- CharlieD
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Apr 26, 2008CharlieD posted a message on Animated Movies Worth Seeingbrother bear + the lion king 1 & 2.Posted in: Alacar's Design Zone
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Apr 26, 2008CharlieD posted a message on Movies Worth SeeingPiPosted in: Alacar's Design Zone
The Science of Sleep
Across the Universe
The Science of Sleep
The Fountain
The Science of Sleep
Help!
Pan's Labyrinth
Chinatown
A Hard Day's Night
Brazil
The Illusionist
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Oct 1, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Best Music Records of the Year ... So FarIt's kinda new, I guess. It's his unreleased stuff.Posted in: sneakyh's Blog
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Oct 1, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Best Music Records of the Year ... So FarI saw this on RYM.Posted in: sneakyh's Blog
UM SNEAKS.
Where is Elliott Smith's New Moon?
I need to check out Jens Lekman. My friend keeps bugging me to. Haha. -
Aug 19, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Pokemon Diamond: Rosteri've been playing ruby because i can't afford a DS or pokemon diamond yet.Posted in: Alacar's Design Zone
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Aug 4, 2007CharlieD posted a message on current bands i am stuck onlisten to some rocket summer, dude.Posted in: Love, Loss, and Liberty
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Jul 7, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Update etc.Posted in: Swoon!Quote from Danny »Nice photos. "Electricityscape" is probably my favourite. You know how do minimalist stuff. But "Seasons" is lovely too.
And as for your order, I'm planning a similar thing soon except I don't have a job so I don't have all the money yet.
Thanks. And yeah, I've had to work ALOT to get the money to pay for this stuff... I did 42 hrs last week. x_x -
Jul 4, 2007CharlieD posted a message on The splendour that is July 2007OOH! Man, that makes it even better.Posted in: Swoon!
I think transformers came out on the 28th of June here? -
May 13, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Heroes Returns and Jack's Back!you know who I miss?Posted in: eye of the Storm
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May 10, 2007CharlieD posted a message on FAERIE AFFAIRS: Clinically Proventhere is something wrong with your head.Posted in: FL's Fey Dreamhold
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Jan 23, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Dreamhold's Day 2 Sylph ProductionDoes this mean i'm on your friends list, that I can see this?Posted in: FL's Fey Dreamhold
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Jan 22, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Testing layout.Well, I can type it out in word, and then just put it into photoshop.Posted in: Swoon!
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Jan 22, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Blogs? Grah?I'll check that out, it sounds cool.Posted in: 22 Grand Job
Admittedly I'm listening to Fall Out Boy at the moment - I'm seeing them live on the 10th of March, and their new album looks stupendous.
I'm also listening to Death Cab For Cutie. I bought three of their albums, and I really enjoy their music. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
I went in with no byes and had a pretty solid run, I thought. I won r1 against a weird UW delver deck, lost r2 to Shardless (bad hands and just ugh, that matchup, so soon!) then lost r3 against Enchantress (was NOT expecting that. very annoying, I had taken Echoing Truth out of my board to have another Back to Basics but really wished the whole day I had it in there). I beat Affinity r4 and Delver r5, then lost to DnT then won r7 against another delver, then r8 against Omnitell (such a good run). I only had to get one more blue matchup in round 9 to day 2.... and I played against DnT. I went down, mulliganed to 5 both games, really really disappointing luck. I had a lot of fun, though! I was only playing 3 vial and it was definitely a mistake, I should have been playing 4. I would have added an echoing truth to my SB and cut a Back to Basics if I could do it over again, but I feel like I played well and just got super unlucky to hit a DnT in the final round. I played vintage the next day unpowered with Merfolk and went 2-3, losing the last round to a mirror match (?!?!) which was also super unfortunate that I drew real bad. Still, all in all a ridiculously fun and rewarding weekend.
Do y'all still run Daze? I do.
4 Phantasmal seems like too many - I feel like you could cut 1 and the Daze which seems pointless as a 1-of and run 2 Merrow Reejerey instead. I'd recommend trying at least 1 Waterfront Bouncer in the board instead of a second Echoing Truth as it is recurring removal and is also a Merfolk. Good manabase, I have been extolling the virtues of the 3/3/3 split for ages now.
I find Sneak and Show to be a pretty good matchup, and Omnitell isn't a good deck any more since they lost DTT. Same with reanimator, they generally forget that Phantasmal Image does a lot of heavy lifting, and if they take a while to set up hands and have to pump all their countermagic into getting around Chalice, you can be quick enough to make Griselbrand a terrible card.
Goblins is also basically unwinnable. I have found mainboard dismembers helpful, and they also do some heavy lifting in the D&T matchup. For the most part I have begun to avoid playing Merfolk in my current meta, as it is absolute garbage - it is centered around 6 D&T decks, 4 Merfolk decks and 3 Lands decks, which is just absolute chaos and horrible for the most part. I am going to be taking the deck to GP Prague next year which means I'll have to learn to play the Chalice version properly [there is no Delver in my meta so chalices MB are pointless]
Honestly, no. I have hardly ever had that issue. I play 12 Islands and 3 Caverns. I added an extra island because I was worried about mana issues that did sometimes pop up and make things difficult but aside from that my deck plays pretty smoothly. Maybe I'm just lucky? But I have played the deck for almost two years with the 3/3/3 split being the best performing one I've used.
I used to play Dismember main but moved it to SB to try out Chalice, but I think I'll switch back. I have always played at least one Jitte main. One thing I did want to try to get around the DnT that is very heavily represented in my meta was a black splash for Virtue's Ruin out of the board (Also provides Perish v Elves/Jund, Thoughtseize) but it feels a bit clunky. I also don't want to buy underground seas - which admittedly isn't an issue as I can easily borrow them/play Urborg instead.
Edit: Didn't see this whole new page
Wasteland is just so insanely good. The 3/3/3 split is perfect and I recommend everybody tries it out. It is great against DnT as it can keep them off Karakas/Cavern tricks, it is amazing against Delver as it ruins their mana and forces them to use extremely limited manabases. Wasteland won me the match this week against Stoneblade - I wasted two Tundras, she had no white mana and three Swords to Plowshares in hand. It is the most aggressive tempo card in the deck, aside from Daze.
I have kept 4 Daze in my list as I still think it is a crazy important card. Current manabase is 3 Wasteland/3 Cavern/3 Mutavault/12 Island, the extra seems to be helping a lot. Current sideboard is:
2 Hibernation
2 Pithing Needle
2 Spell Pierce
2 Ensnare
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Dismember
1 Manriki-Gusari
Days Undoing is ******* awesome and I cannot wait to try it out now.
Great job!
Ensnare is so good, I have been playing it in vintage Merfolk! I definitely need to test it out. It also seems insanely good in the mirror as it can shut down Islandwalk.
It took me way too long to work out that a Chalice on 0 against Storm is basically an auto-win.
3 Cavern of Souls
3 Wasteland
11 Island
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
4 Cursecatcher
4 Silvergill Adept
4 True-Name Nemesis
3 Phantasmal Image
3 Merrow Reejerey
1 Thassa, God of the Sea
1 Master of Waves
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
3 Aether Vial
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Echoing Truth
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Misdirection
2 Spell Pierce
2 Dismember
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Monastery Seige
1 Pithing Needle
I don't play Chalices main, haven't had a chance to test them out yet but I am pretty skeptical. I'm sure they are great and I'm just holding onto Daze because I fear change. I would also play Flusterstorm over Spell Pierce.
Omnitell is a terrible matchup. It is super hard to win because the deck can frequently just lucksack into a Dig Through Time and just win when you are caught off guard. You need to hope for their bad hands and you need to play tight, only playing cursecatchers and keeping counterspell heavy hands. Side note - I ******* hate playing against Omnitell. It is a garbage deck for jerks.
dismember is amazing for the tilt factor. I win 9/10 delver matchups by dismembering a delver turn 1 and they lose their ***** thinking I have a stacked hand and they play VERY badly. Aside from that, it gives amazing value vs. the creature matchups that are generally unwinnable game 1 (I should mention I usually play Dismember MB) and it helps against Reanimator matchups (When you phantasmal an Elesh, you can kill theirs with a Dismember. It also makes Griselbrand hit for either 1 or 2 which is super relevant)
You'd be surprised how often this wins you games with Wasteland, though, in any matchup. If they go for a brainstorm and you Wasteland them they have generally shipped their lands off Brainstorm + crack fetch and it puts them in a very awkward position.
Also, the Wasteland + Daze trick is super great too (opponent casts spell, Wasteland their fetchland in response, they crack it, then you daze in response and they are left without a mana)
Double supreme verdict is brutal. Have had that happen a few times in UW Stoneblade matchups. The key is just to play conservitavely. They aren't blocking your dudes (as they are generally light on threats, or you have islandwalk) and you generally only need one or two creatures (Mutavault is an all-star) in order to keep bashing at them. I learned the hard way to always play the deck very, very conservitavely.
Phantasmal Image is fantastic. 3 is the perfect number. It shores up matchups like Sneak and Show/Reanimator. Same with Merrow Reejerey, it lets you set up amazing chains that win you the game, and in multiples they are even better. If not, then it is a perfect tempo card to tap blockers and make iffy combat steps very favourable. Last week I used Reejerey to tap two huge blockers in a Nic Fit matchup and win the game.
I have never been a fan of MB Chalice but I have never really given it too much testing. I'll give it a go next time I play an event (should be in two weeks time) and let you know how it goes. I have always found Daze really good but like I said, maybe I don't know any better.
I am a huge fan of 3 Wastelands in the deck, it is just extremely important and can basically be a Time Walk when you have Aether Vial.
I really like Harbinger and I wanna try it out in the sideboard.
edit - If you want to see some videos of me playing the deck very badly there is a bunch of feature matches I did last year on a channel called Fullhouse Games on YouTube. I don't play well on camera
I love Merrow Reejerey but it does tend to be the first thing I sideboard out. I find if I have one down I usually win the game within a turn of it coming down, though. It does so much work.
Master of Waves and Thassa were Dismember, as Delver was a huge thing in my local meta last year and I wanted to have ways of dealing with it for game 1. There is a lot of RDW in my meta, too, so Misdirections are for that. 4 Daze is just what I've always played, never really had a problem with them at all.
Unfortunately no lists were posted for the top 8 of the Legacy event, only the Vintage event, and I was super annoyed about it! Top 8 was, from what I can remember, a Bant midrange deck, a few UR Delver decks, a BUG Delver deck and a sweet mono-R Sneak Attack brew. I beat BUG Delver in the QFs then lost to UR Delver in the semis. My run that day was 2-0 BUG Delver, 1-2 UR Delver, 2-0 OmniShow, 2-0 Sneak and Show, 2-0 RDW, 2-0 UR Delver.
I do like the Echoing Truth, would Chain of Vapor be easier to cast? I would also be running Flusterstorm over Spell Pierce if I had them, but the exchange rate in Australia to the USD is so garbage right now, it isn't a good idea for me to buy them.