Post by sdfkjgh on May 18, 2018 22:50:46 GMT
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Welcome back to Tosche Station, dear perusers of the strange. This week, I have a special treat: the first Standard deck I’ve built since Khans block! Like many of you, I was the Distracted Boyfriend when it came to Slimefoot, so I set to brewing. Where others may have gone the aggro/combo route, once again, I went with a more controlling midrange build, albeit one that still has combo potentials.
Fair warning, though: I’m still in the process of tweaking it.
Eat the Baby
Standard-legal
| 4 Blooming Marsh | |
| 6 Forest | |
| 2 Memorial to Folly | In my first build, I also had 2 Journey to Eternity, figuring that with all the sac outlets, it’d be easy as mushroom pie to transform it at will. It was, but I so rarely got to the 6 mana required (   +the special land itself) to activate its reanimation ability, I had to cut them both for space, and for being cute, but not as helpful as I thought they’d be. Let’s face it, they’re no bows. |
| 2 Memorial to Unity | |
| 6 Swamp | |
| 4 Woodland Cemetery | |
| 2 Divest | |
| 3 Llanowar Elves | |
| 2 Kitesail Freebooter | |
| 2 Vicious Offering | I’m quite certain that WotC knew exactly what they were doing when they made Bamboo Babe a 2/2, and the Offing’s stock version -2/-2. |
| 3 Fungal Plots1 | |
| 4 Sporecrown Thallid | Everytime I type Thallid, I think of Thalidomide babies. |
| 2 Deathbloom Thallid | The art on this is weird. I mean, is the creature the entire thing, or is it just that thing on top that looks like it’s commanding the headless thing on the bottom via marionette |
| 3 Yavimaya Sapherd | I gotta hand it to Wizards, they did a GREAT job on the names! |
| 3 I for one welcome our new fungal Lord and Savior | |
| 3 Henceforth and Forthwith, let it be known by all that sacrificing a Saproling is now known as “eating a baby”! | |
| 3 Thallid Soothsayer | |
| 2 Vraska’s Contempt | I ship Sultai Hospital (Jace/Vraska) so hard! |
| 4 Stachybotrys chartarum | I started out with only 3, but then I realized that it was essentially my primary wincon, so 4 it is. |
Sideboard2
| 2 Divest | |
| 4 Duress | Ever try going up against a control deck with only 4 Duress-/Freebooter-type effects? I wouldn’t recommend it, especially when you bring out the lone Freebooter in your hand, only to see a grip of no fewer than 3 removal spells! Not fun. |
| 2 Mycosis | More and more, I’m starting to think that this card isn’t any good in Constructed. In Limited, it’s often an absolute blowout, to be fair. To give you an idea of how this card’s shaken up, I started with three in the main, and kept having to cut & shift to make room for better cards. |
| 2 Das Boot-er | |
| 2 Vicious Offering | |
| 2 Srsly, guys, u have no idea just how hard I ship it! | |
| 1 I’m a sucker for a fella in a fungal hat3 | |
And we are done. Come back next week, where we’ll be continuing on with No Reservations II. That one’s gonna be a long one, so no Dicking Around for a while.
Until then, with thanks to Editor Extraordinaire Daij_Djan, this is bazooka-squirrel, saying, THIS IS NOT A LIBRARY, BUY SOMETHING OR LEAVE!
{Footnotes}
| 1 | The night before I wrote this column, I was playing a match against a control player, and it was an epically glorious eventual failure on my part. Y’see, he had Teferi, Karn, Baird on the battlefield, and a couple of Fatcaster Magi at his disposal; while I had two Malignant Mycoses (plus the city’s blessing), a Slimefoot, a Baby-Eater, a Sporecrown Thallid, a Deathcap Double-Entendre, and various fodder Thallids. I managed to get him down to 5 life, with Teferi back at 6, after a hit from a 3/3 Saproling, but I was doing it the hard way. Instead of drawing cards like a Plotter and using my mana to make more Saprolings, I was dumping all my mana into eating babies, like an idiot. When he dropped Lyra, I knew I was in trouble. But it was only when he managed to bring about the end of the Thran Empire that I realized my mistake! By that time, we were both redclocking. Oh well! |
| 2 | This is prolly where the greatest number of changes has occurred. It started out with a bit more balance between the colors, but as I tested, I kept realizing the deck needed to be able to pivot into a more controlling build. |
| 3 | ..like him.. |
