[MBT] Massive Battery of Tests Apr 25, 2017, 3:38 PM
zombie33 I will introduce you the MBT  : The massive battery of tests.

This is the second MBT of peasant (you can see results of the first one from 2013 here. Some voluntiers will play a high number of game with predefine decks in order to determine the best decks of the format and the good or bad match up of every decks. Everyone can participate to this MBT.


Phase 1  :
* Debate to define the main decklist of 5 archetypes of the format  :
Faeries, Wellspring, Affinity Atog, MBC Devotion, UB Thopter
* Playtests main deck with the 5 list define previously - every match at least 10 times OTP and OTD (200 games)

Phase 2  :
* Debate to define the main decklist of 5 other archetypes of the format  :
MGA, Burn, MWC, Arcane Tide, Gx Tron
* Playtests main deck with the 10 list define previously (700 games)

Phase 3  :
* Update some decklist or add some new deck to the MBT.
* Think about the best Sideboard for each decklist.


MBT - Google Doc


The google doc contain three sheet :
- Data (playtest)  : This is where every gamer will fill the google doc with results.
- MBT results  : Table of statistics and results
- Specific deck  : More informations related to a specific deck, this is where you can find the decklist used for each deck.

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Toufmade Apr 25, 2017, 3:40 PM Oh Yeaaaaah !!

zombie33 Apr 25, 2017, 3:41 PM So to begin the debate, i will suggest the following decklist :

Faeries

4 Cloudfin Raptor
4 Faerie Miscreant
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Spellstutter Sprite
2 Spire Golem
4 Favorable Winds
3 Gush
4 Counterspell
3 Daze
2 Brainstorm
2 Snap
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spell Snare
18 Island
4 Preordain



Affinity Atog

4 Chromatic Star
3 Flayer Husk
3 Prophetic Prism
3 Springleaf Drum
2 Thopter Foundry
4 Myr Enforcer
4 Frogmite
4 Atog
4 Carapace Forger
4 Galvanic Blast
2 Fling
4 Great Furnace
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Tree of Tales
4 Vault of Whispers
1 Darksteel Citadel
4 Thoughtcast
2 Ghirapur Aether Grid



Wellspring

3 Thraben Inspector
1 Krark-Clan Shaman
2 Glint Hawk
4 Kor Skyfisher
1 Lone Missionary
1 Custodi Squire
1 Relic of Progenitus
4 Chromatic Star
4 Ichor Wellspring
4 Prophetic Prism
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Galvanic Blast
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Angelic Purge
1 Thopter Foundry
2 Enlightened Tutor
2 Ghirapur Aether Grid
2 Boros Garrison
4 Ancient Den
4 Great Furnace
4 Wind-Scarred Crag
2 Radiant Fountain
4 Darksteel Citadel
1 Kabira Crossroads



UB Thopter

1 Bojuka Bog
2 Seat of the Synod
3 Swamp
4 Dismal Backwater
4 Vault of Whispers
7 Island
2 Sword of the Meek
3 Thopter Foundry
1 Dead Weight
1 Agony Warp
1 Condescend
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Doom Blade
1 Echoing Decay
1 Echoing Truth
2 Mana Leak
4 Counterspell
4 Impulse
4 Muddle the Mixture
2 Serum Visions
3 Duress
4 Innocent Blood
4 Preordain



MBC Devotion

4 Fume Spitter
2 Cuombajj Witches
4 Chittering Rats
2 Phyrexian Rager
1 Crypt Rats
4 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
2 Twisted Abomination
4 Hymn to Tourach
3 Sign in Blood
1 Oubliette
1 Tragic Slip
1 Victim of Night
2 Chainer's Edict
1 Tendrils of Corruption
2 Engineered Plague
2 Skeletal Scrying
1 Beseech the Queen
21 Swamp
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Mortuary Mire



Toufmade Apr 25, 2017, 4:22 PM I love Devotion and Fearies list
Lists seem good, even if I don't realy like the Wellspring list

Why do the Affy aggro list has just 4 uncos ?

zombie33 Apr 25, 2017, 4:29 PM Affinity Atog : This is for a Whipflare in SB.

MBC Devotion : If you look closely to MBC, you will see 2 Skeletal Scrying and 3 Sign in Blood

Toufmade Apr 25, 2017, 5:12 PM Yep, It's a very a good list, even if it's not mine ( I can love list construted by other people )

zebigcoconut Apr 26, 2017, 9:41 AM @Touf : What do you unlike in wellspring list?
For me, there is a lot of possibilities, and this list seems to be good.

zombie33 Apr 26, 2017, 10:54 AM Feel free to propose some alternative to this list and argue for those changes...

Toufmade Apr 26, 2017, 11:41 AM I prefere your Last decklist. Except that with 21 lands should be better.

Toufmade Apr 26, 2017, 11:43 AM And With The same uncos split than Zombie decklist

GalacticPresident Apr 26, 2017, 12:08 PM My suggestions:

Faeries:
I'd cut a Gush for a Logic Knot. 3 Gushes seems a lot on top of Dazes with 2 Spire Golems. Logic Knot's Delve is free, it is very close to a 5th Counterspell in this deck. Just a minor thing though.

Affinity:
I would not cut a Prism with such heavy mana requirements- even Foundry in this version. I would prefer the 4th over a Star/Blast/Thoughtcast.

Wellspring:
I don't think Chromatic Star is necessary in the straight Boros version. The Pauper brother doesn't play them, Zebig didn't have them in his last version and I don't run them anymore either and I don't miss them at all. Fixing is not relevant, bouncing them is no upside and just as an artifact for Grid doesn't justify them. They are useful for Krark-Clan and Foundry but one sweep of Krark usually wins the game against Swarm decks already and just as fodder for 1 Foundry it is too narrow in my opinion and worse than the following:
I would change
-4 Stars
-1 Relic
-2 Radiant Fountain
+2 Basics
+1 Thraben Inspector
+1 Krark-Clan (good choice in general but not as much against these 4 decks...)
+2 Glint Hawk (excellent pressure)
+1 Angelic Purge (even better with Foundry maindeck against Plague, key card vs UB Thopter Foundry)

UB Thopter Foundry:
I really dislike Doom Blade. It is a dead card in 25% of the matches. Would run Victim of Night or second Echoing Decay instead. The deck plays 13 blue and 12 black sources, so if it can support 4 CS it can easily support one BB spell.

MBC:
I don't understand 4 Fume Spitters and 0 Dead Weights, seems bad.
-2 Fume Spitter
-1 Tragic Slip
-1 Edict
+4 Dead Weight