u/ikariashpool

Very very early days in the brewing process and I used cards I had available on Arena. I don't think I am busting the meta with it but I've had some fun with it and some very early success. I wanted to get initial impressions from the best and brightest and some recommendations for bolstering it.

Deck

4 Silent Hallcreeper (DSK) 72

4 Swamp (EOE) 271

4 Optimistic Scavenger (DSK) 21

3 Island (EOE) 269

4 Wicked Visitor (WOE) 118

3 Plains (EOE) 268

1 Hallowed Fountain (ECL) 265

4 Sheltered by Ghosts (DSK) 30

4 Nowhere to Run (DSK) 111

2 Floodfarm Verge (DSK) 259

2 Bleachbone Verge (DFT) 250

4 Godless Shrine (EOE) 254

2 Gloomlake Verge (DSK) 260

1 Undercity Sewers (MKM) 270

4 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber (DSK) 118

4 Ethereal Armor (DSK) 7

1 Fear of Impostors (DSK) 57

3 Firdoch Core (ECL) 255

2 Multiversal Passage (SPM) 180

2 White Widow, Free Agent (MSH) 42

2 Creeping Peeper (DSK) 46

Sideboard

4 Shardmage's Rescue (DSK) 29

2 We Say Thee Nay! (MSH) 82

3 Requiting Hex (ECL) 116

3 Rest in Peace (OMB) 6

3 Day of Black Sun (TLA) 94

This deck started out as a net deck (with [[Madame Null, Power Broker]] and [[Demon Wall]] ) that I have been toying with over the past months. I recognize that it is a Tier 2 deck - which I am okay with but it seems fragile / inconsistent and I would like it to play a little better. The deck has stalled out at Platinum Tier 2. I have been trying to make work better but I think its time to move on. Before I do that, I wanted to see if I am missing something obvious.

The working idea is to use a mix of removal and hand disruption to allow me to play [[Bebop & Rocksteady]] and/or [[Rot-Curse Rakshasa]] with [[Abigale, Eloquent First-Year]] to add flying+lifelink while remove the "downside" that allows for the low CMC. These creatures are interesting to me as they have a toughness values that make them a little more insulated from all the low-cost red burn.

The [[Unholy Annex]] helps with life loss / life gain / card advantage. There are 10 total opportunities to generate a demon [[Esper Origins]] is my latest attempt to help stabilize the deck through Surveil.

WRT Side Board:

I tried to tune it so that I can lean more hand disruption, gaveyard hate, or flying / enchantment / token removal, as needed.

[[Maelstrom Pulse]] is especially useful / satisfying for when the opponent gets a little undisciplined and plays all their Tablets.

[[Ancient Vendetta]] is the side-in tool to remove bombs like [[Jeskai Revelation]], [[Yuna, Hope of Spira]], [[Tablet of Discovery]], etc...

[[Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker]] I swap in for a Bebop & Rocksteady if there is a lot of targeted creature removal across the table.

[[Professor Dellian Fel]] One more piece of creature removal and/or card advantage.

The Arena version, where I do most of my tweaking, of this deck replaced the 3 [[Llanowar Elves]] with 1 more each of [[Firdoch Core]], [[Esper Origins]], and [[Underground Mortuary]].

Also with the Arena Version

• 14 Creatures + 4 x Demon Token + 3 Lands
• 15 Instants & Sorcery Spells
• 2 Artifacts
• 23 Lands

Thoughts:

• Good Opening Hands are GOOD but few and far between. I think the greatest weakness of this deck is tutoring / card draw. If the opponent can get stalled long enough for some of the big creatures + Annex to drop, things are usually pretty good.
• Bad Opening Hand ares are BAD. Taking a Mulligan feels like an insta-loss - I don't know if this is an Arena thing but man... with 22 lands + 3 Elves + Core, I really felt like I had enough opportunity to draw into enough mana but it never seemed like it. All the removal also led me to drop the Elves completely for the 23rd land + Core + Esper Origins
• Should I try some graveyard recursion? This deck runs through a lot of lower-cost spells and there would be upside here.
• Creatures feel fragile and possibly there are not enough. With the lands and Demon tokens, there are 21 opportunities. Is this a response to everyone tuning against Mono Green Landfall? Especially the 6/6 Demon Token... I am recently getting the feeling that Room should only be unlocked as a last resort with how easily it gets insta-killed.
• Abbie - I pulled her out at some point and the deck completely lost its spark and was linear, middling, and unfun - so I put her back in. I am still torn on her usefulness but I have used her to shutdown creatures on the other side that have really nasty ETBs or triggers.
• Rot-Curse Rakshasa and Abbie (noted above0 have interesting interactions that the opponent is not immediately ready for - Decay has been especially powerful to slowing down attacks.

Cards I have tried and subsequently removed:

[[Biosynthic Burst]] - For the obvious reasons as well as putting counters on Leatherhead in order to destroy artifacts / enchantments while keeping the hexproof counter.

[[Mind Roots]] - Leaning more into hand disruption as well as maybe bonus land?

[[Umbral Collar Zealot]] - trying to give me _something_ for when a creature is going to get waxed by red burn or black removal

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but are people only playing the top decks in this event? Is there any MMR happening here?

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Did some light googling and reverse image search to no avail... Sorry for the dumb question but what tool do you use to get these axle nuts off?

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It looks like I am having the same sleep issue that many other are having using Fedora (44) on a laptop. The laptop goes to sleep, then requires a hard reset (via long press of the power button) to recover. I cannot seem to find a good tutorial for how to dig in and find out what is happening.

I have a MS Surface Pro 9
Fedora 44
Surface Kernel 6.19.8-3.surface.fc43.x86_64

Thanks in advance for any help.

I can't seem to get any momentum for good habits to stick... I am absolutely lighting money on fire with gym memberships, good food rotting in the fridge, and going out to eat. I will string together a couple good days of eating, fitness, and sleep and then I'll have some triggering event or self sabotage and I spiral out for a week or more. I somehow never have time for the important things... probably because I am making chicken cutlets from scratch on a Wednesday... Quick Sauce was in the freezer...

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