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- Thread starter The Technomancer
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This is hilarious.
CorruptShadow
Member
Duals only go up in value, also I personally never trade lands, nor would I recommend that you do so. Having a land base lets you build pretty much any deck. While you don't play legacy today you might in the future. Also you could decide to make a new EDH deck a few months down the line that you could have put the plateau in.
It's pretty awesome.
blindrocket
Member
blindrocket
Member
Not nearly the value of your transaction, but I made a trade via Deckbox and still haven't received the cards he marked as shipped on 12-9. Hopefully the holiday mail has them delayed but I'm starting to get worried.
Just did the challenges on the DotP2014 expansion. The storm one was annoying, because there was a solution I had that definitely worked, but the wonky UI made it impossible to do. It involved destroying the great whale while the ETB ability was on the stack. The game mistakenly makes the ability not resolve if the whale dies beforehand.
So, I had to figure out another solution. Felt good when I finally got it though.
So, I had to figure out another solution. Felt good when I finally got it though.
New Born of the Gods card is a reprint?
*Springleaf Drum
Artifact
Common
{T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Ral Zarek can get some value out of this. In U/W/R, you could possibly get 2 extra mana on Sphinx's Rev on main phase. On opponent's turn, you can get 1 extra Rev. That's assuming you have a soldier token or something out.
Maybe you'll see some Trading Post shenanigans.
*Springleaf Drum
Artifact
Common
{T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Ral Zarek can get some value out of this. In U/W/R, you could possibly get 2 extra mana on Sphinx's Rev on main phase. On opponent's turn, you can get 1 extra Rev. That's assuming you have a soldier token or something out.
Maybe you'll see some Trading Post shenanigans.
It's kind of crummy that you didn't know what was in the deck until you tutored... you don't really play a storm deck blind.
CorruptShadow
Member
Wow someone is selling uncut sheets of Beta on Ebay, they can be yours for 20k.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAGIC-MTG-B...?pt=Trading_Card_Games_US&hash=item3a8300f670
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAGIC-MTG-B...?pt=Trading_Card_Games_US&hash=item3a8300f670
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Wizards in financial trouble confirmed?
http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/december-2013-legacy-metagame-analysis/
Oh, look, it's Mental Misstep all over again. What a surprise.
Oh, look, it's Mental Misstep all over again. What a surprise.
How do you feel about TNN's ban/restriction prospects?
EsotericManiac
Banned
TNN + Jitte is pretty amazing
It'll get banned. No one wants to be playing with that card for another 20 years, plus it's completely warping the format around itself in incredibly unhealthy ways.
It's behaving just like Misstep.
Will not happen.
It is strong, but there are still many ways to deal with it.
Counter it, sweep it, and whatever someone puts on it you can get rid of.
It is nasty, but it is not ban worthy.
blindrocket
Member
Modern decks I am building or plan to (very soon):
Jund
Living End
Owling Mine
Deathcloud
I think that this group feels like some good fun for now. Of course I'd love to go crazy and build Tron, Pod, Zoo, Soul Sisters, Burn, Infect... Soul Sisters is so cheap I may go ahead and do that sooner than later.
Eventually I will...
As for Legacy, no mana Dredge is pretty cheap so that could be a thing for me.
Man this stuff is addictive.
Jund
Living End
Owling Mine
Deathcloud
I think that this group feels like some good fun for now. Of course I'd love to go crazy and build Tron, Pod, Zoo, Soul Sisters, Burn, Infect... Soul Sisters is so cheap I may go ahead and do that sooner than later.
Eventually I will...
As for Legacy, no mana Dredge is pretty cheap so that could be a thing for me.
Man this stuff is addictive.
EsotericManiac
Banned
why is jitte dumb?
i just side in manriki and the problem is solved (mirror)
edit : i just built manaless dredge for a friend and he was the first seed into top 8 (we split)
i just side in manriki and the problem is solved (mirror)
edit : i just built manaless dredge for a friend and he was the first seed into top 8 (we split)
divisionbyzorro
Member
Owling Mine is a terrible deck in Modern. I know there are a lot of people who want it to work, but it's a really, really bad idea. Modern isn't slow enough to let a deck like that work.
The Jitte isn't much more powerful than the swords, and it's Legendary to boot, so each player only gets to put one on the field at any given time. It's a little more versatile and one mana cheaper though, and that could make up a lot of the difference. At least the Legendary rule has changed, if it were different back then I'm not sure it would have ever been banned in Modern.
EsotericManiac
Banned
isn't that because you can't play stoneforge?
Jitte vs Swords
- Jitte costs 1 less to cast
- Jitte triggers counters for any combat damage, not just damage to player
- Jitte's abilities, once it has counters, can be used at any time
- Those abilities have three relevant uses
I love the Swords, all five, but man, Jitte is just that much more powerful.
- Jitte costs 1 less to cast
- Jitte triggers counters for any combat damage, not just damage to player
- Jitte's abilities, once it has counters, can be used at any time
- Those abilities have three relevant uses
I love the Swords, all five, but man, Jitte is just that much more powerful.
EsotericManiac
Banned
Jitte is better against creature decks
swords seem to be better against control
swords seem to be better against control
When I look up the swords on MtgTop8 in Modern there's only a few dozen top decks that play either sword.
In Legacy, there's a couple hundred of each.
Jitte in Legacy is in over 1,000 decks. Always a one-of, almost always with a playset of Stoneforge Mystics.
And most of them also throw in Batterskull.
That must have sucked when they were both in Standard together.
So point taken about Jitte.
In Legacy, there's a couple hundred of each.
Jitte in Legacy is in over 1,000 decks. Always a one-of, almost always with a playset of Stoneforge Mystics.
And most of them also throw in Batterskull.
That must have sucked when they were both in Standard together.
So point taken about Jitte.
EsotericManiac
Banned
Yes, yes she was
and I don't believe jitte was ever in standard with batterskull
sword of feast and sword of war were though
Lol especially when affinity is tier 1 right now and it can dump their hand in turn 2
EsotericManiac
Banned
Precisely what Haly said
JtMS was seeing more and more play before TNN got big.
Now, jace just gets owned by him.
JtMS was seeing more and more play before TNN got big.
Now, jace just gets owned by him.
Caw Blade kind of broke the format, and this was the beginning of the SCG effect that led to the deck being constantly iterated on. By the time Caw Blade had basically become the best non-combo deck in the history of standard, it was too late to change Batterskull. SFM and Jace both got the Axe.
As others mentioned, it's TNN. Also, FTV 20 copies might be getting out in the wild more?
EsotericManiac
Banned
i think you forget that Caw-Blade also became a combo deck by adding 2 cards.
that was the version right before the ban anyway
that's a fair assessment on-point
that was the version right before the ban anyway
that's a fair assessment on-point
What combo was that? I only got back into Magic immediately after those days.
EsotericManiac
Banned
narcosis219
Member
Jitte is pretty broken. Swords don't come close.
EsotericManiac
Banned
Not sure what you mean by this. Before TNN, Jace was good against fair decks. He was slow against combo, but so is everything tbh
Sucks because it's impossible to predict where the format is going to go...
And I'm 50/50 on TNN and its potential banning.
I feel like it must be hard to balance formats. Unless they know exactly what they're doing and they're laughing at us peons all scrambling to make sense of it.
And I'm 50/50 on TNN and its potential banning.
I feel like it must be hard to balance formats. Unless they know exactly what they're doing and they're laughing at us peons all scrambling to make sense of it.
What metagame were you looking at? He had been pretty marginalized.
It's not hard to not print TNN as-is if you have a modicum of common sense as a developer. (I don't blame the multiplayer guy who designed it.)
Playing TNN frees up SB slots for more anti-combo -> People switch from combo to aggro because aggro gets TNN -> Everyone's just trying to get their TNN out first.
Also it's in blue so they get to play the full suite of counters as well as the new best creature in Legacy.
Also it's in blue so they get to play the full suite of counters as well as the new best creature in Legacy.
My mind is blown at the ignorance.
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