BW Tokens by Martin Juza
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Posted on Feb. 12, 2015, 10:57 a.m. by JWiley129
Here is a primer that Martin Juza wrote about the BW tokens list he and Cifka played at the PT.
Tagging xzzane for value.
I figured those were his reasons for running that style of deck, but I personally disagree with it. He strengthened his matchups that he was already good against and made harder matchups worse. Blossom helps against matchups that tokens already does favorably, while it hinders other matchups that are harder. It was a good meta call in the high presence of abzan, but I still disagree with it.
February 12, 2015 11:20 a.m.
InnerFlame says... #4
To me it seemed liked he was trying to wall abzan too hard and played the head game to extent I think is kind of pointless and at caused the deck some power....I'venever been mmuch for the head game.
I did really enjoy the top part of that where he ran through the archetypes. The only part I really disagreed with was the infect build.
February 12, 2015 1:40 p.m.
JexInfinite says... #5
Honestly, Living End would have been a decent choice. Competing with Scooze is not particularly difficult. You can also cascade once the ability is on the stack.
BW Tokens is a good deck, but what they were doing would be like me trying to improve the matchup against Twin with Soul Sisters. Pointless. There was also barely any Tron to make it bad.
I disagree with taking BW Tokens to the PT for his reasons, but it can easily be justifiable with better ones.
February 13, 2015 1:52 a.m.
DeletedNow4ever says... #6
The list running no BB finished in 19th...higher than the BB lists.
February 15, 2015 9:22 p.m.
I haven't seen the non blossom list. Do you have a link?
February 15, 2015 9:36 p.m.
Thanks for the link. But everything I said about blossom is true: It does make good matchups easier and harder ones harder. It was just a good meta call using blossom due to the insane amount of abzan. Plus there's the pilot to consider as well, but I can't know if that would have made a discernable difference.
InnerFlame says... #2
That was an extremely nice read.
February 12, 2015 11:17 a.m.