The Proffessors: Episode 76: Q'ing for Austin: Part 2: Metagaming

Hello everybody and welcome back. This week we plan to have a bit more news as we get continuously closer to the PTQ season as well as a couple more test games in both my archetype and another. Weve also got results from Grand Prix Seattle. So well detail those and their contrast to Barcelona as well. So lets draw!

The Match:
Andrew, the Jund player is playing and I keep a hand of 2 lands (no black sources, but it seemed worth it in this case), 2 path to exiles, 1 cloudgoat ranger, a glorious anthem and a tidehollow sculler. Andrew plays Savage land, I put a Windbrisk into play tapped, Andrew then plays a Twilight Mire and a Rampant Growth, getting a Mountain to speed things up.
I then play a Reflecting Pools with visibly no black sources, and pass. He plays a Savage Land, ends and I play a Plains and tap out for a Kitchen Finks going to 22. He plays a land and passes while I tap out again for A Glorious Anthem, taking him to 16. He then pulses the Anthem when I play a Sculler next turn, hiding a Dragon Broodmother and follow that play up with a Bitterblossom and an attack for 3 when he plays a Dragon Broodmother, which gets Path to Exiled on my untap step, and another next turn which runs into that second Path to Exile and brings us onto Game 2.
I switch out 3 Celestial Purges for 3 Knight of the White Orchids for Game 2.
On the draw I keep a hand of 5 lands, a Tidehollow Sculler and a Spectral Procession. He starts out with a Crag and a Savage Lands. He then Rampant Growths for a Forest after which I play a Swamp which isuhhhsupposed to be a Fetid Heath here and Sculler, taking his Terminate.
He then begins the climb, playing a Fertile Ground and passing while I play a Spectral Procession and hit for 2. He plays a Garruk, bringing him to 4 and naturalizes the sculler. But, its fine I just play a Sculler taking his Cloudthresher pretty much just because it draws the terminate away from what I had planned for the next few turns which youll see play out in a sec. I then swing at Garruk for 3 and its his move.
He terminates, as expected, then draws and plays a land, gets rid of Garruk for a beast and threshes on my declare attackers step. I begin my setup for the following turns by playing a redcap dealing 2 to him and playing a Mutavault. He goes and swings for 7, which I take. I play another Redcap and he goes, attacking, at which point I play Zealous Persecution, bringing his creatures down and mine up at which point I double block the thresher for a total of 6 damage, and, persisting, kill the beast. I then swing with a Mutavault and the redcaps, picking up a Cloudgoat on the way and, with only a single Maelstrom pulse left and I a Kitchen Finks, a concession.

Next Weeks show may be a little late. But itll be worth it. Trust us.

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[agdstardust]

you cant play spells on your untap stup bud

[proffessors]

also worded wrong, in response to the ability is what I said and did in real life, but I wrote it and said it wrong on tape.

[blazeboy36]

Did the jund player have any broodmate dragons or only sued broodmother? broodmate seems to be the safest option for jund no matter what. better to get a extra creature the turn it comes into play rather than during ur upkeep. Hope he had them

[proffessors]

Yeah, he was running for of each, and, just a note, broodmother is every upkeep, not just urs.

[shadowhunter483]

Swans became an effective deck because most control decks can't deal with it. Fairies has the most effective counter magic which it allows it to disrupt swans effectively. The prevalence of swans caused all the tokens decks to switch to either swans or fairies. Now that a dedicated control deck is in the meta, you will see more fairies. Also why did you cut purge against jund? The knight doesn't do much. Most of his creatures are black or read i.e Dragon broodmother, broodmate dragon.

[proffessors]

my apologies I said that backwards. I switched out the knights for the purges, not the purges for the knights.

[StoneThrowingDevil]

why didn't he just do this...

1) Play Garruk

2) Untap Fertile Ground land + other land

3) Evoke thresher at instant speed

His Garruk would still be alive (with 2 counters) and would be able to make blockers for the next turn. Sure you get the naturalize, but who cares? It becomes a growing army of 3/3 beasts versus some tidehollows...

And he had another thresher on the way. Who knows how that game "should have" played out...

[ParentheticalMagic]

well, i could beat the double tarmagoyf, i got a double dragon broodmother of of alara reborn. but, thats not the same as future sight. the rest of the booster box gave 2 sen triplets, a jenara, a karrthus and sphinx of steel wind.

[electricturf]

Did he play Maelsrtom Pulse in instant speed, as a response to your sculler? It's a sorcery.

[xBoSMaN22]

BW Tokens is 10x better against Faeries than GW tokens.

[LordSageMirentus]

Furthermore, Faeries is horrible against a lot of decks right now, does that make it a terrible deck? Sometimes the metagame doesn't have a place for said deck, it happens, especially these days where we have so many potential decks.

5cc is another deck that is not horrible, it has been good since Shadowmoor/Eventide and continues to be another viable strategy/deck to play in any given tournament.

Again, deck archetypes are heavily dependant on the metagame.

[PS]Fog is a Prison deck.

[LordSageMirentus]

I wouldn't say terrible. I'll be honest, it's an incredibly viable strategy when the field is +70% Aggro.

Just bad players think that because you have 12 fog effects and a bunch of card draw means you automatically win. They use their fogs at every little opportunity and then cry if they lose what was supposed to be a 80/20 MU.

Fog is a decent deck, always has been, and it has been traditionally awful against true control strategies and without gain life, against burn as well.