And once again the work filter goes up and I have to wait till i get home to do anything remotely useful on the computer. As for the new standard I really have not put any planning into what I want to play. I think I'll dabble in Infect at first then work on a metalcraft theme'd deck. but all in all it looks pretty fun.
Hey guys I'm still alive; I've just kept myself busy elsewhere. I had a really good run in M11 limited, winning 4 out of 6 drafts (only winning the ones with 20+ players) with a variety of colors except white. In that format, Aether Adept was the best.
As for Scars of Mirrodin, I played white both times in sealed, with my first pool being a u/w metalcraft deck sporting a pair of Trinket Mages to fetch Darksteel Axe with which i won myself six packs, and my second pool being a mono-white deck sporting Elspeth Tirel, Tempered Steel, Ratchet Bomb, and Darksteel Juggernaut on top of the curve. Unfortunately this deck did not do as well, getting scrapmelted out of contention after my tempered steel was blown by Sylvok Replica. Next time I'll run the flyers I had cut for ground pounders.
As far as I'm concerned for the limited format, You need about 15 artifacts to reliably trigger metalcraft, which leaves very little room for colored cards. The best uncommons are Darksteel Axe and Oxidda Scrapmelter, with Skinrender, Slice in Twain, and Volition Reins playing second fiddle. White probably has the best commons to compensate for this however.
What are everyone's thoughts on standard? I really want to play Kuldotha Phoenix, and I think a U/R metalcraft deck would be the best home for it. So Far I'm thinking of running...
That's obviously too many cards for a deck, but I think there's some potential there to grind people out. It does seem to have trouble with mono green eldrazi however, So I'll probably need some Tunnel Ignus and extra aggression out of the sideboard to make it work.
For standard I was thinking about playing artifact aggro or some form of control.
That new WW artifact deck that uses quest for the holy relic to cheat out argentum armor seems pretty fun, but it doesn't seem to have any late game and probably won't do too well. I think i'll try building it for fnm.
I'm planning on building a somewhat janky tribal Golem deck. I'm really excited about Precursor Golem, while Tangle Angler is, undoubtedly, my favorite card in the set, by name alone. I just like to say it. Tangle Angler Tangle Angler Tangle Angler.
I'm planning on building a somewhat janky tribal Golem deck. I'm really excited about Precursor Golem, while Tangle Angler is, undoubtedly, my favorite card in the set, by name alone. I just like to say it. Tangle Angler Tangle Angler Tangle Angler.
Yeah, when I played Tangle Angler it was sure to bring a smile to my opponent's face.
The pre-release didn't go well for me, I dropped after going 2-2. My mythic was Platinum Emperion.
I thought that Platinum Emperion would be good in limited like Platinum Angel, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Apparently 8 mana is too much for a non-flying creature.
Hello Izzet, I havnt been posting on the internet much lately due to a slight addiction to league of legends, and pages not loading but I am still around.
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I thought that Platinum Emperion would be good in limited like Platinum Angel, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Apparently 8 mana is too much for a non-flying creature.
I think it's still really strong, so long as your deck is a little more controlling and you can survive that long.
Last Night we had SoM Drafts and I went 2-1 and 1-1. First pod I drafted an aggressive White Weenie Metalcraft deck with a red splash for 3x Galvanic Blast and Shatter. (Turn five: "What life are you at?" "12? Good game." It happened.) I had more removal than I knew what to do with, but I didn't really have any bombs, my biggest creature being Ghalma's Warden as a 4/6. I beat WUSoliton-Heavy Arbalest combo (2-1) and BG Artifact-Hate (2-0) before losing to RDW (0-2). Drawing all lands and losing to Flameborn Hellion both games was aggravating. Second pod was a trainwreck, as the guy to my left was in the exact same colors: BR. As I got two Infiltration Lens and a fair amount of removal (though no curve to speak of), I felt my chances were OK. First round I beat BG Infect (2-1) but second round against GU Control I realize that I can't deal with a deck with two bombs in it (1-2). I don't remember much of the first game, probably because I just beat down with dudes until my friend Kabob died. The second game I kill his Engulfing Slagwurm with Flesh Allergy, but I can't stop Liege of the Tangle. (WTF?). Game three was devastating. He clogs up the board early with a couple Plated Seastrider (he has some kind of fetish for this card, I swear: he drafted five of them) and a Wall of Tanglecord. I develop a board of 2x Iron Myr, Razorclaw Golem, and Barrage Ogre with a hand consisting of Flesh Allergy, Arc Trail, and Turn to Slag. I swing with the Golem, he takes it and it gets locked down by Bonds of Quicksilver. He makes a Lumengrid Drake which Barrage Ogre shoots down with the tapped Golem. (My first misplay, perhaps.) Then I draw Galvanic Blast...he casts Engulfing Slagwurm (again)...I kill it with Flesh Allergy, sacrificing an Iron Myr and play my Blade-Tride Berserkers as a Hill Giant since I doubt I'll draw two more artifacts...he casts Liege of the Tangle...I kill it with my entire board but die to his lands. ☺☺☺☺ing stupid.
EDIT: I messed up that story. I think I used Turn to Slag on some evasive creature a turn or two after shooting down Lumengrid Drake, so I couldn't kill Engulfing Slagwurm with it.
Also, I turn 21 today!
Nothing like missing top 8 on breakers; at least I net profited on the day. I'll take care of promotions after the sealed event today, hopefully I'll be on ggslive this time.
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Nothing like missing top 8 on breakers; at least I net profited on the day. I'll take care of promotions after the sealed event today, hopefully I'll be on ggslive this time.
I'm sorry to post just for this in your clan: But if any of you guys has contact to your high mage of arcane babbling, it'd be kind to poke him about his mafia games.
and while I'm here: happy birthday AI
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Weekend was fun, went 0-1 drop in a release draft on Friday, drafted a terrible Infect deck, so I went to go hang out with some friends. Saturday we did a sealed event that I took first in, 4-0 with a R/G/W aggro deck that had Liege of the Tange, Wurmcoil Engine, Argentum Armor, and Tempered Steel.
So my birthday has come and gone (Sep 30) and I am now 18. For my birthday, I received two boxes. I've decided to attempt to collect four of each card in Scars (ambitious to be sure) and so far things have been going well, I've pulled two Mox Opals (!!!), two Koths (!!!!- I've sold one and traded one for Venser, Platinum Emperion, and something else, I forget what), and a good number of other mythics. I could, in theory, post a full list of the mythics and rares that I've pulled, but it would be pretty spaceous, so if I do, I'll put it in spoilers. Thinking about it, I'll do it now:
In other news, at the Release party yesterday, I watched someone complain that Nim Deathmantle is "broken." I laughed for five minutes. Worst thing is, he hadn't even carefully read the card. He had just skimmed it and thought the triggered ability was an activated ability for 4 that reanimated any creature in your graveyard and equipped the deathmantle to it. I almost cried.
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I have Deckbuilder's ADD.
To be honest, I didn't feel too much different after turning 18 myself. In fact, each birthday that has come and gone for me, I care less and less about the significance of how my age increases by one whole number.
Don't take that the wrong way lol. Your birthday itself is a very significant day, but once I turn 21, I don't think I'll be caring about how old I'll be after that.
I'm sorry to post just for this in your clan: But if any of you guys has contact to your high mage of arcane babbling, it'd be kind to poke him about his mafia games.
I'm here! Having a regular job makes this ☺☺☺☺ harder, for me. I'm finally getting household internet set up this week, though. I've said that before, but this time it's more reliably possible.
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To be honest, I didn't feel too much different after turning 18 myself. In fact, each birthday that has come and gone for me, I care less and less about the significance of how my age increases by one whole number.
Don't take that the wrong way lol. Your birthday itself is a very significant day, but once I turn 21, I don't think I'll be caring about how old I'll be after that.
No, I get it. I don't really feel older, I just realize that there's more available to me now. Not that I'll be using much of it.
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*Sigh* I hate rotations, unless they happen to be getting rif of crytic command, non eof my decks work now and I dont have anything to put together for friday, that wont fall over in a screaming heap.
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I lost every game 1 on the day and won every game 3, and I didn't even pick up my second loss until round 8 to a deck with the same rares + Hoard-Smelter Dragon, as well as a second Oxidda Scrapmelter and two more Galvanic Blasts.
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I lost every game 1 on the day and won every game 3, and I didn't even pick up my second loss until round 8 to a deck with the same rares + Hoard-Smelter Dragon, as well as a second Oxidda Scrapmelter and two more Galvanic Blasts.
Tough break, I think I recall seeing that other person's deck on ggslive, it seemed pretty sick.
Well thats not too fun; did you at least get your money back in cards? Also, I was wondering if/when we would get a new thread. Im new here and I dont know how often we change threads, its just the name seems dated, but as I said, I dont know how it works, and that could be normal. Thanks Rocker, and sorry about your sealed even again.
We usually make a new thread once our old one reaches around 1000 posts.
I thought it was common knowledge that top 16 at a 5k = $100. So after all my fees, I profited about $50 on the weekend.
As for promoting people and making a new thread, it would be a lot easier if those were to occur simultaneously. I definitely agree the the name is extremely dated.
All of the currently listed test subjects are due to become apprentices, and it appears the Neon__Lights and Clem are headed to the Erratic Portal. This mean we will need to promote TWO of our Acolytes to High Mages and TWO of our Apprentices to Acolytes. Everyone at the positions in question is nominated and everyone in the clan gets two votes for each election, including our soon-to-be Apprentices.
Once that's taken care of (Tentative end date is Sunday.) we can decide on the title for our next thread. Save your ideas for then as it will be hard enough to sort through if we start posting them now.
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@Acolytes getting promoted: I'm always up for it. Might not always be on all the time, but I get email updates, which I read, and I check in when I'm interested. Though I'm unsure of how the promotion system works in this case. A brief rundown would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks.
Same to everyone else who wished me well.
I only had one (tall) strawberry daiquiri with my steak gorgonzolla-alfredo (mmm, Olive Garden), and that was enough to knock me out for 12 hours.
Speaking of which, time to finish those leftovers...
All of the currently listed test subjects are due to become apprentices, and it appears the Neon__Lights and Clem are headed to the Erratic Portal. This mean we will need to promote TWO of our Acolytes to High Mages and TWO of our Apprentices to Acolytes. Everyone at the positions in question is nominated and everyone in the clan gets two votes for each election, including our soon-to-be Apprentices.
Hot!
Thanks.
Same to everyone else who wished me well.
I only had one (tall) strawberry daiquiri with my steak gorgonzolla-alfredo (mmm, Olive Garden), and that was enough to knock me out for 12 hours.
Speaking of which, time to finish those leftovers...
Haha, lightweight!
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He lives!
I went 5-2 at the PR playing U/W metalcraft, my rares were Steel Hellkite, Molten-tail Masticore, Semblance Anvil, Darksteel Juggernaut, Grand Architect, and Genesis Wave. The first match I lost was to Kuldotha Phoenix(both games, the damn thing just wouldn't stay dead), and Koth(both games). I think I did fairly well, this was the largest PR our store ever had, we had 83 people show up.
For standard I was thinking about playing artifact aggro or some form of control.
That new WW artifact deck that uses quest for the holy relic to cheat out argentum armor seems pretty fun, but it doesn't seem to have any late game and probably won't do too well. I think i'll try building it for fnm.
Also: I'm curious as to your thoughts about Mimic Vat and Golem Foundry
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Golem foundry seems good with proliferate, but otherwise it's not too exciting. Mimic vat is interesting, but I don't really like it too much.
Tangle Angler is pretty fun to say.
The pre-release didn't go well for me, I dropped after going 2-2. My mythic was Platinum Emperion.
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I thought that Platinum Emperion would be good in limited like Platinum Angel, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Apparently 8 mana is too much for a non-flying creature.
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I think it's still really strong, so long as your deck is a little more controlling and you can survive that long.
Last Night we had SoM Drafts and I went 2-1 and 1-1. First pod I drafted an aggressive White Weenie Metalcraft deck with a red splash for 3x Galvanic Blast and Shatter. (Turn five: "What life are you at?" "12? Good game." It happened.) I had more removal than I knew what to do with, but I didn't really have any bombs, my biggest creature being Ghalma's Warden as a 4/6. I beat WU Soliton-Heavy Arbalest combo (2-1) and BG Artifact-Hate (2-0) before losing to RDW (0-2). Drawing all lands and losing to Flameborn Hellion both games was aggravating. Second pod was a trainwreck, as the guy to my left was in the exact same colors: BR. As I got two Infiltration Lens and a fair amount of removal (though no curve to speak of), I felt my chances were OK. First round I beat BG Infect (2-1) but second round against GU Control I realize that I can't deal with a deck with two bombs in it (1-2). I don't remember much of the first game, probably because I just beat down with dudes until my friend Kabob died. The second game I kill his Engulfing Slagwurm with Flesh Allergy, but I can't stop Liege of the Tangle. (WTF?). Game three was devastating. He clogs up the board early with a couple Plated Seastrider (he has some kind of fetish for this card, I swear: he drafted five of them) and a Wall of Tanglecord. I develop a board of 2x Iron Myr, Razorclaw Golem, and Barrage Ogre with a hand consisting of Flesh Allergy, Arc Trail, and Turn to Slag. I swing with the Golem, he takes it and it gets locked down by Bonds of Quicksilver. He makes a Lumengrid Drake which Barrage Ogre shoots down with the tapped Golem. (My first misplay, perhaps.) Then I draw Galvanic Blast...he casts Engulfing Slagwurm (again)...I kill it with Flesh Allergy, sacrificing an Iron Myr and play my Blade-Tride Berserkers as a Hill Giant since I doubt I'll draw two more artifacts...he casts Liege of the Tangle...I kill it with my entire board but die to his lands. ☺☺☺☺ing stupid.
EDIT: I messed up that story. I think I used Turn to Slag on some evasive creature a turn or two after shooting down Lumengrid Drake, so I couldn't kill Engulfing Slagwurm with it.
Also, I turn 21 today!
Nothing like missing top 8 on breakers; at least I net profited on the day. I'll take care of promotions after the sealed event today, hopefully I'll be on ggslive this time.
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That sucks, I hope you do better tomorrow.
Also:
Happy birthday AI!
and while I'm here: happy birthday AI
In other news, at the Release party yesterday, I watched someone complain that Nim Deathmantle is "broken." I laughed for five minutes. Worst thing is, he hadn't even carefully read the card. He had just skimmed it and thought the triggered ability was an activated ability for 4 that reanimated any creature in your graveyard and equipped the deathmantle to it. I almost cried.
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I have Deckbuilder's ADD.
Don't take that the wrong way lol. Your birthday itself is a very significant day, but once I turn 21, I don't think I'll be caring about how old I'll be after that.
I'm here! Having a regular job makes this ☺☺☺☺ harder, for me. I'm finally getting household internet set up this week, though. I've said that before, but this time it's more reliably possible.
Seconded!
Thanks! I was pretty psyched after I got them. Pretty happy with Scars, overall, so it's nice to get boxes for a set that I simply adore.
No, I get it. I don't really feel older, I just realize that there's more available to me now. Not that I'll be using much of it.
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1 Silver Myr
1 Auriok Edgewright
1 Sunspear Shikari
2 Snapsail Glider
1 Darksteel Myr
1 Rust Tick
1 Kemba's Skyguard
1 Chrome Steed
1 Oxidda Scrapmelter
1 Blade-Tribe Berserkers
1 Precursor Golem
1 Razor Hippogriff
1 Bladed Pinions
1 Revoke Existence
1 Strider Harness
1 Barbed Battlegear
1 Tumble Magnet
1 Arrest
1 Turn to Slag
1 Argentum Armor
10 Plains
I lost every game 1 on the day and won every game 3, and I didn't even pick up my second loss until round 8 to a deck with the same rares + Hoard-Smelter Dragon, as well as a second Oxidda Scrapmelter and two more Galvanic Blasts.
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Tough break, I think I recall seeing that other person's deck on ggslive, it seemed pretty sick.
We usually make a new thread once our old one reaches around 1000 posts.
As for promoting people and making a new thread, it would be a lot easier if those were to occur simultaneously. I definitely agree the the name is extremely dated.
All of the currently listed test subjects are due to become apprentices, and it appears the Neon__Lights and Clem are headed to the Erratic Portal. This mean we will need to promote TWO of our Acolytes to High Mages and TWO of our Apprentices to Acolytes. Everyone at the positions in question is nominated and everyone in the clan gets two votes for each election, including our soon-to-be Apprentices.
Once that's taken care of (Tentative end date is Sunday.) we can decide on the title for our next thread. Save your ideas for then as it will be hard enough to sort through if we start posting them now.
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I am always up for it as well, but I know some Acolytes have been here longer than me.
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Hot!
Thanks.
Same to everyone else who wished me well.
I only had one (tall) strawberry daiquiri with my steak gorgonzolla-alfredo (mmm, Olive Garden), and that was enough to knock me out for 12 hours.
Speaking of which, time to finish those leftovers...
Promote: Pheon, claytonthegreat, Skizzik_NZ, Zajnet (:sneakybread:)
Haha, lightweight!