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[WanderingWind]

How many decks do you all keep assembled at a time?

I think I currently have 7 after I put together a black/white humans deck last night entirely in order to get to use the 3 Ravenous Demons I have.

The others I have are:
*Somewhat effective Standard decks*
-WUB Spirits which is slowly transitioning to Delver/Spirits
-GB Birthing Pod

*Decks built for casual play and/or because I had some cards I wanted to use*
-RB creature destruction with a bunch of big mana creatures at the top end for multiplayer
-RG Werewolves
-GW Golems
-Blue control (mostly to give my friend who is new to the game some experience playing against it)

One of these days I'll make an EDH deck if I can convince my other friends to do it too.

Well, beside the duel decks and Commander decks I bought, I have these.

Legacy Vampires
Legacy Elves
Legacy Burn w/no creatures
Legacy Black/Green Titan deck
Legacy Knights/Equipment

Standard Spirits
Standard Zombies
Standard Illusions

 

[Boogalogist]

One of these days I'll make an EDH deck if I can convince my other friends to do it too.

You guys REALLY need to try out this format. It's a really fun format.

 

[y2dvd]

Since I started with the Scars block all my decks are strictly Standard asides from my pre-constructed Commander's deck. I tried making a deck of each color. I find myself most playing U or W and find myself switching cards amongst decks way too often. @_@

W/B Tokens
U/W Spirits
W/U Humans
R Mono red
B Mono black Infect
G/W Tokens
B/U Zombies

Next week, we are doing a pauper limited format tourny at my place so I got a Mono blue self-mill zombie deck going. Gotta include Delver though because it's like the best common card! I'll post up the deck later. It's a fun format.

Gotta make a modern deck. Got friends who only got modern decks so I'll gotta build something. Was thinking Cawblade minus the Stoneforge.

 

[ultron87]

Ugh, one my friends played a Crumbling Sanctuary in multiplayer last night and no one was really packing artifact removal.

That was the most dreadful hour long game of Magic ever. The vast majority of it involved a stalled board where I pumped out human tokens and that I used to chump block Phyrexian Processor tokens.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Ugh, one my friends played a Crumbling Sanctuary in multiplayer last night and no one was really packing artifact removal.

That was the most dreadful hour long game of Magic ever. The vast majority of it involved a stalled board where I pumped out human tokens and that I used to chump block Phyrexian Processor tokens.

Does Crumbling Sanctuary really prevent the loss of life from Phyrexian Processor? Aren't "paying life" and "taking damage" two separate things?

 

[Sinatar]

Does Crumbling Sanctuary really prevent the loss of life from Phyrexian Processor? Aren't "paying life" and "taking damage" two separate things?

Yea that wouldn't work, it specifies damage so paying life would still occur.

 

[dschalter]

Does Crumbling Sanctuary really prevent the loss of life from Phyrexian Processor? Aren't "paying life" and "taking damage" two separate things?

it doesn't.

however, a strategy you can use with the processor is to drop it for 19 (or exactly as much as you can take and survive) and then to cast crumbling sanctuary. your life total has effectively been reset, as you'll take damage from your library, not your life total. this synergy in fact played a crucial role in some very popular type two decks back in the day and a game in a worlds final that finished 3-2 was lost on a misplay that involved casting a crumbling sanctuary before attacking with a phyrexian processor token.

 

[ultron87]

Does Crumbling Sanctuary really prevent the loss of life from Phyrexian Processor? Aren't "paying life" and "taking damage" two separate things?

You still pay the life. But it isn't really a big penalty when any damage you take just takes cards off your library. Of course this also means that any cards that inflict life loss instead of damage will still take down your life total.

 

[dschalter]

text coverage of the game i was referring to: http://www.wizards.com/sideboard/wo...finals&top=10&index=xmlBin/index_coverage.xml

video, though it doesn't show the actual moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECaN66tm0k

 

[Hex]

New Avacyn art up from the Ultra Pro sleeves and Playmats at the usual places, at work so I can not upload.

 

[ultron87]

All kinds of angels up in here. Sorin's been busy.

 

[WanderingWind]

Angels a viable deck? Heck yeah.

 

[Hex]

Angels a viable deck? Heck yeah.

Angel EDH will definitely be happy as will Demon I am thinking

 

[WanderingWind]

Angel EDH will definitely be happy as will Demon I am thinking

And elves back for green, gobs/dragons for red.

Blue gets ... Um. More stupid counter spells that suck. Or illusions. I'd be cool with those becoming the blue tribe of justice.

 

[ultron87]

They wouldn't give White an angel with every other color would they? Because those definitely look RW, RW (again?), UW, and BW.

 

[Haly]

Somewhere, someone is marking off the days of his calender until the triumphant return of merfolk.

 

[OnPoint]

^^^ LOL ^^^

Angels a viable deck? Heck yeah.

Would be nice if they did this, but I'm not too hopeful. It's one of those fringe creatures they tend to make a bunch of but never really push as an archetype. Maybe it'll change but I'm not crossing my fingers.

 

[Haly]

Like Dragons, they represent the upper levels of the creature food chain for their respective color, so I don't think we'll be seeing Angel.dec anytime soon.

It would be strange seeing a 1CC 1/1 angel.

 

[OnPoint]

Like Dragons, they represent the upper levels of the creature food chain for their respective color, so I don't think we'll be seeing Angel.dec anytime soon.

It would be strange seeing a 1CC 1/1 angel.

Why not make cherubs or something like that?

 

[Haly]

I hadn't thought of that!

 

[WanderingWind]

Like Dragons, they represent the upper levels of the creature food chain for their respective color, so I don't think we'll be seeing Angel.dec anytime soon.

It would be strange seeing a 1CC 1/1 angel.

I always thought they should have combined leveling up with angels. I mean, Ascending Angel or something like those lines would've been perfect. And yeah, get into it and classify "levels" of angels.

I know MaRo is big on Dragons being only super powerful, but I think they should make some smaller ones, too.

 

[The Xtortionist]

Like Dragons, they represent the upper levels of the creature food chain for their respective color, so I don't think we'll be seeing Angel.dec anytime soon.

Yeah, I'm still working on Lhurgoyf Bidding myself.

 

[Sinatar]

For me the question is will Avacyn be a beastly creature or a new planeswalker.

 

[OnPoint]

For me the question is will Avacyn be a beastly creature or a new planeswalker.

I really hope she'll be a beastly creature, honestly. Too many Planeswalkers these days.

Though I want them to somehow bring back Urza

 

[ultron87]

I really hope she'll be a beastly creature, honestly. Too many Planeswalkers these days.

Though I want them to somehow bring back Urza

You could probably grind Karn up and bake him for awhile to grow a new Urza or something.

 

[joelseph]

New Planeswalker is gonna be that Dak dude from the comic. Avacyn will be a legendary creature!

 

[An-Det]

text coverage of the game i was referring to: http://www.wizards.com/sideboard/wo...finals&top=10&index=xmlBin/index_coverage.xml

video, though it doesn't show the actual moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECaN66tm0k

Aside from them playing without sleeves, that was great to watch. So many memories with those decks.

 

[The Technomancer]

Since I think that Avycyn is probably going to be B/W I really doubt she'll also be a planes walker since we just got Sorin in those colors

 

[y2dvd]

Avacyn's Pilgrim is green that produces white, thus making Avacyn a W/G planeswalker or duo-colored creature!

 

[Sinatar]

Yea green/white makes more sense then black/white. All the humans who worship Avacyn are green/white.

 

[joelseph]

Yea green/white makes more sense then black/white. All the humans who worship Avacyn are green/white.

My coworker says that Sorin created Avacyn from himself and his is B/W... I bet him 5 bucks on the subject.

 

[ultron87]

My coworker says that Sorin created Avacyn from himself and his is B/W... I bet him 5 bucks on the subject.

That's the theory I'm running with for her being BW. Also, the whole black and white armor thing.

The third angel on those mats could be any combination of blue, green, and white based on the picture.

 

[OnPoint]

Yea green/white makes more sense then black/white. All the humans who worship Avacyn are green/white.

But she's not dressed like she's green/white

lulz

 

[The Technomancer]

B/W is based almost entirely on art: she looks more goth than she does benevolent

 

[Kurtofan]

Since I think that Avycyn is probably going to be B/W I really doubt she'll also be a planes walker since we just got Sorin in those colors

She can't be a planeswalker since she was created by Sorin.

 

[ultron87]

Also, based on this article: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/178

She's been hanging out in the Helvault with the big bad demon's spear in her for awhile. That's another way to get some black into you.

 

[y2dvd]

Good points. Probably gonna be a B/W creature then. Still wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being W/G. BTW, hate the goth make up.

 

[Sinatar]

She can't be a planeswalker since she was created by Sorin.

Karn was just a golem originally who became a planeswalker later.

 

[OnPoint]

Also, based on this article: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/178

She's been hanging out in the Helvault with the big bad demon's spear in her for awhile. That's another way to get some black into you.

That's a sexually charged statement lol

She can't be a planeswalker since she was created by Sorin.

Karn was created by Urza and now he's a planeswalker

 

[Hex]

Karn only became a Planeswalker because Urza died and Karn inherited his spark when the Legacy items are blown up.
He only recovered his spark after Venser died and gave him his spark.
Sorin will NOT die to give Avacyn his spark, I assure you.
Avacyn will not be a planeswalker.
The sooner that people make peace with that , the better.

 

[Enordash]

Karn was just a golem originally who became a planeswalker later.

I feel that you would have to argue the differences in power between Sorin and Urza in that case.

Edit: I agree with Hex for sure.

 

[WanderingWind]

So....the Helvault is what is keeping all the legacy creatures in control, right? So, since this is breaking open, we're likely to have a bunch of the classic creatures like elves and merfolk or whatever back, right?

This is my understanding after a 10 minute wiki search, anyway

 

[Hex]

No, there have never been any other creatures on this plane.
The Helavault is a prison that they were using to imprison the demon.
At the last moment it speared Avacyn and she was pulled in also.
The helavault has nothing to do with elves and whatnot.
Not all races live on all planes.

There was actually a very cool bit of Innistrad back story posted in a traveler's guide that went over the story.

 

[OnPoint]

So....the Helvault is what is keeping all the legacy creatures in control, right? So, since this is breaking open, we're likely to have a bunch of the classic creatures like elves and merfolk or whatever back, right?

This is my understanding after a 10 minute wiki search, anyway

Hex is once again right. They made the conscious decision to stay away from the usual tribes like elves, goblins, merfolk, etc in order to keep a specific flavor.

 

[WanderingWind]

I was sort of thinking in the next block. I wouldn't even want them to move away from the current flavor in AVR. I love it.

Now...the cards on the other hand. Outside of white, I'm fairly indifferent.

 

[Hex]

I was sort of thinking in the next block. I wouldn't even want them to move away from the current flavor in AVR. I love it.

Now...the cards on the other hand. Outside of white, I'm fairly indifferent.

Maro has said that it will be returning to high fantasy after this block is over, and as much as I love this block I will love that too because I hated Scars block and I would love to see new elves and other goodies.

 

[WanderingWind]

Maro has said that it will be returning to high fantasy after this block is over, and as much as I love this block I will love that too because I hated Scars block.

I have the sort of the opposite feel this block from the last. I hated the whole flavor from Scars (I like the mirrodin stuff, hated the Phyrexian stuff) but I really enjoy playing with a lot of those cards.

I just found out about Gut Shot...it's too soon! Same with Beast Within, Puresteel and Surgical Extraction,

 

[ultron87]

I wonder what mechanics they'll bring back in AVR. Exalted maybe? That could match up well with the return of Avacyn inspiring her followers.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Maro has said that it will be returning to high fantasy after this block is over, and as much as I love this block I will love that too because I hated Scars block and I would love to see new elves and other goodies.

I love elves. They've always been my favorite archetype.

 

[OnPoint]

A. How did Wandering get banned?

B. I'm not excited about a return to high fantasy unless they're going to back to Dominaria. The old-school Magic world has been ignored for far too long IMO.

C. I loved the flavor of the Scars block and the cards were really fun to play with. I'm going to be sad to see them rotate out, except for Infect. I even like Phyrexian mana, though they could have been smarter about how they made some of the cards.