No but Stab was being full of shit to "prove me wrong and jumpstart is the best thing ever" by saying something he knows is not true. He has either played played a lot, or straight up lied.
No he wasn't. He never once said anything about "jumpstart best thing ever" - just that he was having fun. Like me.
Not an attack, however you made them spend 4 Mana to answer a 3 mana threat.
You have won that exchange
Yeah, and when you're playing suboptimal decks, sometimes that's what you gotta do.
You remind me of some of the idiot keyforge players I regularly beat who spend more time complaining about what they don't have than taking advantage of what they do.
And considering the deck is about killing its own creatures, "locking" one down can be the better play.
They come out ahead in mana admittedly, this is about the only good play they could make.
I'm starting to see why you're getting your ass kicked.
Pile Blocking a first striker in an attempt to kill it is a very bad move unless you have a way to prevent a blow out if your opponent has a combat trick. This is why Double Fervent Champion is such a pain in the ass to deal with.
Like say... an enchantment that constantly generates 2/2s? So you could just toss 2 of them at the first striker and lose only 1?
(also, fervent champion not in jumpstart - and in fact there's very few packs which have double of anything besides basic lands)
Also you can check the decklists. In the example of devils, all their combat tricks requiring sacrificing something. There's not a lot of tricks in jumpstart unless you're playing green - otherwise it's on board.
And we aren't counting yours, you said you had Phryexians, and that deck outpowers the hell out of the Unicorn deck too, Maelfic Scythe is going to be a problem for a deck with a bunch of tiny do nothing chump blockers.
Eventually yes, the Scythe is what won me the day (I think my opponent either wasted artifact hate or it slipped by somehow).
Otherwise the Phryexians mostly sit in my hand a lot of the time as I'm waiting to get mana to come up. (never mind if Zurzoth eats some of my mana along the way - which he has)
Blessed Sanctuary doesn't make Unicorn/Enchantments an autowin against Devils/Phyrexians..it just gives the match a chance, because even with Sanctuary out..you have the better higher end with a 5/5, a 4/4 that draws you 2 cards, and Sherdrold. Outside Of a Kor Spiritwalker with her strap ons Equipped and a Giant your creatures are larger than theirs, they don't have enough tricks to mitigate that repeatedly and without Kor Spiritwalker they have very little card advantage..and you have several ways of gaining card advantage in the phyrexian deck.
Actually check again - on arena I don't have Sheoldred. As for card advantage, I have like... 2 and a half. And on jumpstart, if the opponent runs aggressively enough (which you should if you see them playing phyrexia), I've ended up in a few games stuck with those "card advantage" cards stuck in my hand, unable to play them. Actually in one match that I was going to lose anyway, I killed myself with Phyrexian Gargantua like a boss.
It seems to me that you're defeating yourself in jumpstart more than the opponent is.
It's the unholy love-child of sealed & draft and I'm having a blast. (though maybe wizards could have built the packs more blanced)
PS
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT.
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We can both agree - that is shit.
