Wild Research.dec (61)

Instants (25):

4 counterspell
4 absorb
4 accumalated knowledge
3 fact or fiction
2 prophetic bolt
2 orim's thunder
4 urza's rage
2 misdirection

Enchantments (7):

3 wild research
2 hobble
2 teferi's moat

Sorceries (2):

2 wrath of god

Creatures (3):

3 Rakavovlver

Land (24):

2 shivan reef
3 battlefield forge
9 island
6 plains
4 mountains

Sideboard:

2 powerstone minefield
2 order and chaos
2 rout
2 hibernation
3 reprisal
4 gainsay

Match 1 vs Machinehead:

Game 1: Ah, my first machinehead matchup ever. I win the roll and decide to play. My opening hand conisted of island, plains, mountain, orim's thunder, accumalated knowledge, fact or fiction, absorb. I keep the hand. He plays a third turn kicked scuta which is countered by absorb. I reveal with the fact or fiction 2 absorbs, counterspell, rakavovler, 1 island. He splits the abosorbs and puts the rakavovler and island in to one and the other counterspell into another. "I choose the counter and rakavovler and after 4 more turns, kick the vovler with 2 islands open. He scoops.

Match 2: I didn't feel anything in my sideboard was going to help. The match was pretty much the same couterwise and he parised down to 5. He lost to two kicked rages in a row.

Match: 1-0-0
Game: 2-0-0

Match 2 vs B/G/W arena:

Game 1: I start with 3 islands, 2 counterspells, 2 accumalated knowledge. He drops 2 consecutive llanowar dead on turn 2 and 3. I drop wild research on turn four. He attempt's to drop spiritmonger 2 turns in a row. 4 accumalted knowledges, 2 fact or fictions, and 6 countered spells later, i beat him down with all three of my rakavolvers.

Game 2: I side in 3 reprisal and 2 order/chaos for 2 bolts, 2 moats, 1 fact or fiction. I feel i have control of the game after countering 2 deeds, 2 arena's, and 1 kicked desolation angel, and reprisaling 2 spiritmonger. He catches me off gaurd with another kicked desolation angel. I search for a counterspell only to have it striped from my hand(the only downfall of wild research). I procede to try a fact or fiction to grab more card to increase my research odds and maybe get my last counterspell, I reveal no land but 2 rages, 2 knowledges, 1 rakvolver. I grab the thing with the most, long story short, I lose to that kicked desolation angel.

Game 3: Well, i don't need to do anything cause he gets mana screwed and loses to my doublekicked rakavovler.

Match: 2-0-0
Game: 4-1-0

Match 3: U/G/B tempo

Game 1: This was one lucky newbie. He made it undefeated with creatures such as phrexian reaper and blind seer. I call him a newbie cause the kid was no more than 7 years of age. Anyways, We trade counterspells, him countering my wild research and me countering any of his flyer. I had to wait til i kicked rage twice to defeat him.

Game 2: Couldn't side in anything but gainsay cause all i saw was reaper and aprentice's. It doesn't matter anyways cause i drop rakvovler turn 6 with 2 misdirction, 2 absorbs and 2 counterpells protecting it. It was all over in 4 turns. He makes a valient effort by trying to repulse/spring(which are misdirected to his blockers )

Match: 3-0-0
Game: 6-1-0

Match 4 vs. B/W arena

Game 1: He parised down to 4, he immedialtly concedes.

Game 2: I side in powerstone minefield, order/chaos for 2 bolt's and 2 orim's thunder. He parised down to 5 and cursed out his deck to hell and back. He drops two lynxes on turn 2 and 3. I drop powerstone minefield turn 4. I counter his idol and kicked angel. I finish him with a two kicked rages in a row. I can't blame him for cussing his deck out, he didn't even drop arena.

Match: 4-0-0
Game: 8-1-0

Top four parings

Top four match 1 vs. R/W/u

Game 1: This deck is amazingly lucky. He was pulling wins out of no where. Anyways, I draw 2 plains, 1 island, 1 mountain, 2 knowledge, 1 fact or fiction. The turns go back and forth for about ten minutes. I was waiting to kick rage. By watching his former matchups, i found that he had mass creature removal. and a lot of it. My guess is he was waiting for kicked rage cause he was also countinuesly counting his own lands. I kicked rage at the end of his turn, he then rage's me in response, but low and behold, the almighty misdircetion save my rear end once again.

Game 2: Look at game one

Match: 5-0-0
Games: 10-1-0

Final round: Me and my friend make it and decide to draw and split the prize. Since he knows i can be his megrim/devotion deck. I, being a nice guy let him off the hook but he had to give me the match win.

Well, if that doesn't prove the absolute power of wild research, i will get more proof next week.

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I think that if you played your deck in a real Type 2 tournament, you'd get slaughtered. Let's look at your weaker picks for the deck:

2 Prophetic Bolt - if you need Burn, why not Rage? If you need removal, why not Wrath?

2 Hobble - This just escapes me why you play it...why? You should be playing 4 Wrath over this pick.

2 Teferi's Moat - instead of creating a fragile way to stop a few attackers, why not a permanent way to stop many attackers in the form of Wrath? Moat is weak, especially because of Chameleon and Monger.

2 Shivan Reef - Why not 4?

3 Battlefield Forge - Why not 4?

2 Powerstone Minefield - What does it do that Wrath/Rout doesn't?

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Iakae, I failed to mention wild research hitting play cause it either never hit play from countering or it was destroyed before i could even use it.

Anyways, i also agree that this wasn't your high class fnm type two but this was the first one i won with this deck and i just had to report it.

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Originally posted by Magic1264:
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Iakae, I failed to mention wild research hitting play cause it either never hit play from countering or it was destroyed before i could even use it.

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Then why were you stupid enough to name the Title of the Article "For all of you that say Wild Research suck. Well, check this tourney report ou!!!"?

ho ho ho

Jay

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Originally posted by Zuranthium:
Then why were you stupid enough to name the Title of the Article "For all of you that say Wild Research suck. Well, check this tourney report ou!!!"?

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well, doesn't that kinda prove my point that wild research is such a powerful card that people use a whollotta removal to get rid of it.

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Right now I'm slaughtering people with a Croisis-
Go deck w/ three Wild Research. The Wild
Research are more a distraction at this point.
I use it to draw the AKs and FoFs out of my
Library. When I have seven cards, I can tutor
for specialized counters with little chance
of having it go to my Graveyard. Game lock
with the Spirit or Agenda.

Magic1264's deck isn't a great example of a
good Research deck, but the idea is there.

I guess I'd suggest that you play with WR now
because the practice will come in handy.

If you want a list of the Croisis-Go deck go
to Worlds coverage. I think it's #3 or #2 of
the top 8 decks.

Coupled with Wild Research, there's a whole
lot of shaking going on. You discard a card
randomly into the graveyard, and if it has the
new feature, your hand size has just increased
by one.

Wild Resaerch will blow-up in November.

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Originally posted by iakae:
I'm looking at a lot of games where Wild Research isn't even mentioned. Kind of begs the question whether or not it's even necessary.

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Ditto

you basically played a u/w control with splash red for the win

-Jason

End of turn is insane.

I've played the damn deck so much I know where
to 'hide' the card you want to keep after the
WR tutor. Can't tell you how to do that -
you'll have to figure that out yourself.

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Originally posted by ubercat:

I've played the damn deck so much I know where
to 'hide' the card you want to keep after the
WR tutor. Can't tell you how to do that -
you'll have to figure that out yourself.

ubercat

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It doesn't matter if you can hide it, since it just says discard a card at random. That means the opponent can roll die, choose numbers or whatever. So even if he can't see it, he can randomly pick it.

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Originally posted by NukeMoose:
It doesn't matter if you can hide it, since it just says discard a card at random. That means the opponent can roll die, choose numbers or whatever. So even if he can't see it, he can randomly pick it.

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I'm not saying the I actually hide the cards
Mike Long style, I'm saying that there's an
overlooked place that almost 95% never pick
when you present your hand for the removal of
the random card.

Think about it. What position in a hand (that
is presented to you for a random discard) do
you almost NEVER take?

That's where you put the card. Works 19 out
of 20 times - just make it easy for your
opponent and present your hand for the random
discard.

Because I know that when I have to choose a card at random, each card has a good chance of being chosen no matter where it is located.

-Ron

Wow, stats from the top 8's at 4 Grand Prix's and 18 PTQ's fail to reveal a single Wild Research despite all the red/white/blue being played. Wild Research doesn't seem to show up in any of the winning deck lists from Worlds. Are the top players missing the boat? Or do they just know better?

Wild Research is an okay card, and can be strong in some decks in the right situation. It is not broken. The deck used in the tourny report above might have won just the same if the Wild Research were replaced with Zap.