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Post by FoodChainGoblins » 3 years ago

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So can we talk about how Moraug, Fury of Akoum + Sakura-Tribe Scout + bounceland is infinite combat steps? :D
Didn't think of that. :dizzy:

I saw the card and thought, hmm, powerful, gonna be GREAT in Commander. Oh yeah, I hate Commander. :unamused:
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Post by TheAnnihilator » 3 years ago

Wait, I stand corrected about Moraug. It only triggers on main phase and, most importantly, does not grant additional main phases. So you could trigger for a ton of combat phases in Main 1 or 2, but it's not infinite.

I don't know if it really changes the effect of the card tho, tbh. A few swings with Titan is probably good enough. :)

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Post by TheAnnihilator » 3 years ago

I just managed to get my FIRST ever 5-0 on MTGO!

Spoiler alert: I was playing a no-nonsense Amulet Titan list. ;)
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Post by TheAnnihilator » 3 years ago

Been messing around with a list with Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary, Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale, and Kazandu Mammoth // Kazandu Valley on MTGO. The new mechanic feels pretty promising, and has outperformed my expectations. Only been testing in free to play rooms, but will probably post a league with it when I get a list I feel is most solid.

A few nice upsides: Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary is great for getting back discarded Titans or rebuying SPact to set up Dryad without using a TWest, Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale plays around Blood Moon, Damping sphere, and... Confounding Conundrum . Yikes.

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Post by TheAnnihilator » 3 years ago

Anyone have a nice spicy list for me to test on the channel? :)

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Post by TheAnnihilator » 3 years ago

RFM recently made a video to introduce complete beginners to Amulet Titan. If you're trying to learn new things about the deck, you should check it out!

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Post by FoodChainGoblins » 2 years ago

I went 2-2 at a 15 person MNM.

Round 1 vs. Jeskai Stoneblade. 2-0.

Round 2 vs. Sun and Moon (RW hate). 0-2.

Round 3 vs. Jeskai Midrange. 2-0.

Round 4 vs. Yorion Niv. 1-2.

I go a disappointing 2-2. The last loss was tough. I really should have mulliganed, but was hoping to face multiple Thoughtseize and durdling.
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Post by TheAnnihilator » 2 years ago

What was your list?

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Post by FoodChainGoblins » 2 years ago

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What was your list?
The main was close to this.

https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=31492&d=444000&f=MO

But my side was very different, including 4 Aether Gust.
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What was your list?
The main was close to this.

https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=31492&d=444000&f=MO

But my side was very different, including 4 Aether Gust.
Why Gust?

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TheAnnihilator wrote:
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What was your list?
The main was close to this.

https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=31492&d=444000&f=MO

But my side was very different, including 4 Aether Gust.
Why Gust?
I thought it was still a very good card, albeit hard to cast.

What is your current list? I really need to play a deck that beats UR this weekend. :)
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I thought it was still a very good card, albeit hard to cast.

What is your current list? I really need to play a deck that beats UR this weekend. :)
My current list is:

I think EE and Relic are very well positioned currently, and my plan against Ragavan is Dismembers+Grazers and pray. :P I could see cutting the Foundation Breaker for a 3rd Force of Vigor, but I've run into enough odd situations where Pacting for Breaker comes up against decks like Hammer Time, Enchantress, ETron, Amulet, etc. that I like having 1 in the board personally, and I've already got 3 Dismember 3 EE for Hammer Time, so the 3rd FoV doesn't feel super necessary.

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I thought it was still a very good card, albeit hard to cast.

What is your current list? I really need to play a deck that beats UR this weekend. :)
My current list is:

I think EE and Relic are very well positioned currently, and my plan against Ragavan is Dismembers+Grazers and pray. :P I could see cutting the Foundation Breaker for a 3rd Force of Vigor, but I've run into enough odd situations where Pacting for Breaker comes up against decks like Hammer Time, Enchantress, ETron, Amulet, etc. that I like having 1 in the board personally, and I've already got 3 Dismember 3 EE for Hammer Time, so the 3rd FoV doesn't feel super necessary.
Played this list -2 Force of Vigor, -1 Pact of Negation —> +1 Pithing Needle, +2 Tireless Tracker to a 4-0 finish and a split for first at FNM last night (played last match for fun anyways and got it 2-1). Forgot that my Forces were at home in my Infect deck, so I had to play without them. Nobody plays control locally, so I cut the Negation for Pithing Needle since a few people have played Asmo Food nonsense in the past. Matches were 2-1 Naya Reclaimer, 2-1 Naya Burn, 2-1 UR Ragavan [Lurrus], and 2-1 Domain Zoo.

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Post by FoodChainGoblins » 2 years ago

So, I have played the deck 3 times since Boseiju, Who Endures. Going with a list I found on the FB Amulet group for my first 4-0 with it, then 0-2 and 4-0 with FPawlusz/Puntthenwine's list.

MNM, 14 people

Round 1 vs. Living End. This is the player who wrecked me a few weeks ago on Calibrated Blast, making me 3-1 one MNM and 2-2 in another one. 2-1.

Round 2 vs. Burn. Newer player here, really cool kid. 2-1.

Round 3 vs. Affinity. This guy destroyed me when I was on Jeskai Lotus Field 2 weeks ago, putting me at 1-1-1 (dude in Rd. 1 wouldn't scoop to no permanents in play on turns) and Affinity beat me so quickly, I'd have to wait a good 25 min. for the next Rd. 2-0.

Round 4 vs. Velomachus Turns Creativity. First time playing this guy, but Creativity is the one deck that has wrecked me since MH2.
I am now 3-11 vs. this deck after he mulled to 4 in Game 3 and scooped prematurely. 2-1.

I go 4-0.

FNM, 14 players.

Round 1 vs. Money Pile. Dude is 8-2 vs. me since on Money Pile and we now play every single week, regardless of 20 or 30 players. Turn 2 Wrenn and Six every single game, except 2 in these (mostly 3 gamee) matches. 1-2.

Round 2 vs. GDS. Triple Drown in the Loch worked out for him. He drew a card. I drew Cavern of Souls for my Cultivator Colossus to play around 4th Drown. His draw and now play was Dress Down. :D I draw the nuts and get out Azusa and Tireless Tracker with 1 clue on turn 2. He can't kill either, so you can figure what happened. In the last game, he literally had every single answer exactly when he needed it. I hate to sound like variance decided this match, but I literally saw no mistakes on my part and I didn't draw super badly until I flooded a bit and he also flooded a bit at that time. 1-2.

Drop. 0-2 drop.

MNM, 16 players

Round 1 vs. Money Pile. This Judge has beaten me 5 of the 6 times we played for the 4-0 in Round 4. He's a very worth opponent, but I am now 3-0 vs. him in Round 1s, lol. I don't think I've played him in Rds. 2 or 3 yet or at least not in over a year. 2-0.

Round 2 vs. UR Murktide. Newer player, makes a mistake not casting 2nd Dress Down when I Cultivator Colossus. He thinks he can do it mid putting lands into play and drawing cards. He can't and we verify with the Head Judge. 2-1.

Round 3 vs. Tron. My buddy. I beat him on the play with double AMulet in game 1, he grinds out game 2, and I triple Boseiju, Who Endures All in game 3. 2-1.

Round 4 vs. Affinity. Same Affinity guy from last week. I have to play very carefully to win game 2 after he crushes me game 1 with double Metallic Rebuke. In game 3, I have the nuts and he empties his hand. Perfect for me. I draw Azusa on turn 3 and now can attack with many Titans and Dryad from turn 2 in play. :D :love: 2-1.

I go 4-0.
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Modern - Jund Sacrifice, Amulet, Elementals, Trollementals, BR Asmo/Goryo's, Yawmoth Chord
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Post by The Fluff » 2 years ago

nice, looks like Boseiju gave the Amulet deck a bit more power boost.
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Post by FoodChainGoblins » 2 years ago

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nice, looks like Boseiju gave the Amulet deck a bit more power boost.
First 2 tournaments, it didn't do much. But it was huge in the last 4-0, lol. It definitely did give Amulet a boost and was the sole reason I switched back to Amulet. I may actually play the same deck for a few weeks now, lol. :rofl:
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Post by FoodChainGoblins » 2 years ago

Ran Amulet again at a 15 person FNM.

Round 1 vs. E Tron. 2-1.

Round 2 vs. GB Saga. 2-1.

Round 3 vs. Shadow. 1-2.

Round 4 vs. UR Kiki Exarch. 2-1.

I go 3-1, so now 11-3 with the deck since Boseiju.
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Post by The Fluff » 2 years ago

congrats on the results.

does the deck play a little differently now that it has Boseiju?
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Post by FoodChainGoblins » 2 years ago

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congrats on the results.

does the deck play a little differently now that it has Boseiju?
Yes, there's always a bit of tension whether to play it or save it. But every deck with Boseiju has this issue, but Amulet can at least bounce it and play it later. Sometimes Primeval Titan fetchles Simic Growth Chamber and Boseiju, Who Endures All in order to activate it right away. For example, instead of previously getting Ghost Quarter, you just get this.
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Post by FoodChainGoblins » 2 years ago

MNM. 18 players. 2-2.

Round 1 vs. 4 Color Yorion. 2-0.

Round 2 vs. Murktide. 1-2.

Round 3 vs. 4 Color Yorion. 2-1.

Round 4 vs. Infect. 0-2.

Saturday $1K. 54 players

Round 1 vs. Reanimator. 2-0.

Round 2 vs. Mill. 2-0.

Round 3 vs. UW Control Kaheera. 1-2.

Round 4 vs. Hammer. 2-0.

Round 5 vs. UW Control ScM. 0-2.

Round 6 vs. Grixis Control. 2-1.

I go 4-2 for 9th and the Round 3 player won the whole thing.

MNM. 15 players.

Round 1 vs. Rhinos. 0-2.

Round 2 vs. Hammer. 2-0.

Round 3 vs. Tron. 2-1.

Round 4 vs. Murktide. 2-1.

I go 2-2. 19-9 overall since Boseiju.
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14 person FNM.

Round 1 vs. UW Spirits. 2-0.

Round 2 vs. Humans. 2-0.

Round 3 vs. Murktide. 2-0.

Round 4 vs. Amulet mirror. 0-0-3

Now 22-9-1 or possibly 23-8-1 if I made a mistake in my calculations above.

60 person Modern $1K

Round 1 vs. Yorion Money Pile. Way back 1 million years ago, this guy beat me at 3 consecutive RPTQs, on CoCo Combo twice and Infect once. Since then I beat him twice on BUG Infect. I don't play him often because this venue is far away from me. At 4-1, he had to play it out for top 8. I saw later that he didn't get there. 2-0.

Round 2 vs. Grixis Shadow. 0-2.

Round 3 vs. UW Control. Same player as the last $1K who beat me for the win-and-draw-in last time. I was 9-1 lifetime vs. him before those 2 matches. Now 9-3. :\ 1-2.

Round 4 vs. RW Obosh Prowess Moon. 2-1.

Round 5 vs. Yawgmoth. The matchup I've wanted for a while. I get what I want and get demolished in game 1. Game 2, I have it all, but he turn 2 off BoP exiles all my Prime Times, including 1 from hand. Next turn he does the same with Dryad, but none in hand. I have a Summoner's Pact in hand for Cultivator Colossus and this card draws me 8 cards and the win soon thereafter. In the final game, he does Force of Vigor on Amulet and Dryad. He has a Strangleroot Geist which is swinging. I Dismember it with Golgari Rot Farm to be at 1. I have a low life total and not many drops, but get Prime Time in time to get Radiant Fountain and then another 1 after that one is Grist killed to get Vesuva on Radiant Fountain to survive BoP with exalted a few times and he runs out of Grists, while I play Colossus and get a bunch of cards and win soon thereafter. I made a mistake of tapping out, not leaving Endurance mana up while casting Prime Time and haste to put 4 total Urza's Sagas in play when he had FoV mana and 1 card in his hand for the longest time. I was 2 damage short of lethal when I just have to get 0-1 Sagas and the trample from Colossus does it. He draws Yawgmoth, but it's too late. He's at 1. 2-1.

Round 6 vs. Glimpse Combo. We choose "high roll." He rolls a 2 and a 2. I roll a 2 and a ... 1. He does Khalni Garden and goes off on turn 3 for 4 permanents. I had him dead with Amulet into Dryad into (I was going to play a Prime Time on turn 3 and swing with Valakut triggers). He gets Archon of Cruelty, Trostani's something, Emrakul, and ... Iona, Shield of Emeria on Green. GGs. In the next game, he does the same turn 2, but I kill him the way I would have in game 1 on MY turn 2, with Cultivator Colossus into Dryad and a bunch of Valakut triggers. In the last game, I have a turn 3 again. He does turn 3 Shardless Agent again with a Plant token in play. Breeding Pool, Khalni Garden, Foundation Breaker on my Amulet, and Archon of Cruelty on my Dryad. I don't have a turn 3 without those cards and Archon gets me soon aftre that. 13 damage on his swing, 3 from archon trigger, 6 from archon, and 2 each from his 2/2s. If my 1 on the die is a 3, I win games 1 and 3, while HE wins game 2. Wonderful how this works, especially considering how many die rolls I've lost recently. 1-2.

I go 3-3 to fall to 26-11.
Standard - Will pick up what's good when paper starts
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Pioneer - DEAD
Modern - Jund Sacrifice, Amulet, Elementals, Trollementals, BR Asmo/Goryo's, Yawmoth Chord
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Post by FoodChainGoblins » 2 years ago

Monday night magic - 29 players, they always do 4 rounds here.

Round 1 vs. Jeskai Murktide. 2-1.

Round 2 vs. Yorion Money Pile. 2-0.

Round 3 vs. Kaheera Elementals. 1-2.

Round 4 vs. Affinity. 2-1.

I go 3-1 again. 29-12 now.
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Pioneer - DEAD
Modern - Jund Sacrifice, Amulet, Elementals, Trollementals, BR Asmo/Goryo's, Yawmoth Chord
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FNM, 20 players

Round 1 vs. Living End. 0-2.

Round 2 vs. Murktide. 2-0.

Round 3 vs. Belcher. 1-2.

Round 4 vs. Burn. 2-0.
Standard - Will pick up what's good when paper starts
Pre Modern - Do not own anymore
Pioneer - DEAD
Modern - Jund Sacrifice, Amulet, Elementals, Trollementals, BR Asmo/Goryo's, Yawmoth Chord
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Post by FoodChainGoblins » 1 year ago

Modern $1K - 65 players.

Round 1 vs. Infect. This player went into the top 8 as the 2nd seed at 5-0-2. A look at the Companion standings and his game win percentage was 90.9%, so he went he 2-0ed 4 other opponents before IDing into the top 8. And our match was super close. So, this player comes from the Orange County area, so I don't see him often. He was playing Infect for the longest time. But in the past few years, I faced him twice, once on Storm over a year ago and UW Control a half year ago. I am on the play and keep Arboreal Grazer, lands, and Prime Time. You can see what happened. I drew lands and the hand was not quick enough. I would have mulliganed if I knew he was on Infect. I thought UW Control since it was the last deck I saw him on or some odd Combo deck like Storm. In game 2, he mulls to 4. He actually may have had me dead when he tapped out for Blighted Agent and left up Overgrown Tomb on turn 2. But I kill him on turn 3 with double Amulet and the nuts. In game 3, I mull a 0 land hand to a 6 land hand. I keep on a solid 5 and draw a 2nd Amulet to make a fairly nut hand. But when I Dryad and Prime Time, it is not enough to get a 6th land for Valakut triggers. He has 3 varied Hierarchs, Blighted Agent, and a just cast Phyrexian Crusader with 3 or 4 lands in play and 0 cards in hand. I am at 4 poison from last turn, so any pump spell kills me. I tank for the longest time and finally decide to go for Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood after my Titan lands since haste is not enough to trigger Valakut, nor kill him. So I bounced the Turntimber and go for it since it is my only out. Maybe it was 3 Amulet, but somehow Titan found enough mana to do Turntimber Symbiosis. I look at 7, see 4 lands, 2 Summoner's Pact, and 1 Dismember. He draws Mutagenic Growth and 6's me for lethal. The next 2 cards on my library were Prime Time X 2. One of those would have won the game or obviously if I had another turn. Too bad Turntimber Symbiosis wasn't 8 cards. :thinking: 1-2.

Round 2 vs. Bant Heliod. This player drew poorly vs. me and I drew the nuts. Still, I saw through the Companion app that he won the last 5 rounds and got 10th place overall. :o I won the die roll and killed him with the absolute nuts, 4 Amulets and every Titan in my deck nearly.
Absolutely disgusting. I didn't know what he was on, so I guessed Elementals. That was dumb - he didn't have Kaheera and most people don't run Ragavan in it. In the next game, my mull was slower, but he only had Stoneforge Mystic and Kaldra Compleat. I end up drawing another Amulet and am able to do a double Titan turn. I never knew this guy had Heliod until a few rounds later when I saw him play. 2-0.

Round 3 vs. Jund Shadow. This player ended up 5-2, securing the only X-2 in the top 8 at 8th! In the first game, he has all the things. Ragavan, Bolt for Grazer, discard, DRC, I make a mistake of not playing a land as my 2nd land drop immediately after Dryad when he had 1 card in hand and 2 lands. Terminate slowed me, although Terminate on Prime Time that I Pacted for would have been game anyway. I kind of thought that it wouldn't matter if he had his last card as yet another answer to what I have, but I still honestly should have played correctly. In the next game, I kind of ran him out of answers. His one Bolt on my 1 Grazer again, but DRC stayed a 1/1 naturally and then when I cycled Relic of Progenitus. His Ancient Grudge slowed me, but I went all out on a Cultivator Colossus and drew a million cards. He had 1 card left in hand and did it on upkeep, a Temur Battle Rage to surveil with DRC. He had a 8/8 double strike, but scooped. I was at 14, so have to block. In the last game, I mulled to 6. I have a choice of putting Endurance, Dryad, or Summoner's Pact on the bottom, or one of 4 non bounceland lands. I put Valakut on the bottom. I end up only drawing a single land this game, an Urza's Saga, which he played Alpine Moon next turn. On my final turn, I drew Simic Growth Chamber, which puts me back in the game, but he kills Azusa and plant with his 2 last cards, then draws and Unholy Heat on Dryad. I have no blockers for a 7/7 Shadow and I'm at 7 now since I went from 14 to 7 last turn. Ugh. 1-2.

Round 4 vs. 4 color Ragavan, Reanimator, into SB Boom/Bust. My mull to 5 was slow, but he only played Wrenn and Six, Ragavan, and Seasoned Pyromancers. I get Prime Time and company and it's easy from there. I think he scooped to double Prime. In the next game, he made me discard Amulet, then Boom/Bust, then Wrenn and Six, got Seasoned Pyromancers to Boom/Bust me again. Eventually he almost had an emblem, but I get through eventually with Endurance and Dryad. He did Bust to destroy all lands and he Wrenn and Six to combine with Bolts for my Endurance and Dryad. I scoop and then win the last game, deciding to play around burn on my 2/4 instead of 4th copy of Thoughtseize. It pays off and he scoops to me drawing 6 cards off Cultivator Colossus. We were almost on time. 2-1.

Round 5 vs. Burn. He Goblin Guides me, then Searing Blaze on Arboreal Grazer. He does a quick burn on the play hand, but I am able to nut play with multiple Amulets into Cultivator Colossus into everything. The next game is almost as disgusting. I draw the absolute nuts with 3 Amulet and triple Dryad to a Prime Time junking in. Even 1 Dismember or even 2 doesn't do it now, lol. NUTSSSSS. 2-0.

Round 6 vs. General Rockric. He gets some guys, does some Prismatic Endings, but I am able to Valakut him the turn before losing.
He scoops to me to leave since his friends are leaving now. 2-0.

Round 7 vs. Merfolk. I win the die roll. I get my Prime Time Trickstered when I am about to try to get Valakut triggers and win. But I win next turn pretty easily. In the next game, he Spreading Seas my Saga, but I get out of it, take 10 damage to 12 life now and swing for lethal. I had my Prime Time and Dryad PHASED OUT with a Blue March, lol. But he had no cards left and didn't draw whatever card would have won it for him next turn and I had another Pact in hand. Nut draws again. 2-0.

I go 5-2 for 9th place. No playing top 8 for me. :(
Standard - Will pick up what's good when paper starts
Pre Modern - Do not own anymore
Pioneer - DEAD
Modern - Jund Sacrifice, Amulet, Elementals, Trollementals, BR Asmo/Goryo's, Yawmoth Chord
Legacy - No more cards, will rebuy Sneak Show when I can
Limited - Will start when paper starts
Commander - Nope

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Post by The Fluff » 1 year ago

nice detailed report. I enjoyed reading it. Sorry to hear you barely missed top 8. Looks like those only two players you lost to actually made top 8.. strange twist of events.

anyway, looks like Amulet Titan is still a very strong deck, based on those crazy things you did with nut draws, even outraced Burn.

goodluck on the next tourney you will attend. :)
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