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[Card Boy]

How many of you guys play Commander here? I got this for my Human Solider tribal deck.

which is very similar to this.

 

[Santiako]

How many of you guys play Commander here? I got this for my Human Solider tribal deck.

I do, I love Commader. Metallic Mimic is such a great card for tribal decks, cheap to cast and allows for counter shenanigans.

 

[red13th]

Wow people still play Bogles? It's so wrong.

 

[Santiako]

Wow people still play Bogles? It's so wrong.

Any time you see Bogles on camera nowadays it's always someone with the deck all foiled out lol

 

[bigkrev]

Wow people still play Bogles? It's so wrong.

Most people stick to a single Modern deck. Boggles, if you skip out of Horizon Canopy, is basically a budget deck

 

[Tunoku]

Since my only Modern deck is Burn, I hate Boggles. Ironic, I know. Sometimes you have to chump with your creatures and then shoot them down with your Lavamancer to prevent the life gain. And then pray to God you draw Deflecting Palm.

 

[bigkrev]

Turn 2 Cheerios kill on the play!
Menfolk vs Cheerios doesn't seem fair
And then another Turn 2 kill in game 2

 

[Santiako]

That was hilarious. I love when Cheerios goes off.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Storm is a triggered ability so you can stifle it right?

 

[Santiako]

Storm is a triggered ability so could you stifle it?

Not in modern.

 

[red13th]

lol @ the two turn 2 kills. ridiculous

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Not in modern.

disallow, trickbind and/or voidslime then.

 

[Santiako]

disallow, trickbind and/or voidslime then.

Sure.

 

[Supast4r]

That was hilarious. I love when Cheerios goes off.

As a grixis player, yes please let Cheerios be a good deck. I feast on that matchup.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

I might have to run Stifle in EDH then, also useful against melirapod decks.

I'm already running 15 counters in Zur, just ordered a mindbreak trap to go to 16 and am still missing a force of will.

 

[GoutPatrol]

Turn 2 Cheerios kill on the play!
Menfolk vs Cheerios doesn't seem fair
And then another Turn 2 kill in game 2

Leagued on a MTGO league with Merfolk this week, you are correct.

 

[Infinite Stars]

Those 2 Cheerios Wins.. Grapeshot ban incoming to just end Storm as a modern deck forever?

Spoiler

I'm mostly kidding. Mostly, because Fuck Storm

 

[SigmasonicX]

Based on Raised by Wolves.

Raised by Mummies - 4B
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
When Raised by Wolves enters the battlefield, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Zombie you control.
"Little girl, where's your mummy? - last words

 

[Infinite Stars]

Wild prediction: Amonkhet will have a Rare cycle of 5 pharoahs based on the most famous of Egypt. I'm fully expecting at least a Cleopatra/Ramses II/Tutankhamun Card, and adding Hatshepsut+One other Pharoah seems like an easy way for a cycle to me.

Based on Raised by Wolves.

Raised by Mummies - 4B
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
When Raised by Wolves enters the battlefield, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Zombie you control.
"Little girl, where's your mummy? - last words

Is there a myth about children being raised by Mummies? I mean, it seems like a cool card in design, but I can't think it's in Black's color pie(Does black get these kind of buffs at parity with Green? I mean, it's a better raised by Wolves, because it's only one pip vs two.)

Spoiler

this is of course without mentioning that Raised by Wolves is based on Romulus and Remus, which is a Roman Myth, not a Greek myth, so it belonging in the Greek set is all kinds of wrong.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

these temur tower decks would be so much better with fatal push and or unlicensed disintegration, they are already playing attune with aether shouldn't be that hard to splash black.

 

[Santiako]

So I haven't been paying too much attention to GP Utretch, but what are the Mardu Ballista decks? Just Mardu Vehicles with ballistas in them?

 

[Tunoku]

Pretty much, yeah. Great Standard format, isn't it?

 

[Santiako]

Pretty much, yeah. Great Standard format, isn't it?

If you go out of the big three decks, there's tons of really cool decks, but those three dominate so much that it's hard to look past them :/

 

[Santiako]

https://www.twitch.tv/scgtour

SCG Day 2 is starting now, Modern.

 

[Santiako]

Sorry for triple posting, but if no one posts I can't help it

GP Utretch Top 8 Decklists

Samuel Vuillot (Mardu Ballista)
Fabrizio Campanino (Mardu Ballista)
Alexandre Habert (Mardu Ballista)
Charly Traarbach (Mardu Vehicles)
David Brucker (Black-Green Constrictor)
Kasper Nielsen (Green-Black Constrictor)
Thuan Truong (Green-Black Constrictor)
Berk Akbulut (Four-Color Saheeli)

 

[Tunoku]

That's the problem. I've been playing some fun decks like BR Zombies and Temur Tower, but at the very top level it's just a bunch of snakes, airships, and cats.

EDIT: Seems like Ondrej and Oliver went 12-3 with Temur Tower. And Joel went 11-4. Nice to hear!

 

[y2dvd]

Trick: jam 4 Walking Ballistas into every deck.

 

[Infinite Stars]

Trick: jam 4 Walking Ballistas into every deck.

Basically, lol. Between Ballista and Liliana the Last Hope, Wizards sure does enjoy killing off White Weenie.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Trick: jam 4 Walking Ballistas into every deck.

Or don't because it's not Hangarback Walker

 

[Santiako]

Or don't because it's not Hangarback Walker

Worked pretty well for the 2 GP finalists just now lol

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Why would anyone foil out Ad Nauseam?

 

[Karakand]

Basically, lol. Between Ballista and Liliana the Last Hope, Wizards sure does enjoy killing off White Weenie.

You'll always have

Spoiler

pre-ban

Innistrad Block Constructed.

 

[shrapnelmagnet]

My favourite combo with Wheel is probably

Neat card- definitely noting it down. Didn't know it existed.

Takeaways from the Magic panel:

- In clear contrast to WotC's former stance on "not diluting the brand", they emphasized they are very confident about the appeal of the Magic fiction, and will expand the brand beyond the card game.

- They currently have plans stretching to 2020.

- When WotC needs a data scientist, whould they hire one and teach them Magic, or hire a Magic player and teach them data science? They probably will choose the latter.

Of course, the biggest takeaway is both WotC panels were attended by founders of Bonfire Studios, the company that has Rob Pardo (lead designer of Brood War, Warcraft III, World of Warcraft).

Thanks for the breakdown, I didn't end up watching them. Bonfire sounds interesting, I used to work with Josh M (design director) who is a super rad guy.

Amonket: The croc god has a structure of himself in the BG, chances that there are Temple cards?

Maybe that makes it too similar to Theros?

 

[OnPoint]

Maybe that makes it too similar to Theros?

I think they're going to be very careful about making a plane with Gods too close to Theros. I think things are going to be pretty different.

 

[Angry Grimace]

I think they're overestimating how much people care about the Magic lore

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

It's high time wizards bans all phyrexian mana cards from modern. Just categorically ban all of them like they did conspiracy border cards.

The cards are so egregious in use it'd impact almost the entire field.

 

[Wulfric]

I think they're overestimating how much people care about the Magic lore

I think it's fine the way it is. The new artbook series covers most of the events without the anime dialogue. They're great for RPGs too when you combine it with the Planeshift supplements.

Although personally, I would love for them to bring back the comic book series.

 

[OnPoint]

I think they're overestimating how much people care about the Magic lore

I don't know if they care as much about the lore as they would differing the mechanics.

 

[HK-47]

It's high time wizards bans all phyrexian mana cards from modern. Just categorically ban all of them like they did conspiracy border cards.

The cards are so egregious in use it'd impact almost the entire field.

lol what cards are worth banning now that git probe is banned?

 

[Santiako]

lol what cards are worth banning now that git probe is banned?

Dismember is the only one seeing regular play, and Noxious Revival some fringe play. Neither of those are close to being bannable though.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Wild prediction: Amonkhet will have a Rare cycle of 5 pharoahs based on the most famous of Egypt. I'm fully expecting at least a Cleopatra/Ramses II/Tutankhamun Card, and adding Hatshepsut+One other Pharoah seems like an easy way for a cycle to me.


Is there a myth about children being raised by Mummies? I mean, it seems like a cool card in design, but I can't think it's in Black's color pie(Does black get these kind of buffs at parity with Green? I mean, it's a better raised by Wolves, because it's only one pip vs two.)

Spoiler

this is of course without mentioning that Raised by Wolves is based on Romulus and Remus, which is a Roman Myth, not a Greek myth, so it belonging in the Greek set is all kinds of wrong.

I just find the visual of a card similar to Raised by Wolves but with mummies or skeletons amusing, along with that flavor text.

 

[Santiako]

SCG Indianapolis top 8

 

[OnPoint]

Dismember is the only one seeing regular play, and Noxious Revival some fringe play. Neither of those are close to being bannable though.

Actually Surgical Extraction is seeing play and Noxious Revival is a big piece of the redundancy of Cheerios. So it's not just dismember seeing play. That's about it though, iirc

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

lol what cards are worth banning now that git probe is banned?

It's not that all of them are ban worthy but look at the banlist, 3 of them have already been banned and 6 more see play to varying degrees and never to do fair things. 7 if Apostle's Blessing hadn't been replaced.

Why do I have access to dismember and gutshot as merfolk, noxious revival in Cheerios,... Colours and costs don't matter.

Dismember is the only one seeing regular play, and Noxious Revival some fringe play. Neither of those are close to being bannable though.

gutshot, mutagenic growth, dismember, noxious revival, surgical extraction, vault skirge. None are bannable singlehandedly but collectively they are, especially if you include the already banned cards.

 

[Santiako]

Actually Surgical Extraction is seeing play and Noxious Revival is a big piece of the redundancy of Cheerios. So it's not just dismember seeing play. That's about it though, iirc

Ah yes, totally forgot about Surgical Extraction. Revival being in Cheerios makes it fringe

 

[OnPoint]

Jeeze I forgot about Mutagenic and Skirge. Haha that mechanic is so good

 

[Santiako]

Shit forgot about Skirge and Growth! Yeah, the mechanic is busted haha

 

[bigkrev]

A PONZA deck made top16 at the SCG Open!
http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=111993

12 Different archetypes in the top 16, 20 different in the top 32

 

[Tunoku]

One of the Burn decks had two Deflecting Palms main. I mean, it's a solid hedge against Death's Shadow, but not sure how I feel about that. It's a fine sideboard card.

 

[Infinite Stars]

And Ad Nasaeum takes down the Open.

It's not that all of them are ban worthy but look at the banlist, 3 of them have already been banned and 6 more see play to varying degrees and never to do fair things. 7 if Apostle's Blessing hadn't been replaced.

Why do I have access to dismember and gutshot as merfolk, noxious revival in Cheerios,... Colours and costs don't matter.

gutshot, mutagenic growth, dismember, noxious revival, surgical extraction, vault skirge. None are bannable singlehandedly but collectively they are, especially if you include the already banned cards.

While I 100% agree,I think that if they ban all of the Phyrexian Mana spells they also have to ban SSG for achieving the same basic goal( "Free" resource trading to get an advantage).