2008-11-18T22:58:00Z http://teamicbm.com/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:teamicbm.com,2008-11-17:1539398 Josh 2008-11-17T13:23:39Z 2008-11-17T13:23:39Z tag:teamicbm.com,2008-11-15:1535398 Eric Becker 2008-11-15T20:15:58Z 2008-11-15T20:15:58Z
"One reason is the economy."

Maybe there's just too many tournaments going on. Back in the day, I found it hard to justify going to more than 2 tournaments a month. I'd think that you'll continue to see poor turnouts if the player base is constantly being stretched, especially in conditions you've outlined.]]> tag:teamicbm.com,2008-10-17:1452541 orangeniki 2008-10-17T10:35:08Z 2008-10-17T10:35:08Z
I really liked the look of this list but after some testing. I surprised by Dan's results. I'm losing to Oath, fish and RG aggro pretty handly, even post board. Even traditional Slaver can slip in a Welder and wreck this mono blue deck. It looks great on paper but I'm struggling with it. I've found I need to counter near everything (even little seemingly innocuous weenies) as a quick kill is not this decks strong suit.

I know this dilutes the deck a bit and the redunduncy is one of the decks strengths, but I keep wanting a lone Shield Sphere in the deck. I have had many games where I have the mana to drop Tez, but am getting hit by say a 3/4 Tarmo each turn and cannot play Tez without it potentially dying. If I dropped Tez and for free put in a Shield Sphere I could block a while and buy enough time to combo out. It doesn't happen every game and I'd hate to draw the Shield in most games, but I did lose many close games against anything aggro because Tez alone could not answer swarms or big beats.

And an opposing Null Rod shuts down 11 maindeck TEZ-Blue cards including Time Vault... which 90% of the time means game. Null Rod scares this thing.]]> tag:teamicbm.com,2008-10-16:1450771 Jake 2008-10-16T18:01:35Z 2008-10-16T18:01:35Z
Against monoU you take out cannonist and some fanatics, maybe 1 STP for rebs and pithing needle. Usually youll name tez, but it also hits EE and powder keg which is big. you keep in the STP for sower and dsc. keep the kamis in case of threads and propaganda. If you know they are bringing in propaganda, I'd proally toss those ray of revs in there.

Against other aggro decks you pretty much are going to crush them anyway so I wouldnt worry about it, unless they have specific cards that you are afraid of, sword of fire/ice, jitte, etc.

oath you take out fanatics for rebs and 2 other cards for ray of rev

vs stax you already have an INSANE matchup but id proally just take out the cannonists for ancient grudge and a pithing needle, or something like that

Boom.]]> tag:teamicbm.com,2008-10-14:1445255 smokey joe 2008-10-14T21:14:19Z 2008-10-14T21:14:19Z tag:teamicbm.com,2008-10-13:1441174 Sorenson 2008-10-13T10:16:36Z 2008-10-13T10:16:36Z
i have been testing this list with the switch of running main deck gaddock teeg. but so far it hasnt made much of an impact in games even though it hypothetically could be game wrecking.]]> tag:teamicbm.com,2008-10-13:1441153 Ben 2008-10-13T10:03:08Z 2008-10-13T10:03:08Z tag:teamicbm.com,2008-10-13:1441139 Sorenson 2008-10-13T09:58:54Z 2008-10-13T09:58:54Z
and once he hits he can make the rest of your guys get around it to]]> tag:teamicbm.com,2008-10-12:1439194 Ged 2008-10-12T06:52:09Z 2008-10-12T06:52:09Z Looking forward to Ad Nauseam list.]]> tag:teamicbm.com,2008-10-10:1437050 Phil 2008-10-10T23:27:33Z 2008-10-10T23:27:33Z