Comments on: SWOT Storm!

By: Thedude

Thedude — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:39:28 +0000

I have a question about lands in this deck.
Why use the 6 Fetch lands but only have 2 basic lands in the whole deck?
Can someone enlighten me please?

By: Five With Flores » DVD Extras for “The Three-Deuce”

Five With Flores » DVD Extras for “The Three-Deuce” — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:24:07 +0000

[...] SWOT Storm! was a late addition to this article. Originally my intrepid editor Kelly Digges was afeared that I used copyrighted music in the video (a no-no… Can’t run that stuff on the mother ship!). However I contacted him that I used some canned beats that came on my MacBook Pro and Kelly gave the SWOT Storm! ye olde green light on the second printing as it were. [...]

By: KZipple

KZipple — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:40:53 +0000

I have to disagree twice. First, I didn’t much care for the sound effects. I didn’t think they added much.

And I want to say that hitting a random, non-tiered deck with Storm is high on my to-do list, because normally it turns into a bye. Assuming I see no hate game 1 and have no particular read on their sideboard, I would maybe bring in Echoing Truth. That deals with a whole host of problems. The strategy of mulliganing into Runed Halo is pretty good game one though.

By: wobblesthegoose

wobblesthegoose — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:48:20 +0000

I think background noise in general helps quite a bit to add some variety while listening to the video. The videos can tend to get a bit monotonous.

I also don’t know how bad the matchup really is for MWC here. Especially against people who are just straight running LSV’s list, runed halo is unbeatable game 1. If you know what you are playing against (especially for those top8 matches), mulliganing into a halo is broken.

Meanwhile, games two and three they have to bring in sprees to stop chalice, brainfreeze or chain to stop halo (game 2 halos usually name brainfreeze anyway because they might whiff on storm if you gain life off an exalted angel or random martyr) and gigadrowses so they don’t just lose to a gilded light. Plus, you might be bringing in anything from your own Gaddok Teegs, rule of law, exalted angels, disenchants, trinisphere, extirpates or boils. You wind up bringing in your entire sideboard against them while losing no relevant cards from your main deck. And you are probably winning game one to boot.

It’s not the best matchup for MWC, but it’s hardly unwinnable. Sitting down with storm, hitting a random, non-tiered deck is just about the last thing I would want to do.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:03:46 +0000

@The American Nightmare
Two copies of Tendrils seemed fine. You run through so much of your deck on multiple Mind’s Desires you are pretty likely to find a way to win… I never had a problem with that so much as being short on Storm count or Black mana, actually. Plus if you want more ways to win you have these Brain Freezes… Seems like plenty.

As for your Canonist comment – good call. Probably doesn’t come up a whole hell of a lot though

@Bliss crater
Cool. Can we get a quick head count? Yay or nay? Did you guys mostly like the beats in the back? I have been wanting to play with that, maybe sample some, but I don’t actually know how to control the volume if you can believe that

By: Bliss crater

Bliss crater — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:35:21 +0000

The newly added audio is tight.

What do you think about a deck that uses maralen of the mornsong in combination with stifle and trickbind to lock the opponent out of drawing cards? Main deck stifle and trickbind spells sorrow for the storm player. The rest of the deck would be counterspells and disruption and would function similarly to dreadstill or psychatog.

By: The American Nightmare

The American Nightmare — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:05:48 +0000

How reliable is only having 2 Tendrils in the deck? I know it worked well for LSV and all, but it seems like you could just miss more often than a deck like this should with only TWO.

Something else, probably nitpicky. You can Grapeshot a Canonist the turn a Bloom comes down.