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Just want to apologize in advance since I sound like a drooling groodion in many parts of the show. I had just ate dinner before the show started, and needless to say, when all of the blood rushed to my stomach it didn't mesh well with my podcasting capabilities.
The show was cool this week. I was a little disappointed that I didn't see a message or anything saying it was live at the moment. I would have liked to have spotted it live. I think we need to find a Mirror Gallery to send to next weeks winner, to complete the combo. I strayed far away from Kamigawa, so I'm no help there.
And so, the code word this week... ummm, how did I miss it? I must have zoned out during it. That's what I get for taking calls during the Cast. Anyway, my fave Artifact would have to be Black Vise. It was so devestating and it hosted our friend Stuffy Doll too. How can you hate that? I would always use it as a win con in my Underworld Dreams deck. That deck was so well tuned, I miss it... I could probably throw it together cheap today, but when I had it running, I had to use the actual Legends card as it hadn't been reprinted yet... so I used Black Vise to fill out the deck, as I was a cheap little kid... I could only afford 1 regular and 1 Itallian Underworld Dreams. The deck was tech until my friends started packing Ivory Towers. Still, I'd beat them... but it was so counter productive to my game plan.
Well I started in Revised and never got into Vintage, so the Lotus and Moxen are out. I did enjoy using Scroll Rack and Masticore. Of course anyone who didn't like Umezawa's Jitte probably didn't have them. And all the artifact lands and Archbound Ravager. Put I'm gonna stick my neck out here and say my favorite artifact ever (and I know I'm going to be the only one) is Mindless Automaton. I used to play Forbid Squee and I loved ditching the Squee's to pump him up and then drawing cards whenever I wanted to. So sweet. For this reason, I was excited to see that the Mindless one was being reprinted in Time Spiral (Shifted). Then I was doubly excited when Squee was coming back to tenth! Alas, I did not find a deck to run them in, even though I tried hard to make a U/R control deck. It was always like tier four. :-(
My favorite artifact is the lone copy of Chaos Confetti in my Cube.
My best friend gave it to me years ago, and we have an understanding that he's going to shred it if he ever gets a chance. However, every time he's drawn it, it gets bounced/destroyed/countered, preserving the balance and symmetry of the Cube.
It's happened so many times now that I suspect he's drafting just to tear up my Chaos Confetti.
My favorite artifact ever? What you mean besides Jitte? Well Black Lotus of course. Whats that? It should be something I have and play with too? Well then I think I’d have to go with my favorite multiplayer artifact of all time,Vedalken Orrery. I loved playing with that thing and just looking at everyone else at the table as they try to figure out whether or not to attack me for the rest of the game. It lets you power out your combo pieces at the end of the turn and gives all your nasty creatures flash. It’s fun to break sorceries and to give your judge friends headaches. This was such a great card, the only thing better was when multiple people were playing it. You really felt bad for the one guy that had to do things on his own turn. My other big thrill with this card was that since it was an artifact, I would put it into one of three different decks, which meant no one at the table would be able to recognize which deck I was playing until it was too late. Either it was an instant win combo deck, a big smashy creature deck (made better with sudo haste), or it was my explosion deck. My explosion deck was the deck where I would wait for someone to attack me or harm me in some way and then I would “explode” all over them with some crazy sorcery played at instant speed that screwed up their attack (like *** or plague wind or something). Then for the rest of the game I would pelt them stuff like Stone rain during their end of turn or some kind of discard right after they drew. Yeah, I know I was a dick, but it has that guys fault for attacking me with a 1/1 in the first place.
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My favorite artifact is Angel's Trumpet. My reason is the first time it was flipped in my chaos deck, all the guys at my table reacted in a way that made me giggle. I got questions like, "This doesn't affect creatures with summoning sickness right?" and, "What about my walls?" and "There's errata on Oracle, right?"
It has just the perfect feel for what should be in a chaos deck. Not crippling, but has a significant impact on the board. I dig it.
Favorite artifact? Has to be Phyrexian Soulgorger. Is it any good? Of course not. I played him in a standard deck online with Ashling's Prerogative. I built a red green deck with a lot of short lived, over-sized odd casting cost creatures. Of which Mr. Eat My Own Team is a prime example, alongside Ravaging Riftwurm and Lavacore Elemental. Soulgorger was the most fun because he is so big and mean.
Gavin, you were really more of a velociraptor from Jurassic Park or at least a Pygmy Allosaurus.
My fav artifacts are the Kaldra equipments from Mirrodin block. I was in the card shop, chatting with one of the Magic players there and happened to see a Shield of Kaldra he'd pulled the moment before. I'd been a Yu-Gi-Oh player before then and was rather surprised to see an equipment in Magic. I knew then that I had to learn to play Magic. I put together a horrible UW Soldier equipment deck the next week and have been playing suboptimal decks ever since!
@Phyrexian Soulgorger: It really shines in Pandemonium.dec. People always give me a funny look when he hits play but then remember that pesky Pandemonium. I once killed 3 people in one turn with it using 2 Momentary Blink,both flashedback too, on one. My poor Norin the Wary just floated around in the removed from the game zone forever cuz the game ended after that. Poor, lonely Norin.
Nice podcast guys, sorry to hear about my peep derek being unable to "rep the set with his crew in the hizzle"....as it were.
My favorite artifact has to be the almighty frogmite, I ran a budget version of affinity a while back and this card was so good that my opponents tended to scoop when they saw 2 hit the field at once. I mean a darksteel colossus is one thing, but being done-in froggy style is priceless. Its almost as good as being eaten by the giant claw from the old black white era!!:D Keep up the good work and I hope to see derek back next week, peace:cool:.
Just want to apologize in advance since I sound like a drooling groodion in many parts of the show. I had just ate dinner before the show started, and needless to say, when all of the blood rushed to my stomach it didn't mesh well with my podcasting capabilities.
I didn't see too much of a problem honestly. A couple times you seemed a bit out of it, but it wasn't even that noticeable. Especially considering you had to talk longer than usual with Derek not being there.
Anyways, my favorite artifact is probably Vedalken Shackles. That card is just obscene in the right match-ups. Who doesn't like to 2-for-1 your opponent, with their creature. Hey, when you're done with that, take another one! It's just so much fun...not too much for your opponent...but a lot of fun for you.
for everyone who didnt' listen live, do next time, it's excellent, adn you will have a great time. you can ask questions and everything. do it. i command you. godzilla commands you. spiderman and doc ock command you. do it.
no answer to the prize, i think watching gleemax die would be WAY to depressing for me.
Has anyone seen the decklists from the Standard GP Trial in Japan? It seems that we now know where those 500 Reveillarks went... Beautiful Sky by Tomii Tsubasa
4 Riftwing Cloudskate
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3 Mirror Entity
3 Body Double
4 Mind Stone
3 Cryptic Command
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4 Adarkar Wastes
4 Wanderwine Hub
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2 Take Possession
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it was a bit of a mtgavincast this week! not that i mind too much, another fine show guys
My favourite artifact would have to be Panoptic Mirror, the big brother to Isochron Scepter. It's such a splashy johnny card, If you imprint anything worthwhile on it and it doesn't get destroyed before your upkeep you'll almost certainly win the game; and I love going through gatherer when bored at work looking for sillier and sillier cards to put on it - Walk the Aeons is practically an auto-win obviously, but it's often more fun to put Heroes Remembered or Crush of Wurms on it and laugh maniacally as your opponents desperately try to overcome your free super-spell every turn.
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My favorite artifact, you say? Well, it HAS to be Legacy Weapon. The Apocalypse one, with the good art, not the Xth one with Karn looking like he's recruiting Power Rangers.
Anyway...
That card is INSANE. I use it in my Cromat Elder Dragon deck, and it's a whupping. If I can get it + Joiner Adept...well, then it reads, "5: Remove target permanent from the game." It's solely the best card in that deck. I have never lost a game where I have cast Legacy Weapon and untapped. (Of course, I've usually won many more because I've had Seedborn Muse and gone utterly broken, removing every permanent one player controls at a time. "Hey, so all your stuff is RFG. Untap, I'll remove 7 of your permanents...,", etc.)
@plarp: Yeah, the Mirror is crazy good too, but Legacy Weapon is better, albeit less objectively fun.
I have no problems with cursing. I always feel like the sort of people who buy that cliche are the same ones who think that every bully is secretly insecure. Life isn't as simple as our kindergarten teachers taught us.
Great cast sorry i could'nt make it to listen live (City Champs on mondays)
My Favourite artifact of all time is pretty new, and Blue!!!!!!! a blue artifact you say?
My Fav Artifact is a myr, From futuresight called Sarcomite Myr, hes 2U and i own 7929, which was collected from people at my local store, and other stores. your probably thinking your full of crap almost 8000 sarcomite myrs, well alot of people collect things like moonlace and grim monitors, BUT they are rare and sarcomite myrs arent, i also have 4000 Bulduvian Barbarians from all sets since they first apeared,
So my Fav Artifact is Sarcomite Myr. and theres no real reason why.. i just do!
My favorite artifact of all time is MINDSLAVER! That card is just too wacky. I know it has seen plenty of tournement play and as much fun as it is to play out Bringer of the White Dawn and tell your opponent "hey I got the whole game from here, you just go have a Coke and a snack and I'll let you know how bad you lost in a little bit" there's another strategy with it that I just love. That's the "Big Brother Kill." After you slaver your opponent and start their turn cast Chain of Vapor to sac all their lands and bounce all their permanents into their hand then you cast Chain of Plasma and discard all their cards to kill themselves. all the time you get to say "quit hitting yourself!" "what's the matter with you, you're hitting yourself!" and that's just some of the fun available. Mindslaver is the single most sadisticly humorus card ever printed without a silver boarder. when you get into silver boarder land it becomes so insane that it is ilegal in most states as by the rules of the game you could rob somebody, or at least make them buy you drinks. One can imagine how much I giggled when I realized I could DonateAshnod's Coupon then Mindslaver for a butal robbing of my opponent's wallet. I have never actually done this, as it is immoral and nobody wouldn't just concede first even if they wouldn't just say "F you" and walk off. but still the possibilities are frightening and hilarious. one of these days I'm gonna be in a bar with my donated coupon slave deck, one of these days! Mindslaver rocks.
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My favourite artifact has to be Mindslaver. There's so many cool things about it. Here's a quick top five:
1) In Casual games it hurts the players who most need hurting and is weaker against weaker decks. I once activated a Mindslaver against a player who had seven cards in hand ten turns in to a multiplayer game and hadn't cast anything. I saw an entire hand full of huge Green creatures with no CMC below seven!
2) Although Mindslavering someone is often a complete beating there's an awful lot of skill in playing a Mindslaver turn correctly. We're so used to maximising the potential of a position that minimising it harder than it sounds. And don't forget you still control your own hand too. It takes a lot of courage to tutor for your opponent's Greater Gargadon, suspend it, then sac their board to it even though you have no answer to the creature in hand. But sometimes it's the winning play.
3) I like the fact it can be used in two modes. Either take the risk and leave it sitting on the board for a turn or pay all the way up to ten mana and guarantee you get to use it.
4) Sometimes when you have a Mindslaver out that you are able to activate you can get a huge amount of mileage out of not doing so. This particularly applies if you didn't pay the ten mana and so your opponent(s) had a turn of warning. They'll start using all their tutors to grab things you can't abuse and trying to get all the abusable stuff out of their hands. All at no cost to you! Activate the Mindslaver later, there's no rush!
5) There are some sick things you can do combi-wise. The one with Bringer of the White Dawn is well known, but my personal favourite is Lethal Vapors and Vedalken Orrery (and you don't even need the Orrery if you have an unwary opponent).
Edit: Oh, look what came in above me while I was typing!
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Great podcasts guys! I try to listen to you guys whenever I can. Hopefully Derek didn't get too banged up.
Anyway, my favourite artifact of all times? Crystal Shard baby! I am mostly a limited player, and I play drafts alot, with the current sets, wacky draft formats, or with my cube. Crystal Shard has always been a first pick card for me both in MD5 and my cube (probably more so in cubes). My most memorable cube deck was a 5 colour green deck that had almost all of the good cube 187 creatures like Flametongue Kavu, Eternal Witness (YEAH FNM PROMO!), Mulldrifter, etc, and multiple ways of tutoring for Crystal Shard (tutors, transmute). It was a blast to play with, with so many decisions needed to be made, dependent upon what your opponent did. However, I didn't go undefeated, because I was thoroughly outplayed by my friend, and when we switched decks, he trounced me soundly with my own draft deck. Though it was also partially because I kept on whiffing off of his Call of the Wild (the one from Weatherlight, yeah, with the anorexic Shrek in the picture box).
If he counts as a monster than my favorite movie monster of all time is Dr. Zaius, from Planet of the Apes. It's just such a brilliantly good movie.
As for my favorite artifact of all time, it has to be Barl's Cage. While this card is in no way good it was a key cog of one of my favorite decks of all time. Back in the days after chronicles I first started to get the bug for building goofy decks and the first one I decided to build was an all artifact deck. I had been misled about the rule of 4 and was told that you could have as many lands as you wanted, so my deck had 20 tron pieces in it. And the group I played in allowed mana-seeding and was almost always a big multiplayer game. So being able to lock down basically all of my opponents creatures for three mana a pop was awesome. And to do this at a time when there still weren't many cards with an all artifact deck with. And I was a 7th grader so my magic budget was limited. So to have a card that could complete dominate the multiplayer games was absolutely awesome.
Another good show, gentlemen. I'm sorry I missed the live version.
It seems that a lot of the discussion about the PT changes has revolved around the question of Wizards' financial stability, fueling low-level (but constant) concerns about the long-term viability of the professional side of the game. I've heard/read this not only on MTGcast and the constantly annoying "Magic is dying" threads on various boards around the web, but also among other significant Magic meta-shapers on StarCityGames, Gleemax, the players' union, and others.
Honestly, though, I'm a little wary and weary of this line of thinking. In my region, we've usually had just one PTQ for each season, with turnout hitting somewhere between 60-100 players. This season, we've got three PTQs for Hollywood, two in the usual 2-hour drive range, and one that's a 10-minute walk from my front door. The first one (just a couple weeks ago) had almost 200 players.
To help clarify my understanding of Magic's financial state, I did a little Googling and found that Hasbro will be webcasting a conference call on its latest financials summary for investors and the media on Monday, February 11 at 8:30 am EST. Granted, this is Wizards' parent company, and the financial health of one isn't necessarily indicative of the other's well-being. However, it's likely that they'll highlight their best and worst performing divisions, and I'll be interested to see what comes from these figures.
Essentially, though, I'm not all that worried about the financial state of the game's maker. I do concede that being a part of Hasbro certainly has the potential to stretch Wizards' budget for things like the PT as their revenue now finances an additional tier of corporate execs and the attendant bureaucracy.
If it comes out that the financials are fine, though, I think a number of the critics of the PT changes will need to retract a certain amount of their fearmongering and simply accept that the PT changes will have been made for other reasons than financial instability.
What those reasons are, I can't speculate, but I have seen a strong increase in Wizards' support for local tournaments like City Champs, Gold Tier, Summer of Magic, stronger release tourneys, and similar programs in the last year.
The players' union, though, can still have a strong and valid purpose regardless of the answer to the financial question. Players need to be told what's going on, and they need to know that the game's makers are committed to supporting them in the face of competing priorities for Hasbro, market forces, organizers, and Mothra.
As for a favorite artifact, I'd have to say Sensei's Divining Top. Back when CHK first came out, I was a casual player (occasional FNM, mostly kitchen table "Type 0" games). I picked up a couple of tops (one of them foil, for $1.50!) and threw them into a mono-blue milling deck I'd made up. The deck ran Helm of Awakening to power out Mesmeric Orb, Thought Dissector, and Altar of Dementia (with Reins of Power).
In the middle of a game with my roommate, I accidentally ran into the infinite milling combo when I tapped one top, drew the other one, played it, and then my roommate said "Hey, I think you did that out of order. You're supposed to draw the card first so you don't get the top back right away." Hit by this flash of insight, I immediately thanked him and, a googolplex of iterations later, I tapped one island for a Brain Freeze.
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Bombo of the week
Titania's Song, Mirror Gallery, Gleemax, Copy Artifact
Hate to break it to you Gavin, but even with four cards, this isn't a combo. Titania's song says
"Each noncreature artifact loses its abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost. If Titania's Song leaves play, this effect continues until end of turn."
So mirror gallery will not be a 5 mana artifact with "The legend rule does not apply", it will be a 5 mana 5/5 artifact creature with no abilities, and your pair of 1,000,000/1,000,000 Legendary Artifact Creatures named Gleemax with no abilities will still explode.
For a more reasonable way to get two animated Gleemax, try
Gleemax + Titania's Song + Sakashima the Impostor
Now I don't have time to think of a favorite artifact, I'll just go ahead and say that Sakashima copying an animated gleemax is my favorite artifact ever. That, or Sakashima copying Mecha-Godzilla.
Just like Big Foot, its hard to tell what's really going on with WOTC and Organized Play.
Favorite Artifact: I had made a artifact deck around this card with Blinkmoth Urn, and Staff of Domination, it is: Rod of Spanking. Oh yeah we spank the monkey....
For more serious play Ornithopter, making him bigger with either counters or Jittes or Blanchwood Armor or what ever you are in the mood for.
Favorite Artifact: I had made a artifact deck around this card with Blinkmoth Urn, and Staff of Domination, it is: Rod of Spanking. Oh yeah we spank the monkey....
Blinkmoth Urn + Gemstone Array = Fun times. Add Mycosynth Lattice for a bit of mana burn. The Array is good for storing up mana when you have a weird amount of it from the Urn. A good friend had a deck where he'd put a ton of counters on Gemstone Array with mana from the Urn and then plop down a Memnarch and take all your permanents in one turn. I teched Leonin Abunas in against it and my deck totally wrecked his.
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Obscure? Drooling Groodion was a house, no, an entire apartment complex in Ravnica Limited.
Seriously, I call myself a Drooling Groodion at times like these only because it's better than calling myself a drooling mongoloid.
And because the moniker fits.
And so, the code word this week... ummm, how did I miss it? I must have zoned out during it. That's what I get for taking calls during the Cast. Anyway, my fave Artifact would have to be Black Vise. It was so devestating and it hosted our friend Stuffy Doll too. How can you hate that? I would always use it as a win con in my Underworld Dreams deck. That deck was so well tuned, I miss it... I could probably throw it together cheap today, but when I had it running, I had to use the actual Legends card as it hadn't been reprinted yet... so I used Black Vise to fill out the deck, as I was a cheap little kid... I could only afford 1 regular and 1 Itallian Underworld Dreams. The deck was tech until my friends started packing Ivory Towers. Still, I'd beat them... but it was so counter productive to my game plan.
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My best friend gave it to me years ago, and we have an understanding that he's going to shred it if he ever gets a chance. However, every time he's drawn it, it gets bounced/destroyed/countered, preserving the balance and symmetry of the Cube.
It's happened so many times now that I suspect he's drafting just to tear up my Chaos Confetti.
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My other big thrill with this card was that since it was an artifact, I would put it into one of three different decks, which meant no one at the table would be able to recognize which deck I was playing until it was too late. Either it was an instant win combo deck, a big smashy creature deck (made better with sudo haste), or it was my explosion deck. My explosion deck was the deck where I would wait for someone to attack me or harm me in some way and then I would “explode” all over them with some crazy sorcery played at instant speed that screwed up their attack (like *** or plague wind or something). Then for the rest of the game I would pelt them stuff like Stone rain during their end of turn or some kind of discard right after they drew. Yeah, I know I was a dick, but it has that guys fault for attacking me with a 1/1 in the first place.
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It has just the perfect feel for what should be in a chaos deck. Not crippling, but has a significant impact on the board. I dig it.
My fav artifacts are the Kaldra equipments from Mirrodin block. I was in the card shop, chatting with one of the Magic players there and happened to see a Shield of Kaldra he'd pulled the moment before. I'd been a Yu-Gi-Oh player before then and was rather surprised to see an equipment in Magic. I knew then that I had to learn to play Magic. I put together a horrible UW Soldier equipment deck the next week and have been playing suboptimal decks ever since!
@Phyrexian Soulgorger: It really shines in Pandemonium.dec. People always give me a funny look when he hits play but then remember that pesky Pandemonium. I once killed 3 people in one turn with it using 2 Momentary Blink,both flashedback too, on one. My poor Norin the Wary just floated around in the removed from the game zone forever cuz the game ended after that. Poor, lonely Norin.
My favorite artifact has to be the almighty frogmite, I ran a budget version of affinity a while back and this card was so good that my opponents tended to scoop when they saw 2 hit the field at once. I mean a darksteel colossus is one thing, but being done-in froggy style is priceless. Its almost as good as being eaten by the giant claw from the old black white era!!:D Keep up the good work and I hope to see derek back next week, peace:cool:.
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I didn't see too much of a problem honestly. A couple times you seemed a bit out of it, but it wasn't even that noticeable. Especially considering you had to talk longer than usual with Derek not being there.
Anyways, my favorite artifact is probably Vedalken Shackles. That card is just obscene in the right match-ups. Who doesn't like to 2-for-1 your opponent, with their creature. Hey, when you're done with that, take another one! It's just so much fun...not too much for your opponent...but a lot of fun for you.
no answer to the prize, i think watching gleemax die would be WAY to depressing for me.
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Beautiful Sky by Tomii Tsubasa
4 Riftwing Cloudskate
4 Bonded Fetch
4 Reveillark
4 Mulldrifter
3 Mirror Entity
3 Body Double
4 Mind Stone
3 Cryptic Command
2 Momentary Blink
2 Condemn
3 Wrath of God
10 Snow-Covered Island
4 Snow-Covered Plains
4 Adarkar Wastes
4 Wanderwine Hub
2 Calciform Pools
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3 Jace Beleren
3 Sower of Temptation
2 Tormod's Crypt
4 Teferi's Moat
2 Take Possession
1 Academy Ruins
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My favourite artifact would have to be Panoptic Mirror, the big brother to Isochron Scepter. It's such a splashy johnny card, If you imprint anything worthwhile on it and it doesn't get destroyed before your upkeep you'll almost certainly win the game; and I love going through gatherer when bored at work looking for sillier and sillier cards to put on it - Walk the Aeons is practically an auto-win obviously, but it's often more fun to put Heroes Remembered or Crush of Wurms on it and laugh maniacally as your opponents desperately try to overcome your free super-spell every turn.
Anyway...
That card is INSANE. I use it in my Cromat Elder Dragon deck, and it's a whupping. If I can get it + Joiner Adept...well, then it reads, "5: Remove target permanent from the game." It's solely the best card in that deck. I have never lost a game where I have cast Legacy Weapon and untapped. (Of course, I've usually won many more because I've had Seedborn Muse and gone utterly broken, removing every permanent one player controls at a time. "Hey, so all your stuff is RFG. Untap, I'll remove 7 of your permanents...,", etc.)
@plarp: Yeah, the Mirror is crazy good too, but Legacy Weapon is better, albeit less objectively fun.
My Favourite artifact of all time is pretty new, and Blue!!!!!!! a blue artifact you say?
My Fav Artifact is a myr, From futuresight called Sarcomite Myr, hes 2U and i own 7929, which was collected from people at my local store, and other stores. your probably thinking your full of crap almost 8000 sarcomite myrs, well alot of people collect things like moonlace and grim monitors, BUT they are rare and sarcomite myrs arent, i also have 4000 Bulduvian Barbarians from all sets since they first apeared,
So my Fav Artifact is Sarcomite Myr. and theres no real reason why.. i just do!
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1) In Casual games it hurts the players who most need hurting and is weaker against weaker decks. I once activated a Mindslaver against a player who had seven cards in hand ten turns in to a multiplayer game and hadn't cast anything. I saw an entire hand full of huge Green creatures with no CMC below seven!
2) Although Mindslavering someone is often a complete beating there's an awful lot of skill in playing a Mindslaver turn correctly. We're so used to maximising the potential of a position that minimising it harder than it sounds. And don't forget you still control your own hand too. It takes a lot of courage to tutor for your opponent's Greater Gargadon, suspend it, then sac their board to it even though you have no answer to the creature in hand. But sometimes it's the winning play.
3) I like the fact it can be used in two modes. Either take the risk and leave it sitting on the board for a turn or pay all the way up to ten mana and guarantee you get to use it.
4) Sometimes when you have a Mindslaver out that you are able to activate you can get a huge amount of mileage out of not doing so. This particularly applies if you didn't pay the ten mana and so your opponent(s) had a turn of warning. They'll start using all their tutors to grab things you can't abuse and trying to get all the abusable stuff out of their hands. All at no cost to you! Activate the Mindslaver later, there's no rush!
5) There are some sick things you can do combi-wise. The one with Bringer of the White Dawn is well known, but my personal favourite is Lethal Vapors and Vedalken Orrery (and you don't even need the Orrery if you have an unwary opponent).
Edit: Oh, look what came in above me while I was typing!
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Anyway, my favourite artifact of all times? Crystal Shard baby! I am mostly a limited player, and I play drafts alot, with the current sets, wacky draft formats, or with my cube. Crystal Shard has always been a first pick card for me both in MD5 and my cube (probably more so in cubes). My most memorable cube deck was a 5 colour green deck that had almost all of the good cube 187 creatures like Flametongue Kavu, Eternal Witness (YEAH FNM PROMO!), Mulldrifter, etc, and multiple ways of tutoring for Crystal Shard (tutors, transmute). It was a blast to play with, with so many decisions needed to be made, dependent upon what your opponent did. However, I didn't go undefeated, because I was thoroughly outplayed by my friend, and when we switched decks, he trounced me soundly with my own draft deck. Though it was also partially because I kept on whiffing off of his Call of the Wild (the one from Weatherlight, yeah, with the anorexic Shrek in the picture box).
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As for my favorite artifact of all time, it has to be Barl's Cage. While this card is in no way good it was a key cog of one of my favorite decks of all time. Back in the days after chronicles I first started to get the bug for building goofy decks and the first one I decided to build was an all artifact deck. I had been misled about the rule of 4 and was told that you could have as many lands as you wanted, so my deck had 20 tron pieces in it. And the group I played in allowed mana-seeding and was almost always a big multiplayer game. So being able to lock down basically all of my opponents creatures for three mana a pop was awesome. And to do this at a time when there still weren't many cards with an all artifact deck with. And I was a 7th grader so my magic budget was limited. So to have a card that could complete dominate the multiplayer games was absolutely awesome.
It seems that a lot of the discussion about the PT changes has revolved around the question of Wizards' financial stability, fueling low-level (but constant) concerns about the long-term viability of the professional side of the game. I've heard/read this not only on MTGcast and the constantly annoying "Magic is dying" threads on various boards around the web, but also among other significant Magic meta-shapers on StarCityGames, Gleemax, the players' union, and others.
Honestly, though, I'm a little wary and weary of this line of thinking. In my region, we've usually had just one PTQ for each season, with turnout hitting somewhere between 60-100 players. This season, we've got three PTQs for Hollywood, two in the usual 2-hour drive range, and one that's a 10-minute walk from my front door. The first one (just a couple weeks ago) had almost 200 players.
To help clarify my understanding of Magic's financial state, I did a little Googling and found that Hasbro will be webcasting a conference call on its latest financials summary for investors and the media on Monday, February 11 at 8:30 am EST. Granted, this is Wizards' parent company, and the financial health of one isn't necessarily indicative of the other's well-being. However, it's likely that they'll highlight their best and worst performing divisions, and I'll be interested to see what comes from these figures.
Essentially, though, I'm not all that worried about the financial state of the game's maker. I do concede that being a part of Hasbro certainly has the potential to stretch Wizards' budget for things like the PT as their revenue now finances an additional tier of corporate execs and the attendant bureaucracy.
If it comes out that the financials are fine, though, I think a number of the critics of the PT changes will need to retract a certain amount of their fearmongering and simply accept that the PT changes will have been made for other reasons than financial instability.
What those reasons are, I can't speculate, but I have seen a strong increase in Wizards' support for local tournaments like City Champs, Gold Tier, Summer of Magic, stronger release tourneys, and similar programs in the last year.
The players' union, though, can still have a strong and valid purpose regardless of the answer to the financial question. Players need to be told what's going on, and they need to know that the game's makers are committed to supporting them in the face of competing priorities for Hasbro, market forces, organizers, and Mothra.
As for a favorite artifact, I'd have to say Sensei's Divining Top. Back when CHK first came out, I was a casual player (occasional FNM, mostly kitchen table "Type 0" games). I picked up a couple of tops (one of them foil, for $1.50!) and threw them into a mono-blue milling deck I'd made up. The deck ran Helm of Awakening to power out Mesmeric Orb, Thought Dissector, and Altar of Dementia (with Reins of Power).
In the middle of a game with my roommate, I accidentally ran into the infinite milling combo when I tapped one top, drew the other one, played it, and then my roommate said "Hey, I think you did that out of order. You're supposed to draw the card first so you don't get the top back right away." Hit by this flash of insight, I immediately thanked him and, a googolplex of iterations later, I tapped one island for a Brain Freeze.
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Favorite cards of all time:
Overall - Peacekeeper
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Titania's Song, Mirror Gallery, Gleemax, Copy Artifact
Hate to break it to you Gavin, but even with four cards, this isn't a combo. Titania's song says
"Each noncreature artifact loses its abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost. If Titania's Song leaves play, this effect continues until end of turn."
So mirror gallery will not be a 5 mana artifact with "The legend rule does not apply", it will be a 5 mana 5/5 artifact creature with no abilities, and your pair of 1,000,000/1,000,000 Legendary Artifact Creatures named Gleemax with no abilities will still explode.
For a more reasonable way to get two animated Gleemax, try
Gleemax + Titania's Song + Sakashima the Impostor
Now I don't have time to think of a favorite artifact, I'll just go ahead and say that Sakashima copying an animated gleemax is my favorite artifact ever. That, or Sakashima copying Mecha-Godzilla.
Just like Big Foot, its hard to tell what's really going on with WOTC and Organized Play.
Favorite Artifact: I had made a artifact deck around this card with Blinkmoth Urn, and Staff of Domination, it is: Rod of Spanking. Oh yeah we spank the monkey....
For more serious play Ornithopter, making him bigger with either counters or Jittes or Blanchwood Armor or what ever you are in the mood for.
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Blinkmoth Urn + Gemstone Array = Fun times. Add Mycosynth Lattice for a bit of mana burn. The Array is good for storing up mana when you have a weird amount of it from the Urn. A good friend had a deck where he'd put a ton of counters on Gemstone Array with mana from the Urn and then plop down a Memnarch and take all your permanents in one turn. I teched Leonin Abunas in against it and my deck totally wrecked his.