The Dragon seems... okay with Blessings of Nature? Your opponent attacks you and you take it, then miracle Blessings and swing for 8 on turn 2-3 (2 with a Shockland)? I just don't know.
Below are some of my favorite cards from my collection.
My favorite Green Spells and some artifacts, and A Library (it's not real. Painted by Yawg07)
Black spells I love.
Some of my favorite random blue spells
Some Guru Lands (Note they're Japanese)
The drains and forces have made their way around the net, but I still love them. And flusterstorms. Japanese ones seem rarer than foil ones, nowadays.
Duals. Unlimited, and Altered by Yawg07
I actually could have bought real power and had them altered now, but truth told, I like these more.
I'm almost confused as to what I'm looking at. Are all of the ones that look like the text box is handwritten Japanese real or fake? You said the Library was fake and the Power looks a little off, but what about the Forces and Mana Drains? Are the entire cards proxies or did you basically have yawg07 transcribe the text?
This guy seems more like a 'finisher' for standard delver decks to me. You don't have to dedicate yourself to milling in order to make him viable. By turn 4-5, a general tempo deck will have that many cards in the yard anyway, especially if they're running Thought Scour. Snapcaster Mage already likes the graveyard, so it's not like it's even going to take that much of a configuration change to make this guy work. Is he broken? Not really. Is he versatile? Kinda, he's a Flying Man that can rather inevitably turn into a more healthy beatstick. Maybe it will make that stupid Pike worth something again, too.
Here's one project I've been working on, while it's still incomplete and I still have parts coming through mail, I decided to give the partial project some visibility as this thread has slowed down a lot.
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First full set, all foils
All foils
And almost there for one card, all foil
With maximum of 330 copies from premium Helvaults four copies will be 1 % of the whole population. The last Avacyn is in the mail along with 3 Grizelbrands, leaving me needing only three more copies of the multicolored angels.
I was at first aiming for 1 % of the Angel/Demon foils, but getting 22 of them proved a bit challenging due to the cost, so I switched tracks to the oversized cards. If the tokens ever drop below 10 € again, I might consider getting the remaining 17 copies. I will aim for at least 9 though.
My, what large hands you've got! That's pretty sexy though. How much were the oversized foils?
So I was joking with a friend that we should trade, since he's been a player for a long time but only recently started trading semi-regularly. He surprisingly obliged and handed me his binder and in it, I found this:
I was really happy to trade for it and he was glad to get rid of it. Picked it up for about $175 in trade.
I'm still 5-6 foils away from completing my Thrax deck, but when I do, I can't wait to be able to post it here.
I'm thinking this is could be a white enchantment that has Exalted and produces tokens when a condition is met... something like either:
Cathedral of War1WW
Enchantment (R) Exalted 1W: Put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.
or
Cathedral of War2W
Enchantment (R) Exalted
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield, tapped and attacking.
I had no intention of buying any of these, but now I am tempted to get them all. Dark Hatchling makes perfect sense in the ninja deck (play it and kill something, attack and bounce it with ninjutsu, and then playt it and kill something) and the new art looks awesome
I feel like they could've just as easily used Shriekmaw, which is uncommon and arguably just flat-out better with fear and Ninjutsu shenanigans, instead of wasting a rare spot and a new art commission on a generally awful card.
Great, now I have to pay $20 for a Student of Sakashima. I would just wait to trade someone for theirs, but a) almost nobody is going to buy this and b) those that do buy the Ninja one probably just want the Student as well. At least the one with Maelstrom Wanderer has something else you could never get before in them - non-foil FNM-art BBEs. Incredibly lackluster product overall. WTT Ink-Eyes, PST.
Well, since I hadn't been needing early white mana much at all with only 2 DoJ, it's been much better to have the Sunpetals. But if I switch to more DoJs, then I might drop 2 Sunpetal for 2 Razorverge. When I initially drew up the deck, I had 3 Razorverge and I almost always had lands coming into play tapped on turn 4 which was awful. Then I realized I didn't actually need white mana until I had 7 mana total and swapped them to Sunpetals and it worked out much smoother overall. That is literally the only thing stopping me from going to a more DoJ-oriented sweeper suite.
As opposed to them stealing... any of my other threats? If you can't recover from them stealing a Primeval Titan and smashing you in the face (you can't), then what's the difference?
I find it really odd that no one in this thread has been discussing Gisela. She is absolutely amazing and nigh-impossible for R/G Wolf Run to beat. I'm expecting a Wolf Run and R/G Aggro meta, but hopefully I've got enough to slow down Humans as well. I'm hoping that the sheer existence of Cavern of Souls continues to keep control decks to a minimum, as it has been doing, but I may also drop the Stronghold and a basic for 2 Caverns. I don't really understand how people are proposing fitting Glimmerposts in a tri-color deck and expecting any kind of consistency when over a third of your lands don't tap for colors.
The only thing I'm unsure of is my sweeper count. I tested with (DoJ/Slag/Whip): 0/3/3, 2/4/0, and 2/2/2 and 2/2/2 feels the best. Thoughts?
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But I guess, who isn't?
Also, with the name Thragtusk, I was assuming this would be a legendary creature. It sounds pretty legendary to me.
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I'm almost confused as to what I'm looking at. Are all of the ones that look like the text box is handwritten Japanese real or fake? You said the Library was fake and the Power looks a little off, but what about the Forces and Mana Drains? Are the entire cards proxies or did you basically have yawg07 transcribe the text?
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My, what large hands you've got! That's pretty sexy though. How much were the oversized foils?
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T1: Land, Noble Hierarch
T2: Land, Geist of Saint Traft
T3: Land, Rafiq of the Many, attack with Geist for 8 total?
Sign me up.
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I was really happy to trade for it and he was glad to get rid of it. Picked it up for about $175 in trade.
I'm still 5-6 foils away from completing my Thrax deck, but when I do, I can't wait to be able to post it here.
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Cathedral of War 1WW
Enchantment (R)
Exalted
1W: Put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.
or
Cathedral of War 2W
Enchantment (R)
Exalted
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield, tapped and attacking.
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I feel like they could've just as easily used Shriekmaw, which is uncommon and arguably just flat-out better with fear and Ninjutsu shenanigans, instead of wasting a rare spot and a new art commission on a generally awful card.
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As opposed to them stealing... any of my other threats? If you can't recover from them stealing a Primeval Titan and smashing you in the face (you can't), then what's the difference?
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4 Sphere of the Suns
Creatures (18)
1 Birds of Paradise
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
4 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Acidic Slime
4 Primeval Titan
2 Inferno Titan
2 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
2 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Sorceries (12)
2 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Rampant Growth
2 Day of Judgment
2 Whipflare
2 Slagstorm
2 Kessig Wolf Run
3 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Copperline Gorge
2 Rootbound Crag
2 Clifftop Retreat
4 Sunpetal Grove
1 Slayers' Stronghold
2 Plains
4 Forest
2 Mountain
2 Zealous Conscripts
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Naturalize
1 Ratchet Bomb
3 Timely Reinforcements
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
2 Batterskull
1 Karn Liberated
I find it really odd that no one in this thread has been discussing Gisela. She is absolutely amazing and nigh-impossible for R/G Wolf Run to beat. I'm expecting a Wolf Run and R/G Aggro meta, but hopefully I've got enough to slow down Humans as well. I'm hoping that the sheer existence of Cavern of Souls continues to keep control decks to a minimum, as it has been doing, but I may also drop the Stronghold and a basic for 2 Caverns. I don't really understand how people are proposing fitting Glimmerposts in a tri-color deck and expecting any kind of consistency when over a third of your lands don't tap for colors.
The only thing I'm unsure of is my sweeper count. I tested with (DoJ/Slag/Whip): 0/3/3, 2/4/0, and 2/2/2 and 2/2/2 feels the best. Thoughts?
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