Very particular aspect of Tezzerator

aldaryn · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 475

You can find the original list from the Berlin Top 8 here:

http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/ptber08/t8decks

I feel like if the deck is already splashing green, and wanting to beat elfball and zoo, shouldn't the 3 vendilion clique be tarmogoyfs? You'd need to adjust a couple lands for some more green, but not much.
He's not only a super-awesome beatstick (duh), but he can play the "wall" role vs. zoo pretty quickly. Anyone else agree?

Ggerg · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 487

um. no

maybe you could sneak your goyfs in elsewhere if you really wanted, but clique definitely stays

trueeevil · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 242

chalice at 1, trinisphere, chalice at 2, what more do you need?

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 921

the deck already beats elfball and zoo... i dont see why you would take out cliques for goyfs. goyfs are worse vs elves than clique is anyway

Enyeez · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 81

overall record for tezzeret control decks at berlin against elves was 50% win ratio.

Mzum · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

Tezzeret has a bad habit of being blown out by random artifact hate in the Elf matchup. Add to the fact that the deck mulligans poorly, and elf builds are sometimes bringing in Ancient Grudge in addition to another Viridian Shaman, and the Elf matchup goes sour.

Lantero · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 15

Tezzerator is overrated (Imho)

Orlandu · Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 197

One of the conscious design decisions of this deck was to not play any two drops, and it doesn't. In this way chalice at 2 never hurts you, and tremendously hurts them, and also spell snare never hurts you. You don't really have a problem beating elves with Tezz. The only reason LSV came back from a 2 games to zero deficit was because game three Oberg mulled to four, and game 4 and 5 his deck just wasn't working for him the way it did games 1 and 2, and when it did LSV had the viridian shaman/nullmage.

aldaryn · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 475

Thanks for the feedback.