Dime a Dozen #26: The Return of White Weenie

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Jason Moore

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  1. I feel the same way. Been piloting MWA for over two years playing pauper. Great article and video. Glad someone out there is still piloting MWA just like me.

  2. Great article as always Jason, as I wrote yesterday on the justsin’s last article, you guys are the real pillar of the community and of this format ;) everyday I’m looking forward your lately works and articles about it! keep up the good job!

    In your last paragraph, you’re saying that trying to adjust to the metagame is not much worth like practicing with the deck you’re used to play and you love the most. I do agree but not totally, since I think that working on your deck is itself an “adjust to the metagame”, as example take a look at your choice, what I read from your article is that you’re trying to rush out the opponent before he storms you out.

    This is what I mean by “adjusting to the meta”, working hard on a deck that you rly feel your own and make it competitive in the current metagame. This is what gives me the strenght to continue testing out and to continue improve my skills on those decks who I feel mine more than others!

    Cheers!

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  3. Hey Jason, a funny article and very well written. I like your lastest WhiteWinnie iteration, I might be trying it on tournament practice room.

    Just a few questions about the sideboard, why the lonely plains on sideboard? Won’t be better the third Guardians’ Pledge? Why Rune of Protection: Black and not Obsidian Acolyte instead? Because the cycling and not dying to Geth’s Verdict?

  4. Nick – Glad you liked the content! I salute you.

    Kragg – Your kind words are very much appreciated!

    Vermiis – I tried to explain the singleton Plains in the article but may not have done a good enough job. In some matchups we pile on the 3 drop spells from our sideboard, so I like having an additional land. It also works out that we have an additional slot to board in sometimes.

    As far as Acolyte, you are correct. It can be answered by edict effects, Serrated Arrows etc. Rune has far fewer answers and theoretically keeps them from being able to win. Feel free to give the deck a shot!

  5. I’m very new to pauper so this may be a bad suggestion but would Suture priest be a viable sideboard option for mirrors and to have a way to possibly take a little more life from the cloudpost fissure deck making a quicker kill possible? Or at the very least gain some more life against that match-up to stall longer and hope for the clock out?

    Also really enjoyed the games thanks for the content

  6. Alex – Welcome to the format! Suture Priest has been a valuable sideboard option in the past, but at the time of this DE, and even right now, the mirror is not a matchup we’re all too likely to face. I wish Priest were more effective against FissurePost, but they have answers to it (like Snap, and even Serrated Arrows). For that reason I’m not sold on the card at the moment, but I’ve been wrong before. Great comment!

  7. I think you are definitely exaggerating! You got lucky sideboard wise in the first stompy match and the second stompy pilot was clumsy to say the least.

    You 4-0′d this time. Anyone who can play well with a WW will eventually get results due to variance effects. That doesn’t mean WW is a good option in the long run, in the current meta. It’s still pretty much “dead”, IMO.

  8. Gustavo – I appreciate the comment, but I don’t think I (unintentionally) exaggerated anywhere. In the videos I openly admit that luck counteracted my misplays, and that playing WW would generally be a struggle. I don’t feel like I claimed WW was good in the current “meta” either, in fact that was part of my whole point. I’ll try to send a clearer message in future articles.

  9. OK, sorry if I seemed rude. It was not my intention.
    In future articles, I suggest you start by the title.

  10. Gustavo – No problem! I don’t think you were being rude. I’ll keep your advice in mind and try to come up with better/more accurate titles. Glad you took time out to leave comments!

  12. I would like to praise your attitude in the comments box.
    I’m a regular reader of your articles, some are very good, some are so so, but overall I like them. But I see that people get rude in the articles very often, (very rude sometimes) and you never react aggresively, instead you are always educated, even when seriously offended.
    That’s a great atitude, I really appreciate it!

  13. the_endbringer – Nice observation. I’m glad you took time out to leave a comment! It would be helpful if you could let me know what (in your opinion) makes some of the articles good, and what makes some of them worse (this way I can try to improve the overall quality of my work).