Comments on: Insider: RPTQ Prep Week 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:25:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mike Lanigan https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/#comment-450809 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 02:59:20 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=58452#comment-450809 In reply to Carl Szalich.

What do you think about a couple anafenza too?

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By: Mike Lanigan https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/#comment-450807 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 02:53:05 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=58452#comment-450807 In reply to Carl Szalich.

After some testing I think I agree with some changes like you’re suggesting. Good thoughts!

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By: Carl Szalich https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/#comment-449454 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:01:24 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=58452#comment-449454 In reply to Carl Szalich.

Edit: Another -1 Dragon Hunter +1 Valorous Stance. (Still gives you the 1/6 chance of drawing a T1 play)

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By: Carl Szalich https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/#comment-449441 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:41:32 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=58452#comment-449441 In reply to Mike Lanigan.

I really feel like you’re using too many 1 drops and are sacrifing a lot of the power that they built into warriors with this new set. Your 2/1s on T1 aren’t going to do anything against any of the 3/3 for 2 that your opp will follow up with. You need more “tricks”, less chumps. -3 Mardu Shadowspear -1 Dragon Hunter – 1 Land – 3 obelisk of Urd -1 Downfall -1 Secure the Wastes +2 Sorin +3 Chief of the Scale +3 ARASHIN FOREMOST (so good!) +2 Valorous Stance. Give this list a try. It gives you a lot more “ways to interact” with your opponents and Arashin Foremost is a BEAST as (basically) a 4/2 for 3 that will auto give a guy DS for your attack as well as every subsequent attack phase. This isn’t a format where control is so dominant you need to “go under” their big spells… you need to start strong and have a lot of ways to make your chumps relevant, and that’s where Hordechief, Arashin, and Blood-Chin help clean up. I KNOW you need to “go bigger” tho IMHO. I also think that you may want even MORE Valorous Stance as they are the tempo play for this deck. You attack a midrange deck which is trying to stabilize and they downfall your guy… making the creature indestructible is a real beating because now you’ve 1 for 1’d them AND still get your guy. Keeping “that guy” is super relevant so that next turn you can possibly either remove THEIR blocker OR drop a “pump warrior” and make your existing threat even bigger / hopefully able to attack but still stay out of the trade zone. Let me know if you end up testing this deck some more as I’m also building it but am also unsure if it can perform. 😉

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By: Mike Lanigan https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/#comment-448817 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:09:17 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=58452#comment-448817 In reply to Carl Szalich.

These are all great suggestions. So far the deck feels too inconsistent for me but I’ll take your thoughts into consideration. It’s like the games where you win, you almost couldn’t be beat, and the ones you lose, you got destroyed. Very few ways to come back from behind. Still a super fun deck though.

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By: Mike Lanigan https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/#comment-448811 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:07:35 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=58452#comment-448811 In reply to Charles.

I did consider the new card but I think pumping vaprokin with master of waves will work out more than flipping the morph. It could be right to go with the other one though. I don’t have enough testing to be sure.

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By: Mike Lanigan https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/#comment-448808 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 01:06:15 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=58452#comment-448808 In reply to Tony B..

What’s better than 4 downfalls? 5 downfalls!

In all seriousness, that is just supposed to be the 4th Valerous Stance. Thanks for finding my typo though.

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By: Charles https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/#comment-448712 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 23:17:23 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=58452#comment-448712 Why would you not run Stratus Dancer? Vaporkin?

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By: Tony B. https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/#comment-448368 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:57:49 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=58452#comment-448368 Five Downfalls in your Abzan Aggro list seems pretty good 😉

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By: Carl Szalich https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/03/insider-rptq-prep-week-1/#comment-448324 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:42:13 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=58452#comment-448324 I also feel that Sorin is the correct choice over Obelisk of Urd. Way better on an empty board, pressures control, and the life gain isn’t irrelevant (especially vs the red matchup, as you’d noted). I’m also considering a build like this, but feel that chief of the scale is also a decent roleplayer since he’s a threat AND keeps your guys from trading w / outburst tokens or the like. I agree that secure the wastes is the glue that will hold warriors together 🙂

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