It can be the aggressor against Delirium and Torrential Gearhulk and play the control role against Zombies or Winding Constrictor. Temur Energy is the midrange-est midrange deck in the format. Most cards in the deck are worth more than a card as a result, most of what is happening here is going to naturally out-grind anything, synergy aside. The Good: This deck does almost the same thing every game. If you’re experienced with the archetype, jam. This makes it easier for control decks to have profitable Sweltering Suns and Fumigate turns, despite Dread Wanderer, Scrapheap Scrounger, and Relentless Dead all being in the deck.įinal Verdict: Zombies being proactive makes it incredibly attractive, but everybody gunning for it makes me skeptical to play it without a large number of reps with the deck. Diregraf Colossus and Cryptbreaker are the best ways to net cards, but they both require their controller to overcommit in order to get much of a payoff. This makes the deck flounder against control despite appearing to crush it on paper.
In short, everybody should know how they can perform against Dread Wanderer and company.ĭespite a host of sticky threats, Magma Spray can give the deck fits. This means that it is sort of the litmus test that everybody will be using to know if they can compete in the format.
GLINTSLEEVE SYPHONER UPGRADE
Metallic Mimic might be embarrassing, but it sure gets a heck of an upgrade post-sideboard when it Animorphs into Scrapheap Scrounger. Zombies is comfortable sitting back and letting Diregraf Colossus and Cryptbreaker take over while the opponent has trouble finding good attacks.Īgainst control, most of the creatures in Zombies are sticky, and given time they will overpower almost everything in front of them. It’s hard to “just kill their things.”Ĭreature decks have a hard time fighting their efficiency and the low-to-the-ground creature decks are outclassed too quickly for them to reasonably fight on an axis they’re comfortable fighting.
The Good: Zombies is proactive and resilient. With zero tournaments since the recent banning of Aetherworks Marvel, people are still trying to figure out what is going on and what they should be playing. I’m rarely formulaic in my writing, but I’ve got a lot of information to cover here and want to talk about (almost) everything I’ve playtested for the tournament, what I learned, and why one should or shouldn’t look to play a deck.
GLINTSLEEVE SYPHONER FREE
My recent decision to leave my day job and pursue Magic full-time has afforded me the free time required to test a wide range of decks in the format. Sticking to the same archetype isn’t something I do, and outside of Legacy Prowess, there isn’t any specific deck that I’m really known for championing. I’ve played a plethora of archetypes in my day.
We didn’t arrive here overnight, and it’s a process, but what is the process like?įor some people, they lock into their decks early on in testing and work on tweaking said archetypes for the duration of their testing, learning the ins and outs of a single strategy, all in the hopes of being able to out-maneuver whatever they play against, even if it’s a bad matchup. The tournament is tomorrow and most of us are going to be locked in on our decks by now.
0 kommentar(er)
