The last time Memoricide was legal for the State Championships we called it Cranial Extraction; you may recall a certain b/U Control deck that did well at New York States that year… But enough about me 🙂
This is a short post about Nick Spagnolo’s more modern B/U Elixir deck… And as I intimated in this week’s TCGPlayer column,  I lost to Nick in the second round of the New York State Championship this year.
I probably screwed up all different ways in Game One (for example I could have played my Archive Traps in response to his Trinket Mage instead of giggling like a school girl, prompting Nick to get his main-deck Elixir of Immortality)… But his win over my It! Girl! Pyromancer Ascension was more than legitimate.
Not settling for just grabbing that main deck Elixir of Immortality with So Big Trinks, Nick also had main deck Memoricide.
Despite screwing around and being out-classed by Nick’s main deck one mana artifact in the first few turns, I was able to set up Pyromancer Ascension and defend it from his Into the Roil. This put me in a good card advantage situation, and I was drawing 2-3 cards per turn for the next several. The Elixir of Immortality re-bought Nick’s Memoricide, and he pointed it at Call to Mind. Either Call to Mind or Lightning Bolt was fine. I lost with essentially no ways left to win.
Anyway, I didn’t know it at the time that I filmed this, but Nick would go on to win States himself. This is a video that I will have in Top Decks this Thursday; but as these things go, I have to have them up ahead of time to, you know, embed them in ye olde articles… So here’s a sneak Peek. Enjoy!
Nick’s B/U Elixir deck:
1 Brittle Effigy
1 Elixir of Immortality
2 Everflowing Chalice1 Consuming Vapors
1 Disfigure
3 Doom Blade
1 Grave Titan
1 Memoricide3 Frost Titan
2 Into the Roil
2 Jace Beleren
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Mana Leak
1 Negate
4 Preordain
1 Stoic Rebuttal
3 Trinket Mage4 Creeping Tar Pit
2 Darkslick Shores
4 Drowned Catacomb
6 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Swamp
3 Tectonic Edge
1 Verdant Catacombssb:
1 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Disfigure
1 Doom Blade
2 Memoricide
1 Dispel
3 Flashfreeze
1 Jace Beleren
2 Negate
2 Spell Pierce
Great job, Nick! Hope you guys like this Peek into the near future.
LOVE
MIKE
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The video I have requested is not available.
Yeah, I had a little trouble watching the video as well, but if you click the embedded player and try and watch it on YT itself, it’ll give you a message saying “this video has not yet been processed,” but show you the video anyway. It’s an interesting deck, but I was a little weirded out when I saw it at SCG because of all the 1-of cards which weren’t Trinket Mage-able. I guess it must have been good, considering it won the whole thing, but I’m always suspicious of result-oriented reasoning like that. Open-ish field, though, so maybe the lists will get tighter as we see it evolve on MODO.
Try again?
Works for me! 🙂
Alfrebaut- having 4 Preordains and 6 Jaces makes it pretty easy to find those one-ofs when you need them. I’ve been working on a RUG deck for the Boston 5k this weekend, but I’m going to sleeve this up and see how it plays. Seems like it should be a solid list for Saturday.
Can we have a decklist for the Ascention? sounds interesting.
Never mind found the report on TCGPlayer.
Memoricide for the Win! (literally)…
Your story has been summoned to the battlefield – Trackback from MTGBattlefield…
Taking this to a constructed tourney tonight. I want to try it and BU Mimic Vat, see which one is more good times.
I took this to FNM last night. I went 1-2-2. I made 1 change to the deck, switching the 1 Dispel in the board for a Consume the Meek. After FNM I was very happy with that change except that I wanted more Consume the Meeks for the Elves matchup.
Round 1 I drew(1-1) against Esper I had double Frost Titan on the board and he was at 8 with 1 card in hand and no board presence.
Round 2 I drew(1-1) against the mirror I had Jace ready to go ultimate when he had 2 cards in hand and nothing going.
Round 3 I beat Valakut 2-1. He took the first game in normal fashion with Valakuts. I did nail his Primeval Titans on turn 3 with Memoricide though. Game 2 was over on turn 2 when I Domm Bladed his Overgrown Battlement and kept him on 3 lands after Tectonic Edging his Valakuts twice. Game 3 was more of the same as the only business he had was 2 Ruinblasters and I didn’t play any non-basics until turn 5 or so.
Round 4 I lost to Elves 0-2. Didn’t see much removal either game and definitely did not Consume the Meek game 2. He dropped Ezuri in game 1 with a Llanowar, Arbor Elf, Archdruid and Nissa’s Chosen on the board. I had 1 Doom blade that game and used it to kill his first Archdruid. Didn’t see any counterspells either. Game 2 I Disfigured his turn 1 Llanowar, countered his turn 3 Garruk and Domm Bladed his Warcaller(thrice kicked) on turn 5 or so, but that was all the action I drew besides Jace. Kept an opener of Disfigure, Mana Leak, Doom Blade, Jace and 3 lands. I drew 4 lands and a Frost Titan and lost on turn 6.
Round 5, my opponent was playing G/W Summoning Trap similar to the one posted by michaelj previously. He had good breakers and had a chance to top 8 so I gave him the win. We played it out anyway. He utterly destroyed me pre-board and then 4 games post-board. He didn’t have targets like Iona to Summoning Trap into, but he did run 4 Terrastodon, 4 Baneslayer, 4 Primeval and 2 Sun Titan. I understand the Terrastodon, Primevals and Baneslayers, but the Sun Titans only had Wall of Omens, Overgrown Battlements, 2 Journey to Nowhere, 2 Ratchet Bombs and Tectonic Edges. Not my deck, but I felt he could’ve built that list even better, forgoing the Sun Titans with so few targets.
In the end I was satisfied with everything except the loss to Elves and my opponents playing slow in rounds 1 and 2. It shouldn’t take 2 minutes to figure out a turn 1 Preordain. In a tournament that mattered, a judge would be called, but this is FNM, and I refuse to be a prick to friends and most of the other local guys. The board could use some Consume the Meeks as I expect Elves to gain some in popularity, especially if people start going away from U/W and Day of Judgment. Consume the Meek is a bazillion times better against them because of that magical little line “They can’t be regenerated.” Give this deck a shot guys, it’s good, but adjust to your meta accordingly.
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