Eternal Warrior #14: The Avalanche

Posted on January 21, 2014 by RexDart

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  1. Just FYI, in M1G2, the reason he searched for an extra land first is that Valakut only triggers if you have at least 5 /other/ mountains in play. So if he’d only gotten 5, then it wouldn’t have done any damage at all.

  2. M5G1 – Lightning Bolt can actually target faces, you didn’t need to point it at the Reckoner. (So hit him to 7, Skred the Reckoner for 4, Bolt his face.)
    You could also have played Reckoner and Thundermaw off of Koth earlier instead Reckoner + Mountain attack, I think.

    M5 G2 and 3 seemed simply very unlucky.

  3. I stopped watching after you couldn’t recognize Scapeshift in Game 1. I mean, seriously? I haven’t seen Tron play Search for Tomorrow in a million years. If you’re going to record videos for Modern, you should at least know the format well enough to recognize a Tier 1.5 deck.

  4. I primarily play Legacy, and started this column with the intent of writing about Legacy and a bit of Classic until Vintage came online, at which time Legacy and Vintage would be the focus. In the meantime, I have added in some Modern content to vary things up a bit, and because I thought people might enjoy that content. I have said before that I’m coming back to the format after a very long hiatus. In my defense, through all the playtesting and recording I’ve done for my three Modern articles up to this point, this was the very first RUG Scapeshift deck I had seen anybody play since getting back into the format, so I was not on alert to spot that deck’s turn 1 play. It hadn’t placed well in the Modern dailies during the latter part of 2013, and just wasn’t on my radar. I realized by the time he dropped an additional colored land that it was probably Scapeshift combo, and I don’t think the misidentification changed the line of play from what I can recall. Once I did recognize it, I had a fairly good idea what cards he would be playing and what his line of play said about his hand. That being said, if I write about Modern again at some point, I will be sure to check more recent DE results to see what resurgent decks might be reappearing in the queues. I feel very strongly about progressively improving the quality of my video content.

  5. I tried a virtually exact deck 2-3 months ago and also got slaughtered. The only good matchup was Jund, they caved as soon as Blood Moon entered.. but most other decks smoked me!!

    So I sold up and moved on…