Posts Tagged ‘Tezzeret the Seeker’

This Saturday I’m going to play the LCV (Catalan Vintage League), finally! The guys from Igualada have prepared an excellent tournament with an awesome prize support, so I couldn’t fail to their effort. I hope the turnout of the tournament goes as they expected!

I expect a metagame with tones of Golem MUDS and Fish (Noble and UW), some Tezzeret decks (Dark Tezz, MUC, URB, etc…), some Storm Combo (Nauseam and DT), some rogue decks and few Dredge players.

For that, and with the precious help from Jason, I’ve build up this deck:

TP Chewer attack! v1.0, 13th March 2010. By Jordi Amat

Main deck:

2 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
4 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
3 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring

(24 producers)

1 Inkwell Leviathan
2 Sower of Temptation
3 Ingot Chewer

(6 creatures)

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
3 Spell Pierce
1 Tinker
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s will
1 Fire/Ice
1 Lighting Bolt

(30 Business spells)

Sideboard:

3 Ravenous Trap
1 Extirpate
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Greater Gargadon
1 Claws of Gix
2 Duress
1 Razormane Masticore
1 Sundering Titan
2 Rack and Ruin
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Trickbind

A visual view of the deck:

(sorry for the bad quality… iPhone camera ain’t the best to do this type of pics and I was too lazy to scan the deck)

The deck is designed to have good match ups against Noble and MUD. According to Jason, Ingot Chewer is the best main deck answer against MUD while it works also great against many other decks like fish, dredge, or even at the mirror. The fish match we got it well covered maindeck also, as we are playing 2 Sower of Temptation, 1 Lighting Bolt, Fire/Ice and Tinker + Inkwell Leviathan.

The rest of the deck is designed to be solid. No Library of Alexandria to avoid suspicious hands and to be able to have a first turn Spell Pierce or a turn 2 Mana Drain. The 4 Volcanic Island allow me to play without having to worry for the red sources against MUD or Fish. I can easily lose one or two volcanics and the deck will still be able to cast Ingot Chewer, Lighting Bolt, etc…

Anyways, I’m not going to unveil all the secrets and reasons behind the card choices now. If the deck turns out to be competitive, I might write a longer article about it. So far, I’ll be testing it today and playing it tomorrow.

If you want to follow my performance at LCV tomorrow, you can follow me at Twitter (@piZZero). And on Monday I’ll hopefully have the report of the tournament finished. So, stay tunned!

When one of my regular dealers mentioned that he would have the chance of getting some cards signed by Anthony Francisco, I told him if he had 2 Tezzeret the Seeker and an Inkwell Leviathan in stock. How could I doubt about him!

These two are going straight to my Vintage deck!

I might be selling my second Tezzeret The Seeker foil japanese signed.

Hoy se celebraba el torneo atrasado de la LCL en Badalona. El Viernes llegamos a las tantas a casa tras celebrar el cumpleaños de Stardust, y al final decido ir a jugar el torneo de Legacy de la tienda Black Lotus. Me cundía más levantarme a las 10, jugar unas rondas, comer tranquilamente y luego unas rondillas más, que no levantarme a las 8, ir a Badalona, y jugar 7 rondas (o+) sin parada para comer.

El Viernes mientras cenábamos le comentaba a Guillem la inclusión de los Tezzeret the Seeker en mi deck de Legacy de pintores. La teoría es excelente, y su cambio por los Fabricate parecía niquelado. A la práctica, han resultado ser mucho mejores que en la teoría, siendo un tutor múltiple. Bajo Tezzeret, busco Painter. ¿Te lo mata? Pués busco otro Painter. Fabricate + Painter’s Servant = 4U si lo juegas en el mismo turno. Tezzeret the Seeker = 3UU y te permite buscarte tanto la Grindstone como el Painter’s Servant, o 2 Painters, o 2 Grinstones, o la luna xD

Finalmente opté por una versión UR, sacando los Dark Confidant para meter Thirst for Knowledge. No era la primera vez que jugaba UR con TFK, así que ya tenía muy por mano la baraja. Además, he cargado muchísimo el deck con artefactos, volviendo a meter los 4 Chrome Mox (para suplir la falta de las Underground Sea en la base de maná), metiendo la 3ª Grindstone, Tormod’s Crypt, Pithing Needle, etc…

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Un clásico entre los alteradores, Gush Schade, aka Yawg07, me ha sorprendido MUCHO con esta alteración:

Me parece un excelente trabajo. No sólo por la temática e integración, sino por la calidad de la alteración. Los colores, degradados, sombras, etc… están muy en la línea del dibujo original, tanto del Time Vault como del Tezzeret. Aún no está terminada, pero es que no me he podido resistir en postearla. Supongo que aparecerá en los próximos días en eBay. ¿Qué os parece?

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Hacía ya algún tiempo desde la última vez que subí una baraja al blog. Así que, para compensar un poco ese vacío, os he escaneado la baraja que estoy jugando a día de hoy. Os advierto que los Tezzeret ni brillan, ni están alterados, ni hablan japo… pero todo llegará!

TP Tezzeret Control. By piZZero

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Time Vault – New Oracle text:
Time Vault comes into play tapped.
Time Vault doesn’t untap during your untap step.
If you would begin your turn while Time Vault is tapped, you may skip that turn instead. If you do, untap Time Vault.
{oT}: Take an extra turn after this one.

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Todos queremos ver cómo va a influenciar el nuevo caminante de planos en Vintage. Todos estamos haciendo las listas de las mil miravillas sin saber aún como quedará el texto del Time Vault. Sea como fuere, Josh Silvestri nos trae otro excelente artículo sobre Tezzeret the Seeker, con una visión un poco menos optimista:

[Article]: Tezzeret and you. By Josh Silvestri

I think it’s a touch too soon to talk about Extended, so this week we’ll be discussing some Vintage ramifications from the Time Vault errata and the upcoming Blue Planeswalker.Time Vault by itself was already a big deal, but with Tezzeret on the horizon, the win conditions of Vintage may be completely supplanted, much like Tendrils of Agony’s impact on the format over time.

Source: Star City Games 

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Poco a poco se va confeccionando la lista del spoiler de Shards of Alara (ver en MTG Salvation). Entre todas las cartas, de momento 2 me han llamado muchísimo la atención:

Lich’s Mirror
Artifact
If you would lose the game, instead shuffle your hand, your graveyard and all permanents you own into your library, then draw seven cards and your life total becomes 20.

Tezzeret the Seeker
Planeswalker – Tezzeret
+1: Untap up to two target artifacts. -X: Search your library for an artifact card with converted mana cost X or less and put it into play. Then shuffle your library. -5: Artifacts you control become 5/5 artifact creatures until end of turn.
Illus. Anthony Francisco	#60/249	4

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