@xxhazardxx exactly, which is why Misstep needs to go. Nothing beats free (or +1 mana if you are playing the delve spells).

Compared to Misstep there's no reason Nix shouldn't also cost 2 life and -1 mana.

Not with Misstep running around. It's also marginal against PO (Grid, restricted cards). There's no room left after packing a stew deck with 3.8 x Misstep and 4 x Force. Costing mana is a bummer for Spell Snare, it would be better if it cost 2 life and was +1 mana for delve. I think you could play 1-2 Snares and hope to hit Sphere decks and SotF if you backed it up with your own Missteps which you'll need in the Stew mirror. If Misstep gets restricted I think you'd see a more eclectic mix of counter magic, with Pierce, Snare, Sabotage returning to playability.

@diophan insane breakdown! A correction on my entry

O'brien, Sean Fish BUG Fish BUG Leo with Bobs FOW, Rod

I didn't play Force of Will. Also my entry is the only one listed as Rod and not 'Null Rod' which may be messing up some tag counts. I didn't play Rod of Ruin as sick is is vs. the field.

I also noticed Leovold was a tag, I played 2 x Emmisary's of Trest.

Thanks again for putting this together, it's the single best view of a paper sanctioned meta we get each year so for those of us who don't play online it's a massive help.

@chubbyrain said in The Eternal Weekend NA 2018 Thread:

@garbageaggro

Sean O'Brian
"Requiem for a Teeg"

4 Dark Confidant
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Null Rod
2 Leovold, Emmissary of Trest
1 Tarmogoyf
1 Manglehorn
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Abrupt Decay
4 Assassins Trophy
2 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Sylvan Library
2 Flusterstorm
1 Collective Brutality
1 Black Lotus
4 Mox E/J/P/S
1 Lotus Petal
1 Strip Mine
1 Forest
1 Swamp
1 Savannah
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Underground Sea
2 Bayou
2 Tropical Island
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland

SB
1 Stony Silence
1 Chains of Mephistopheles
1 In the Eye of Chaos
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Kambal, Consul of Absolution
1 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Abrubt Decay
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Energy Flux
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Nature's Claim

@volrathxp

I don't know but Jaco typically has a pretty quick turnaround time. Ryan Eberhart and I were just granted access to the scanned lists so that we can do our metagame analyses. Check Eternal Central's website or twitter for when the post goes live.

*O'Brien ... Thanks @ChubbyRain for typing it out.

I started off 6-0 crushing the same shops 75 4 times, crushing White Eldrazi by mounting TKS and Smasher heads on my wall and beat SotF pretty easily by controlling the yard with DRS game 1 and leaning on Ooze and lots of G mana game 2 which is almost unbeatable by current builds.

Then I got Misstepped 30 times in the next two rounds. The landstill match wasn't remotely close, my round 7 vs. Matt was pretty close. Game 1 I got a Goyf which is quite good against him and I think his hand became counterspells and he got beat down. Game 2 was bolts, snaps and bolts ... I drew Teeg one turn late and he drew DTT into the Restricted list. Game 3 I had a decent keep vs. a cantrip hand with Ancestral to Duress a Misstep. So I upkeep Ancestral on his 6 and he Missteps. His remaining 6 were Lotus, Land, Young Money x 2, Probe, Mystery Card. So he passed back to me with 6 power and infinite tokens. In past years when pyro was more prevalent I've had better solutions (Illness in the Misstep and Virulent Plague) but I had piled more PO hate in my board and didn't have a great token solution. RIP.

I beat Blaine in the last round as well. I think my deck is amazing vs. PO, SotF and shops. But probably needs some better sideboard cards vs. Misstep Stew. Probably just 2-3 Missteps. Or some Thoughtseizes to incinerate main phase mana to psuedo-Duress the first Skillstep.

Great event, had fun, met some awesome and gracious opponents who ended games with no permanents.

https://twitter.com/haganbmj/status/1058047346972520448

First onsite trials just kicked off at 1pm. Post your bad beats, good beats or no beats stories here. I'm hitting the 3pm trial and if I scrub hard I'll play the early evening one.

Best of luck to all mana drainers not playing dredge or oath!

Necro resolves. There's always more Oath in sanctioned paper for some reason. Maybe people are too hungover to think on Friday. But not much has changed, Shops is weaker but the field is similar, Misstep Stew, Spheres, Bazaars and now I expect a higher Outcome turnout. I think Shops is the worst they've been in a long time, since before 3.8 Missteps per blue deck. And the red tools the UWr Misstep decks have post board are gross. Shops might be a dog to the GWx SotF decks and PO as well.

Hyperextended > All

@gkraigher I respect your take on the card and your drinking capacity. In which of those scenarios (and play / draw) would have rather had Blood Sun (given you also draw a card).

Additionally red spells (and effects like Chandra, Torch's +1) that didn't target the opponent got absolutely demolished with the Planeswalker damage redirection rules changes.