Comments on: Back on the PPTQ Grind: Week Three https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/08/back-on-the-pptq-grind-week-three/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Wed, 09 Aug 2017 20:22:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: Forrest Winstead https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/08/back-on-the-pptq-grind-week-three/#comment-2128610 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 20:22:47 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15049#comment-2128610 It charms my heart as a fellow merfolk player to see all these merfolk pilots running so well, even though your success with the deck has been marginal for yourself. It is definitely the right call against so much affinity to shelve it, even if I and the people in your tournaments just play that deck all the time. (like all merfolk players)

]]> By: David Ernenwein https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/08/back-on-the-pptq-grind-week-three/#comment-2128609 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 18:05:41 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15049#comment-2128609 In reply to Alvaro Gutierrez Cañas.

Against Affinity you are never going to win the tempo war (unless you were going to win anyway) so I board out Vials there, making Stony less harmful. Kataki is better against Affinity as you say, but you really need Stony in other matchups so that’s why I always run it. Walking Ballista is a nightmare and justifies the anti-synergy in my mind. I don’t blame anyone for going Kataki instead, but I prefer the wider usefulness of Stony.

]]> By: Alvaro Gutierrez Cañas https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/08/back-on-the-pptq-grind-week-three/#comment-2128608 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 17:49:58 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15049#comment-2128608 Great article as always, but as a D&T player I’m going to miss your comments about the deck. I have a doubt with the stony silence in the sideboard in D&T. Wouldn’t be better to have something like 2 Disenchant and 1 Kataki instead of the Stony and not lose the power of the Vial. It has been always kind of a nightmare to take away the vials and lose the card draw of the Inspector due to a Stony that not always gives you the victory against Affinity. What are your thoughts?

]]> By: Zach Stackhouse https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/08/back-on-the-pptq-grind-week-three/#comment-2128607 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:05:59 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15049#comment-2128607 Good luck! You beat my 0-3 drop of a day last Saturday and I have now 11 days before the next.

]]> By: David Ernenwein https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/08/back-on-the-pptq-grind-week-three/#comment-2128606 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 19:56:10 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15049#comment-2128606 In reply to David Hamlin.

The weird thing about Etron to me is that the problem is less the Eldrazi themselves than Walking Ballista. It fills so many holes and blind spots for the deck and I cannot imagine it would be so highly tiered otherwise. Not that you’d ban Ballista, but it still seems the real problem to me.

]]> By: David Hamlin https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/08/back-on-the-pptq-grind-week-three/#comment-2128605 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 19:30:57 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=15049#comment-2128605 Good article as always, definitely agree with your thoughts on ETron and wonder what might happen if anything. I got 3rd at a 38 player PPTQ in my area this past weekend, 4-1-1 on BW Tokens. Lost to the eventual winner on Affinity in the semifinals.

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