Here’s a quick update after my earlier post regarding emergency deckbuilding.
Mr. Troo and I attended the Gatecrash Game Day at our FLGS today with decks we’d hurriedly slapped together at the last minute due to extreme time constraints on our end. I’m happy to say that we both Top-8’d, so both got our full art Firemane Avengers. Even more happily they turned out to be foils, so very pretty, and there were three Zameck Guildmages each for attendance (because while top-8 sounds impressive, actually only 10 people showed up; we had a sudden bout of snow in the morning).
I ran R/B Vampires as follows:
Maindeck:
4 x Stromkirk Noble
4 x Mugging
3 x Nightbird’s Clutches
4 x Vampiric Fury
1 x Dreadbore
4 x Stromkirk Captain
3 x Rakish Heir
1 x Olivia Voldaren
2 x Falkenrath Aristocrat
3 x Bloodline Keeper
3 x Havengul Vampire
1 x Rakdos, Lord of Riots
3 x Falkenrath Marauders
1 x Bonfire of the Damned
2 x Rakdos Guildgate
3 x Dragonskull Summit
9 x Mountain
9 x Swamp
Sideboard:
2 x Madcap Skills
1 x Dark Imposter
3 x Blasphemous Act
3 x Balustrade Spy
3 x Deviant Glee
3 x Mark for Death
It went pretty well, all told. There was a really nice mixture of decks present, and most match-ups ran pretty close. I think in the past I’ve been underestimating Deviant Glee, and wish I’d maindecked it. I usually swapped out the Rakish Heirs and Havengul Vampires for Deviant Glee and Madcap Skill, but a particularly troublesome opponent made me side in the Dark Imposter too so that I had more creature-thieving ability. In the end, though, it just wasn’t enough. Ah well. I got what I came for!
Firemane Avenger, let’s be friends!
Troo Grit 