A week into the fourth month of the year, Friday Quest Hobby Shop (FQ) announced that they’ll be having their second team outing to be held at the same resort at Pansol, Laguna. Since it's an open invitation, I decided to be part of it. Here's what I brought for their event.
GP Pansol, Laguna
Mono Blue Merfolk
Main Deck
2 Dismember
4
Spreading Seas
4
Aether Vial
1
Phantasmal Image
3
Master of Waves
4 Merfolk Trickster
4
Silvergill Adept
4
Curesecatcher
4
Harbinger of the Tides
3 Merrow Reejerey
4
Lord of Atlantis
4
Master of the Pearl Trident
15
Island
4
Mutavault
Sideboard
4 Relic of Progenitus
3
Ceremonious Rejection
3 Negate
3 Gut Shot
2 Dispel
The event had 20+ players, 5 rounds of swiss plus top eight. I faced the following:
GRIX Death Shadow 1-2
Blue Living End 2-0
UW Control 2-0
Ad Nauseam 2-1
ID
Notes:
As for the top eight finishers, instead of using their own decks, they were provided with a deck. So before the start of the quarter-finals, I got an Abzan. Unfortunately, I lost to a UW Jace-Gideon deck.
As for the top eight finishers, instead of using their own decks, they were provided with a deck. So before the start of the quarter-finals, I got an Abzan. Unfortunately, I lost to a UW Jace-Gideon deck.
Merfolk Trickster was superb all night long. Here are some of the things that I can still recall from the event:
(i) Initially, I thought two is the perfect number of it in the main deck. But after play testings with Naya Revolt Zoo, UR Gifts Storm, Dredge, and Titanshift, I am convince that four is the correct number. Tapping opponent's creatures is neat, and making it lose all its ability is so beneficial for us because it can win you the game in certain situations.
(ii) Dismembers are no longer needed. With the addition of Merfolk Trickster, the deck has already 10 to 12 tappers (depending on your build: Trickster, Harbinger, and Reejerey) which I think are enough if you are going up against any aggro base deck. I'd probably replace the Dismembers with counter spells, Negate or Spell Pierce maybe.
(iii) Here's a list of creatures we always see in the battlefield in which if played at the right situation, Merfolk Trickster can shift the tide into your favor: Laboratory Maniac, Signal Pest, Master of Etherium, infect creatures, those creatures that has a trigger when it is put into the graveyard from play: Wurmcoil Engine, Strangleroot Geist, Kitchen Finks, Voice of Resurgence, Matter Reshaper, Thought-Knot Seer, and the like; UR storm bears, Tarmogoyf, Phyrexian Revoker, Magus of the Moon, the red eidolon, any of he elves creatures except those have enters the battlefield triggers, Vizier of Remedies, Devoted Druid, Meddling Mage, denying him of islandwalk in case of mirror, and in situations wherein you would like to remove their first or double strikes, death touch, flying, trample, lifelink, and annihilator.
(iv) I should have removed the Spreading Seas versus Grixis DS.
(v) Always remember that Ad Nauseam has Bontu's Last Reckoning in their sideboard. For game three, I did not commit all on creatures. Despite the presence of Phyrexian Unlife, two lords and a Silvergill Adept were enough to get me there. Always save whatever counter spells you bring in for the deck's name sake.
That's all for now folks! Thanks for reading!
-Paeng4983
Manila's Eternal Calendar
May 2018
1 - NG Glorieta (modern) (1pm and 5pm pods)
- NG Centris (modern) (2pm)
- NG VMall (modern) (1pm)
- FQ (modern) (4pm)
12 - Block 101 (modern team trio non-unified) (12pm)
13 - Regran (modern) (Shock me not II) (11am)
- Pinoy Planeswalker Season III at PC Butler (modern) (11am)
20 - Kick Engines (legacy) (12pm)
26 - Gatecrashers Anonas (modern) (12pm)
- MALCON Malolos (modern and legacy pauper) (8am)
27 - Gatecrashers Anonas (legacy pauper) (12pm)
every Tuesday at Regran (7pm)
every Wedsnesday at Cedrick's (7pm)
every Thurdays at Block 101 (7pm)
Madcap Modern League every Saturday at Madcap (6pm)
every Sunday at MDP Bicutan Pque (3pm)
June 2018
3 - King of the North (Baguio) (modern)
July 2018
14 - (modern) Emperor of the South 50k modern tournament
(i) Initially, I thought two is the perfect number of it in the main deck. But after play testings with Naya Revolt Zoo, UR Gifts Storm, Dredge, and Titanshift, I am convince that four is the correct number. Tapping opponent's creatures is neat, and making it lose all its ability is so beneficial for us because it can win you the game in certain situations.
(ii) Dismembers are no longer needed. With the addition of Merfolk Trickster, the deck has already 10 to 12 tappers (depending on your build: Trickster, Harbinger, and Reejerey) which I think are enough if you are going up against any aggro base deck. I'd probably replace the Dismembers with counter spells, Negate or Spell Pierce maybe.
(iii) Here's a list of creatures we always see in the battlefield in which if played at the right situation, Merfolk Trickster can shift the tide into your favor: Laboratory Maniac, Signal Pest, Master of Etherium, infect creatures, those creatures that has a trigger when it is put into the graveyard from play: Wurmcoil Engine, Strangleroot Geist, Kitchen Finks, Voice of Resurgence, Matter Reshaper, Thought-Knot Seer, and the like; UR storm bears, Tarmogoyf, Phyrexian Revoker, Magus of the Moon, the red eidolon, any of he elves creatures except those have enters the battlefield triggers, Vizier of Remedies, Devoted Druid, Meddling Mage, denying him of islandwalk in case of mirror, and in situations wherein you would like to remove their first or double strikes, death touch, flying, trample, lifelink, and annihilator.
(iv) I should have removed the Spreading Seas versus Grixis DS.
(v) Always remember that Ad Nauseam has Bontu's Last Reckoning in their sideboard. For game three, I did not commit all on creatures. Despite the presence of Phyrexian Unlife, two lords and a Silvergill Adept were enough to get me there. Always save whatever counter spells you bring in for the deck's name sake.
That's all for now folks! Thanks for reading!
-Paeng4983
Manila's Eternal Calendar
May 2018
1 - NG Glorieta (modern) (1pm and 5pm pods)
- NG Centris (modern) (2pm)
- NG VMall (modern) (1pm)
- FQ (modern) (4pm)
12 - Block 101 (modern team trio non-unified) (12pm)
13 - Regran (modern) (Shock me not II) (11am)
- Pinoy Planeswalker Season III at PC Butler (modern) (11am)
20 - Kick Engines (legacy) (12pm)
26 - Gatecrashers Anonas (modern) (12pm)
- MALCON Malolos (modern and legacy pauper) (8am)
27 - Gatecrashers Anonas (legacy pauper) (12pm)
every Tuesday at Regran (7pm)
every Wedsnesday at Cedrick's (7pm)
every Thurdays at Block 101 (7pm)
Madcap Modern League every Saturday at Madcap (6pm)
every Sunday at MDP Bicutan Pque (3pm)
June 2018
3 - King of the North (Baguio) (modern)
July 2018
14 - (modern) Emperor of the South 50k modern tournament
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