and that home is fucking 60cards.com
http://60cards.com/articles/coating-report/comment-page-1/#comment-3500
fuckin smi77y of 60cards.com and the ehteam podcast has given me the oppertunity to write for the site. SO! i am going to do the best i can to represent the site. fuckin thanks Smi77y
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
This is for jenny
There is this girl that i went to high school with named Jenny.(Jenny_Bunnyy on twitter, follow her she says funny shit and shes cute)Now, i havent seen her in sooooo long but we stay connected on twitter. And its funny becuase i love that we stay connected through twitter and i know wouldnt stay connected with anyone else through twitter like i have with her.Awwwww. Anyways she says that she reads my blog,Overthatop.blogspot.com) BUT! she doesnt know what game i play. So,Jenny, i will tell you.
I searched for the perfect image to sum up what the world of magic is
and i am pretty sure this sums it up. dragons, angels, monsters and creatures of fantasy, Heroes, Villains, great stories. i cant just tell you one thing about the actual story becuase i dont really know the entire history of magic.
Aside from the novels, there is a trading card game and thats what i play
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/NewtoMagic.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/newtomagic/learntoplay
all that shit there in the vids 3 to the end is what you need to learn about what i play. i really wanted to try to explain it to you myself but while i was writing several drafts of this little blog post i realized how shitty i am at explaining this game to people.
I searched for the perfect image to sum up what the world of magic is
and i am pretty sure this sums it up. dragons, angels, monsters and creatures of fantasy, Heroes, Villains, great stories. i cant just tell you one thing about the actual story becuase i dont really know the entire history of magic.
Aside from the novels, there is a trading card game and thats what i play
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/NewtoMagic.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/newtomagic/learntoplay
all that shit there in the vids 3 to the end is what you need to learn about what i play. i really wanted to try to explain it to you myself but while i was writing several drafts of this little blog post i realized how shitty i am at explaining this game to people.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
also
am hoping to get manadeprived and sixtycards tshirts so i can rep them in the upcoming events.hopefully they have left overs
new deck time
i have tested the coating deck as much as i can and now everyone seems to know that i am tthe coating guy so its time to switch it up. i am gonna write down the testing results, how the deck went through two changes and hopefully i can get that shipped to smitty soon and see what he thinks. really happy about the oppertunity and will take full advantage of it and write the best that i can.there are a few decks in mind that i wanna build and very few i actually wanna test so i am gonna do my hw on standard see what i can come up with. list willbe up in the next few days on what i decide,followed by testing...and if land on the deck i am really considering, then a lot of testing and feed back and hopefully a one k event breakdown. later peoples
Friday, October 22, 2010
more testing
i dont think the deck sucks, it just lacks card draw in the late game and is missing a big beater/finisher.i am at the point where i give decks a run for their money i just havent found a way to finish strong. i also want to create a metalcrat deck and it doesnt seem impossible. i wanna be able to rock etched champion becuase protecion from all colors seems great.
anyways there was a suggesstion to add blue instead of white for the draw and counter magic...will be tested and taken under consideration...
anyways there was a suggesstion to add blue instead of white for the draw and counter magic...will be tested and taken under consideration...
busy busy busy
i have been really busy the last few days trying to get my liqimetal coating deck off the ground and of course there is real life and shit too so i am busy with that. also trying to get results done so i can ship a report on a different kind of control to smitty @sixtycards.com...i cant type numbers while i am on my phone and putting up a post.smart phones need to get smarter lol. so yeah if that goes up i will link it...fingers crossed. other than that thank you for reading and make sure you check out sixtycards.com the numbers not letter and manadeprived.com great group of guys and they know what they are talking about also have a podcast,the ehteam, its better than whats casting right now handsdown.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
on a side note
just want to say that when i was testing my liquimetal coating control deck the other day people kept calling my deck cute and funny and shit like that.no offense to zach or anything, he a good guy and i respect him as a player but i am gonna play the deck as much as i want. it may not be top tier and you may have tested a different version, but you dont have to keep saying its a bad deck. the fact that i was giving a top player a run for his money when we were testing proves that there is potential for the deck, hes no fucking slouch. anyways, for those people sayig my deck sucks or its cute or whatever, fuck you. yeah, i know the deck doesnt have jace and nobody has won a major toruney with it or it doesnt cost more than qpp bucks to make but ya know i put alot of love into my decks and until isay it sucks ,you dont need to tell me it does, i will be the judge of that, fuckers.
lol went all jayboosh on the haters
lol went all jayboosh on the haters
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
I AM FAMOUS!!!
Lol, before i start my post i just want to let everyone know what happened this morning.
I had downloaded the 10th podcast of the Ehteam (congrats guys) and as i am goldfishing the deck i am going to post today, i hear Mr.ScottyMac mention his hot wife making him pancakes for dinner. Just then i hear him mention my twitter account name (Williegmyprez) and i am like whoa... FUCK YES!. THEN! fucking Smi77y fuckin gives me props for backing him up with his standard deck choices and i am like...FUCKING YES BROSEPH. AND THEN fucking KYT (manadeprived) said i was a good kid and i was like...thanks KYT, LOL. So that was my morning, i got a shout out from The EhTeam annnnd it was pretty fucking amazing. And if you don't know who the Eh Team are then your fucking missing out and you need to start listening from EP 1 and keep doing so because they are great and the know what the fuck they are talking about. On to the standard!
So since lets say the week of Scars pre release, i have been working on a deck that i havent told anybody about and whats funny is i actually mentioned it in the post Why I Am Not Afraid Of Valakut. Yes, its the Liquimetal Coating control deck and i got to test it yesterday against two of the notable decks in the format R/U/G and MBC, and i got some really good results out of the deck. But before i get into that, heres the list
R/G/w liquimetal control
4 birds of Paradise
4 liquimetal coating
3 ancient stirrings
3 manic vandal
3 acidic slime
3 shatter
3 oxidda scrapmelter
3 naturalize
3 viridian revel
2 mimic vat
2 ratchet bomb
2 pyroclasm
4 forest
4 mountain
3 tectonic edge
2 arid mesa
2 verdant catacombs
2 rootbound crag
2 sunpetal grove
2 razorverge thicket
2 raging ravine
right now the sideboard is still shakey as i want to put Day of Judgement in but chain reaction just seems so much better in the elves match up.
Also let me say to Smi77y and KYT, that when you look at the list, your going to see Ratchet Bomb. Now i originally said the card sucked and it sucked pretty bad BUT! when i actually played with it, it did marvels to the game itself. at one point he did nothing becuase of the bomb in play at 3 and i was firmly in control stone raining his islands preventing him from playing frost titan. it wasnt until i made the mistake of turning the nonbasic land he had in play into an artifact to draw a card, did i realize that i should have tech edge him then manic vandaled his other island. i made the mistake and thats why i lost, but the point is that ratchet bomb stops players from wanting to play cards in fear of them getting it destroyed. Even just the looming threat of it being dropped on turn two makes people either play around it or play slower and much more cautiously.
Anyways, thats the deck i have been keeping under wraps until yesterday. i had previously seen the people at SuperStars playing a U/W/R version and it was just terrible. the win con was jace and it basically controlled the board with venser and counters, whatever. i dont want to invest into jace because i dont want to pay 80 bucks for him, i can because i get paid well enough to get the set but i would rather not. So i defected to play a different kind of control that didnt involve blue and right now it works really well
EDIT!
shit shit shit
The deck focuses on getting the coating out with Ancient Stirrings and just being able to remove threats that are presented to you with liquimetal coating, shatter, naturlize etc etc. Right now in standard, little annoying artifacts are running wild with no removal and i am gonna shut that shit down and the deck also responds to pyromancer quite nicely. Viridian Revel gives so much card advantage that R/G/W so drastically lacks.When i played yesterday against the RUG deck, i destroyed his Jace TMS and set him back a few turns. the loss i experienced that you read about earlier happened in this game. the weakness of this deck is that if i dont have the Coating, then i have a hand full of artifact destruction so right now i am trying to change that by possibly adding Koth, so i can Koth slap someone and just have the mountains do the attacking in addition to having Garruk make tokens.
I had downloaded the 10th podcast of the Ehteam (congrats guys) and as i am goldfishing the deck i am going to post today, i hear Mr.ScottyMac mention his hot wife making him pancakes for dinner. Just then i hear him mention my twitter account name (Williegmyprez) and i am like whoa... FUCK YES!. THEN! fucking Smi77y fuckin gives me props for backing him up with his standard deck choices and i am like...FUCKING YES BROSEPH. AND THEN fucking KYT (manadeprived) said i was a good kid and i was like...thanks KYT, LOL. So that was my morning, i got a shout out from The EhTeam annnnd it was pretty fucking amazing. And if you don't know who the Eh Team are then your fucking missing out and you need to start listening from EP 1 and keep doing so because they are great and the know what the fuck they are talking about. On to the standard!
So since lets say the week of Scars pre release, i have been working on a deck that i havent told anybody about and whats funny is i actually mentioned it in the post Why I Am Not Afraid Of Valakut. Yes, its the Liquimetal Coating control deck and i got to test it yesterday against two of the notable decks in the format R/U/G and MBC, and i got some really good results out of the deck. But before i get into that, heres the list
R/G/w liquimetal control
4 birds of Paradise
4 liquimetal coating
3 ancient stirrings
3 manic vandal
3 acidic slime
3 shatter
3 oxidda scrapmelter
3 naturalize
3 viridian revel
2 mimic vat
2 ratchet bomb
2 pyroclasm
4 forest
4 mountain
3 tectonic edge
2 arid mesa
2 verdant catacombs
2 rootbound crag
2 sunpetal grove
2 razorverge thicket
2 raging ravine
right now the sideboard is still shakey as i want to put Day of Judgement in but chain reaction just seems so much better in the elves match up.
Also let me say to Smi77y and KYT, that when you look at the list, your going to see Ratchet Bomb. Now i originally said the card sucked and it sucked pretty bad BUT! when i actually played with it, it did marvels to the game itself. at one point he did nothing becuase of the bomb in play at 3 and i was firmly in control stone raining his islands preventing him from playing frost titan. it wasnt until i made the mistake of turning the nonbasic land he had in play into an artifact to draw a card, did i realize that i should have tech edge him then manic vandaled his other island. i made the mistake and thats why i lost, but the point is that ratchet bomb stops players from wanting to play cards in fear of them getting it destroyed. Even just the looming threat of it being dropped on turn two makes people either play around it or play slower and much more cautiously.
Anyways, thats the deck i have been keeping under wraps until yesterday. i had previously seen the people at SuperStars playing a U/W/R version and it was just terrible. the win con was jace and it basically controlled the board with venser and counters, whatever. i dont want to invest into jace because i dont want to pay 80 bucks for him, i can because i get paid well enough to get the set but i would rather not. So i defected to play a different kind of control that didnt involve blue and right now it works really well
EDIT!
shit shit shit
The deck focuses on getting the coating out with Ancient Stirrings and just being able to remove threats that are presented to you with liquimetal coating, shatter, naturlize etc etc. Right now in standard, little annoying artifacts are running wild with no removal and i am gonna shut that shit down and the deck also responds to pyromancer quite nicely. Viridian Revel gives so much card advantage that R/G/W so drastically lacks.When i played yesterday against the RUG deck, i destroyed his Jace TMS and set him back a few turns. the loss i experienced that you read about earlier happened in this game. the weakness of this deck is that if i dont have the Coating, then i have a hand full of artifact destruction so right now i am trying to change that by possibly adding Koth, so i can Koth slap someone and just have the mountains do the attacking in addition to having Garruk make tokens.
Monday, October 18, 2010
testing today
i am going to be testing my MBC list and my secret liquimetal coating deck today. made a question able change in the coating deck becuase of elves having such good luck winning this weekend at the tcgplayer events an for some time there have been rummblings about the being better becuase of the legend and better support elves.
As for the MBC list, its more hand manipulating and and uses mimic vat and lilianas specter and has the option of finishing with nantuko shade or wurmcoil engine. its much better on the spot removal from the lists i am seeing, which by the way, kinda disappointed in. i have been playing black for a loooong time, like invasion block long time and each MBC attempt is preeetty sad. most people dont realize blacks current weakness ands strengths so the decks fall short.
Anyways i will post the list for the MBC with edits and results.
As for the MBC list, its more hand manipulating and and uses mimic vat and lilianas specter and has the option of finishing with nantuko shade or wurmcoil engine. its much better on the spot removal from the lists i am seeing, which by the way, kinda disappointed in. i have been playing black for a loooong time, like invasion block long time and each MBC attempt is preeetty sad. most people dont realize blacks current weakness ands strengths so the decks fall short.
Anyways i will post the list for the MBC with edits and results.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Chapins list
is rather surprising and really just...surprising. its just really basic and its definatally a budget deck. I am not gonna put the list up becuase A. its on SCG premium and B...thats all the reasons. so, i guess i have all the cards that make chapins Pyromancer deck but i really like flores archive trap deck so its gonna be tough to make the choice on what to build to go with.
A question i have for Chapin is why not run pyroclasm in at least the Side. right now with all the creature decks that are rampant, not having them seems like a mistake. the only issue with thinking that is that i am just a guy trying to be a pro or make it as far as i can and hes FUCKING PATRICK CHAPIN. so i mean i understand if i am missing something.
On another note, i made a four color Control deck today on a napkin and like a dumbass that i am...threw it in the fucking garbage with the rest of the trash...fuck imma get there and try it...just have to try to remember everything thats in it
A question i have for Chapin is why not run pyroclasm in at least the Side. right now with all the creature decks that are rampant, not having them seems like a mistake. the only issue with thinking that is that i am just a guy trying to be a pro or make it as far as i can and hes FUCKING PATRICK CHAPIN. so i mean i understand if i am missing something.
On another note, i made a four color Control deck today on a napkin and like a dumbass that i am...threw it in the fucking garbage with the rest of the trash...fuck imma get there and try it...just have to try to remember everything thats in it
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
OK!
so i have a new esper list and yeah i just cant seem to stay away from that fucking color combonation.
2 trinket mage
2 wurmcoil engine
1 vampire hexmage
3 stoneforge mystic
2 sun titan
3 etched champion
2 eslpeth tirel
1 gideon jura
1 memoricide
3 doomblade
1 volition reins
3 mana leak
2 stoic rebuttal
1 sword of body and mind
2 sword of vengance
2 mimic vat
1 chimeric mass
1 ratchet bomb
1 brittle effigy
1 basilisk collar
2 islands
3 plains
2 swamp
4 marsh flasts
1 mystifying maze
3 glacial fortress
3 celestial colonnade
2 darkslick shores
3 drowned catacomb
so pretty much this is possibly my last hurrah for Esper control. i am not running Jace or Frost Titan and i dont quite have a sideboard complete yet. about 10 or so of the cards have made the list but right now i am waiting to A. see Chapins format breaking list and B to see if flores pyromancer deck is taken seriously or not. I myself have the deck built already but i wanna make sure i can still build before i take a pros approach at a deck, which i normally dont do. i like to build decks whether they are horrible or not, its the part of the game i still really enjoy despite losing.
right now i am considering removing the etched champions and putting in preordains. the deck lacks draw power and with no Jace and Jace running around everywhere else, i am going to end up being behind. i also need to take into consideration what other emerging decks there are in meta. right now i am not sure what i can beat due to not really having tested the deck, but i know what i want the deck to do when i play it. there seem to be a ton of components in the deck but really, its not so complicated to work with. Trinket mages and Stoneforge Mystics search, there is removal in the deck that runs along side with the mimic vats, Gideon is a beast on its own and Elspeth is fucking Elspeth and she makes me an army. The counter magic is pretty self explanitory and i really just liked etched champion but it doesnt seem to be worth it...at all. sorry Champ, another day i suppose.
My back up back up plan is to play Smi77ys deck,which is a tokens deck that loses to ratchet bomb LOL jk. its a token that ramps fairly quickly and from what he has told me has no problems with most of the meta shaping decks other than valakut. but i am so comfortable in the valakut match and knowing how to beat the deck that i only have to worry about U/W control...i fucking hate playing against that deck.
I also decided to work on a liquimetal control deck. i love the interaction with all the cards to be honest. its something not alot of people are going to see coming and i think it has potential and it also feels like an LD deck when it goes off on turn three, so i look forward to sharing that with this blog when i get it more to where i want it to be
Thanks for Reading
2 trinket mage
2 wurmcoil engine
1 vampire hexmage
3 stoneforge mystic
2 sun titan
3 etched champion
2 eslpeth tirel
1 gideon jura
1 memoricide
3 doomblade
1 volition reins
3 mana leak
2 stoic rebuttal
1 sword of body and mind
2 sword of vengance
2 mimic vat
1 chimeric mass
1 ratchet bomb
1 brittle effigy
1 basilisk collar
2 islands
3 plains
2 swamp
4 marsh flasts
1 mystifying maze
3 glacial fortress
3 celestial colonnade
2 darkslick shores
3 drowned catacomb
so pretty much this is possibly my last hurrah for Esper control. i am not running Jace or Frost Titan and i dont quite have a sideboard complete yet. about 10 or so of the cards have made the list but right now i am waiting to A. see Chapins format breaking list and B to see if flores pyromancer deck is taken seriously or not. I myself have the deck built already but i wanna make sure i can still build before i take a pros approach at a deck, which i normally dont do. i like to build decks whether they are horrible or not, its the part of the game i still really enjoy despite losing.
right now i am considering removing the etched champions and putting in preordains. the deck lacks draw power and with no Jace and Jace running around everywhere else, i am going to end up being behind. i also need to take into consideration what other emerging decks there are in meta. right now i am not sure what i can beat due to not really having tested the deck, but i know what i want the deck to do when i play it. there seem to be a ton of components in the deck but really, its not so complicated to work with. Trinket mages and Stoneforge Mystics search, there is removal in the deck that runs along side with the mimic vats, Gideon is a beast on its own and Elspeth is fucking Elspeth and she makes me an army. The counter magic is pretty self explanitory and i really just liked etched champion but it doesnt seem to be worth it...at all. sorry Champ, another day i suppose.
My back up back up plan is to play Smi77ys deck,which is a tokens deck that loses to ratchet bomb LOL jk. its a token that ramps fairly quickly and from what he has told me has no problems with most of the meta shaping decks other than valakut. but i am so comfortable in the valakut match and knowing how to beat the deck that i only have to worry about U/W control...i fucking hate playing against that deck.
Creatures (5) Spells (28) | Land (27)
Sideboard (15)
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Thanks for Reading
Monday, October 11, 2010
B/W *GLEAM GLEAM*
3 Day of Judgment
3 Mimic Vat
3 Doom Blade
3 Grasp of Darkness
2 Oust
2 Crystal Ball
2 Dark Tutelage
1 Consume the Meek
1 Haunting Echos
1 Vampire Hexmage
1 Bloodhusk Ritualist
3 Skinrender
3 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Necropede
2 Elspeth Tirel
1 Gideon Jura
went away from esper control and went back to B/W :]
3 Mimic Vat
3 Doom Blade
3 Grasp of Darkness
2 Oust
2 Crystal Ball
2 Dark Tutelage
1 Consume the Meek
1 Haunting Echos
1 Vampire Hexmage
1 Bloodhusk Ritualist
3 Skinrender
3 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Necropede
2 Elspeth Tirel
1 Gideon Jura
went away from esper control and went back to B/W :]
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Finally!
Artifacts
2 Brittle Effigy
3 Crystal Ball
3 Everflowing Chalice
2 Mimic Vat
2 Ratchet Bomb
Creatures
3 Abyssal Persecutor
4 Vampire Hexmage
Enchantments
2 Dark Tutelage
Instants
2 Consume the Meek
1 Disfigure
4 Doom Blade
Sorceries
2 Consuming Vapors
3 Duress
Tribal Sorceries
2 All Is Dust
Basic Lands
19 Swamp
Lands
2 Bojuka Bog
4 Tectonic Edge
Sideboard:
1 Brittle Effigy
4 Black Knight
2 Malakir Bloodwitch
2 Disfigure
1 Suffer the Past
1 Consuming Vapors
1 Duress
3 Memoricide
WOW a MBC list, this is so fucking exciting. i have been wanting to play MBC for the longest time and one finally top 8'ed. from the looks of it, most of the heavy black decks have been running Mimic Vats to capitilize on the strength of spot removal in black.. and whats more surprising, is that a deck with dark tutelage has emerged. i for one had thought tutelage was terrible and it may still be terrible but having the the crystal ball keeps you from actually taking tons of damage and with not a lot of decks running artifact smashing in the main, the card seems solid enough to be put in the main.
this really gives me hope for an MBC to be competitive, i have some work to do...
2 Brittle Effigy
3 Crystal Ball
3 Everflowing Chalice
2 Mimic Vat
2 Ratchet Bomb
Creatures
3 Abyssal Persecutor
4 Vampire Hexmage
Enchantments
2 Dark Tutelage
Instants
2 Consume the Meek
1 Disfigure
4 Doom Blade
Sorceries
2 Consuming Vapors
3 Duress
Tribal Sorceries
2 All Is Dust
Basic Lands
19 Swamp
Lands
2 Bojuka Bog
4 Tectonic Edge
Sideboard:
1 Brittle Effigy
4 Black Knight
2 Malakir Bloodwitch
2 Disfigure
1 Suffer the Past
1 Consuming Vapors
1 Duress
3 Memoricide
WOW a MBC list, this is so fucking exciting. i have been wanting to play MBC for the longest time and one finally top 8'ed. from the looks of it, most of the heavy black decks have been running Mimic Vats to capitilize on the strength of spot removal in black.. and whats more surprising, is that a deck with dark tutelage has emerged. i for one had thought tutelage was terrible and it may still be terrible but having the the crystal ball keeps you from actually taking tons of damage and with not a lot of decks running artifact smashing in the main, the card seems solid enough to be put in the main.
this really gives me hope for an MBC to be competitive, i have some work to do...
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