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Deck Edit : Final added my day of judgments now it shows 60 cards.!! Just as it says this is the Caw blade I ran in the last Grand Prix. It ran pretty nice but there were alot of Anti-Blade decks in the opening rounds. But they still couldn't contend and got beat. For the most part The only difference in my deck and the winning deck is he was running phantasmal Image. I even tossed the idea around, but in the end i didn't run them, which could have been costly. But in any case this deck build i ran pretty strong , but some games i just wasn't getting good card draws or opening hands. Mulligans always put you at a card disadvantage. Edit: Round 1 win Vs Red Deck wins (2-0 won pretty easily) Round 2 win Vs Tempered steel (2-1 very hard match to win) Round 3 win Vs U/B control (2-0 kid really didn't play well) Round 4 Loss vs Bladebreaker (1-2 ya i said bladebrekaer straight up ANIT Caw blade land kill, creature kill) Round 5 win Vs Caw-Blade (2-1 pretty easy win, don't think he had a good draw) Round 6 Loss vs Splinter twins (0-2 lost even after sideboading just didnt pull anything) Round 7 win vs another tempered steel (2-1 lost the first game but but sideboarded my other DoJ = win) Round 8 win vs Red Deck wins (2-1 lost the first game again but after adding timely reinforcements and Leyline round ended pretty good.) Round 9 Loss vs guess what Splinter Twins (0-2 ya pretty much the same as the last twin's game my weakness has to be splinter twins.)
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well with only 59 cards, IM surprised you even got in
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make that 58
grr its not letting me add my Day of judgments.....
yeah, I recently got the same problem with verdant force, try to add a doj from a different set like zendikar
There's a bug on this site where you can't add a card from the same set to main and sideboard.
Ok ya there now it shows the right number of cards...
How well did you place in the tournament? It seems like a solid build, but you might want to switch Jace Beleren with Jace, Memory Adept. Jace, Memory Adept has the zero ability of forcing your opponent to discard 10 cards from their library. That works really good to screw your opponent over
I had a couple bad draws, and went 6-3 ( i think that put me around the 225-250 place ment), but outta 1500 people it wasn't good enough to make top 128 for day 2. Seems like splinter twins was killing me, that has to be the most annoying deck ever. Ya i didn't have an Adept, and i didn't really have to money to get one. well i could have got one but it didn't really cross my mind at the time and i never play tested with the Adept.
What about Sideboarding Torpor Orb or Norn's Annex to combat Splinter Twins?
As a side note, Norn's Annex is fun against splinter twins with a Leyline of Anticipation on the battlefield....
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well i over extened, thats what killed me. see i was holding counter spell and surgical extraction to kill the combo but i just got carried away and over extended. and yes Norn's annex would be fun against Splinter twins.
i like the deck, it confused me at first, but then i read the comments and realized it was a technical error.
i had the same problem with adding my mindleech to my extraction/mill deck (wouldnt let me add them) you might want to take out all the extra DoJs tho
Ive been fixing it lol now i just had to remove 5 extra Doj's.
How do you side for twin? In the last fnm, I ran blue white control, the image version, and I won against splinter twin with it. Lost game 1, but games 2 and 3 I won via board. It is no doubt a hard match, but i pulled it off with a lot of land and a "draw go" lol. the image version probably has it easier because it can do a LOT late game. when sun titan comes out, with extra mana up, it's very hard for twin to know when to go off
Well I sided in surgical. and I was holding a deprive and spell pierce and surgical but a tactical error on my part cost me the game. Im more aggro and when playing stall control I get to excited and over extend and that's when I get killed.
yeah, surgical is pretty weak vs twin because they don't really let their guys die. it's good in u/b where you have hand disruption, but in u/w it means siding out a more powerful card vs them. overall you did pretty good though, congrats man (: solid list, i'd just change the board a bit. maybe phyrexian revokers? they stop pod and twin. ;]
Thanks man and I was so close to adding that to my sideboard. Now im definitely adding it. Also was thinking Hex parasite ...
well now you have to look at post-rotation. snapcaster mage is definitely a 3-4 of. sooooo good o.o i think u/b might be the way to go, u/w is great for doj, and blade splicer, but u/b gets a lottt of juice...
Funny u mention ub cuz I started putting one together just waiting to see all spoilers from the new set.
u/w is so tight pressed for space! i mean phantasmal image + sun titan is flat out STUPID good. so 4 image 3 titan. blade splicer is amazing vs aggro and the mirror, so 4 splicer 2 concecrated sphinx, because theyre nuts. where does snap caster go D:< i guess he'll fill the jace slot, but man, I'm running 4 doj main. they're tooooo good vs birthing pod. which will be huge post rotation (trust me). u/b though has it easy. snapcaster takes the nighthawk/oracle slot. tada. then lilianna takes the jace slot. u/b is actually very powerful post rotation. if u/b becomes big enough, i can see u/w dropping blade splicers for mirran crusaders.
Ya my uw build im running 3forklift phantasmal image and two phyrixian metalmorph. I meanits not great for sun titan but u can copy artifacts. And ub is going to be nuts. And I was looking strongly at that new inquestior for two white manna?.
he may be good, but with u/w you've got access to so much more. i think mirran crusader would be a much better pick. especially if like I said, u/b gets big or birthing pod variants. birthing pod will be the hardest deck to beat, I think. it was my only loss this fnm. it's just so resilient! and acidic slime + phantasmal image(s) is stupid good. :/ if the meta turns tribal, the inquisitor is an excellent choice though. who knows, it's a tough meta call
Ya pod decks are ripping it up ill have to get the deck list and post it, it's a nasty set up it definitly push my game to the limit. It is a better is a better call to run mirrian cuz black is going to be rough in this set up.
yeah, black is realllly juicy right now. i mean, EVERY deck runs dismember. and mirran crusader doesn't die to it. (: neither does sphinx, or sun titan :O and image dies to literally everything that reads "target", so.. snapcaster mage is absolutely amazing though, i love snapcaster <3
Hey this is the U/B I put together and played a few people the other day it seemed to work ok but still could use some work. if you wouldn't mind taking a look at it. Deck link: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=229724
Twin really seems like a problem for this deck. I think you need Spellskite to deal with that problem. You could also consider Flashfreeze or Celestial Purge, but those would be completely geared towards anti-Twin. Probably a better option than those is Spellskite, another Spell Pierce, and Surgical Extraction. 2 life to remove all the Twins/Exarchs in his deck is well worth it. If you could, I would love input for my goblin deck: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=229571
extraction is actually very weak vs twin. they rarely ever let a combo piece hit the graveyard unless they were going for the kill and failed. so extraction is pretty weak in that sense. purge hits rdw, vampires, mbc.... flashfreeze hits valakut.... purge and flashfreeze are very good sb cards. spellskite is good, but dies to creature removal. something you can't really afford. :/ eot roil your spellskite, combo out, gg
Ya I like the revoker idea and it works well against a lot of different things as well. But i coulda had that game but i played it stupid and i now i know that, and that want happen again. I had flasfreeze in but i really didn't see any Valakut's in play either, but i was running Leyline also , if i cant be targeted i cant take damage and with removal i'd take care of his titans and little creatures with removal so i wasn't worried aobut Valakut. Its not as strong as it once was there's just way to much to counter act it and i had alot against it if I did play it.
i like the deck i wish i had a jace i could run this effectively against my friends, but instead i run this. http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=229560 witch has a decent win streak going
Ya its a great deck just sad to see it rotate out. So I've been testing a UB control and a Pureblade I have UB listed with current build look at my profile. But I havnt got the pure blade uploaded yet.
ok I have added my pureblade deck for viewing pleasure. http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=230291
A guy who goes to our local store placed 9th at the GPT, literally one point away from top 8. He was running Caw as well, so it makes me really curious as to the differences between his deck and yours. Did you know you're at 61 cards now? ^.^; Other than that, solid build.
Well most people are finding out that 61 is better than 60 now a days :P Played a caw blade with 27 lands and answers to everything Who knew esper blade still existed :P
Well most deck list I saw from the GP we're running phantasmal image, and that one card can do alot, that's the only thing I can think.
Call me crazy but, when i run my mono white control deck i usually have Elspeth Tirel in and Gideon sided. if your holding a counter and sun titan with Elspeth on the board blow Elspeth bring out the titan and bring a splicer back in! 3 creatures one cost and they are suffering with nothing. not only that all the tokens from the splicers or Elspeth tokens are granted immunity. I demolished a few kids with that trick. Its a late game switch but takes a while for caw to start really cruising anyway.
BTW here's my deck so you can see what i mean. http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=217858
Hey, I'm not that experienced and have some questions: 1. how do you win in this deck most of the time? i guess you won't draw the swords that often without SF-mystic. so how do you do it? 2. why deprive and not a 2nd spell pierce? 3. Do you not WANT to put in more planeswalker, or don't you have the money? 4. I do not understand the great thing about inkmoth-nexus. why is it that good, i don't see much use because of infect. 5. I want to play such a deck in causal as budget version. Is it possible to play it without Sun titan, gideon jura and blade spilcer? can you suggest any cards? thank you for your aswers ;-)
Ok 1. This deck as i have it now wins about 9/10 matches i play that's best 2 of 3 games. Well you want to mulligan till you get a good starting hand. First and for most you never want to keep a bad opening hand. But alot of the time i pull it because with the hawk's and all the draw card's and stall components you'll just draw into it lol. But with there's so many win conditions alot of the time you want even use the sword of FnF its just another win condition. A lot of the time i never even draw the sword. 2. Deprive is such a good card, i prefer if to the pierce cuz its not just a non creature spell it counters all and all i have to do is return a land, and in late game after the odds of a pierce getting through is slim to none. So I'd rater return a land and counter flat out during late game. Don't get me wrong spell pierce is a wonder full cards early game against manna leaks and dismembers or any of those early spells. 3. you could add more plainswalkers but it just slows the concept of the deck down. trust me I thought that to when i first stated playing caw-blade, but with all the win conditions you dont need that many Plainswalkers. 4. Ok Inkmoth nexus is just amazing. It becomes a cheap blocker for flying creature. Also with infect it gives creatures it blocks a -1/-1 counter. 5. Yes its true this deck is a little expensive, but you could play it with out sun titan but its not a good idea cuz he repopulates the field with all the 3 or less converted Mana drops you lost early in the game. Also Jura is a man part of the deck cuz when you have all there creatures swing in on Gideon that leaves them open for attack, and you really could get away with out using splicers, you can use metamorps, Phantasmal images, emerial angels. You really need need something that gives you creatures. But Gideon and the sword is a staple in deck. if you want look at my pure-blade deck it was alot cheaper to make and i get the same effect but it dosnt have but a 7/10 match win percent. http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=230291 also you really dont need the Inkmoths it's you never know when you will need a blocker, but with sun titan you get it back.
wow, thx for this wall of text ;D really helped me, thanks
No problem,
well, now i have an other question: would it be posslibe to play this deck without any equipment (for causal)? because i have 1 "sword of fire and ice" and 1 "umezawa's jitte" but i had to sell them to get the money for the other cards^^
Ya but it wouldn't be called Caw blade. Then it would be UW contort (blue white control) which is still a good deck idea thoe.
sooo, i looked around a little bit and found "Steelsharper's Gift". Do you (as experienced player) think i can use it instead of SF-Mystic, or is the body and the ability to bring it in play that important?
awwe Steelshaper's Gift that was an amazing card back when it was standard, you could use it but your just playing causal I'd stick with SF-mystic, and yeah her second ability to bring in the equipment is really important. See now if you playing causal should go back to what caw blade use to run, i mean run Batterskull. SF-Mystic with that equipment is really insane because it comes in as a 4/4 V,L its just insane. lol