Comments on: The Grinch that Stole Mike’s Rating

By: Five With Flores » Another Good Use for Umezawa’s Jitte

Five With Flores » Another Good Use for Umezawa’s Jitte — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:43:09 +0000

[...] of creatures I probably like to play too much (see “The Greenest Mage of All” posts here and here over at Top8Magic), but then the deck also has a full-on Scapeshift [...]

By: Top 8 Magic » Sages of the Anima plus Congregation at Dawn… Really?

Top 8 Magic » Sages of the Anima plus Congregation at Dawn… Really? — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:13:26 +0000

[...] The Grinch That Stole Mike’s Rating, [...]

By: Five With Flores » Eight Matches with Blightning Beatdown - Part 1

Five With Flores » Eight Matches with Blightning Beatdown - Part 1 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:31:04 +0000

[...] over at Top 8 Magic, I have been thinking a lot about my deck selection over the past couple of years. It all started [...]

By: Top 8 Magic » Previous Level Green

Top 8 Magic » Previous Level Green — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:03:42 +0000

[...] tournaments (in case you are new here this is a continuation from yesterday’s popular The Grinch That Stole Mike’s Rating) [...]

By: ProdigalT

ProdigalT — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:31:38 +0000

I think more in terms of style than color. My preferences for decks run from pure aggro to pure control, and I’ve done well with decks of all types over the years (except combo, unless Zevatog counts). Green can go in any direction - from Trinity green which was essentially a mana-denial control deck to current extended Elves, a combo deck, to more traditional aggro Elves. The trick isn’t to diversify your color palette, but to figure out exactly what you want to do with a deck and then decide how best to accomplish that. If that means your deck has to have green, play green. It’s been a long time since basic Forest was the worst card in Magic. Even Plains isn’t doing too bad these days.

By: zsievers

zsievers — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:32:49 +0000

Play the mountains

By: JosephM

JosephM — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:42:26 +0000

Reece is fooling himself if he reallly thinks that JosephM REALLY thinks that he could make LSV post here. lol.

By: ReeceP

ReeceP — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:56:47 +0000

Jamie is the greenest of them all

Green is the pits.

JosephM is fooling himself if he thinks his post is going to provoke a response from LSV.

By: JosephM

JosephM — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:04:12 +0000

You are teh greenest of them all.

neither of you are the pits. both are win. too much win in one place is a bad thing: teh universe can’t handle it. to determine this, we’d have to look at every game broken down into a few questions: (prime) did mike play optimally? (1st tier) If he did, did his deck support him? (2) if it did, why did everything still not work? (2) if it didn’t, then it may be that green is teh pits, or there may be modifiers like bad luck. (1) if he didn’t, did he pull a good deck down? (you get the rest) personally, i don’t think mike is the pits, nor green. i think it may be that in the sum of all things, sh*t happened, and that’s what kept him back. i wouldn’t know though.

be more like lsv? can’t be TOO bad. :-p *waits for lsv to post*

By: jbh2989

jbh2989 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:56:55 +0000

You know, the same thing happens to me when I try and play blue cards. Back in TSP Standard, I had been consistently doing well with nonblue decks like Elves and RDW, then for some reason I decided to play Lark at regionals and thus starting a string of poor finishes with decks containing islands.

So I went back to playing forests and mountains and swamps and have since rebounded.