Re: August Tourny (round 1 ends 8/15)
Posted: 14 Aug 2010, 15:01
My thoughts on group B:
Looking at shantak's deck and my own, the differences are:
shantak:
+4 Serendib Djinn
+4 City of Brass
+3 Sorceress
me:
+2 Erg Raiders
+1 Swamp
+4 Cuombajj Witches
+4 Stone-Throwing Devils
That leaves 49 cards in common. I definitely considered Serendib Djinn and City of Brass, but I felt that the AI would do poorly with them. I was surprised to see that it did play City of Brass properly in my matches; often it just keeps all lands in hand if one is a City. I really do wish I'd put in more Sorceress Queens, though. The main differences were that shantak added 3 more land and had a slightly higher mana curve, while I had less land and a slightly lower curve.
Arabian Nights sure had some powerful creatures, but most of the spells are poor.
Jatill's deck: I think that this is the best of his three submitted decks, even though I haven't played Group D yet. I'm still wondering whether you intended this to be an Alpha deck or a Revised deck. I'm assuming Revised, since there are no Psionic Blast or Sinkhole, two cards I'd have strongly considered in this style of deck. It was also a very good deck against both arabian nights creature decks, as those Control Magics were deadly. I will be shocked if jatill's deck doesn't get first place in this group; between me and shantak it'll be the toss of a coin. I think my version might be slightly more AI-friendly without the serendib djinns and cities, though.
Looking at shantak's deck and my own, the differences are:
shantak:
+4 Serendib Djinn
+4 City of Brass
+3 Sorceress
me:
+2 Erg Raiders
+1 Swamp
+4 Cuombajj Witches
+4 Stone-Throwing Devils
That leaves 49 cards in common. I definitely considered Serendib Djinn and City of Brass, but I felt that the AI would do poorly with them. I was surprised to see that it did play City of Brass properly in my matches; often it just keeps all lands in hand if one is a City. I really do wish I'd put in more Sorceress Queens, though. The main differences were that shantak added 3 more land and had a slightly higher mana curve, while I had less land and a slightly lower curve.
Arabian Nights sure had some powerful creatures, but most of the spells are poor.
Jatill's deck: I think that this is the best of his three submitted decks, even though I haven't played Group D yet. I'm still wondering whether you intended this to be an Alpha deck or a Revised deck. I'm assuming Revised, since there are no Psionic Blast or Sinkhole, two cards I'd have strongly considered in this style of deck. It was also a very good deck against both arabian nights creature decks, as those Control Magics were deadly. I will be shocked if jatill's deck doesn't get first place in this group; between me and shantak it'll be the toss of a coin. I think my version might be slightly more AI-friendly without the serendib djinns and cities, though.