Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I've only played a single draft of Ixalan but UG merfolk is my favourite archetype since OGW life drain. There's just something else about playing a deck purely relying on tempo.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT13| Ixalan - Port to Sideboard
- Thread starter SigmasonicX
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I did my first Ixalan draft today and I also think it is pretty great. Even thought I opened some bombs (Burning Suns Avatar, Monstrosaur) I ended up going 1-3 but all the rounds were really close and had some complex combat steps.
Edit: Damn, Hostage Taker is up to $12. Shouldve pulled the trigger when they were pre-ordering for $6.
Edit: Damn, Hostage Taker is up to $12. Shouldve pulled the trigger when they were pre-ordering for $6.
Anyone here going to PAX Unplugged BTW? Id love to get Ramen or Bonchon with you!
Jade Guardian is great and allows you to actually make use of One With the Wind, for a real bomb level threat. The token spitting enchantment is also a serious pain for any deck that wants to attack via the ground. Merfolk also get several of the best explore creatures to keep the deck running. It's seriously strong across the board. I think RB pirates at its best is the only archetype I'd put over it right now. Granted, I've only gotten about 30 matches into the season, so there's still a ton of room for change.
$18 now and climbing. Looks like i have to wait 2 years now for it to rotate out of standard.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Opened the one Hostage Taker I wanted but I did warn people when it was around $7 ans climbing already.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Of all the possibilities surrounding Popeye/Pirate Stompy, this is literally the best one. I'm dying over here.
https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/popeye-stompy/
https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/popeye-stompy/
DerangedHermit
Member
Posted this on another forum but could use opinions from here too:
If have the money to spend and you are sure you will get play out of them I guess you can pick them all up. The prices on the lands seem pretty stable though so there really isn't a reason to not just pick them up as you need them.
Edit: You will probably be pushing $300 to in just lands if you want to get playsets of all the Kaladesh, Amonkhet and Ixlana non-basics.
SigmasonicX
Member
I don't know, a lot of cards there are ones I know see play in Legacy, and I know weird cards sometimes see play in older formats, so it doesn't seem obvious that it's a joke without the surrounding article.
And I'm confused, the article writer is one of the people who started the rumor?
DerangedHermit
Member
Oh, ok, i guess because i have only started looking at prices recently that i didn't realize this. Thought it would be , hmm, wilder.
Too bad i never picked up some dual lands when i played back then or i could finance this easily
( *cries at his playsets of City of Brass , Undiscovered Paradise, Reflecting Pool, Gemstone mines and 5th edition shock lands that are worth nothing now*)
Yikes. Paper Pirate Tempo may be out of my reach. Why'd both Dinos and Pirates, the only tribes I care about in Ixalan, have to be the expensive ones?
Well, guess I'll have to go back to brewing BW Lifegain and UR Favorable Winds.
Because they are popular for the same reason you wanted to make them in the first place?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
What's the current explanation for Wizards complete and total absence from GenCon these days again?
OK, fair point. I guess I just figured they wouldn't get that popular that fast.
My best guess: PAX West is 1-2 weeks after GenCon, and in their backyard.
They also had Hascon 2ish weeks after PAX West
Something pretty close to this happened at he SCG event yesterday.
Player 1: Cast HT, steal Long Tusk Cub
Player 2: Cast HT, steal HT get Long Tusk Cub back
Player 1: Cast second copy of HT, Steal HT, Get HT Back
Player 2: Does something
Player 1: Cast stolen HT, steals creature
Player 1: Cast HT, steal Long Tusk Cub
Player 2: Cast HT, steal HT get Long Tusk Cub back
Player 1: Cast second copy of HT, Steal HT, Get HT Back
Player 2: Does something
Player 1: Cast stolen HT, steals creature
I wish r&d was good enough not to miss obvious problematic interactions
TheBlackMarvel
Member
No Hostage Takers in my box. Pulled a second Carnage Tyrant though.
It's funny because it took the Internet 5 minutes to find it
divisionbyzorro
Member
The average /r/MagicTCG subscriber has seen "LSV breaks MODO" at least a dozen times.
Yeah, my promo Hostage Taker is looking even better now than it did during the prerelease games.
OK, I have a general idea of what I want to do with BW Lifegain (and those copies of Crested Sunmare that I still have).
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/hyper-life-drifter/
Comments and criticism would be appreiciated. I thought about just doing Vampires, but I don't know if the payoff is there, so I just went with general lifegain and tokens.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/hyper-life-drifter/
Comments and criticism would be appreiciated. I thought about just doing Vampires, but I don't know if the payoff is there, so I just went with general lifegain and tokens.
that's too much to ask for! heh
charlequin
Banned
In fairness, this one isn't a design/development issue, it's a templating/editing issue. These kinds of effects are supposed to get worded correctly by the rules manager and the other members of the editing staff and someone just fucked up on it here.
ThLunarian
Member
This list has 4x of a 3cc 1/1, 4x of a 5cc 3/3 flyer, and Ramirez DePietro. It plays Rishadan Airship over True Name Nemesis. There is zero pirate synergy in the list. Not to make fun, but it seems pretty obvious that something is at least suspicious about it
Next time say in bold and at least once a page because I missed out
Now Im crossing my fingers that Card Kingdom restocks at the $11.99 they have listed now and not at the $18 which is the TCGPlayer median.Edit: I just checked and CK raised it to 17.99 within the last 20 minutes. Damn.
I'm a big fan of the draft format. The Rares are relatively non-BS, and the decks are fairly interactive. Very little has a crushing ETB effect, and lifegain helps mitigate some of the aggro BS.
Merfolk may ruin the format before I'm done with it, but right now it looks like people know how good the combat trick, the 2/2 for 1G, and the 2/1 that can fly are that other decks grab them.
Merfolk may ruin the format before I'm done with it, but right now it looks like people know how good the combat trick, the 2/2 for 1G, and the 2/1 that can fly are that other decks grab them.
StrategyFan
Member
i don't like vampires because they made cannonade uncommon instead of rare
yeah that was crazy
Sorry for the ask, but could you guys explain the issue?
Of course. As printed, the card can exile itself when it enters the battlefield, as a result, if it's the only creature or artifact in play when it enters the battlefield it will have to exile itself until it leaves the battlefield, and since it then leaves the battlefield it comes back to the battlefield having to target itself again causing an infinite loop that unless any player can stop it it results in a draw.
The card has been updated to read:
"When Hostage Taker enters the battlefield, exile another target creature or artifact until Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast that spell."
So it cannot target itself any longer.
SigmasonicX
Member
As printed, if Hostage Taker enters a battlefield with no other creatures, it must exile itself. Then it returns to the battlefield. Then it exiles itself. This continues infinitely, making the game end in a draw.
The card received errata that it must exile another creature, which fixes this. You can still force a draw with three, though.
I wonder if Scryfall will ever add non-English cards, I needed to look up a card in Portuguese and had to use magiccards.info and it feels so bad
Plus it's bugged right now like this Qasali Pridemage from C17.
Plus it's bugged right now like this Qasali Pridemage from C17.
Imperfected
Member
I'm looking to put together a semi-casual Standard U/G Merfolk deck, and I was wondering if anyone had any pre-Ixalan recommendations for the list.
Right now I'm looking at Value Merfolk (Jade Guardian, Wayfinder, etc.) with Deeproot Waters, with the intent being to flip Growing Rites and use it to either make big beaters via Waker of the Wilds, Shapers of Nature, or big X U/G Nissa, or maybe to drop the 7 CMC U/G Legendary Merfolk or just some green stompy like Gearhulk.
Not really looking for something fully competitive, just to have a Standard deck I can mess around with when a few of our newer players (who are mostly running lightly modified prerelease/draft decks) need an opponent.
Right now I'm looking at Value Merfolk (Jade Guardian, Wayfinder, etc.) with Deeproot Waters, with the intent being to flip Growing Rites and use it to either make big beaters via Waker of the Wilds, Shapers of Nature, or big X U/G Nissa, or maybe to drop the 7 CMC U/G Legendary Merfolk or just some green stompy like Gearhulk.
Not really looking for something fully competitive, just to have a Standard deck I can mess around with when a few of our newer players (who are mostly running lightly modified prerelease/draft decks) need an opponent.
