How does affinity win so fast?
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Posted on April 24, 2014, 7:55 a.m. by tyforthevenom
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EddCrawley says... #3
If you can turn 1 a Pithing Needle naming Cranial Plating you can put up a fairly decent fight. failing that, look to remove their attacking creature, as they usually pile everything onto 1 body.
Other good Pithing Needle targets are;
Inkmoth Nexus to prevent infect coming in.
Arcbound Ravager to prevent sacrifice and +1/+1 counter shennanigans.
If you run any White deck, then SB Stony Silence to shut it down completely.
April 24, 2014 8:56 a.m.
tyforthevenom says... #4
How would you advise a dimir tron deck beat multiple affinity decks at a fnm? While still being good against storm
April 24, 2014 11:30 a.m.
megawurmple says... #5
Play Hurkyl's Recall and spot removal in the sideboard. Game 1, you've just got to hope your Wurmcoil Engine lands early and they don't have an Inkmoth Nexus . Ghost Quarter could also be helpful for getting rid of their Inkmoths.
April 24, 2014 11:43 a.m.
Dismember , Victim of Night , and all of your usual kill spells can ruin an affinity player when they attack with a dude equipped with Cranial Plating . Signal Pest doesn't get there when the other creature it attacked with just died. You just have to watch out for their mana, since they can equip at instant speed with BB.
April 24, 2014 4:55 p.m.
tyforthevenom says... #7
my deck list for tron is currently on my profile if you want a better insight on what i could do to improve my odds the meta at my fnm is burn storm and affinity
April 24, 2014 5:44 p.m.
megawurmple says... #9
It could be decent if you set it to 1 (or maybe 2). The problem is that Affinity will often just dump its hand before Chalice of the Void hits the table.
April 25, 2014 2:11 p.m.
Chalice for 0 on the play is nice though. Shuts down Mox Opal Memnite and Ornithopter , and gives you probably 3 extra turns.
April 26, 2014 8:49 a.m.
tyforthevenom says... #11
What i was thinking KingSorin same thing would shut down affinity storm aswell
April 26, 2014 10:11 a.m.
Platinum Angel and Platinum Emperion will stop both affiinity and storm. I personally wouldn't use Chalice of the Void because it's only good if you can cast it on turn one with a charge counter on it. Otherwise, they can play around it too easily on turn two. Storm will spot it with Gitaxian Probe .
Dalektable says... #2
With cards with a cmc of 0 and Mox Opal / Springleaf Drum they can drop their whole hand by turn two. Then the power comes from Cranial Plating to allow it to swing for huge damage very quickly. Often times it is a Cranial Plating equiped onto an Inkmoth Nexus (at least in my experience) that does the trick.
April 24, 2014 8:05 a.m.