Hello everybody,
It has been some time since my first Blogpost and I apologise for that. I have been busy with a few other projects lately and barely find time to even play at tournaments. Also I made a Magic Arena Account and got a bit too distracted by that aswell.
Anyway I attended last weekends Atarka Cup at the Anderer Spiele Laden in Berlin. 13 Players attended most of them, like usual, palyed blue based decks but there were also a few aggro builds like RDW and Rakdos. I decided to play scapeshift, a boring but efficient tournament deck in my opinon.
I was a bit early and did a few games with my work in progress Big Red Deck versus Benjamins Rakdos Aggro.Thank you Benjamin for beeing so kind to help me improving my deck . The List is 90% done and I hope to bring you a Decktech on it during the week. I can already spoil you that Scroll of Fate is a powerhouse, get your copies now.
So let us dig in right into round 1 versus Jan with 4c Tempo:
Jan is the only HL player I know who occasionally lets his opponent start a game, I guess he values cards in hand more than tempo advantage which is notably interesting since he plays a tempo oriented deck. In Game 1 I just put lands onto the battlefield until turn 4 or 5 when I cast skyshroud claim into demonic for scapeshift. He was down to 18 already and had only removal and no counters in his hand so that was game 1.
Game 2 he let me start again and build up some pressure with low cost creatures which sadly for him also have low power stats. So he was to slow to prevent me from killing him with scapeshift again. I remember he even had to use vindicate on one of my lands hoping I wouldn`t find another one to get lethal. Again bad luck for him getting stuck with small creatures and no counters.
Round 2 I faced Benjamin again with his Rakdos Aggro.
A small advantage for me because I already knew what he was playing. His deck is very, very aggressive and has lots of hasty 3 and 4 drops which are arguably stronger than most of the stuff tempo decks have to offer. A difficult Matchup and both games had me on the brink of death hadn`t I been able to find lifegain creatures to get a few additional turns to combo off. In Game 2 I got 9 additional life and still got beaten down to 1 before I could paly a lethal scapeshift. His Rakdos build really is no joke.
Round 3 was vs Florian who playes Jeskai Tempo.
Another Tempo Deck with interesting creature choices like Burning Prophet. Which is ,according to him, a powerhouse even outside a War of the Spark draft. In game 1 I kept a 3 land Hand but without green, I wasn´t able to find a green land until turn 7 so I kinda threw that game away. Game 2 Flo kept a 2 Land hand and I just played lands until I got lots of tokens with field of the dead and Vesuva plus scape in Hand. Game 3 both of us had a decent starting 7 and the game was really longer than expected, I was extremely lucky though and played first treasure cruise and later dig trough time which found scape and mana drain. There was no way for him to beat that even with 3 creatures and Monarch on his side. GGs thought, always nice to play with Flo.
Round 4 vs Luca and Izzet Midrange
Luca is a Veteran like me and likes to play weird cards aswell as I do. I figured whoever draws less of his situational pet cards would win. In game 1 he slowed me down with b2b but I was able to handle it 2 turns later with decay, I played collective brutality to see his and with no counters and tried to green sun zenith a primeval Titan for the win a trn later but the card he drew was Mana leak so that was a lost game 1 for me. Game 2 he curved out while I was stuck with Reanimate(**** this card) on my Hand. I even assisted him by playing gitaxian probe on turn 1(noob move) so his direfleet daredevil was a viable play on turn 2. Mind you all, dont play your cantrips too early without need, only bad things can and will happen. After I lost we made an additional 2 games which I won, too bad they didn`t count anymore. GGs to Luca for putting Izzet on my map again, and thanks for playing 2 more games with me to at least even it out.
So finally the good part, have a Decklist:
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/scapeshift-2019-2/
stay tuned for Big Red and have a nice Week
Solitude-Society 