QSP and me both built budget MTGO decks today. Here was his list (budget esper):
1 Orzhov Guildgate
1 Omenspeaker
2 Plains
1 Prognostic Sphinx
1 Tithe Drinker
1 Divination
1 Essence Scatter
1 Crypt Incursion
1 Azorius Guildgate
1 Triton Tactics
1 Island
1 Daxos of Meletis
1 Inspiration
1 Opportunity
1 Artisan of Forms
1 Treasury Thrull
1 High Priest of Penance
2 Island
1 Swamp
2 Swamp
2 Plains
1 Dimir Guildgate
1 Island
1 Nightveil Specter
1 Negate
1 Devour Flesh
1 Dimir Charm
1 Doom Blade
1 Merciless Eviction
1 Far/Away
1 Hands of Binding
1 Yoked Ox
1 Plains
1 Soul Ransom
1 Lavinia of the Tenth
1 Rootborn Defenses
1 Hidden Strings
2 Swamp
1 Psychic Strike
1 Clone
1 Ultimate Price
1 Riot Control
1 Pontiff of Blight
2 Dimir Guildgate
1 Duress
1 Azorius Guildgate
1 Island
1 Orzhov Guildgate
1 Wall of Frost
1 Voyage's End
1 Gods Willing
1 Island
1 Colossal Whale
1 Gift of Immortality
Sideboard
1 Codex Shredder
1 Orzhov Keyrune
1 Selesnya Keyrune
4 Prophetic Prism
1 Elixir of Immortality
My list you can see here in this screenshot:
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Anyway, we faced off.
Game 1: I got him down to 1 life and he came back with pontiff of blight, a 2/7 that gives all creatures you control extort. Couldn't recover from that as I was just drawing lands.
Game 2: I drew all my lyev skyknights, and counters at the right times. I had 3 aetherize in my hand so I kept him from ever attacking.
Game 3: I turn 2 countered his daxos and he conceded.
I have played a couple other games with other people with this bant flash list.
I played bant flash last standard season with restoration angel, thragtusk, sphinx's revelation, farseek being the 4 key cards for that deck.
This deck had some remnants of the deck. A horizon chimera with opportunity is like a sphinx's revelation. Since this was budget MTGO, I only had enough tix for 1 advent (total deck price is 2 event tickets).
QSP can comment more on how his own deck did. I can say though, I was watching a game where he was playing vs esper control (powered and expensive version) and ended up winning the match despite the board looking like this:
I had more screenshots of our games but they are just black screens. I don't know why.
I conceded that final game because my heart was set on seeing Daxos make the transition from EDH powerhouse to standard powerhouse. Not meant to be apparently.
ReplyDeleteAnd although I'd like to claim my awesome tight play and skill in turning that esper match into a win, it was just the usual mtgo opponent conceding a match they feel isn't worth the time. But I'll take the win.