Just a Standard 2-Man Queue with Melira-Pod
Last night I took the Melira-Pod deck into a 4-Round Modern tournament and went 3-1, with my only loss being to Jund (which seems like a really difficult matchup. Once Tarmogoyf gets out of Dismember range, it’s hard to do anything.
So I sit down this morning with only enough time for a 2-man Modern queue. It fires up and I keep a decent hand and it turns out that… He’s playing Jund! Well, this is either my chance for redemption or time to go on tilt…
game 1:
Me: forest, birds
him: treetop village
me: razorthicket, spellskite, seer
him: swamp, smother seer (redirected to spellskite)
me: melira, golgari rot farm returning forest
him: kitchen finks
me: forest, chord of calling for 4, Redcap, c-c-c-c-combo! That’s turn 4 baby!
That’s the fastest kill I’ve been able to get so far with the deck and I’m quite glad it was against what I fear may be a bad matchup.
game 2:
he gets confidant out and torpor orb. the bob is really effective as he hits lands 3 turns in a row with it. his fourth hit is an inquisition of kozilek that plucks one of my chords of calling (i have 3 in hand). The Torpor Orb literally knocks me out of this game as his beatdown is better than mine.
game 3:
I get a good hand with 2 Wall of Roots, Dismember, Witness, Shriekmaw, and 2 lands. Hard to beat that vs. Jund. So he opens with turn 1 thoughtseize and turn 2 inquizition and I think I might be done, especially when he plucks my Maw, then plays a Nihil Spellbomb before i have Witness out. *shrug* He removes my GY and draws a card but I’ve drawn… Birthing Pod!!! Yay! I sac a Roots to go get a Finks and we’re off to the races. He drops a Tarmo (5/6, yikes!) which I kill by upgrading my Finks into a 2/1 Finks and a Murderous Redcap + Dismember. The next turn he just drops a Bob and passes and I topdeck… Gavony Township! This card really has a great interaction with the persist guys. So I start pumping my dudes and swinging and he can’t really keep up without a Tarmogoyf.
I think the deck needs another way to get rid of artifacts. Qasali Pridemage just isn’t cutting it and Maelstrom Pulse can’t be tutored for… I think I need a Viridian Zealot in the board.
