As I said, 'essentially'. You draw three(that's inarguable). You know what your next two draws are, IN WHAT ORDER. Essentially, that is a scry, is it not? We could argue that all day, but essentially it still remains the same, just missing the keyword really.
Looking back at my post, I should clarify: I too, am surprised that Jace is clocking in at #3. I perhaps took your comments to mean that Jace 2.0 doesn't deserve even being in the top 10, which is probably also wrong. And perhaps I'm biased because of his use in my Niv deck. I AM surprised, what with all support for Garruk and(likely) his +1, there should have been more support for Xen and his +1. I definitely expected to see him hovering around the bottom(maybe he was #11...I dunno).
Not sure I agree with Teferi that high, but I can basically agree with the rest of them in the top 10. Xenagos and Elspeth are houses, OGarruk might be the least flashy walker ever printed but he's about as solid as you can be. Dack Fayden is super duper, JTMS can warp games, and Tezz can make artifact subthemes work all by himself. I respect Ugin, but don't have one, and I've never seen Daretti in action because I don't have one, but it does have promise. And I wanted some BR walker better than Sarkhan the Mad.
As I said, 'essentially'. You draw three(that's inarguable). You know what your next two draws are, IN WHAT ORDER. Essentially, that is a scry, is it not? We could argue that all day, but essentially it still remains the same, just missing the keyword really.
Looking back at my post, I should clarify: I too, am surprised that Jace is clocking in at #3. I perhaps took your comments to mean that Jace 2.0 doesn't deserve even being in the top 10, which is probably also wrong. And perhaps I'm biased because of his use in my Niv deck. I AM surprised, what with all support for Garruk and(likely) his +1, there should have been more support for Xen and his +1. I definitely expected to see him hovering around the bottom(maybe he was #11...I dunno).
I wonder if maybe I'm being trolled? Putting 2 cards from your hand on top of your deck, if you don't have any way to get rid of them, essentially equals skipping your next 2 draws (if you cast brainstorm + divination you'll have exactly the same cards in your hand than if you just cast jace's ingenuity). So draw 3, skip your next 2 draws basically equals draw 1. If you've got some way to exploit knowing your top card (melek, izzet paragon for example) then jace/brainstorm get much much better, no argument here. And if you have a reshuffle effect then brainstorm approaches drawing 3. But if you're just activating jace and doing nothing with the cards, then it's just a draw 1 with a little extra card selection, all of which is cancelled out after 2 draws.
Jace may be better than I think he is. Personally I wouldn't put him in the top 10 and maybe not even top 20. He's great for melek and decent anywhere but doesn't do anything super amazing in most decks imo. But he is absolutely not a draw 3 scry 2.
Glad you got it so quick. Not terrible, I was curious if I got you an amazing foil.
When I sold a lotus recently we celebrated by buying 2 eternal masters.
I got a shardless as well.
He got a foil wasteland.
At least I made a ton of cash.
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Cool. Ajani Goldmane's kinda weird, since he really needs a lot of support to be playable. Obviously he can be quite useful in Oloro, though you can expect he'll get taken out quickly, if for no other reason than because early Propagandas don't protect planeswalkers.
No one likes Tibalt. Um, I guess he passes the Sun Titan test, and, like all looting, he has some use with Alhammarret's Archive? The "random" part really kills him, though. I remember what I really hated about getting hit with discard in the early days (Hippy, Hymn, Mind Twist) was the "random" part.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
I'd like to see an article on cEDH meta cards. Most lists I've seen have roughly 5% of their list devoted to interacting with T1 decks. These cards tend to suck when I play them in untuned metas.
Ex.:
- Carpet of flowers in a grouo without ABU duals
- Mental Misstep is often dead against 75% lists
I think the assessment of planeswalkers in general, one must consider the archtype they are played in. I think Tezz should be rated higher, just because of the fact when in an artifact based deck, untapping mana rocks or tutoring up a key piece is bonkers powerful. I also think JTMS being rated kinda low is....off. Everyone kinda ssumes he will die in a turn, why? It's not like JTMS is being jammed into any deck with blue mana. If you play him in a deck where his strengths are utilized and he can be protected by countermagic, mass removal or pillowfort cards snd shuffle effects, then he is justifiably powerful. Fatesealing an adversary, brainstorming with shuffle effects repeatedly is powerful, even in edh. I think to correctly assess any card, it shouldn't be examined in a vacuum but in relationship to deck strategy and complimentary cards.
Hey guys, I'm trying something out where I take a generally meh general and try and optimize for competitive commander. I went with Surrak Dragonclaw for my first article because it's something I was interested in trying out before Prophet was banned.
Let me know if you're interested in seeing other not tier one or two generals optimized in the future.
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Rhys could be an interesting challenge to make competpive.
Right now I'm working on a competpive Boros deck.
It's....something.
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Can you tell us, which commander you are planing for that?
It seems that there is no obvious "best" boros commander. Some people like Gisela, others vote for Tajic or Iroas or Kalemne...
Personally, I like Jor Kardeen, for voltron / token beatdown with MLD / stax, but I'm not sure, if this would be very competitve.
Is there a Depala Combo deck?
You'll see it soon enough.
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Hey guys, over the years I've gotten a lot of questions regarding how to play reanimator competitively so this is my article. If you have any questions please let me know. Thanks!
Hey guys so I've actually moved on from commander on to 60 card decks so I don't have any commander decks.
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But because Reanimatoe has been done to death by me in the past and last time I asked there was a massive amount of people who wanted a competitive Boros deck. Well here's what I have to say.
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Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
The silencers plus sunforger should probably make it in
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It's not Boros when you combo! Heck, it's not Boros if you win! (just kidding)
I'd really like to see this deck in action, against some other top tier decks.
Red and White have a lot more answers to chose from. What do you think about Stranglehold? Or is Aven Mindcensor better?
Both are solid but they're more stax effects and we're trying to combo out here instead. They can be good but I'm not sure what I'd cut for them
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Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Hey guys, I did a little write up on my favorite magic cards, just as a little just for fun thing. Wondering what your own personal top ten are as well
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Living Plane is evil! But yeah, it's one of my favorites.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Hi, really like your blog!
That being said, I'm brewing a ruric thar deck, but I cannot really get it to the place I believe it will work. I cannot use infinite combo's or MLD, but want to make it as competitive as possible(Something like savage ventmaw + hellkite charger is acceptable though.)
Might be an interesting one for you
The production you have on blogging is pretty impressive:)
Hi, really like your blog!
That being said, I'm brewing a ruric thar deck, but I cannot really get it to the place I believe it will work. I cannot use infinite combo's or MLD, but want to make it as competitive as possible(Something like savage ventmaw + hellkite charger is acceptable though.)
Might be an interesting one for you
The production you have on blogging is pretty impressive:)
I think Ruric Thar has been done well before. It got very far in the competitive edh tourney a while ago
Does quite a bit of LD in it but it works well with what the deck wants to do
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Looking back at my post, I should clarify: I too, am surprised that Jace is clocking in at #3. I perhaps took your comments to mean that Jace 2.0 doesn't deserve even being in the top 10, which is probably also wrong. And perhaps I'm biased because of his use in my Niv deck. I AM surprised, what with all support for Garruk and(likely) his +1, there should have been more support for Xen and his +1. I definitely expected to see him hovering around the bottom(maybe he was #11...I dunno).
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Jace may be better than I think he is. Personally I wouldn't put him in the top 10 and maybe not even top 20. He's great for melek and decent anywhere but doesn't do anything super amazing in most decks imo. But he is absolutely not a draw 3 scry 2.
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PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6
My foil was Prowling Pangolin
All in all, not a terrible pack.
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Glad you got it so quick. Not terrible, I was curious if I got you an amazing foil.
When I sold a lotus recently we celebrated by buying 2 eternal masters.
I got a shardless as well.
He got a foil wasteland.
At least I made a ton of cash.
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UpsidedownHandshake
No one likes Tibalt. Um, I guess he passes the Sun Titan test, and, like all looting, he has some use with Alhammarret's Archive? The "random" part really kills him, though. I remember what I really hated about getting hit with discard in the early days (Hippy, Hymn, Mind Twist) was the "random" part.
On phasing:
Ex.:
- Carpet of flowers in a grouo without ABU duals
- Mental Misstep is often dead against 75% lists
There is more but you get the idea.
Let me know if you're interested in seeing other not tier one or two generals optimized in the future.
http://diestodoomblade.blogspot.com/2017/01/spike-me-episode-1-surrak-dragonclaw.html
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UpsidedownHandshake
Right now I'm working on a competpive Boros deck.
It's....something.
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UpsidedownHandshake
You'll see it soon enough.
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UpsidedownHandshake
http://diestodoomblade.blogspot.com/2017/02/optimizing-reanimator-in-commander.html
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UpsidedownHandshake
http://diestodoomblade.blogspot.com/2017/02/spike-me-episode-2-depala-pilot-exemplar.html
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UpsidedownHandshake
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UpsidedownHandshake
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The silencers plus sunforger should probably make it in
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UpsidedownHandshake
Both are solid but they're more stax effects and we're trying to combo out here instead. They can be good but I'm not sure what I'd cut for them
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
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I really think you are on to something here...
I have my own article for that.
Enjoy
http://diestodoomblade.blogspot.com/2017/02/should-competitive-edh-be-thing.html
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
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http://diestodoomblade.blogspot.com/2017/02/my-top-ten.html
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UpsidedownHandshake
On phasing:
That being said, I'm brewing a ruric thar deck, but I cannot really get it to the place I believe it will work. I cannot use infinite combo's or MLD, but want to make it as competitive as possible(Something like savage ventmaw + hellkite charger is acceptable though.)
Might be an interesting one for you
The production you have on blogging is pretty impressive:)
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I think Ruric Thar has been done well before. It got very far in the competitive edh tourney a while ago
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/ruric-thar-competitive-your-heart-is-a-muscle/
Does quite a bit of LD in it but it works well with what the deck wants to do
Anyway I've started my own gameplay channel in which I play games (Magic also)
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/dies_to_doom_blade
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UpsidedownHandshake