Comments on: Blood Moon Rising Over GP Charlotte https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/blood-moon-rising-over-gp-charlotte/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:15:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nickolay Krumov https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/blood-moon-rising-over-gp-charlotte/#comment-2120991 Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:15:34 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=2392#comment-2120991 I don’t know, if I was going to Charlotte I would just go in with the strongest non-Amulet deck in Modern right now (which is Grixis Delver, by far) and sideboard primarily against the former and maybe a couple of the weaker matchups, because heading into big events you need a diverse sideboard, unlike what you would pack at FNM level. Even then I doubt I would have Blood Moon in my side, because to accomodate a Moon plan into the deck you have to cut off power in other places, primarily the mana base. I’m not sure giving up (let’s say) another 2 of your really close matchups in favor of the blowout against Amulet is worth it, especially when there are other linear ways to fight against that deck.

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By: Sheridan Lardner https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/blood-moon-rising-over-gp-charlotte/#comment-2120990 Wed, 10 Jun 2015 22:00:23 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=2392#comment-2120990 In reply to Vyraal.

Happy to hear you liked the article! I think it’s important for more authors to discuss deck frameworks and decisionmaking as much as decklists and cards themselves. Moon is really interesting in that regard and I had a lot of fun thinking through this.

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By: Sheridan Lardner https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/blood-moon-rising-over-gp-charlotte/#comment-2120989 Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:59:34 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=2392#comment-2120989 In reply to George Kourou.

1) Your experience with Moon is what I’ve heard from a lot of other players. Sometimes, hate cards aren’t that good against the decks they are supposed to hate. We saw this a lot against Burn when people tried to use Leyline to beat a deck that gets most of its damage from creatures or non-targeting spells, or players who relied too heavily on Dragon’s Claw without realizing that Revelry and Smash to Smithereens were coming in. But Moon is the real deal against Bloom.

2) Emrakul gets cheated in via Breach. You can also discard Emmy to Charm or Looting and, while its shuffle trigger is on the stack, reanimate it with Vengeance.

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By: Vyraal https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/blood-moon-rising-over-gp-charlotte/#comment-2120988 Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:01:23 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=2392#comment-2120988 In reply to George Kourou.

The most common way to play Emrakul from his list is through Goryo’s Vengance or Through the Breach – both are instants. When you can find a way to discard Emrakul (faithless looting being the most common way), you can respond to the shuffle trigger with GV/TTB and cheat Emrakul into play.

Overall on the article Sheridan – looks good, and agreed with your assessment so far with Blood Moon and how it fits within most deck frameworks, especially with having them main deck and side boarding it out.

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By: George Kourou https://www.quietspeculation.com/2015/06/blood-moon-rising-over-gp-charlotte/#comment-2120987 Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:27:41 +0000 http://34.200.137.49/?p=2392#comment-2120987 Dear Sheridan,

1)The Blood Moon case is a strange one. I, as a Bloom player, got hated a lot of times with that card. The card is here to police Bloom (as well as other decks, as you state) and it is one of the reasons that new players don’t go into Amulet. Every time I am playing against it, feels more like a poker game and not a magic game. I am trying to find Nature’s and the mana to play it. Possibly I have the first, but I lack the latter one. I cannot find a way to play around it since it gets down. More often, i wonder when against a possible Blue Moon deck of any variant,
“should you mulligan a great hand with no Nature’s/Seal”? Of course not. If it is that good, you simply keep it . Then a gamble begins. If a player has Blood Moon and throw it onto the battlefield, you go into a topdeck war and hope to find a basic Forest.
Real magic has ended now. It’s like calculating possibilities in order to find Forest(just like poker). You want a pair of asses and the possibilities are highly in opponent’s favor.
Anyways, I am happy that there is a HARD counter on us, Amulet players and due to that fact, a likely ban is and should be high off the cards.
2) Why Emrakul on your list? When do you get to play it?

Just wrote to share some thoughts about it from my experience.

Regards, George.

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