PrimevalCommander wrote: ↑3 months ago
I've found when Sefris is left on the table for several turn cycles, the engine really gets humming and can be difficult to disrupt. Even when looping generic big flyers with some value. Now, point a little disruption his way and you can slow me down long enough to get ahead. Funny thing is, only one person in my playgroup knows this, and I don't play Sefris in the higher powered games where removal is plentiful. So I usually get to have a good bit of fun even if I get hit with a couple board wipes. I usually hold back a looter to restart the engine when Sefris comes back down. I'm thinking about playing some other basic reanimation outside of Sefris for when my engine is offline, but so far I've done alright. I have a small selection of counterspells and protection pieces to help protect my board which helps greatly.
Yeah, I've had the same experience.
Interestingly, I actually played
against a Sefris deck last night.
I was running Osigr, and we were also facing an aggressive Boros deck and an aggressive Selesnya deck. Sefris started very slowly--I exiled their Tortured Existence early, and they did nothing else but cast Sefris and Lightning Greaves, then recast Sefris after a board wipe. I annoyed the table a little with some light stax and interaction, but the Selesnya deck wrathed the board to set me and the other aggro deck back. I got out
Portal to Phyrexia a could turns later to set back the two aggro decks as they were building back up. Sefris finally got down a discard outlet and was starting to venture--I'm really not a fan of the cheap creatures that do nothing but pitch cards, since they do nothing for you without Sefris out, and then are card disadvantage with 0 real upside. This one discarded for a small (+0/+2?) buff. Anyway, Sefris rocketed ahead over two turns, bringing in Tivit, a copy of Sefris, and Avacyn, which got Greaves, and then I got hit for 14 damage (going to 4), because they (rightly) perceived me as their biggest threat. Sefris also had stocked their yard with an eldrazi, and Elesh Norn MoM, and some other big stuff. I told the table I could do a lot about Sefris' board. Boros aggro avoided killing me, Selesnya cast
Scavenging Ooze and passed. I targeted the
Angel of the Ruins...and Scooze exiled it in response. I asked why, and he said, "I could, and I'm not winning anyway, so why not?" So frustrating; he didn't even have any targets for the Angel. I was going to exile the Greaves and something Boros had maybe, then use Osgir to make 2
Duplicants to exile both the Sefris clone and Avacyn, and then blow up the board. Instead, I just scooped.