Tuesday, August 15, 2017

MPDC League Season 2 - Esper Artificers, Take Two

With a short Season 2 of the MPDC League, we're already at the final week for this season. Interestingly enough, this week's winner is once again cRUMMYdUMMY, who piloted a very similar list to the one from Week One to capture the trophy for this week. You can view his original decklist as well as my breakdown of its contents here. So today, I thought I would look at some of the changes that he made for this week.
I. Maindeck:
II. Sideboard:
The two biggest changes are the inclusion of a full playset of Boon of Emrakul and the inclusion of two copies of Ironclad Slayer. Boon of Emrakul seems like a perfect inclusion, as it can serve both as conditional removal (killing any creature with 3 Toughness or less) or as a way of pumping up your own creatures once they are large enough. Ironclad Slayer also seems right at home here, with at least thirteen targets in the deck between the copies of Inventor's Goggles and the Cartouches. The deck is also slightly less controlling with the removal of Brilliant Spectrum and only a single copy of Cartouche of Knowledge remaining in the deck, and that only in the Sideboard. But the most interesting change is the inclusion of 2 copies of Renewed Faith (which is considered Standard Pauper legal thanks to being printed as a Common in Onslaught block). Pure Lifegain spells are usually pretty bad, but the fact that this either grants you a hefty six Life or can instead be cycled and still gain you two Life makes this a pretty reasonable option, particularly against very aggressive decks.

Congrats to cRUMMYdUMMY on his second 1st place finish of this short season!

1 comment:

  1. Hi Gwyned,

    I actually changed my deck a few times during the week. I ended the week running this.

    1 Cartouche of Knowledge
    4 Bastion Inventor
    2 Self-Assembler
    4 Prophetic Prism
    2 Submerged Boneyard
    1 Swamp
    6 Island
    4 Thraben Inspector
    2 Pilgrim's Eye
    4 Cartouche of Ambition
    6 Plains
    3 Evolving Wilds
    4 Unquenchable Thirst
    2 Metallic Rebuke
    4 Inventor's Goggles
    4 Aether Swooper
    3 Aviary Mechanic
    2 Desert of the True
    2 Desert of the Mindful

    2 Negate
    1 Metallic Rebuke
    3 Forsake the Worldly
    3 Essence Scatter
    1 Cartouche of Knowledge
    1 Self-Assembler
    1 Renewed Faith
    3 Fireforger's Puzzleknot

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