Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Ya, but by buying a playset it was a decent amount cheaper for some of them. Now I'm worried. :/ They had expedited delivery too so I should have it for friday.
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Ya, but by buying a playset it was a decent amount cheaper for some of them. Now I'm worried. :/ They had expedited delivery too so I should have it for friday.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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That's what I was hoping. I hope I have everything by friday like it claims for my elf deck
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
That's what I was hoping. I hope I have everything by friday like it claims for my elf deck
Oh, shit. Didn't know you were looking for elves! Those are my speciality. I went batshit when I came back into it on elves and bought tons of...well, all of them.
lol.
Favorite tribe ever.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Haha, trying to make a standard legal one. Finally going for it since it's cheaper.
Archdruids are like a buck down from like $6 or so before. It's mostly ramping elves into titans or using kessig wolf run and ezuri giving everything +3/+3 and trample and regen everything.WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Haha, trying to make a standard legal one. Finally going for it since it's cheaper.
Oh. Well, good luck! I love elves but trying to play them standard seems to be a deaths sentence. I couldn't make it work for the life of me. Which is why like, 25% of my posts are me wishing they do a serious return to goblins/elves/faeries/vampires/knights set after AVR.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Well right now it's pretty much.
4x viridian emissary
4x green sun
4x llanowar
4x primeval
2x inferno
4x elvish archdruid
2x ezuri
3x incinerate
2x red sun
3x copperhorn
2x thrun
1x garruk primal
1x karn
4x mutagenic growth
then lands I don't have enough of everything but
4x rootbound crag
1x copperline (wish i had 4)
2x kessig wolf run and then majority forest with like 4 or 5 mountains
I sort of want to get rid of the mutagenic growths since they don't seem to actually do much most of the time. It's been ok so far. I haven't played tier 1 decks though so I'm curious how it does this friday night if my singles come in. Feels so satisfying to turn 3 a titan though.
Edit: Maybe titan growth will be more worthwhile than mutagenic... I'm not sure, I'm just usually disappointed when I draw it. :/
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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SHUT UP! It's an elf deck god damn it!
I have won a good amount of times from ezuri + arch druid. Archdruid gives you so much mana usually it pays ezuri's ability itself and then the rest of my actual mana to regen and it rolls over people. When you have like 4 or 5 elves that went from 1/1 copper horn or llanowar to all 5/5 with trample and regen for 1 it causes people issues.Edit: Haha, I wish thrun was too. I didn't have him in at first but in a green deck the hex proof and can't be countered is just insane. I just can't see not playing him.
Edit: Ya, mutagenic is good for the phyrexian but I'm usually not hard pressed for mana and the extra +2/+2 just hasn't been a huge factor. Like I said, I'm just usually disappointed when I draw it, I'd prefer pretty much anything over it when I draw it. Not sure what I would swap it with though. :/
Well that's certainly a card. Don't know if it's playable with Vapor Snags running around everywhere, but the idea of your board having an additional twelve power from a single 5cc card is fairly entertaining.
That's worded weird. Does he get the +4/+4 too? Or just the other creature he's paired with
They both get +4/+4. If paired with the double striker, absurd things happen.
narcosis219
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Wait, can you soulbond to any creature that you own? Or do they both have to have soulbond?
Can I soulbond this sucker to like and Invisible Stalker and have a 5/5 stalker and 8/8 wolfir silverheart?
Can I soulbond this sucker to like and Invisible Stalker and have a 5/5 stalker and 8/8 wolfir silverheart?
You may soulbond to any creature you own that is not already soulbond...ed..... So yes, the Stalker play is valid.
You can bind to anything, not just soulbound guys.
narcosis219
Member
Yo tokens. G/W Human tokens!! Gather the townsfolk and like Mayor of Avabruck yo damn
EDIT: O wait dies to counter and removal, shit card
The anti-wall haha
I really hope there's a Wolfir Silverheart playmat in the near future.
Then again, I want playmat art for half the cards in this set >_>
Amazing art/flavor, reasonably costed.... Going to go in a few casual decks of mine.
Then again, I want playmat art for half the cards in this set >_>
New flicker guy spoiled.
Amazing art/flavor, reasonably costed.... Going to go in a few casual decks of mine.
Tizoc
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New flicker guy spoiled.
How does this work exactly?
You pay 4 mana, tap this card, then exile a creature, then when you want it back you pay 4 mana and tap it again?
Nope the card vanishes and then comes back.
It serves 2 real purposes:
1. You can save your guys from removal. Someone doomblades a dude you have, you can flicker him to save him.
2. You can use it to retrigger "enters the battlefield" abilities. Like mentioned above you can keep flickering a stonehorn dignitary to completely remove your opponents ability to attack you.
EDIT: A 3rd use would be to set up a chump block and then save your guy.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Haha, luckily that hasn't gotten old for me yet. AND OMG GREEN. I want green to do well so bad. I had a green deck for so long last block and it just never was very viable.
No, its all one ability. Say your opponent wants to vapor snag a creature. You activate Nephalia's ability in response to vapor snag, creature is exiled, vapor snag fizzles, creature returns.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Check the deck I posted earlier. Perfect fit!
No, the card is exiled and immediately returns to play.
Technically the card returns to play and then vapor snag fizzles because the game sees your card as a new copy than the one that was originally targeted. Semantics, I know, but this can be important.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Dies to removal you say?
Not if you have this bloke out! (along with the requisite 4 mana)
And he's a perfect match for Geralf's Messanger.
I actually had a feeling something was off about my explanation... Haven't used blink mechanics much, so thanks for the heads up there.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Huh? I don't follow. It just leaves and comes back immediately. I don't understand what legendary or indestructible has to do with it. It's a shittier version in some ways to venser's ability.
So I dug up my magic collection, and the last time I played was during the Scars of Mirroden pre-release. I had totally forgotten that I won half a box!
Here are the recently uncovered forgotten treasures:
I'm glad I still have some great trade fodder after not playing for years.
Here are the recently uncovered forgotten treasures:
Code:
Elspeth Tirel
True Conviction
Shape Anew (F)
Geth, Lord of the Vault
Memoricide
Kuldotha Phoenix
Eruzi's Brigade
Darksteel Juggernaut
Ratchet Bomb
Etched Champion
Tower of Calamities
Steel Hellkite
Myr Propagator
Strata Scythe
2x Wurmcoil Engine (1x F Promo)
2x Razorverge Thicket
Blackweave Cliffs
Copperline GorgeI'm glad I still have some great trade fodder after not playing for years.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I used to be like this, cracking open packs on a whim.
Now I just keep it to a couple 8-4 drafts once a week. It's a lot more manageable that way as you get both your pack crackin fix on along with some games as well and then if you win you get even more packs to crack to cure that itch. Although at my LGS I usually just split the 8-4 and convert the packs into store credit.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Eh, it's not that same opening a pack you're using to draft with. I usually don't place in top 2 either for draft.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
For me its basically the same thing. I end up with full playsets (and then some) of every common and uncommon from all the drafts I do so the only reason I even care about ripping a pack is the rare/mythic and foils.
It's always funny after draft night here at the LGS, there are like entire decks just sitting on the table. People will just keep the rares and dollar uncommons and literally just leave the rest of the deck on the table for other people to scoop up on their way out. These people are crazy
echoshifting
Banned
I've been working on a deck designed around curses, and I think it is ready for the gaf critique. Gave it a first run last night and it surpassed my wildest expectations, going 5-0 against some of the toughest decks in my play environment.
Some notes:
-The whole point of the deck is curse damage, that's not something I'm willing to change
-Didn't need my creepy dolls at all (which actually made me kinda sad), so those will probably be the first thing to go.
-Cards marked with a '*' are those I'd like to add more copies of; this was a first draft. I haven't bought singles for it yet.
-Many of the decks in my play environment use a ton of creature removal, and I'd like to keep the creature count down to make those cards as useless as possible.
-I am not looking to build a hyper-competitive deck...just a fun one that'll shake up my play environment a bit. >=]
Curse of Death's Hold turned out to be more critical than I expected, and I already have a couple more of those so that'll be my first addition. Might throw in another Misfortune, Thirst and/or Bloodletting as well. The problem is all the 5cc spells. The Xcc damage spells help a little with this gap but I think I can do better. That's the main area where I'm looking for advice: any 3- or 4cc spells you can think of that would work here?
Thanks guys.
Some notes:
-The whole point of the deck is curse damage, that's not something I'm willing to change
-Didn't need my creepy dolls at all (which actually made me kinda sad), so those will probably be the first thing to go.
-Cards marked with a '*' are those I'd like to add more copies of; this was a first draft. I haven't bought singles for it yet.
-Many of the decks in my play environment use a ton of creature removal, and I'd like to keep the creature count down to make those cards as useless as possible.
-I am not looking to build a hyper-competitive deck...just a fun one that'll shake up my play environment a bit. >=]
Curse of Death's Hold turned out to be more critical than I expected, and I already have a couple more of those so that'll be my first addition. Might throw in another Misfortune, Thirst and/or Bloodletting as well. The problem is all the 5cc spells. The Xcc damage spells help a little with this gap but I think I can do better. That's the main area where I'm looking for advice: any 3- or 4cc spells you can think of that would work here?
Thanks guys.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
New flicker guy spoiled.
Oooh, I like. I'm going to have fun with that guy in Limited. Not quite as much fun as Stitcher's Apprentice because the Nephalia Smuggler has broader applications but he's going to be a good time
My initial reaction to your deck is that for the first few turns you're not really doing much at all. Of course, being in BR means you don't really have the luxury of decent 1 drops so there's not much that can be done about that.
Another concern is that your deck runs out of steam rather fast. Unless you have Curse of Misfortunes in your opening hand or Bitterheart Witch to tutor up the Curse of Misfortunes, your deck will be way too slow. I don't think Blasphemous Act and Fireball belong in the deck.
Some other cards that might help your deck:
Whipflare is for taking care of token/aggro decks. Tribute is for getting rid of big bads that won't die to Curse of Death's Hold + Whipflare.
I would also recommend Desperate Ravings but since you're not running blue it kind of loses its appeal. Do you think you could possibly splash Blue for Ravings and Forbidden Alchemy?
Another concern is that your deck runs out of steam rather fast. Unless you have Curse of Misfortunes in your opening hand or Bitterheart Witch to tutor up the Curse of Misfortunes, your deck will be way too slow. I don't think Blasphemous Act and Fireball belong in the deck.
Some other cards that might help your deck:
Whipflare is for taking care of token/aggro decks. Tribute is for getting rid of big bads that won't die to Curse of Death's Hold + Whipflare.
I would also recommend Desperate Ravings but since you're not running blue it kind of loses its appeal. Do you think you could possibly splash Blue for Ravings and Forbidden Alchemy?
echoshifting
Banned
Tribute...that's a good idea I had not thought of. I will definitely run that next week. Thanks! I had planned on getting rid of the fireballs and BA, so I agree with you there.
As far as running out of steam goes...I did have that concern on paper but it did not play out like that at all. Once the opponent has 3 or 4 of the 5cc curses up the game is basically over....the trick is getting there.
Edit: and yeah I am seriously considering blue splash.
As far as running out of steam goes...I did have that concern on paper but it did not play out like that at all. Once the opponent has 3 or 4 of the 5cc curses up the game is basically over....the trick is getting there.
Edit: and yeah I am seriously considering blue splash.
OneEightZero
aka ThreeOneFour
Killing Wave is so replacing my Black Sun's Zeniths in my Heartless Summoning deck.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Assassin's Stronghold (or something like that)
Land (Rare)
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
RW, T : Target creature gains +2/+0 and has haste and vigilance until the end of turn.
Man this card is good. Real good.
Land (Rare)
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
RW, T : Target creature gains +2/+0 and has haste and vigilance until the end of turn.
Man this card is good. Real good.
echoshifting
Banned
Holy shit...I will take 4 please.
That's gotta be one of the best cards thus far.
That's gotta be one of the best cards thus far.
Utility lands are always good, 5 out of the 7 in the past two sets have been 100% playable in top decks and the other two are OK just a bit expensive.
The spoiled U/R one should be really good in a grixis control deck and this one could make R/W aggro a thing (it already is in block). The G/U one to come might push the Splinterfright dredge deck over the top but I doubt it will be as good.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
For me its basically the same thing. I end up with full playsets (and then some) of every common and uncommon from all the drafts I do so the only reason I even care about ripping a pack is the rare/mythic and foils.
It's always funny after draft night here at the LGS, there are like entire decks just sitting on the table. People will just keep the rares and dollar uncommons and literally just leave the rest of the deck on the table for other people to scoop up on their way out. These people are crazy
They're awesome is what they are. It's how I've bought 6 packs between inninstrad and dark ascension and have like every common/uncommon.
I just bought a Dark Ascension fat pack and got nothing but shit in it. Feels bad man.
divisionbyzorro
Member
I'd say Stensia Bloodhall falls squarely into the "really bad" territory.
(Although I guess if you have nothing better to do with your mana one turn, it's better than nothing)Other than that though, I really like the lands in this block. I've always been a sucker for lands that do stuff.
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