The New Tier 1: RG Babykiller

Written by Revik on April 06, 2007

by Revik

With Tron dominating standard right now, people are seeming to have some trouble learning to adapt to it. Some people run Detrivore, some run Tron to beat Tron, but it seems to me that one thing that is overlooked is Karstenbot Babykiller. It's fast, and can not only beat aggro with speed, but it can also beat Tron with Blood Moon and LD. Now, with Planar chaos out and UR Tron making its comeback, there is even MORE Tron to deal with. I've been tinkering with a list of Babykiller as of late, and have had some success (Can somebody say ninety points in one day?). Here's the list:

RG Babykiller
Main Deck		Sideboard
4 Stomping Ground 1 Pendelhaven 7 Mountain 8 Forest 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits 3 Tin Street Hooligan 4 Kird Ape 4 Llanowar Elves	4 Scab-Clan Mauler 4 Boreal Druid 4 Cryoclasm 4 Stone Rain 3 Demonfire 3 Blood Moon 2 Stormbind 4 Call of the Herd	4 Sulfur Elemental 3 Seal of Primordium 3 Giant Solifuge 3 Jester's Scepter 2 Spike Feeder

Before I get into anything, here's rule number one of aggro: do not overextend. That's a general given in all of these matchup analysis's and general breakdowns of how to play the deck. Try to keep a few cards in hand because there are too many global damagers/wreckers in the format to risk dealing three more damage. Only overextend if you're positive your opponent isn't holding global effects or you're playing against Boros or something.

Another important thing to remember is how important it is to win game one. It puts more pressure on your opponent, and that's what this deck tries to do best.

I chose to maindeck Cryoclasm and Blood Moon strictly for metagaming purposes. The RWU matchup is very bad, and those cards can help balance it out a bit. The reason for eight mana elves are so you can hit your perfect curb on the play, ending up with a turn two Elephant or Stormbind or, most preferably, Cryoclasm/Stone Rain. Hooligan is maindeck because of all the Signets and Totems I've seen around lately, and it hasn't let me down. I chose not to use snow as the only good reasons to use it are Yeti, which I think is too slow for this, and Mouth of Ronom/Scrying sheets, although they'll probably just end up Mountains with Blood Moon. You want to try to keep up tempo and throw down some early critters while nuking your opponents lands, and end up winning off of an army or a huge Demonfire pointed to the face.

To correctly sideboard with this deck, you have to take into account many things. First things first, notice the obvious things. If your opponent is mono-colored with all basics, take out the Blood Moons. If your opponent is outside of Blue and/or White, take out Cryoclasm. When against Aggro, I would board out two Boreal Druids for Spike Feeder, if it's white-based with few artifacts I'd take out the Hooligans and a Blood Moon for Sulfur Elementals, and if it's Green-based with pump enchantments, definitely add in Seals over Blood Moons or Cryoclasms. Against Dragonstorm, side out Stormbinds, Demonfires, and Hooligans in favor of Jester's Scepter, Solifuges, and Spike Feeders. You also might want to board out Blood Moons for Seals, hitting the Lotus on upkeep right after it comes into play hits the spot. For control you want to board out Blood Moons or Cryoclasms, depending on the color base, or Random 1-ofs to make room for Solifuges and Sulfur Elementals. Sulfur is vital in this matchup, as it has Split Second and can be flashed into play at end of turn to give it makeshift haste. Oh, and if you feel like it's worth the risk, you can probably sideboard in Jester's Scepter for fun in most control matchups.

Matchup Analysis and Breakdown

RWU variants

This is probably your worst matchup. This very matchup is the reason why I maindeck Blood Moons, as that move is devastating early game. Hooligan helps get rid of signets,and is backed up in games two or three with Seals. The Call of the Herds help the most in this matchup, as do Sulfur's in games two and three to weaken Lightning Angel and allow Elephants to kill it if they choose to block. Remember, you can't play this matchup conservatively, so you need to keep pounding at them.

Generally Sideboard:

-4 Call of the Herd
-3 Demonfire
-1 Llanowar Elves
-1 Boreal Druid
-1 Scab Clan Mauler
+4 Sulfur Elemental
+3 Seal of Primordium
+3 Giant Solifuge

Dragonstorm

Another bad matchup, although not as bad as RWU. In game one your best friends are your Elves, Kird Ape, and Mauler. Call of the Herd helps provide backup while you pound relentlessly to prevent your opponent from going off. Game two you have Scepter support, which can be played turn two via elves. Keep on wailing on your opponent and remember, the fewer draw steps your opponent gets, the fewer chances he gets to go off.
Generally Sideboard:

-3 Tin Street Hooligan
-3 Demonfire
-2 Stormbind
+3 Jester's Scepter
+3 Seal of Primordium
+2 Spike Feeder

Blue-based Tron

This matchup is what this deck is built for. You have Cryoclasms for their colored mana, Hooligans for their signets, Stone rains to disrupt Tron while you throw out Blood Moon to slow em' to a crawl. Watch out for UR tron though; they can still Demonfire and Hellkite can still be devastating. If you are still having issues, board in like you would normally against control.

Generally Sideboard:

-4 Cryoclasm (If it's mono colored don't worry about this change)
-3 Demonfire
+4 Sulfur elemental (If it's mono colored don't worry about this change)
+3 Giant Solifuge

Solar Flare

This is a fairly good matchup, fairly basic, but I feel obligated to include it as it's been more commonly found lately. You'll want to play aggressively (duh) and hurt their mana base as badly as you can while getting out your 1/1 pseudo 3/3's and Kird Apes to lay the beats while you destroy Signets and toss down Blood Moon. If they get Akroma reanimated it's probably good game, unless he's at four and you're holding Demonfire.

Generally Sideboard:

Nothing, unless you really want to add in Jester's Scepter. You should have a fairly good matchup, unless you want to add in Solifuges over whatever you want.

Gruul Aggro

This matchup is the battle of the coin-flip. It seems to me that whoever goes first wins. Game one they probably have the advantage, anyways, but game two should be better with Feeders, Sulfurs, and Solifuges. Board out Blood Moons and Cryoclasms, and play more aggressively than ever. Don't worry about over-extending; I'm sure your opponent isn't.

Generally Sideboard:

-3 Blood Moon
-4 Cryoclasm
-1 Boreal Druid
-1 Llanowar Elves
+2 Spike Feeder
+4 Sulfur Elemental
+3 Giant Solifuge

Considering I hadn't done some real good in-depth testing with the deck quite yet, I began asking around for test games on #magic-league. I was trying to find specific matchups so you, the reader, can see how typical games are and see the logic behind any changes I'm going to make.

Revik (RG Babykilller) vs. Shooter (Dragonstorm)

Game one I got off to a quick start, with a Cryoclasm followed by a Call of the Herd, and me swinging for chunks of his life. He never got a chance to go off and conceded at six life.

I decide to board in two Spike Feeder, three Jester's Scepter, and three Seal of Primordium in place of three Tin Street Hooligan, two Demonfire, and three Blood Moon.

Game two I kept a hand with two Elves and two Forests. Unfortunately that's all I drew because he set up a turn of rite, song, song, D-storm. Games like this are depressing, but Shooter played it like a pro, going off the turn before I even got any red.

Game three I started with a Stomping Ground into Kird Ape. Shooter felt the pressure so decided to Rite out a Hunted Dragon, swinging me down to twelve. I swung for eight on my turn, and played Scab-Clan Mauler. He was hoping for Gigadrowse off the top, but didn't get it. He conceded right before I was going to swing for lethal damage.

Current record: 1-0 (2-1)

Revik (RG Babykiller) vs. Dzy (Beach House)

Game one I started with a turn two Cryoclasm, which is always nice to get. As the game progressed he managed to resolve a Loxodon Hierarch, and thats about it. I resolved a Blood Moon, making all his lands mountains. He dropped a Forest, but on the next turn I Stone Rained it. The turn after that I got out a Bloodthirsty Scab-Clan and he conceded.

I boarded in Solifuge for a few random one-ofs (took out two accelerators).

Game two he resolved a Birds of Paradise on turn one, I turn two Stone Rained his Forest after he missed a land drop, leaving him with a nothing but a Llanowar Wastes. I resolved Blood Moon, he still missed his land drop, and then conceded when I threw a one point Demonfire at his Birds of Paradise.

Current record: 2-0 (4-1)

Revik (RG Babykiller) vs. Andree (Mono Black Discard)

Not much important in this one. Game one he just got off to a better start, killing my Elves with Funeral Charm and such. My deck isn't meant for beating mono-colored, so I understand losing game one.

I boarded out Blood Moons and Cryoclasms (which I was stuck holding three of) for Sulfur Elementals and Solifuges.

Game two he got probably one of the best hand's I've ever seen somebody get with mono black discard, including The Rack, four Cruel Edicts, just enough Swamps to play everything, Phyrexian Totems, and other goodies. I lost this due to sheer luck, and the fact that he was playing a deck I didn't think anybody would play.

Oh, and also, note to self: consider a way to protect from discard.

Current Record: 2-1 (4-3)

Revik (RG Babykiller) vs. Daveslusher (Solar Flare)

Game one I was on the blitz, eventually winning off of Llanowar Elf beats, A Call of the Herd Elephant, and Cryoclasms.

I boarded out Stormbinds and an Elf for Solifuges, and three Demonfire and a Call of the Herd for four Sulfur Elementals.

Game Two saw Daveslusher getting stuck on two lands, while I proceeded to Stone Rain one and drop a Blood Moon. He got Dimir signet, but no more lands than that while I beat with Elves and Sulfur elemental. Oh, and a Call of the Herd Elephant, of course.

Current Record: 3-1 (6-3)

Revik (RG Babykiller) vs. Harbormastr (RWU control)

The first game had to be one of the most fun, intense games of magic I have ever played. It all started with me getting a turn three Blood Moon to stick. He had landed a Court Hussar the turn before, and he layed an Izzet Signet and a Boros signet. I kept getting creatures but he drew all four Lightning Helix's in his deck burning away all my guys. I had landed a Stormbind, though, and decided to keep up on the burning with it. Eventually things started to look grim. He had landed a Lightning Angel off of Signets, and had me at ten life. He was at twenty-six life. I had down a Kird Ape. I topdecked and played a Tin Street Hooligan, destroying Izzet

Signet. Two turns later I used both cards in my hand to burn Angel with Stormbind, and swung out. Next turn I played Call of the Herd, swung again, bashing him lower. I'm at one life this entire time. Eventually though, I get enough to swing for lethal exactly, leaving the game's life totals as such: Revik: 1 Harbormaster: 0.

For sideboard I decided to board out my Boreal Druids for Sulfur Elementals, just to be safe. It was a gamble not boarding the Solifuges, but I liked my chances if I drew decently.

And that I did. He started off with a Hallowed Fountain and an Island, I responded with a turn two Call of the Herd, which got remanded. On his turn he played Court Hussar, but on my turn I played Cryoclasm on one of his two Hallowed fountains. I also dropped a Kird Ape. He ended up having no moves, so I Stone Rained his Island, dropped another Kird Ape, and ended my turn. His turn had him with no moves again. My turn I played a second Cryoclasm targeting his final land, swung with both Kird Apes, and Demonfired the Hussar for one more damage, leaving him with an empty board and me with two 2/3 apes. From there on, it's fairly self-explanatory.

Current Record: 4-1 (8-3)

After all these games I decided to make a few minor changes, nothing too serious. The first one was to my Sideboard, I noticed that I was never needing Spike Feeder and that four Sulfur Elemental seemed too much. I needed some sort of way to fill those with something I might need, and then I looked back and saw how I just sort of rolled over and died to discard. All I can think of using is Bottled Cloister, so in it goes.

Sideboard changes:

-1 Sulfur Elemental
-2 Spike Feeder
+3 Bottled Cloister

I also noticed how Stormbind helped me out so much in these games. I decided I could use one more, so I threw it in for a Call of the Herd. Call gets two uses each, is kind of slowish, and Stormbind could help more. Besides, turn two Stormbind is savagely good.

-1 Call of the Herd
+1 Stormbind

And a minor change to the mana base, simple stuff.
-1 Forest
+1 Mountain

The list:

RG Babykiller v.2.0
Main Deck		Sideboard
4 Stomping Ground 1 Pendelhaven 8 Mountain 7 Forest 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits 3 Tin Street Hooligan 4 Kird Ape 4 Llanowar Elves	4 Scab-Clan Mauler 4 Boreal Druid 4 Cryoclasm 4 Stone Rain 3 Demonfire 3 Call of the Herd 3 Stormbind 3 Blood Moon	3 Sulfur Elemental 3 Bottled Cloister 3 Giant Solifuge 3 Seal of Primordium 3 Jester's Scepter

Revik (RG Babykiller) vs. MistyFatDog (UR tron)

I got off to a fast start, and an early Blood Moon helped me out. He got off an Electrolyze and Sulfur Elemental, but it didn't work out as my aggro kept pounding him, until his defenses finally gave.

I boarded in Seals to deal with signets. That's all that's important about the sideboard this game.

Game two I drew into a really fast turn one Kird Ape turn two Scab Clan and wailed on him while he got nothing. After the game he showed me three Bogardan Hellkite in his hand, one more piece of tron and I would have lost. Fortunately it was just testing, and this was all that happened, but he did challenge me to a Revenge matchup which I'm obliged to tell you about.

Current Record: 5-1 (10-3)

He drew into a perfect Tron hand with Sulfur Elementals, Demonfire, and colored lands. I drew into an alright (albeit slow) hand, and he Repealed my Llanowar, played Sulfur, Mana Leaked my Call of the Herd, played another Sulfur, swung me down to nine and hit Demonfire. I can't help hands like that, sometimes I draw perfect sometimes Tron draws perfect. It happens.

Since it wasn't a full match I'm not going to include it in my current record, but let it be a reminder to you on what Tron can do and is doing to the meta. Even if you win 2-0 sometimes, any control deck that can win like Dragonstorm does (fifteen + damage in one huge turn) is sick and crazy powerful. Always look out for it.

As I continued to play this deck I realized how much better it was than I ever thought it would be. A weaker version of it went 4-1 in a trial, and a primitive version went 2-1 in a trial. Considering my lowish rating, it's been a very good success for me, and I think other people should start to run it. As Tron keeps running more and more rampant, think about this article and give this deck a shot. Or at the very least board some Blood Moon for goodness sake. Thanks for reading.

--Revik

*special thanks go out to: MistyFatDog, Harbormastr, Daveslusher, Shooter, Dzy, Andree, and CMA-Flippi, for inspiring me to use this deck. CMA, you're awesome.**

**Also, keep in mind this deck was built strictly to counteract the metagame. If you have a problem with it, please consult somebody else.***

***Does anybody else think Babykiller is an awesome name for a deck? I do.

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by Linkman on 2007-04-06 12:16 MDT

ROFL! Taking out Cryoclasm and saying you need it ;P

by Revik on 2007-04-06 12:19 MDT

ROFL, thats just for game one, blood moon is a better choice and going to a more aggro stance is smarter. noob.

Edit: My SB strategies were added to make GFO happy, its hard to make a SB strategy on a deck with blood moons and cryoclasms maindeck.

by Bozo on 2007-04-06 12:20 MDT

That's more like Gruul LD than babykiller but ok.
Also, your sideboarding strategies seem really random and bad.

by Daveslusher- on 2007-04-06 12:23 MDT

I should of won game 1 but NO COMPULSIVES CAME UP.

by Linkman on 2007-04-06 12:24 MDT

Revik, I laugh at you, mostly. Aggro is nice, but don't you think they'll use something like, I don't know, Pyroclasm, or red-based sides?

by SkaTista on 2007-04-06 12:34 MDT

nice article. \o/

astekas >>> all

by Revik on 2007-04-06 12:35 MDT

A: Nobody uses pyroclasm roflnoob

B: The only reason tron would dislike red is because of blood mooon. MD blood moons help as they'll have to board an answer g2, and considering they have signets and tron lands with like 8 islands which should be mountains if they're multicolored tron, you dont need cryocasms.

Edit: Thanks for the compliments those that have them. and be sure to read the * disclaimers before you flame the deck.

by coolcreep on 2007-04-06 12:47 MDT

lolbad.

by Wiley on 2007-04-06 12:50 MDT

Pyroclasm stopped being good around the time Kami rotated out, Teknolink you may not be aware of this but there are a few new sets out called "Coldsnap", "Time Spiral" and "Planar Chaos", please give them a look

It's also laughable that Pyro only kills 11 of revik's creatures, it'll rarely be any form of card advantage or anything but "congratulations, you killed my llanowar elves"

My only issue with the deck is that it really suffers if it loses the coin flip. You're getting better though, revik

by krowzy on 2007-04-06 12:53 MDT

I've tried an aggro version of KBBK similar to this, and it was still considerably inconsistent. Some games you get stuck with cryoclasms in your hand, some games you end up with 3 mana accelerators in your hand and not enough gas, and some games you actually win. The problem is it doesn't have redundancy, which is the sole reason decks like BDW and Gruul work.

You have bad matchups against Dragonstorm, Angelfire and a tossup match against Gruul. Losing to the 2 best decks in the format, and not being favorable against the best aggro deck in the format means the deck can not possibly come close to Teir 1.

by Revik on 2007-04-06 12:59 MDT

Ah, but if you play right you CAN beat Dragonstorm and Angelfire. They're not like 90-10 matchups, more like 60/40 matchups. And as i said, Gruul is all about the coinflip.

Edit: Oh, and considering 80% of the metagame obviously you were unlucky not getting matched with plains/islands.

Edit Edit: Any suggestions so this can handle that lucky gayass little fucking dredge deck thats been running around?

by Taoofss on 2007-04-06 15:16 MDT

NOT TIER ONE.

by Linkman on 2007-04-06 15:42 MDT

Wiley, maybe Pyroclasm was the wrong card. I give you that. But there are enough cards that actually neuter the non-need to not play cryo. If they draw a basic Island, they can use U. If they draw signets, your main strategy is neutered. If you don't drop moon t2, they can use U. That's why you play cryo. It doesn't stop sigs, but it sure stops steam vents, and islands.

by Revik on 2007-04-06 16:32 MDT

I do run hooligan, too. and READ MY FUCKING POSTS. Jesus, before you judge me see what i've already said. There's also a difference between a deck meant for the metagame and a deck thats good in a vacuum, dumbass.

by DS_McWerp on 2007-04-06 16:37 MDT

by Taoofss on 2007-04-06 14:16 PDT

NOT TIER ONE.

Quoted for truthery.

by aXuLe on 2007-04-06 17:09 MDT

I dont like 8 elves, but in this list you need them, and demonfires... not sure its good. Other things are ok

by ringman on 2007-04-06 17:47 MDT

i stopped right here when u said:
"The Call of the Herds help the most in this matchup" and then when u side u do:
-4 Call of the Herd
sry but i can't possibly read the rest:S

by mufl0n on 2007-04-06 18:06 MDT

"For control you want to board out Blood Moons or Cryoclasms, depending on the color base, or Random 1-ofs to make room for Solifuges and Sulfur Elementals."

wtf? i BOARD IN cryoclasms against controlldecks (but they should run plains or islands :D )

by Djinn on 2007-04-06 18:37 MDT

Nice article

by jandj on 2007-04-06 18:52 MDT

Ringman..Thank heavens I'm not the only one to see that.

by castigador on 2007-04-06 19:09 MDT

is basicly a grull ld deck but i was seeing the sideboard i was thinking krosan grip insted of the seal but is al in the situation you put it but all around good deck if it is tire 1 only time will tell any deck has a posiblity to be it

by PsyK on 2007-04-06 23:00 MDT

everything in the list seems ok except kird ape. Although kird ape is good, i swear there are better card choices for this curve. Also blood moon over avalanche riders game 1? seems bad!

by MistyFatDog on 2007-04-07 01:26 MDT

I told him that if he published it like this I would flame the living hell out of it.

This has to be one of the worst deck tests ever. When we were playing he stopped after two games and said it was enough. Of course it wasnt, especially when you get three Bogarden Hellkites in a four cards hand in the end. I tried to tell him to test more and he said it was all he needed.

Dont believe one thing about his testing, especially with mws shufflers, it is very very deficult to tell after just two games. Yes thats what a match is, but when you are trying to see how it is in the meta, just playing two games doesnt work. Five-seven is a minimum if anything.

Even as you read through your test matches... btw I cant believe I actually read this... but you can tell everyone got screwed mostly. Someone didnt get draws, others got land screwed... Worst Testing I Have Ever Seen. PERIOD.

So I dont know abaout anyone else but it has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever seen.

While we were playing he MainDecked Blood Moons and Cyroclasms. WTF is that? I tried to tell him to help him that it was one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. That it should be maindeck cyroclasm and sideboard Blood Moon but he wouldnt even listen to my responses.

All in all this has to be one of the worst tested decks for an article I have seen and cant stand by any of it and most of all...I am ASHAMED to have my name in it.

:-/

by MistyFatDog on 2007-04-07 01:28 MDT

Sorry for the double post, but seriously ever single person who posted has flamed you. Rethink it next time, I even warned you. And have someone edit it too. :-/

by Konnektion on 2007-04-07 06:30 MDT

i will give you props for the testing and work you did on this deck. but as far as calling it tier 1 id have to disagree.. it reminds me of the decks from when mirrodin was in t2.. the decks that were designed to beat affinity, and pretty much only affinity. while they did good in that particular meta.. it will eventually come up against something it cant win against. imo bloodmoon isnt a maindeck card, tho it works in this situation. its almost as you switched in your SB for game one.. and if that doesnt work.. take the cryoclasms and bloodmoons out for basic aggro cards, when its usually the other way around. I give you props for brining this deck to peoples attention.. and the next T2 trial ought to be interesting for anyone playing tron.. as this deck will be everywhere ;)

by Ashmatan on 2007-04-07 08:27 MDT

ROFL MistyFatDog! I was waiting for this after reading the article!

by Wiley on 2007-04-07 09:07 MDT

Misty you moron, maindeck Blood moon is ingenius against the meta, do you even play Magic?

by SpareSocks on 2007-04-07 09:48 MDT

Wiley, maindeck bloodmoon would never strike me as genius more like an obvious counter to a meta. And i don't see why he needs cryo and blood moon both in the main, i guess so he has the benefit of 7 dead cards in say, the mirror match.
And if revik really did only test two games and say it was enough, i hope his house burns down.

Your SB strategies seem horrible too.

by Ro on 2007-04-07 11:53 MDT

This deck ISNT even babykiller.

Babykiller focused on getting a 2nd turn ohran viper or LD to screw control and it had the snow engine to draw extra cards en skred creatures.

Your deck is just.. "Gruul tuned to beat tron.dec"?

by Balthazar88 on 2007-04-07 13:32 MDT

Whoa, that's was a lot of flaming. I like the deck, even if the the testing and the way you have written the article has some flaws, but nice article/deck overall.

by Fabio on 2007-04-07 15:44 MDT

Really nice article.
Well described matchups, nice SB strategies, all clear and easy to learn, congragulations :D

And to try to lead with the dredges decks, try putting 3 tormod's crypt on the SB

by Shagrath on 2007-04-07 17:14 MDT

this is thrash.....all mu are wrong and babykiller isn't tier1.

by Gerrad on 2007-04-07 17:28 MDT

this deck isnt a trash, cryoclasm is very nice but on sideboard :P, avalanche raiders may work :(

by CookieCutter on 2007-04-08 01:50 MDT

My eyes are bleeding. T_T

Worst.

Testing.

Ever.

by aceben3 on 2007-04-08 02:47 MDT

not bad, but ohran viper >>> scab-clan mauler

also, LD is better vs dragonstorm than you think, although sometimes they will have t2 remand and go off before you can hurt them at all.

seems like a pretty solid metagame choice overall. might wanna throw in some tormod's crypts for dredge/solar flare too.

by DS_McWerp on 2007-04-08 03:33 MDT

TheNewTier1 :P. Revik makes me laugh so hard. Sabres will lose in the 2nd round :P. Im not gonna even bother flaming the deck, its all already been said.

by poopascoopa on 2007-04-09 19:48 MDT

This is a terrible deck. It's not even Babykiller-like. It's more like Gruul/Zoo LD.

No way in hell this is tier one.

by Revik on 2007-04-10 13:21 MDT

by Revik on 2007-04-06 14:19 EDT [Edit]

ROFL, thats just for game one, blood moon is a better choice and going to a more aggro stance is smarter. noob.

Edit: My SB strategies were added to make GFO happy, its hard to make a SB strategy on a deck with blood moons and cryoclasms maindeck.

Oh, and I also said:

**Also, keep in mind this deck was built strictly to counteract the metagame. If you have a problem with it, please consult somebody else.***

Also, the reason the article is called "The New Tier 1: RG Babykiller" Is because its 1: It's a spinoff of Babykiller and 2: It's my chatroom on the IRC. So, flame all you want, I dont care, but I had some success for once and decided to put it down on paper, nice to see how people care about other people's success. You all (except Wiley) are living proof of why this world has so many problems nowadays.

Also, MFD: I never play games 5/7 or whatever, I always play 2/3. It's a habit, and if you want to blame it on the MWS shuffler go ahead. If your going to be like that, go kill yourself. I heard Drain-o works well.

by MistyFatDog on 2007-04-10 20:26 MDT

I never said play games, you dont play matches to test you keep on playing what you did was not testing at all. that was random play

by Revik on 2007-04-11 15:00 MDT

It was testing by playing in matches. Stop being pissy because you lost.

by GreenMidget on 2007-04-13 15:51 MDT

if this were a kindergarten class there would be a bunch of potty mouthed kids in time out right now

by Vedrfolner on 2007-04-15 06:14 MDT

there are better ways of answering the meta than running 4 cryoclasms and 3 blood moon in main - both mutually exclusive cards which may or may not be dead cards in hand.

Besides, if you dont draw stone rain or cofth, you have no steam.

by Smogan_Bob on 2007-04-15 17:49 MDT

I agree w/ the midget, At least he had enough guts to write the article. It's easy to judge someone when you aren't on the receiving end of it!

And thats our moral lesson for today
Dismissed!

by TheOrb on 2007-08-04 09:25 MDT

In an environment with decks like Project X and Trons, there's almost no such thing as overextending with an aggro deck. Either you quickly play your way to victory before your opponent gains board control, or you lose. Very simple.

This isn't to say that you shouldn't play carefully even when running aggro, just don't play cautiously, because using caution in an aggro deck is like wearing sunglasses that are too dark because the sun is a little bright. You're going to end up crashing anyway.