divisionbyzorro
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It's probably the only deck that could ever afford to run it as a 4-of.
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Magic: The Gathering |OT3| Enchantment Under the Siege
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It's probably the only deck that could ever afford to run it as a 4-of.
"God's Beard!"
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After playing a bunch of drafts, here's how I'm rating the clans right now:
In the land of 3-mana 2/2s, cheap prowess creatures and tempo cards like crippling chill and force away are God.
- Jeskai
- Mardu
- Temur
- Abzan
- Sultai
In the land of 3-mana 2/2s, cheap prowess creatures and tempo cards like crippling chill and force away are God.
"God's Beard!"
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When I say Mardu, I really mean mono red trumpet blast aggro. Aka Jeskai without the blue cards.
"God's Beard!"
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Nothing but Valley Dashers, Bloodfire Experts, Trumpet Blasts and Act of Treasons. All day.
Two friends and I went out and each bought a Khans of Tarkir fatpack each yesterday. Threw together some rag tag decks and are going to run through a few games today to get a feel. Trying to learn enough so we can go to their draft events on Thursday and Friday this week without being completely new to the game. Also picked up Planeswalkers 2014 so I should have the basics down by then.
As is Bloodfire Expert. I don't play it in my Jeskai decks since it dies to everything. Although it's not as bad as Valley Dasher. :lol
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Y'all have lost your damn minds.
Angry Grimace
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Act of Treason is kind of bullshit. There's a reason Harness by Force was a rare.
Mardu is not great in draft since the most common wedge-creature is Ponyback Brigade, which is super, super medicore unless you have Ankle Shanker or something to push it through.
Mardu is not great in draft since the most common wedge-creature is Ponyback Brigade, which is super, super medicore unless you have Ankle Shanker or something to push it through.
"God's Beard!"
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Thank you for the Arc Lightning blowouts.
Arc Lightning is so good. But hey, if you're not playing your aggro creatures because they die to removal then I don't know what to tell you.
- Monastery Swiftspear, 1 damage. Opponent plays some tapped land that gains them a life.
- Valley Dasher, 4 damage. Opponent does nothing because their deck is all morphs.
- Bloodfire Expert, 7 damage. Opponent plays a morph.
- opponent declines to block with their precious morphed Abzan Guide whose lifelink they think will save them, Trumpet Blast to hit 21 damage
It's gonna happen. Joking aside, Rx aggro decks are really hot right now. URw is the best deck in the format, but I'll take anything red-based.
I've actually had someone crippling chill my Surrak end of turn and then Act of treason it, triggering prowess then sending it back to me, still tapped. Rage.
3-mana 3/1s with upside are bad, and a 6-mana 4-for-1 that can play out anywhere on the mana curve is mediocre? I haven't checked my calendar but it must be piss off GB day. First of all, it's the most common Mardu creature because it's the ONLY common Mardu creature. Secondly, a 3-mana 2/2 with instant-speed token generation is nuts.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";133321649]
This math doesn't even add up.
It should be 1, 3, 3, 6+ (?)
17 damage total if you threaten
15 damage if you trumpet blast (bloodfire expert is blocked)
Edit: oops i misinterpreted your math my bad :lol
- Monastery Swiftspear, 1 damage. Opponent plays some tapped land that gains them a life.
- Valley Dasher, 4 damage. Opponent does nothing because their deck is all morphs.
- Bloodfire Expert, 7 damage. Opponent plays a morph.
- opponent declines to block with their precious morphed Abzan Guide whose lifelink they think will save them, Trumpet Blast to hit 21 damage
This math doesn't even add up.
It should be 1, 3, 3, 6+ (?)
17 damage total if you threaten
15 damage if you trumpet blast (bloodfire expert is blocked)
Edit: oops i misinterpreted your math my bad :lol
SHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
divisionbyzorro
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Morphs are supposed to block and trade and die left and right if you're playing a Sultai/Temur/Abzhan deck (generally speaking). If you've drafted those decks correctly, you've got more chunky creatures coming off the top; anyone who tries to "protect" their early morphs by not blocking against a super aggressive start is doing it wrong.
Apparently, the secret to Modern is that you can just play whatever deck you want, as long as you can jam 4x Treasure Cruise into it
I hope it doesn't get banned in anything. They knew what they were doing when they printed that card.
"God's Beard!"
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Thanks. Got a set for 1.60 on Amazon
Also, my envelope with 4x Mantis Rider and 4x Jeskai Ascendency that was a 5.40 preorder finally showed up, much to my excitement
Hah, I was thinking this too during the last SCG standard event. I should grab a playset.
divisionbyzorro
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Your creature count looks low, but if you draw well you've got a shot.
I realized this, so on the draw I board out the Threaten and Trumpet Blast for two Tormenting Voice.
Won round one against Mardu for the umpteenth time. :lol
Angry Grimace
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Having played Ascendancy standard, its utter garbage without Modern level cantrips and tutors.
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FYI Vintage Masters is leaving MTGO tomorrow during the downtime.
divisionbyzorro
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That card is on my sleeper list, especially for Jeskai. Trigger Prowess, fix your draws. Seems really good.
Ha! Finals was a Jeskai mirror, also splashing blue for Jeskai cards. He had Mantis Rider, Dragon-Style Twins, Flying Crane Technique, Mindblast, basically Jeskai goodstuff. I still won both games convincingly. Low enough to Arrow Storm for lethal in the first game and Force Away'd his guy when he wanted to Flying Crane Technique after I double blocked his guy. Also, this is the first time I realized Set Adrift is a sorcery. That makes it much worse than Force Away. Should have taken the Force Away over it. :lol
Angry Grimace
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Does it make me a bad person if I used Despise to look at my mono-green opponents hand and saw that he had Genesis Hydras and Hornet Queens and I let him cast it just so I could snicker about casting End Hostilities in 2 turns?
(I coulda just killed him via ZURGO SMASH)
(I coulda just killed him via ZURGO SMASH)
My reasoning is airtight!Found you Kirb in my email
Thanks. This has been helpful.
"God's Beard!"
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Set Adrift is straight garbage.
Just 4-0'd a daily with Valentine's Abzan deck (only change was -1 Empty the pits for a 4th queen) and hornet queen really is absurdly strong. Really brought me back from a couple of lost games.
Didn't like the Necropolis Fiend too much but that's probably because he always died to removal.
Didn't like the Necropolis Fiend too much but that's probably because he always died to removal.
I wouldn't say it's garbage. It still gains you tempo by resetting their sliver mans or expensive morphs, but yeah, it's definitely worse than Force Away.
Leaping Master has been a house for me. I'm never sad to have him trade with a morph, since you net gain one mana by doing so. In the late game, he's not completely a dead draw as he's basically a Wind Drake. He also triggers Raid without having to suicide into something. Who needs Valley Dasher? :lol
Leaping Master has been a house for me. I'm never sad to have him trade with a morph, since you net gain one mana by doing so. In the late game, he's not completely a dead draw as he's basically a Wind Drake. He also triggers Raid without having to suicide into something. Who needs Valley Dasher? :lol
People really aren't prepared for it yet, the reanimator shell is really strong.
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Upgraded my EDH combo to a 3-piece:
Maralen of the Mornsong + Ob Nixilis, Unshackled + Sorin Markov. Boom.
Leaping Master is awesome.
Maralen of the Mornsong + Ob Nixilis, Unshackled + Sorin Markov. Boom.
Leaping Master is awesome.
divisionbyzorro
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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";133358327]Set Adrift is straight garbage.[/QUOTE]
If you could routinely expect to delve it down to a single blue, it would be an awesome tempo card. As it stands now, it's only marginally playable, if it's your only Delve and you really need a 22nd.
If you could routinely expect to delve it down to a single blue, it would be an awesome tempo card. As it stands now, it's only marginally playable, if it's your only Delve and you really need a 22nd.
Angry Grimace
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One last VMA draft for posterity.
Dat Ancestral Recall
Dat Ancestral Recall
"God's Beard!"
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Since a bunch of people have had limited questions, I did a couple bestiaire cycles. I know it's not a real draft, but I figured that this was a good way to show my pick order while representing generally what kind of deck I'm looking to build in Khans.
URw Tempo
Top 3 Blue commons:
Top 3 Red commons:
Top 3 White commons:
Top 3 Jeskai uncommons:
URw Tempo
GB said:
Top 3 Blue commons:
- Jeskai Windscout
- Crippling Chill
- Mystic of the Hidden Way
Top 3 Red commons:
- Trumpet Blast
- Leaping Master
- Act of Treason
Top 3 White commons:
- Smite the Monstrous
- Defiant Strike
- Feat of Resistance
Top 3 Jeskai uncommons:
- Ride Down
- Jeskai Charm
- Master the Way
Angry Grimace
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gonna laugh when Wingmate Roc dominates the PT and goes up to like 25 bucks
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!";133388441]Since a bunch of people have had limited questions, I did a couple bestiaire cycles. I know it's not a real draft, but I figured that this was a good way to show my pick order while representing generally what kind of deck I'm looking to build in Khans.
URw Tempo
Top 3 Blue commons:
Top 3 Red commons:
Top 3 White commons:
Top 3 Jeskai uncommons:
lol
URw Tempo
Top 3 Blue commons:
- Jeskai Windscout
- Crippling Chill
- Mystic of the Hidden Way
Top 3 Red commons:
- Trumpet Blast
- Leaping Master
- Act of Treason
Top 3 White commons:
- Smite the Monstrous
- Defiant Strike
- Feat of Resistance
Top 3 Jeskai uncommons:
- Ride Down
- Jeskai Charm
- Master the Way
lol
"God's Beard!"
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5 color reanimator to take it
Angry Grimace
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Jesus, Pearl Lake Ancient sucks ass. Even in limited its a piece of shit waste of mana because it doesn't have fucking trample and gets chumped by that one-mana regenerator. What the fuck was Wizards thinking with such a pile of shit at Mythic?
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