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Magic: the Gathering - Oath o/t Gatewatch |OT| Look again, the mana is now diamonds!
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";194072282]Help me with this deck:
Creatures
4 monastery swiftspear
3 Zurgo Helmsmasher
4 Dragon Fodder
4 Abbot of Keral Keep
4 Reckless Bushwacker
4 Monastery Mentor
Spells
4 Silkwrap
4 Wild Slash
4 Titan's Strength
4 Expedite
Lands
1 Sea Gate Wreckage
4 Needle Spires
4 Crumbling Vestige
4 Battlefield Forge
3 Plains
9 Mountain
Sideboard
4 Hallowed Moonlight
4 Arashin Cleric
3 Roast
4 Thought-Knot Seer[/QUOTE]You're running 9 sources of Colorless. I don't see why you would run Zurgo over Reality Smasher. Edit: I think you probably meant Zurgo Bellstriker.
I don't really understand some of the choices, like - you have a few choices I don't understand, like 4 Monastery Mentors in an aggro deck.
Creatures
4 monastery swiftspear
3 Zurgo Helmsmasher
4 Dragon Fodder
4 Abbot of Keral Keep
4 Reckless Bushwacker
4 Monastery Mentor
Spells
4 Silkwrap
4 Wild Slash
4 Titan's Strength
4 Expedite
Lands
1 Sea Gate Wreckage
4 Needle Spires
4 Crumbling Vestige
4 Battlefield Forge
3 Plains
9 Mountain
Sideboard
4 Hallowed Moonlight
4 Arashin Cleric
3 Roast
4 Thought-Knot Seer[/QUOTE]You're running 9 sources of Colorless. I don't see why you would run Zurgo over Reality Smasher. Edit: I think you probably meant Zurgo Bellstriker.
I don't really understand some of the choices, like - you have a few choices I don't understand, like 4 Monastery Mentors in an aggro deck.
ThLunarian
Member
I have my copies too, but I'm wondering if this might have been a bust :/ I haven't heard any chatter about it, and Eldrazi hype seems to be leveling off.
Unless Path suddenly makes Eldrazi more viable, I don't see it going anywhere.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I played a version of the deck that was basically just my regular Standard Eldrazi deck but with Eye of Ugin and Eldrazi Temple and it was fucking brutal. I think that version is going to be way better than the durdly Relic of Progenitus stuff.
Mine too. I'm gonna still try and build with it.
Hallowed Moonlight is a must in the 15 because of Rally taking over now.
I'm working on a Boros Equip deck with Weapons Trainer/SHO and various other stuff.
Sick combos include:
Bone Saw enabling surge from Bushwacker into a crazy turn 2 Monastery Swiftspear + Bushwacker 5 damage slam.
2 Ally Encampment
4 Battlefield Forge
7 Mountain
4 Needle Spires
6 Plains
4 Bone Saw
2 Captain's Claws
3 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
2 Magmatic Insight
3 Monastery Swiftspear
3 Oath of Gideon
2 Reckless Bushwhacker
2 Relic Seeker
2 Ride Down
4 Stone Haven Outfitter
2 Stoneforge Masterwork
4 Weapons Trainer
4 Wild Slash
Sideboard:
3 Hallowed Moonlight
2 Relic Seeker
2 Ride Down
2 Secure the Wastes
Still working on the SB, but here's the basis of the deck.
Already got a double playset, nice
I'm working on a Boros Equip deck with Weapons Trainer/SHO and various other stuff.
Sick combos include:
Bone Saw enabling surge from Bushwacker into a crazy turn 2 Monastery Swiftspear + Bushwacker 5 damage slam.
2 Ally Encampment
4 Battlefield Forge
7 Mountain
4 Needle Spires
6 Plains
4 Bone Saw
2 Captain's Claws
3 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
2 Magmatic Insight
3 Monastery Swiftspear
3 Oath of Gideon
2 Reckless Bushwhacker
2 Relic Seeker
2 Ride Down
4 Stone Haven Outfitter
2 Stoneforge Masterwork
4 Weapons Trainer
4 Wild Slash
Sideboard:
3 Hallowed Moonlight
2 Relic Seeker
2 Ride Down
2 Secure the Wastes
Still working on the SB, but here's the basis of the deck.
Already got a double playset, nice
Etrian Oddity
Member
I'll tell you fools what, Ulcerate sure would have been a clutch reprint for current W/B life gain.
dude is a house. 3/4 lifelink on a 4 mana body is pretty good, plus he comes with exile and make tokens. then to top it off, he can eat your zombies to avoid huge burn.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
He hates on rally and is mono coloured contrary to anafenza
I love him too, I even added Curse of Shallow Graves to the cube so he has more zombies to eat (also because black is kind of crummy in general tbh). He loves eating Gravecrawler and Bloodghast too!
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
lol @ avoiding copyright with "Ms. Lage"
Wulfric
Member
Alright, I had the right idea. Just trying to make sure I have the main advantages down. So would this work in the case of D&T?
* Lightning Bolt targeting Thalia
* Tap Aether Vial
* Put Flickerwisp on field, bouncing Thalia
* Lightning Bolt fizzles
Also, does anyone know where this art is from? Tineye isn't helping.
Also, does anyone know where this art is from? Tineye isn't helping.
It's fan art by Godfrey Escota: https://godfreyescota.artstation.com/portfolio/ajani-4676a4fb-671b-4c62-8b1c-0ecfa0384a0e
Alright, I had the right idea. Just trying to make sure I have the main advantages down. So would this work in the case of D&T?
* Lightning Bolt targeting Thalia
* Tap Aether Vial
* Put Flickerwisp on field, bouncing Thalia
* Lightning Bolt fizzles
Also, does anyone know where this art is from? Tineye isn't helping.
Fanart by a guy named Godfrey Escota
Edit: Stop using Tinyeye and start using Google Image Search, it took like 2 seconds
Yep that totally works!
SigmasonicX
Member
how about a bad card?
I'm not sure having a downside card like that at common is a good idea. It happens infrequently, but just making it a spirit power booster seems like it could be fine at common.
Back in the community ghetto we are it seems
It doesn't give your Spirits defender, it pumps the ones you have that already have defender. So its not a downside card. It is super narrow and seems like a card that just stalls games unless there is some kind of "Defender deck" in this format and cards are able to leverage their power to end the game even if they can't attack
It doesn't give your Spirits defender, it pumps the ones you have that already have defender. So its not a downside card. It is super narrow and seems like a card that just stalls games unless there is some kind of "Defender deck" in this format and cards are able to leverage their power to end the game even if they can't attack
Joe Molotov
Member
Seems playable.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Not quite sure what got into me there but people just kept passing me lands that produce different mana and green cards searching for lands
Of course my first opponent would BR hyperaggressive and I'd be stuck on 2 lands with a fetch spell in hand for 3, the match took a complete 5 minutes. First game I was actually about to stabilize when he played a haste creature to kill me. So far I only got mana not colorscrewed. Even had a play turn 2 and 3 each.
Of course my first opponent would BR hyperaggressive and I'd be stuck on 2 lands with a fetch spell in hand for 3, the match took a complete 5 minutes. First game I was actually about to stabilize when he played a haste creature to kill me. So far I only got mana not colorscrewed. Even had a play turn 2 and 3 each.
Seems playable.
LOL
Casts a 3 man spell that sees play (Hoarding Outburst), and then 3 copies of a 2 Mana spell that sees play (anticipate) every turn
Not remotely printable
Maybe if you took creatures instead of those lands, youd have a deck lol.
Good luck is all i will say.
It's actually even better than that. You get 3 Anticipates from the tokens, plus more if you play any creatures in addition. Hell, if you have more than one of these out you basically get to stack your deck with all the card selection you get.
Also, I just realized it says when a creature enters the battlefield. It doesn't even have to be one you control!
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'm playing 13 creatures, 2 of which making 2 tokens and a creature regrowing 2 creatures. Oath of Nissa can also get me a creature. It wasn't the lack of creatures that killed me but that my opponent played a 2/1 onedrop and shot my 2 drop both games, proceeds to play 2 4/2 first strike game 1 and just when I got my 5/5 down and was about to bounce 2 of his creatures next turn he played a haster, game 2 he subsequently played a 3/2 haste and 5/3 haste while I was still stuck on 2 lands.
It was the wort matchup imaginable for my crazy deck that worked much better than I anticipated.
Infinite Stars
Member
Seems playable.
Seems hyperbusted, but I do want a return to Alara to have Ascendancies. They are one of my favorite card cycles from Khans, as all of them have fun uses IMO. Maybe Bant Ascendancy(if we ever get one) could be Anti-Exalted? The way Alara's lore is now is that Bant/Naya are almost completely gone, Grixis is spreading like the black plague, Esper is busy trying to stay isolated, and Jund is.. I have no idea what Jund is doing.
I just realized that Temur Ascendancy is super jank with Frost Walker.. Do I try and force it in Standard for one last hurrah.
You've opened up a can of worms, my friend.Betting lines up on Pinnicle Sports for the Pro Tour. The most interesting bets IMO
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
That fake card is better than Black Lotus
All the power to you and i hope you have fun trying to pilot it. Thats all that matters.
And yes that card should cost like 10 mana
Etrian Oddity
Member
That Bant Ascendancy is laughably munchkin (OP).
That said, I want us to hold off on an Alara visit because I want WotC to take what they've learned from Khans of Tarkir and reapply it. That means we'll need to wait before we can really appreciate it again and before it'll have true impact. I'd love nothing more than the Return to Alara block being about five shard factions banding together to recover the "purity" of their home shard. It'd basically be shard Tarkir, with ascendancies, charms, good cycles and a return of the shardlands (but no fetchlands or expeditions driving the market skyhigh).
That said, I want us to hold off on an Alara visit because I want WotC to take what they've learned from Khans of Tarkir and reapply it. That means we'll need to wait before we can really appreciate it again and before it'll have true impact. I'd love nothing more than the Return to Alara block being about five shard factions banding together to recover the "purity" of their home shard. It'd basically be shard Tarkir, with ascendancies, charms, good cycles and a return of the shardlands (but no fetchlands or expeditions driving the market skyhigh).
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I wish but I got a bye for round 2 instead. Now just 1 more match to try the deck out. It has literally every manland from OGW.
Giant Panda
Member
What do people find is the best way to sort cards as they rotate out of standard? I currently have just a Modern box with cards from all sorts of sets mixed together as I only have a few cards from each set. But I have a lot of KTK and Fate, so should I mix them into the Modern box or start having a separate box for each set?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
lol some guy on MTGO just sent me a bunch of salty tells for boarding in the wrong card against his mono white deck
same player lost to an inability to perform basic math on a block
then in the next game committed all of his hand to the board against a mono black deck and promptly got blown the living fuck out by a Languish
same player lost to an inability to perform basic math on a block
then in the next game committed all of his hand to the board against a mono black deck and promptly got blown the living fuck out by a Languish
how about a bad card?
Combos with Wood Elemental.
...on a worst cards ever list. I mean I get why you need bad cards, but that's... extra bad.
Seems playable.
Maybe the most broken card I've seen in this thread. And I've created quite a few busted sketches.
"God's Beard!"
Member
I heard a guy boarded in 4 feed the clan against Esper Dragons at GP Oakland.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";194096687]I heard a guy boarded in 4 feed the clan against Esper Dragons at GP Oakland.[/QUOTE]
I boarded in duress against a white deck but I didn't really know what he was playing and I got hit with Valourous Stance game 1. I don't know why he was mad. If I boarded badly that's good for him, I think.
Also, for reasons I don't even know Drana is overperforming in my Eldrazi deck even though she doesn't really have any synergy with anything other than Reality Smasher. And I guess Bearer of Silence...
I boarded in duress against a white deck but I didn't really know what he was playing and I got hit with Valourous Stance game 1. I don't know why he was mad. If I boarded badly that's good for him, I think.
Also, for reasons I don't even know Drana is overperforming in my Eldrazi deck even though she doesn't really have any synergy with anything other than Reality Smasher. And I guess Bearer of Silence...
Etrian Oddity
Member
Gyaaaah, Sylvan Advocate is getting more and more expensive, and I don't get paid until Friday. I want my playset! >_<
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I never know how to feel when an opponent makes you time out seconds away from ending the game.
Also my deck actually delivered, very resilient just took too long to seal the deal and 1-2 though. No mana issues whatsoever.
Also my deck actually delivered, very resilient just took too long to seal the deal and 1-2 though. No mana issues whatsoever.
charlequin
Banned
Is there a specific deck driving this or did people just notice that this is a strong sideboard card against a bunch of popular shit?
Ha.
Even putting aside the brokenness, a card that puts three creatures into play isn't very Bant.
Fish did really well at the SCG Open, and it gets to run 4x or more Stone Rains in it's maindeck vs Tron
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Tron is a deck that got better with Twin gone and some new cards but the entire meta is openly hostile towards it.
But compare to how many Exalted cards Bant has.
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