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JOU x 3 - how did this go 0-3
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Author:  British Falcon [ Fri May 09, 2014 7:11 am ]
Post subject:  JOU x 3 - how did this go 0-3
I think it is important that for every "here is my 3-0 deck" for consideration to be given to decks that just outright fail. My first JOUx3 draft had gone 1-2 after I drafted a Hour of Need deck that narrowly lost the two matches (both 2-1 and both to the wire). Not perturbed by this I jumped back on MTGO and opened a foil Prophetic Flamespeaker. After drafting what I thought was a stupidly powerful deck I ended up with this:

Lands (17)
8 Mountains
9 Swamps

Creatures (14)
Pharika's Chosen
2 Bloodcrazed Hopilite
2 Sigiled Skink
2 Grim Guardian
Mogis's Warhounds
Prophetic Flamespeaker
Squelching Leeches
King Macar
Forgeborn Oreads
2x Deadbringer Lampads
Thoughtrender Lamia (this was a mistake)

Spells (8)
Magma Spray
Cruel Feeding
Flamespeaker's Will
Font of Return
2x Nyx Infusion
Riddle of Lightning
Spiteful Blow

I genuinely thought this was a 3-0 deck. 2-1 at the outside. In the end I went 0-3 (and 0-6 in games). While I can see arguments that cards like Font of Return (basically a constellation trigger) and Thoughtrender Lamia shouldn't have been played is this deck really that bad?

All comments gratefully received.
Author:  Zlehtnoba [ Fri May 09, 2014 8:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: JOU x 3 - how did this go 0-3
This seems a bit shizophrenic to me. Two Hoplites and nothing to trigger them with. Two bombs that want to attack, and no way to push them through. Grim Guardians want to play the attrition game, but not much else is there to help them. I can see you were going for constellation, and the Lampads should have enabled some attacks for your bombs.

Thanks for posting this. It takes a real effort for me to look back at one of my disasters, let alone posting one of them.
Author:  Hello World [ Fri May 09, 2014 8:42 am ]
Post subject:  Re: JOU x 3 - how did this go 0-3
I don't really like the leeches(only 9 swamps?) here, and it seems half an aggro deck(4 pikers,flamespeaker) and half a control deck(chosen, font,king)

It could have used the red font and starfall pretty well if you managed to get some.

What was the side?
Author:  Zenbitz [ Fri May 09, 2014 12:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: JOU x 3 - how did this go 0-3
Your spells seem very bad - they are all individually playable, but none of them is actually good. Maybe magma spray - but even that isn't so useful late game.

Agreed with the 1/2 aggro 1/2 control deck.

EDIT: That being said, it sure doesn't look like an 0-3 to me. Variance is a bitch.
Author:  British Falcon [ Fri May 09, 2014 6:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: JOU x 3 - how did this go 0-3
Thanks for the feedback. The plan was early damage and then win through constellation but it didn't work.

Of course, it is hard to post an 0-3 deck but feedback is more important with a bad deck than it is with a good deck.
Author:  AspectofCat [ Sat May 10, 2014 12:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: JOU x 3 - how did this go 0-3
Variance is still a thing. No worries my friend.
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