yasha]

is there a difference between azorious tron and u/w tron?
as for me i'll be playing angelfire again and splitting for 1st obv :P lol j/k, i'll probably get beat by some weird jank deck like last week again..going 4-1 and finishing 5th messed up my "streak" :/

[The Boss]

No there isnt a difference. Today I won with it, I play teferi and triskelivus as my win conditions. I dont like the brine elemental and vesuvan shapeshifter combo at all :P

I went to a new store that a friend opened, so it was 4 rounds, no tops.

1. Izzetron- 2/1 Win
2. Mono-Black Contol- 2/1 Win
3. Satanic Sligh 2/0 Win
4. Angelfire 1/1 Draw. I would have won next turn :(

Overall the deck did what it was supposed to do.

[hiei_yasha]

i went 4-0-1 today and got 2nd. would've went 5-0 but i got waaay too drunk before and during the tournament and i made some really bad play mistakes. it was a lot of fun though, and there's nothing like seeing your opponent's face as they get beat by a drunk :P

[The Boss]

Yea. My brother got soooo drunk afterwords last night... It was funny watching him stumble around :P

I'm sure sainkaa was drunk as well...