Bo1 Gold. Thoughts on Wildspeaker + Emry?
Posted Oct 15, 2019, 7:16 PM UTC
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P1P1 was Wildspeaker and picked up Witchstalker and Faren next. Mediocre afterwards with a a bunch of artifacts and meh green.
P2P1 was Emry and I thought I had enough food so shifted into artifact mode with the suits and such. Rewarded at the end with Troll King.
Solid powered draft, but since UG artifacts isn't seen that often, I would like some thoughts from everyone. So far, probably will tweak the manabase to skew more green and leaning towards cutting Bridge, Acolyte, 1 rider, appetite and beanstalk.
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Would never cut Acolyte with a Troll King and a second color. Would cut the River Turtle. Run Away Together also seems to lack enough good targets. Would play any of the cards you're cutting over it. Also don't think you have enough food (or other payoffs) to make Giant Opportunity work.
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Thanks for the prompt reply, makes a lot of sense. I definitely have a bit of tunnel vision on cards to support my rares or are "usually" good.
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I'm cutting Dummy x2 with no real Knight or non-human synergies. Drawbridge is meh. Last two are probably TAAB and Giant Opportunity, although I like how the latter plays with Shambling Suit more than Gingerbrute, which I'm still not convinced on
Dummies are artifacts for Emry.
I ended up going more beatdown and cutting run away, turtle, and bridge, then running 42 cards cuz lazy.
Went 6-3 with two losses being a couple punts: one where I brought back the wrong artifact (my gingerbrute to block the opponent's) and another where I mis-clicked/counted and didn't pump my dude. Last one was where I was punished for running 42 by getting mana-screwed.
Giant Opportunity overperformed quite a bit, as gingerbrute and egg both allowed me to get the giant out a couple times early on and the cabin/witchstalker let me get it out by midgame.
The Hengehammers were the weakest performers, the double green making it a late two drop most of the time. It only really helped once on a perfect curve out win, in combination with TAAB.
Overall, the deck ran pretty smooth with the main wincon being the 3x Witchstalkers, despite some bad self-mill from Emry leading some really close games.