Friday, October 16, 2009

brw ascension 2.0

4x path to exile
4x lightning bolt
4x burst of lightning
2x harm's way
3x bloodchief ascension
3x luminarch ascension
3x volcanic fallout
3x blightning
3x ajani vengeant
4x day of judgment
3x baneslayer angel
4x marsh flats
4x arid mesa
4x dragonskull summit
2x swamp
4x mountain
7x plains

sideboard
4x terminate
2x elspeth
2x mind-shatter
3x duress
2x sorin markov (this should be liliana but i don't have them with me)
2x intimidation bolt

the idea is not to lose to control like i'm playing turbo-fog, which is what my RW felt like. I destroyed aggro, but i lost to control even after the board.

now i have maindeck sauce vs control. my board has some stuff to further help the control match-up in planeswalkers and discard. i have weanie hate in intimidation bolt. Vs aggro i board out the bloodchief ascension and turbo-fog it, with angels as my win-con. vs aggro i take out some of my removal and add the planeswalkers and discard.

i hope it works out.

2 comments:

Sean said...

Match 1: vs landfall aggro. I won 2-1.

Match 2: vs Sigil of the Empty throne. I lost game one, boarded in 13 cards, and lost game 2.

Match 3: vs library attack. Game one I milled 40ish cards to telamin performance and my opponent got a baneslayer from my library. Then he path'd my angel, and i scooped. Game two i boarded in 13 cards and lost to mind funeral twin casted twice.

Match 4: vs vampire aggro. I lost in 2.

Obviously my deck is worse this week. I made significant changes in order to compete with control and i never won a game vs control. Secondly, my aggro matchup has digressed. I need to find a way to make this deck compete vs control and retain my good matchup vs aggro. Splash black may not have been my best bet. Bloodchief ascension did not work. The only way i had to deal damage went to creatures, so even if i got a turn one ascension, it had maybe one or two counters on it by turn eight or nine. I might look at going back to RWG--green offers ways to deal with enchantments/artifacts in play, and naya charm is really good, but also important for me to fish wincons out of my graveyard. I may go back to +3 sarkon, +2 martial coup, +4 naya charm.

Sean said...

the idea is martial coup and sarkan vol are win cons and will help my maindeck out vs control.

gonna think long and hard about it today and tomorrow as i'm driving around, cause i don't want to go 1-3 next friday.