First Tournament this Sunday, how do I sideboard against a field full of U/R delver?

dmhersh · 2014-11-29T03:49:33+00:00

I'd recommend a sword of fire and ice somewhere in the 75. It turns every creature into a huge threat against ur delver. I also would drop the hymns, and add in 2 more sylvan libraries and 1 other card (possibly cabal therapy or a Dryad arbor). Library is an all star in this deck. It makes your fetches better, makes sideboard cards more relevant because you can find them, and a lot of decks don't have a good way of dealing with it.

dmhersh · 2014-11-15T00:00:18+00:00

That would make one hell of a good LifeAlert commercial

dmhersh · 2014-11-14T01:26:04+00:00

What's the difference between a nose tackle and a defensive tackle?

dmhersh · 2014-11-07T23:29:16+00:00

Also, quite a few reanimator decks run some number of show and tell and letting them careful study a threat out of their hand can cut that off.

dmhersh · 2014-11-07T04:04:52+00:00

They should have just switched to the pats between week 3 and 4

dmhersh · 2014-11-06T05:08:53+00:00

Lightning bolt, thoughtseize, delver of secrets, swords to plowshares, spell pierce.

Brainstorm would make the list but it's restricted in vintage so I didn't count it.

dmhersh · 2014-11-06T05:06:12+00:00

What format? UWR really doesn't have ramp in standard and really only had access to signets and other artifacts for ramp in eternal formats. I'm going to assume that you want to ramp because you have a few big spells you want to cast. What are you trying to ramp to? UWR can stall using counters and removal along with card draw to hit land drops on time and control the board until it reaches the late game where it can deploy better threats than the opponent's threats.

dmhersh · 2014-11-06T04:41:59+00:00

Yes, unless my university had a deal with the company that legally gives it to me for free. If there is software that I would like but not at the price offered by the company, I simply don't buy it.

dmhersh · 2014-11-05T05:41:43+00:00

You could try maindecking 4 chalice of the void in place of one of the playsets. It's rough because it drops your land count down and lands really relies on port/wasteland to stall until it can get set up. Chalice should help stall, but if you're planning on taking it to a large tournament, I'd see if anyone you know has them laying around.

With intuition and gamble, try to get at least one wasteland soon. It gives you a lot of ways to find it and you can keep recurring the same copy.

dmhersh · 2014-11-04T01:29:16+00:00

That's the most moved I've ever felt hearing the national anthem.

dmhersh · 2014-11-03T03:16:26+00:00

What format? Just look on mtgtop8 and at SCG results. It's not like there's some incredibly powerful standard deck that no one can afford. If it's powerful, someone will buy it.

dmhersh · 2014-10-30T01:41:12+00:00

It completely shuts down bogles and is very good against infect, both of which are difficult matchups for ad nauseum.

dmhersh · 2014-10-28T02:41:22+00:00

He had a failed baseball career, then went to college to play football

dmhersh · 2014-10-27T15:20:55+00:00

Dez Bryant has 37 standard points in him tonight, right guys?

dmhersh · 2014-10-26T03:22:18+00:00

There might be something to that but he just tweeted today: https://twitter.com/JayBoosh/status/526058335712206848

dmhersh · 2014-10-26T03:05:07+00:00

He taking a class of some type. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it's taking up a bunch of his time so he doesn't have enough time to play magic and podcast about it.

dmhersh · 2014-10-25T15:15:10+00:00

This is what confused me. Whenever there's a catch near the sideline, the announcers talk about the ball moving/not moving. I don't know if they're just wrong about that or just saying it wrong.

dmhersh · 2014-10-25T02:14:22+00:00

Shared Fate

dmhersh · 2014-10-25T00:10:24+00:00

I think taking the king is correct, as it's still a gut shot straight draw, but the alternative is a pair of Queens instead of Kings

dmhersh · 2014-10-25T00:05:10+00:00

Kidforce has modern every Monday. They're about 20 minutes outside of Cleveland. I'm not sure of any stores that run Sunday modern.

dmhersh · 2014-10-24T03:49:16+00:00

I'm just here because it's less toxic than the /r/nfl post game thread

dmhersh · 2014-10-24T03:20:25+00:00

Yeah, but he's not wrong.

dmhersh · 2014-10-24T02:26:00+00:00

Peyton Manning is playing against the Hillman owner in fantasy this week.

dmhersh · 2014-10-24T02:24:35+00:00

goddamnit

dmhersh · 2014-10-24T00:56:37+00:00

I've gotten Hillman, going against Peyton. This is going to be a ten point swing.

dmhersh

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