Hey ice age! thanks for posting the cube draft. It has been very enjoyable to watch. Just one thing, Watching match 1, game 1, you probably should have desertioned the geist of saint traft, because it would have been attacking into an empty board, and i am pretty sure that it would have won you the game (and consequentially the match).
hey lanxal, I am currently in the process of putting together a cube that is a near copy of your cube with a few changes, and i was wondering what kind of sleeves you used. I looked in the sleeve discussion thread but i figured that the kind of protection given to powered cubes is probably a bit over the top for peasant. So, in short, do you double sleeve and what kind of sleeves are you using?
i play mostly 4 pack sealed online. I run 2 color, splashing a third for one card or a couple of flashbacks almost 100% of the time. This is mostly because i will splash curse of the bloody tome no matter what colors i am in. sssooooo good in thirty card decks.
What do you guys think of blood moon as a sideboard card for modern?
It shuts down zoo's manabase, kills punishing grove and shuts down affinity's manlands. It also kills the mana bases of many other decks that use mostly nonbasics.
I have been using it as a four of in the sideboard of my mostly basics living end deck and have had great results with it but i think that with 12post gone it might not be worth the slots anymore.
This is the deck I put together for the overextended tournaments on mtgo hosted by gavin verhey. It is pretty solid but kinda slow for a combo deck. That being said, I have been playing it in the tourney practice room and have been having good results. It absolutely stomps on most forms of aggro and is far more resiliant to grave hate than dredge.
what do you think? Suggestions?
BTW i am thinking that this might be slightly legacy viable. that is why I am posting this here. It beats zoo and merfolk quite handily.
just watched your nph sealed (both) and i noticed that you could have won game 2 of match three even under the elesh norn if you activated the forgemaster in response to the elesh or the turn earlier. You could have swung with the steel hellkite the next turn and taken out both norn and the chancellor. If you had done it the trun before you could have killed off all of the tokens for free then killed norn and the chancellor the next turn.
I have watched a lot of your drafts and I have noticed that your gameplay and drafting has improved immensely from your earlier vids to your later ones. In some of the earlier ones I can clearly point out huge misplays that lost you games and even matches. Later on I can find none of these. Is this mostly due to the nervousness of recording your first drafts? I can tell from your later recordings that you are a very strong drafter and I enjoy the vids a lot. Keep it up!
You have a point here, I guess it has been stated here that people do believe that a burglar's human rights are revoked upon entry into anothers residence. I, however, do not believe that people somehow become inhuman by breaking the law.
A home invasion is not the same thing as a robbery. Look up statistics for home invasions, if you want to make that case.
A burglary is a non-violent crime. A home invasion is a violent crime. You might as well equate a lewd phone call with a rape.
This is not true, legally, home invasion and burglary are nearly identical. A burglary is defined as breaking and entry into a dwelling with the intent to commit a felony, home invasion is defined as breaking and entering into a dwelling with the intention to commit a felony, larceny or misdemeanor or entering into a dwelling without permission and commiting a felony, larceny, or misdemeanor. A home invasion is not necessarily violent as you have claimed. Thus my previously stated statistics still stand, if you are not prepared to defend yourself in your home and you live in the US, you are taking a 50/50 gamble with your welfare.
I do agree very much on the ideas of dcartist in his last post. Booby trapping is indiscriminate and quite on par with the crimes it is meant to deter.
I also think that dcartists idea of a good alarm system would be a fantastic idea. This would probably scare off most intruders (those who are not prepared for and willing to be involved in confrontation) and would thus prevent many instances of lethal confrontation between a homeowner and a burglar. This, although not a preemtive deterrent to burglary, would stop most burglaries from becoming violent. I still, however, stand by my point that a homeowner should be able to defend their person and their family if this does not deter the intruder.
I support the right of homeowners to protect their wellbeing, just not through the use of traps.
Firstly I would like to state that I am not in any way in favor of the legalization of traps in houses in any capacity. I feel that the ability to harm a home intruder should never be given to a mindless object without human discretion and conscience.
I do however disagree with a few of the other arguments being made against home defense. As for the statement by dcartist and others that most of us have broken the law and are therefore criminals, the statement has never been made in this thread that simply by breaking the law a person forfeits his human rights. The argument was that a person endagers himself by breaking and entering into anothers home and there may be ramifications to that action. Tuss, what would you like a homeowner to do when he wakes up and finds a burglar in his home? I would like to know what you would do if you woke up to a a burglar in your home carrying a knife or other weapon. At that point it really doesn't matter if they brought the knife with them because they expected to meet resistance; they could have grabbed it from your kitchen.
Also, to those of you who talked about the fact that the majority of crimes in the united states are nonviolent, if there is only one murder or rape for every twenty burglaries, that does not count for the number of assaults and batteries. Accoring to US disaster center statistics there were 1,318,398 violent crimes in 2009 and 2,196,971 burglaries. If your argument is that you are not regularly in danger of physical harm when your house gets burglarized and thus should not be prepared to protect yourself against an intruder, I would like to ask you this, how many of you would play Russian Roulette with three chambers in a six shot revolver loaded? That is roughly the chances you are taking in not being prepared to defend yourself in the event of a home invasion robbery.
And lastly, to address the idea of locking doors to keep a burglar from escaping, this sounds like an absolutely terrible idea because cornering a person who has broken into a home will make them even more likely to be willing to use deadly force on the residents of the home. If safety is what you are looking for this would not be a good option even though more criminals would be caught.
EDIT: Just realized this was already posted. Whats the best way in modern to guarantee the reservoir is on the bottom of the library.
Although i do feel as if it would be a lot better card if there was more U/x control in the format.
It shuts down zoo's manabase, kills punishing grove and shuts down affinity's manlands. It also kills the mana bases of many other decks that use mostly nonbasics.
I have been using it as a four of in the sideboard of my mostly basics living end deck and have had great results with it but i think that with 12post gone it might not be worth the slots anymore.
thoughts?
3 Shriekmaw
4 Deadshot Minotaur
4 Igneous Pouncer
4 Monstrous Carabid
3 Street Wraith
4 Jungle Weaver
4 Valley Rannet
4 Violent Outburst
4 Demonic Dread
4 Forbidden Orchard
5 Forest
6 Mountain
5 Swamp
This is the deck I put together for the overextended tournaments on mtgo hosted by gavin verhey. It is pretty solid but kinda slow for a combo deck. That being said, I have been playing it in the tourney practice room and have been having good results. It absolutely stomps on most forms of aggro and is far more resiliant to grave hate than dredge.
what do you think? Suggestions?
BTW i am thinking that this might be slightly legacy viable. that is why I am posting this here. It beats zoo and merfolk quite handily.
You have a point here, I guess it has been stated here that people do believe that a burglar's human rights are revoked upon entry into anothers residence. I, however, do not believe that people somehow become inhuman by breaking the law.
This is not true, legally, home invasion and burglary are nearly identical. A burglary is defined as breaking and entry into a dwelling with the intent to commit a felony, home invasion is defined as breaking and entering into a dwelling with the intention to commit a felony, larceny or misdemeanor or entering into a dwelling without permission and commiting a felony, larceny, or misdemeanor. A home invasion is not necessarily violent as you have claimed. Thus my previously stated statistics still stand, if you are not prepared to defend yourself in your home and you live in the US, you are taking a 50/50 gamble with your welfare.
I do agree very much on the ideas of dcartist in his last post. Booby trapping is indiscriminate and quite on par with the crimes it is meant to deter.
I also think that dcartists idea of a good alarm system would be a fantastic idea. This would probably scare off most intruders (those who are not prepared for and willing to be involved in confrontation) and would thus prevent many instances of lethal confrontation between a homeowner and a burglar. This, although not a preemtive deterrent to burglary, would stop most burglaries from becoming violent. I still, however, stand by my point that a homeowner should be able to defend their person and their family if this does not deter the intruder.
I support the right of homeowners to protect their wellbeing, just not through the use of traps.
I do however disagree with a few of the other arguments being made against home defense. As for the statement by dcartist and others that most of us have broken the law and are therefore criminals, the statement has never been made in this thread that simply by breaking the law a person forfeits his human rights. The argument was that a person endagers himself by breaking and entering into anothers home and there may be ramifications to that action. Tuss, what would you like a homeowner to do when he wakes up and finds a burglar in his home? I would like to know what you would do if you woke up to a a burglar in your home carrying a knife or other weapon. At that point it really doesn't matter if they brought the knife with them because they expected to meet resistance; they could have grabbed it from your kitchen.
Also, to those of you who talked about the fact that the majority of crimes in the united states are nonviolent, if there is only one murder or rape for every twenty burglaries, that does not count for the number of assaults and batteries. Accoring to US disaster center statistics there were 1,318,398 violent crimes in 2009 and 2,196,971 burglaries. If your argument is that you are not regularly in danger of physical harm when your house gets burglarized and thus should not be prepared to protect yourself against an intruder, I would like to ask you this, how many of you would play Russian Roulette with three chambers in a six shot revolver loaded? That is roughly the chances you are taking in not being prepared to defend yourself in the event of a home invasion robbery.
And lastly, to address the idea of locking doors to keep a burglar from escaping, this sounds like an absolutely terrible idea because cornering a person who has broken into a home will make them even more likely to be willing to use deadly force on the residents of the home. If safety is what you are looking for this would not be a good option even though more criminals would be caught.