@Jaede - I would love to trade for that foil sliver legion. I collect slivers.
@Twinkee - Good to see you man.
@Nemata - Sweet pulls! all but one of the new duals is so nice, and bridge from below has a lot of potential. I ordered some singles. Got a pact of negation, 4 delay, 4 logic knot, 4 oriss (don't ask me why, I can't make her work) and 4 rite of flourishing (which i think is hot, and I'm going to break it)
@CharlieD - Thanks for uploading that image. It looks amazing
@Stahl - I need to sort my cards as well. At this point, my entire collection is completly random and in boxes. I've got revised duals setting next to freaking healing salves. It's horrible. They are all safe, but it makes finding anything a pain in the ass.
@Me - I'm sick. Stomach virus. Sucks.
I don't know what I want to play at regionals, I'm good at dragonstorm, and I want to win so I may play it, but I'll get bored as hell after TEN freaking hours of doing the same thing, where everyone has a sideboard that reads "I hate your deck, looser!". I kindof want to play my lightning angel deck, and then there is my w/b rack deck, which is pretty solid. All three could do well, I just can't decide.:-/
Welp, time for me to go enjoy another bout of montezuma's revenge. Hurray.
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Aww too bad. That's cool though. The only other card that I really need from FS is 2 more Pact of Negation to finish my playset. I eventually want to get some river of tears, but it's not a priority. Yet.
@ Muck - I've been doing good. I'm playing music still and playing through this older RPG: Xenosaga. Just got through eating a ton of sushi. I love the grocer near my house.
Why isn't anyone posting much? Are you guys just not doing much in MTG or salvation? It is pretty dead these days.
I'm still playing magic, though not as often as I would like to. I'm currently working on a Pyromancer's swath deck. I got the idea from Extarbags in the forums. Really cool idea for a deck. I do hope Ensnaring bridge makes a return in X so that I can play beyond the combo. (this is the deck I need the pacts for).
I'm also refining my ever changing pernicious sliver deck for fun.
@Sha: I completely lost interest in Magic as I went through TS Block... I dunno why, I just didn't like TS that much, didn't like PC that much, and definetely don't like FS. Dunno why though.
Big Edit Happy birthday AZ!, wherever the hell you are
@FL - I don't have any magus of the moats. I generally don't buy boxes though, prefering to buy singles instead. I'm really picky when it comes to new cards that I actually want to own, and it saves me money to do it this way.
@Stahl - Damn, you're turning into a mad scientist aren't you? Nice pulls. I guess it's a good thing when a smaller set has a nice rare cycle of dual lands. I do like Epochparasite actually, but the only big downside to him is that since he gains suspend, he can be countered any time he recurs. Kinda lame in that respect. But I was thinking of testing him in an affinity like deck.
I think you're right on the tribal themes. I also believe that the next set is going to be tribal based, so there might be more umph for elves in the near future.
@Muck - that sucks man. Hopefully the next set (the "tribal" one-I'm guessing), will get you back into the game. I like the whole FS block myself, though it's powerfull side is a little on the bizzare side.
I have a question for you all. What do you hope is reprinted in X?
I'm hoping for some of the following. I know not all of them could be reprinted, because wizards craps their pants when they think about a base set being strong:
Personally, I'm kinda with Mucky, Magic has lost its spark for me, but for a different reason. The reason would be this fellow here. Seriously, wtf were they thinking? Of course, with the recent article here just plain sickens me. I guess since I decide to like the format, I have an obligation to show people that I'm just a down to earth kinda guy.
...Canada sucks.
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@Shah - Nice deck. A little too comboish for my personal tastes but it looks prety solid.
@Twinks - Since they undid the power level errata on Flash I've been creaming to build a casual deck with Kokusho. I'm a dick. But I'm not a big enough of a dick to Hulk Flash I'm sorry you're put off from MtG because of that. Try working in a different format for awhile.
@Much -- This last block has turned u off to MtG huh? Why exactly?
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I think he was quoting Family Guy. At the end of one show, they are saying all these insults for different races and nationalities and following it up with some politically correct crap to make up for it (they were spoofing how old school cartoons used to end with a moral). At the end of it, it just showed peter and he said "..Canada Sucks" and just stood there for a while. Heh
I think he was quoting Family Guy. At the end of one show, they are saying all these insults for different races and nationalities and following it up with some politically correct crap to make up for it (they were spoofing how old school cartoons used to end with a moral). At the end of it, it just showed peter and he said "..Canada Sucks" and just stood there for a while. Heh
Pretty much, I posted about 2mins after finishing watching that particular episode of Family Guy. It wasn't meant as a point of offend, but more like an sarcastic tone of interpretation of what that article entailed. Much like the awesome Americans we are, we tend to blame our troubles or express our distastes to opposing countries that we don't 'like'. The article pretty much blames the lack of support for legacy on the community of 'sourcers'. I also find it laughable that the last 25% of the article consisted of the Ben advertising that he's going to be there with his business friends ready to sell and buy cards. Awesome, that was really necessary and vital to the lecture.
:no:.
In another word, I'm so gonna rock my economics finals in the next 30mins.
@CharlieD -- You look busy! That's quite a bit. Thank goodness I'm not in school anymore Too bad I have occasions of working 12-48 hours in a row. So unfortunately I still feel your pain.
@Twinks -- Dude that's a great idea for a Flash deck I may have to work with that a bit.
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@Nemo: I dunno, it just felt like a whole lot of shark jumping going on this block. A whole bunch of stuff I figured they wouldn't do was done, and it just wasn't that appealing to me. I hope I'm wrong about the shark jumping though.
Seems a bit heavy on the 3-drops to me, and no, I can't afford Ancestral Visions.[/spoiler]
Looks good so far. I would be tempted to go up to 4 Chroniclers- they are just that good. And some Detrevore's would be solid, but if you're opponents don't usually run non-basics, he sucks hehe. I guess the hardest part is making a deck that runs solid even if you don't have a Jhoria out.
@My locket deck - Yeah, I was trying to think about using some more control aspects and tutors, but for now Im just trying to focus on the fastest combo win, so I opted for redundant storm kill cards. I really want to squeeze in some counterbalance in there though, because my curve is pretty good and it's just so good with top.
@Jaede - Jpop is pretty good. I really love Jrock myself though.
@cards- I figured I'd list the FS cards I'm after, incase any of you wanna trade:
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2 Pact of Negation
4 River of Tears
1 Sliver Legion (Foil preferably, but normal is okay)
2 Tombstalker
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
4 Cloud Key
4 Street Wraith
Ummm - in general I also need
2 Chrome Mox
1 Infernal Tutor
4 Lotus Petal
3 Damnation! (I know)
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
Buddy of mine has a deck similar. He plays Detritivore since we play a lot of non-basics in our games, so this is a metagame card for sure. He also plays Delay to protect his suspended critters when they come into play and sometimes he'd Delay a Chronicler just for the hell of it when it started to come into play.
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Or you don't play Flash at all, and instead take Sneak Attack so you don't need to recur it. Granted, you can't use it as a surprise effect, but you won't have to recur it with some clunky creature...
Or, you could try Holistic Wisdom for recursal. You'll just have to pair it with lots of draw to refill your hand. Eternal Witness is also excellent recursion, especially if you're playing the Cemetery - or Stampeding Wildebeests or other bounce - and have a sacrifice outlet.
Ehhh...If I ever got around to building my Flash deck I really wouldn't need to use it very often I don't think. Even if I played it once I would get my use out of that particular card. And it wouldn't be difficult to play for Eternal Witness. I don't know. If I get around to building a deck we'll see. But a Sneak Attack/Survival of the Fittest deck would be down right wrong I may have to do that sometime too.
@Nemo: I dunno, it just felt like a whole lot of shark jumping going on this block. A whole bunch of stuff I figured they wouldn't do was done, and it just wasn't that appealing to me. I hope I'm wrong about the shark jumping though.
Hmmm..to jump the shark means that MtG has a noticeable decline in quality or feels the game has undergone too many changes to retain its original charm. Illogical cards/abilities, rules changes, what not. As you say this I try to look back at the beginning of the block to see what part was the shark jumped. I'm not sure that I see what you're saying. I think that the closest WotC came to jumping the shark was Cold Snap The lost set...lol... whatever. I think that this block is certainly different with a very unusual theme to the block. Are the various "time shifted" cards what's got you down about the set?
@Shah - I have a non-foil Sliver Legion I'll trade. I have 4 Lions Eye Diamonds, but I'd like to unload them as a set.
You know, I'm pretty sure if there was ever a sex tape of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt that got leaked to the public, watching it would cure people of cancer. I'm ****ing serious. Either that or make their eyes bleed for they have seen the true face of God.
If they don't ban flash in the upcomming date, and instead ban protean hulk, expect me to be working on a Flash+Gamekeeper style deck. That shiz is nasty.
Sha: are you building TES by any chance?
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@Twinkee - I'm actually wanting to finish my Iggy Pop. It's still got some proxies in it. I'll build TES too probably though, as I have most of the cards for it.
The Chrome Moxes are just for overall goodness though. Love that card.
Yeah flash is just broken all over the place. I would be tempted to do something broken with rector if it doesn't get banned.
This whole deal has made me remember how irritated I can be at wizards though. They have made this huge argument about how they "do not eratta cards for power level anymore", and I just want to go and smack aron forcyth upside the head with a Time Vault, yelling "What you got to say about this, punk?!", heh.
@Nemata and CD - Cool. I'll have to figure out what you guys are after. Anything you're looking for?
Edit: One more thing. Someone spotted some new art for X, and it looks a lot like a new version of eternal witness to me!
@Nemo: I think it was just the overall feel of the block itself, but I don't like the new card frames, FS is very cluttered with keyword abilities (new and old), and I dunno, I'm not a big fan of the whole "timeshifting"/"planeshifting" thing. It's probably just me.
Oh, no. The new card design is a one shot thing just for this set. MaRo said that they have no plans to change the card faces. I think he also said this is the only time we will ever see those particular card faces. They were trying to make something that looked futuristic.
:cry: I really want sensei's divining top to be reprinted in X! I'm dying to play counterbalance with it.
Sha: What it irritates me the most is players that won't recognize that Hulk Flash, while isn't unbeatable, warps the format into a very tight construction unhealthy format. It befuddles me.
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@Twinkee - Good to see you man.
@Nemata - Sweet pulls! all but one of the new duals is so nice, and bridge from below has a lot of potential. I ordered some singles. Got a pact of negation, 4 delay, 4 logic knot, 4 oriss (don't ask me why, I can't make her work) and 4 rite of flourishing (which i think is hot, and I'm going to break it)
@CharlieD - Thanks for uploading that image. It looks amazing
@Stahl - I need to sort my cards as well. At this point, my entire collection is completly random and in boxes. I've got revised duals setting next to freaking healing salves. It's horrible. They are all safe, but it makes finding anything a pain in the ass.
@Me - I'm sick. Stomach virus. Sucks.
I don't know what I want to play at regionals, I'm good at dragonstorm, and I want to win so I may play it, but I'll get bored as hell after TEN freaking hours of doing the same thing, where everyone has a sideboard that reads "I hate your deck, looser!". I kindof want to play my lightning angel deck, and then there is my w/b rack deck, which is pretty solid. All three could do well, I just can't decide.:-/
Welp, time for me to go enjoy another bout of montezuma's revenge. Hurray.
Well, it's kinda sucky that no one's been posting in a while...
Hello Muck_Muck it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks, why not take a few moments to ask a question, help provide a solution or just engage in a conversation with another member in any one of our forums?
So how's everyone doing?
I'm doin' good. You?
Aww too bad. That's cool though. The only other card that I really need from FS is 2 more Pact of Negation to finish my playset. I eventually want to get some river of tears, but it's not a priority. Yet.
@ Muck - I've been doing good. I'm playing music still and playing through this older RPG: Xenosaga. Just got through eating a ton of sushi. I love the grocer near my house.
Why isn't anyone posting much? Are you guys just not doing much in MTG or salvation? It is pretty dead these days.
I'm still playing magic, though not as often as I would like to. I'm currently working on a Pyromancer's swath deck. I got the idea from Extarbags in the forums. Really cool idea for a deck. I do hope Ensnaring bridge makes a return in X so that I can play beyond the combo. (this is the deck I need the pacts for).
I'm also refining my ever changing pernicious sliver deck for fun.
I'm wanting to make a very casual all gold sliver deck using Chrome mox and Pillar of the paruns and some other junk.
@Sha: I completely lost interest in Magic as I went through TS Block... I dunno why, I just didn't like TS that much, didn't like PC that much, and definetely don't like FS. Dunno why though.
@FL - I don't have any magus of the moats. I generally don't buy boxes though, prefering to buy singles instead. I'm really picky when it comes to new cards that I actually want to own, and it saves me money to do it this way.
@Stahl - Damn, you're turning into a mad scientist aren't you? Nice pulls. I guess it's a good thing when a smaller set has a nice rare cycle of dual lands. I do like Epochparasite actually, but the only big downside to him is that since he gains suspend, he can be countered any time he recurs. Kinda lame in that respect. But I was thinking of testing him in an affinity like deck.
I really like Cloud Key too. I plan to use it with Locket of yesterdays and sensei's diving top.
In fact...
4 Locket of Yesterdays
4 Sensei's divining top
4 Artificer's Intuition
4 Reshape
4 Pact of Negation
4 Grapeshot
3 Brain Freeze
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Seat of the Synod
2 Great Furnace
3 Gimmervoid
4 Steam Vents
4 Shivan Reef
I think you're right on the tribal themes. I also believe that the next set is going to be tribal based, so there might be more umph for elves in the near future.
@Muck - that sucks man. Hopefully the next set (the "tribal" one-I'm guessing), will get you back into the game. I like the whole FS block myself, though it's powerfull side is a little on the bizzare side.
I have a question for you all. What do you hope is reprinted in X?
I'm hoping for some of the following. I know not all of them could be reprinted, because wizards craps their pants when they think about a base set being strong:
Sea Drake - Because it's the best aggresive Rebecca Guay card, and I really want some.
Horn of Greed - see Rites of flourishing- Go turboland!
Ensnaring Bridge - Because of how it works with Pyromancer's Swath
Enchantress presence
Jokulhaups or obliterate
Rukh Egg
Serra Avatar
Underworld Dreams
Vampiric Tutor or Imperial Seal
Ancient Tomb
Eternal Witness
Imperial Recruiter! Big time. This guy needs to be reprinted soon.
Heartbeat of Spring
Cursed Scroll! Yeah right. Seriously though, I don't think it's too powerful to reprint. If they do it, they better keep the damned good Alexander Gregory Art though.
Gifts Ungiven
Sensei's divining top
And finally, either all 10 rav duals, all 10 painlands or all 5 fetchlands.
Can you tell I like tutors and combo? heh
...Canada sucks.
That was unnecessary.
@Shah - Nice deck. A little too comboish for my personal tastes but it looks prety solid.
@Twinks - Since they undid the power level errata on Flash I've been creaming to build a casual deck with Kokusho. I'm a dick. But I'm not a big enough of a dick to Hulk Flash I'm sorry you're put off from MtG because of that. Try working in a different format for awhile.
@Much -- This last block has turned u off to MtG huh? Why exactly?
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PTQ San Diego this weekend.
Getting the cards off my friend at the PTQ.
Playing either Mono-Green Haste or Angelfire at the PTQ. (Dependant on the cards in folders.)
Wish me luck guys! I'm very busy at the moment!
I think he was quoting Family Guy. At the end of one show, they are saying all these insults for different races and nationalities and following it up with some politically correct crap to make up for it (they were spoofing how old school cartoons used to end with a moral). At the end of it, it just showed peter and he said "..Canada Sucks" and just stood there for a while. Heh
Pretty much, I posted about 2mins after finishing watching that particular episode of Family Guy. It wasn't meant as a point of offend, but more like an sarcastic tone of interpretation of what that article entailed. Much like the awesome Americans we are, we tend to blame our troubles or express our distastes to opposing countries that we don't 'like'. The article pretty much blames the lack of support for legacy on the community of 'sourcers'. I also find it laughable that the last 25% of the article consisted of the Ben advertising that he's going to be there with his business friends ready to sell and buy cards. Awesome, that was really necessary and vital to the lecture.
:no:.
In another word, I'm so gonna rock my economics finals in the next 30mins.
EDIT - Sappy, you should so make a Survival of the fittest shell with access to Yosei, the morning star, pack that with stuff like oversold cemetery. Or Scriven for some recuring Flash abusing. It won't be broken like Hulk Flash, but it'd offer some rediculus recovery hilarity. Oh, Sundering titan.
@Twinks -- Dude that's a great idea for a Flash deck I may have to work with that a bit.
In other news, I start my new part-time job today. I get to see if I can hold down two jobs int the same day without dropping. wish me luck!!
Oh, and I love J-Pop!! It's always good to re-affirm it...
4 Rift Elemental
2 Jhoira of the Ghitu
3 Aeon Chronicler
4 Riftwing Cloudskate
3 Deap-Sea Kraken
4 Rift Bolt
3 Wheel of Fate
2 Arc Blade
4 Paradox Haze
4 Reality Acid
3 Reality Strobe
4 Izzet Boilerworks
11 Island
9 Mountain
Seems a bit heavy on the 3-drops to me, and no, I can't afford Ancestral Visions.[/spoiler]
Looks good so far. I would be tempted to go up to 4 Chroniclers- they are just that good. And some Detrevore's would be solid, but if you're opponents don't usually run non-basics, he sucks hehe. I guess the hardest part is making a deck that runs solid even if you don't have a Jhoria out.
@My locket deck - Yeah, I was trying to think about using some more control aspects and tutors, but for now Im just trying to focus on the fastest combo win, so I opted for redundant storm kill cards. I really want to squeeze in some counterbalance in there though, because my curve is pretty good and it's just so good with top.
@Jaede - Jpop is pretty good. I really love Jrock myself though.
@cards- I figured I'd list the FS cards I'm after, incase any of you wanna trade:
[spoiler=cards]
2 Pact of Negation
4 River of Tears
1 Sliver Legion (Foil preferably, but normal is okay)
2 Tombstalker
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
4 Cloud Key
4 Street Wraith
Ummm - in general I also need
2 Chrome Mox
1 Infernal Tutor
4 Lotus Petal
3 Damnation! (I know)
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
[/spoiler]
Just figured I'd toss that out there.
Buddy of mine has a deck similar. He plays Detritivore since we play a lot of non-basics in our games, so this is a metagame card for sure. He also plays Delay to protect his suspended critters when they come into play and sometimes he'd Delay a Chronicler just for the hell of it when it started to come into play.
Ehhh...If I ever got around to building my Flash deck I really wouldn't need to use it very often I don't think. Even if I played it once I would get my use out of that particular card. And it wouldn't be difficult to play for Eternal Witness. I don't know. If I get around to building a deck we'll see. But a Sneak Attack/Survival of the Fittest deck would be down right wrong I may have to do that sometime too.
Hmmm..to jump the shark means that MtG has a noticeable decline in quality or feels the game has undergone too many changes to retain its original charm. Illogical cards/abilities, rules changes, what not. As you say this I try to look back at the beginning of the block to see what part was the shark jumped. I'm not sure that I see what you're saying. I think that the closest WotC came to jumping the shark was Cold Snap The lost set...lol... whatever. I think that this block is certainly different with a very unusual theme to the block. Are the various "time shifted" cards what's got you down about the set?
@Shah - I have a non-foil Sliver Legion I'll trade. I have 4 Lions Eye Diamonds, but I'd like to unload them as a set.
Sha: are you building TES by any chance?
The Chrome Moxes are just for overall goodness though. Love that card.
Yeah flash is just broken all over the place. I would be tempted to do something broken with rector if it doesn't get banned.
This whole deal has made me remember how irritated I can be at wizards though. They have made this huge argument about how they "do not eratta cards for power level anymore", and I just want to go and smack aron forcyth upside the head with a Time Vault, yelling "What you got to say about this, punk?!", heh.
@Nemata and CD - Cool. I'll have to figure out what you guys are after. Anything you're looking for?
Edit: One more thing. Someone spotted some new art for X, and it looks a lot like a new version of eternal witness to me!
:cry: I really want sensei's divining top to be reprinted in X! I'm dying to play counterbalance with it.