I literally just experienced that. Thought tarns were 50. They totally were…3 months ago.
Speaking of scumbag LGS people, I once went to a different store to offload about $80 worth of standard staples. I asked for the location where I could punch things into a kiosk or something and the guy said he could look at the stuff for me. He sorts them about and tells me it would be $12. I told him that there was no way that was possible and even showed on my phone that the store’s website revealed that just one of the cards was worth about $20. Instead of apologizing or even admitting that he wasn’t even aware of the price, he gave me an offended look and said “well I was just trying to save you some time…” Really? I don’t know anyone who really feels that shaving off maybe 4 minutes is worth $68. I shudder at thinking who might have visited the store without looking up the price beforehand.
Ironically, the people who I see shortchanging people for cards tend to not be that close to the store owners. I understand if something isn’t your most favorite job, but you’re harming the store screwing over people. People try to act like the stereotypical businessman without any business experience and end up costing the owners a ton of rep.
In other news, I tried taking faeries again to a modern weekly and went 3-1 again. I changed it up by putting in smuggler’s copters, lightly splashing white for path+Sorin, and taking out things like spell snare, Vendilion Clique, and even Kalitas. Deck ended up outperforming expectations. Beat mono white humans, elves, and affinity. Lost to eldrazi TRON. I am really enjoying these vehicles because they are ridiculously undercosted for their stats and abilities. To top the cherry off, common board wipes are absolutely useless against them. People brought in stuff like stony silence which ended up being fine since a gameplan of BB+SSS and manlands gets the job done anyway. I played against more people who seemed really interested in vehicles working in a modern deck, and even beat some people whom were very vocal about how vehicles are too “slow” for modern. Maybe they are, but if they are giving me consistent results then they are giving me consistent results.
I cannot beat eldrazi as faeries though. TRON I at least can hope for hand disruption and time to use counterspells, but there’s no way I can beat t2 or t3 Thought-knots or running smashers. I tried looking at other deck guides to see how other people deal with eldrazi, but it seems like if you run a fair deck that you can’t afford to go 1 for 1 against each threat as they tend to indirectly require 2 for 1ing yourself. I even proxy tested if I had damnation instead of yahenni’s expertise as a board wipe, but basically I still cannot win if they throw down virtually anything as a topdeck. I would have to hope that they only draw into like a matter reshaper and that I am not low enough for a surprise smasher. Their curve is also too fast for me to SSS anything. At least TRON would make my countersqualls useful. Any suggestions? This might have to be my throw-away match-up.
Overall I am very happy with how faeries has been playing out for me. I am really feeling the difference of having more 1 CMC removal that can take care of undercosted creatures as well as having threats that solve a lot of my original problems against aggro/beatdown decks. Even though I still can’t say I have the greatest plan going up against TRON and Eldrazi, at least the old problems (burn, zoo, affinity, elves, rogue beatdown decks, decks that run pyroclasm/anger of the gods, etc) don’t make me feel forced to mulligan for a SB card or else I lose. Although it’s hilarious to yahenni’s expertise into rest in peace against some decks, I feel protected enough with a harvester or can dig into answers with copter, all while still moving towards a win.
Is anyone else feeling that spell snare might not really be in the meta right now? I haven’t gotten a chance to face the new abzan but most stuff I see is either 1 or 3 CMC from what I’ve been seeing. I don’t have to worry about pyroclasm anymore and fatal push is helping a ton against goyfs, scoozes, and more. I suppose it would help me against cranial plating, but I “feel” that churning out blockers just in case they don’t draw into one is better than holding out a turn just in case they cast one. I haven’t had a situation since aether revolt has been released that made me wish I had spell snare as opposed to anything else.
TL;DR Vehicles are awesome until disproven and I need tips on beating eldrazi the fair way, if that is even doable without goyfs. I have absolutely no idea how this guy did it: http://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=14629&f=MO
