What is your "Meta-Crusher" deck?
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Posted on Feb. 6, 2014, 9:56 p.m. by maxon
I've been out of the FNM scene for a couple months now due to a shop closing. The only other shop starts their night before I get out of work. So I'm starting to really miss the competitive environment and trying to "beat the net-deckers". I've been thinking when I can get back into the FNM scene, I'd love to build a meta-crusher style deck. Basically a deck built solely to shove it up the ass of the net decks. It would basically be a mainboard against the meta, with a sideboard for when I play people who enjoy creating and playing their own deck. I feel like izzet would be good for the job especially against control. Counterflux says "go f*** yourself, AEtherling " haha. Has anyone done this sort of thing? If you're already doin it, post your deck. I'd love to see what you came up with. P.S.: idk if "meta-crusher style deck" is actually a thing, but I thought it sounded cool. lol
Servo_Token says... #3
I've found that a "Meta Crusher" is a deck that people think that they're prepared for, but aren't. I typically leave out some key pieces to a deck, usually ones that people sideboard against, and put in hate for what I plan to face.
For example, I've recently made a more control oriented mono-blue deck that has no problem with the likes of Skylasher or Mistcutter Hydra , doesn't run Nightveil Specter , and offers up a different style of play throughout the course of the game.
If you want to consistently beat the meta game, you have to adapt faster than they can as well, and keeping your deck ahead of the curve is not as easy as it sounds.
Now, if you want to talk jank decks that happen to win sometimes, I ran Boss Ass Witch for a couple weeks, and that did fairly well, I've also tried out pillowfort, Maze's End , and mono black control (Pre-rotation).
February 6, 2014 10:40 p.m.
Dredge-a-Trolol when people show up to FNMs with Aggro and Midrange strategies. 5-Color Durdle dot Deck vs. a Control heavy meta.
People just don't play graveyard hate in their sideboards to deal with the Dredge deck. Aggro decks just can't race 10/10s and Whip of Erebos . Unfortunately, the deck rolls over dead to Control and boards in all 15 cards to turn into G/B Aggro.
Maze's End is really good against Control decks, ESPECIALLY Esper because of their slow mana base. They don't play a win condition until turn six (Elspeth, Sun's Champion or eight (AEtherling ). Meanwhile, you've been free to activate Maze's End each turn, hoarding up a fistful of Fog s.
February 7, 2014 10:25 a.m.
MrBradDanger says... #5
I kept running into TONS of annoying control decks where I play so I just made a gruul control hate deck. That was quite fun for a while :) Gaea's Herald
, Witchbane Orb
, Asceticism
and a whole lotta Banefire
.
There are probably many other cards/decks that could do this job much better but I enjoyed the deck.
Jay says... #2
5-color Maze's End control (light on fogs) OR Rakdos control. The latter allows mainboard Slaughter Games for lols. Cheggit: Rakdos' kills up
February 6, 2014 10:15 p.m.