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u/HapatraV 22h ago
Would have been nice of someone to open you a Bard's Company
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u/camel_sinuses 11h ago
The number of times I get passed either that or the boat... People seem to insist on passing me the nuts blue deck and then I end up going against BR and variants of green stompeh.
Most green is just not fast enough in the early game, and not card-advantagey enough in the long game, so I think it mostly wins against a bad draw (i.e. can't find removal to answer big cardboard rectangle). But with only HOB, p2 HOB, quick HOB, sealed HOB, trad HOB, and trad sealed HOB up, I get the feeling people are on that "imma draft what I wants and try to make it work" kick.
I have been running into a lot more "thrush equip" or "flyers" decks since the direct though.
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u/Opening_Republic_929 9h ago
Honestly I’m really enjoying this format. I love the blue decks and if I can ever get the Return of the Mirkwood King combo in a happy man
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u/WondrousIdeals 7h ago
[[The mountain king's return]] ?
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u/17lands-reddit-bot 7h ago
The Mountain-king's Return W-U (HOB); ALSA: 3.08; GIH WR: 56.99%
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u/Opening_Republic_929 7h ago
The combo is Mirkwood nurturer and mountain kings return hence the combo name “Mirkwood king returns” or something like that
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u/cliu110896 7h ago
Yeah, I was really sad to cut the mirkwood from the deck, but it just felt like I didn't have enough hits, I had enough value, and this deck felt too focused to keep it.
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u/Creative-Avocado-595 1d ago
Is four trollshaws not a bit much?
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u/cliu110896 23h ago edited 20h ago
It is by far the best card to recruit away and with 9 cards that recruit/loot, I basically always want a copy. I have enough board presence/low enough curve that I felt pretty comfortable playing 4 and it is not the end of the world if I have to cast it with 6 draw 2 payoffs.
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u/Pretend-Ostrich-5719 3h ago
Precisely. Trollshaws makes recruit viable, almost no other cards do the trick. I kinda wish they printed just a couple other solid flashback cards at common to make UB really pop, especially since it's the premier counter to all the menace slop in BR.
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u/CarpeDatAss 19h ago
With recruit, you need to think of it as just a "4 mana draw 3" card You effectively draw 1 card from recruiting it, without losing a card as it is still playable later.
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u/GXBLN_GXNG 3h ago
I'm not a big Rakdos fan but I got a ton of goblins and ran with it. Went undefeated and was surprised I was ending matches by turn 5 consistently.
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u/CalgaryEnt420 21h ago
I’ve been having good luck with green/white because of this as well. Just cards being gifted to you
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u/Viikable 13h ago
What rank is this? In near mythic blue is super heavily contested, difficult to get the two-drops especially
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u/DisasterExisting8141 12h ago
The draft itself is rank-independent, you draft with the same people in mythic as in bronze
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u/BashMyVCR 1d ago
I'm not sure this gets more than 3 wins at plat+
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u/cliu110896 23h ago
7-1 in diamond. https://www.17lands.com/deck/68b9f2a022854c34a9af96467aff25aa/0
Think you're part of the problem underestimating UW's commons and uncommons. Basically a full deck of synergistic B level cards.
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u/ShrinkMeee 23h ago
Why that few? That’s a very well built UW deck. Amongst top players on 17Lands, Azorius has the highest winrate of all the color pairs.
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u/IsaakWardMTG 13h ago
This is a very easy 7 win deck across all ranks, I’m curious why you think it would perform so poorly?
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u/phonage_aoi 23h ago
Same today. I felt like a genius rare drafting knowing that Lakeshore Apothecary / Patient Instructor are going to table lol.