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12 January 2016

I got to do a play test with a very nice guy at Neutral Grounds Glorietta. We had it six games with him winning four. His deck: Black-Red Eldrazi.

My thoughts on the said deck (UR stormly speaking):

• UR storm players, keep in mind that they have these main board hates for us: five to six disrupt spells, combination of four to six Relic of Progenitus and Nihil Spellbomb. From their sideboard: Duress, a Surgical Extraction and a Slaughter Game. 

• Our best weapon against everyone in modern is the Past in Flames route. Against those decks that has a Relic of Progenitus effect in their main deck, always exercise due diligence when sequencing your spells. 

• Their Eldrazi Temple and Eye of Ugin increased the probability of bringing out a clock (Blight Herder, Oblivion Sower and Wasteland Strangler) from their hand to the battlefield. Do not fear those. Grapeshot kills much faster than any of them - provided you're combing off before they deplete your life points.

• Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, there's a slim chance that you'll see this goliath unless you're having trouble finding and executing your combo pieces in time. 

• Make a heap storm count. With them had a higher chance than Tron of landing a Relic of Progenitus effect, dig for the second copy of Grapeshot and just count to ten before aiming your sorcery spells at him. With the popularity of Relic of Progenitus effects nowadays, I'll probably increase my Grapeshot to three. What to remove - Desperate Ravings.

• When taking the Pyromancer Ascension route, please make sure that you will use your resources wisely.

• We have Blood Moons (and Leyline of Sanctity to those who still have them) in our 15 and hope that we  slow them down (if not totally shut them) while we set up for one big Grapeshot. 

• Majority of their list right now does not run Pyroclasm like spells. So producing a mob of goblins in our early turns (might be) is a good idea.

There you have it guys. My two cents on the new kid on the block. Thank you very much and I hope to see you all in these modern tournaments. 

Pinoy Planeswalker Open Series

24 January

Madcap Pacita, Laguna

Regran Open

31 January

Quezon City 

-Paeng