Jacob’s Ladder – MTGO Video with R/U/G Control

This week, I’m battling with my favoritest deck, RUG. Here’s the list for your perusal:

R/U/G Control

Michael Jacob

Test deck on 01-02-2011

Standard

Creatures (10)

• 4 Lotus Cobra
• 2 Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1 Sea Gate Oracle
• 3 Inferno Titan

Planeswalkers (6)

• 1 Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1 Jace Beleren
• 4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Lands (18)

• 4 Misty Rainforest
• 4 Scalding Tarn
• 2 Halimar Depths
• 4 Raging Ravine
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 3 Copperline Gorge

Spells (26)

• 3 Lightning Bolt
• 3 Forest
• 2 Mountain
• 4 Island
• 4 Mana Leak
• 2 Spreading Seas
• 4 Explore
• 4 Preordain

Sideboard

• 3 Pyroclasm
• 2 Flashfreeze
• 1 Garruk Wildspeaker
• 2 Acidic Slime
• 1 Goblin Ruinblaster
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 2 Spreading Seas
• 1 Nature's Claim
• 1 Deprive
• 1 Tumble Magnet

I think it’s the best deck in the format — but it’s also the hardest to play. As you’ll see in these games, I make a
ton
of mistakes. Learn from them!

Two things before you scream in the forums about how awful I am:

Round 2, Game 3: I have three Lightning Bolts and four Preordains, but it is way worse than that. Preordain would win me the game, whereas Lightning Bolt would just be okay.

Round 3, Game 2: I know how terribly the game was played, and that he was not actually on board dead at the end.

Replays still seem like a better format than live commentary, but let me know what you think. I know most of what I am saying is just internal monologue, but I don’t know what else I am supposed to be saying.

Based on these games, here are some changes that could be made moving forward:

-1 Halimar Depths
+1 Khalni Garden
-1 Oracle of Mul Daya
+1 Garruk Wildspeaker

Sideboard:
-1 Flashfreeze
+1 Spell Pierce

and

(if you put a Garruk into the main)

-1 Garruk Wildspeaker
+1 Nature’s Claim

Round 1: R/U/G vs. U/B Control

Round 2: R/U/G vs. B/R Vampires

Round 3: R/U/G vs. WW Quest

Round 4: R/U/G vs. G/W Quest