MTG Salvation

Quote from zenbitz »

I liked Infectious Bloodlust better, fuels delirium at ~0 card disadvantage (technically you can't fetch the 5th one up)

Came back a few weeks ago, fired up a draft on MTGO and drafted Infectious Bloodlust and the card was very good. I know a jump from draft to constructed but it can give red a way to grind out a longer game than normal. You would want something with evasion probably to maximize damage.

What about Brain in a Jar? Also I would love to see a hybrid Madness with the 1 mana cantrips. Are there any 1 mana creatures that do a lot of damage with spells?

Quote from drakeavril »

Yahoo, 16 copies MB in the SCG open top 9. My pet card is doing well!

Sell or you gonna get burned, price is not sustainable (even for a mythic) and expect more spot removal going forward (it might see more play in side due to White Humans deck and/or other swarm going forward but sell now, buy later)

One of the most expensive Standard formats I've played in a while but at such a disadvantage missing Origins and earlier sets ($13 little Jace etc). So hard to get in late with this new block rotation (more sets in Standard) and it seems like every deck is mostly either full of rares (avg $8 a pop) and mythics ($13 a pop avg). The fetch lands did rotate and that help cut down on some of the price but a lot of support seems to be printed rare (Tranverse, Declaration in Stone) and the new lands will go up once new set is released (unless they have lands that are better). Looking at budget deck and $100 to run both Gideons in Mono White Humans is annoying.

Quote from twicky_kid »

Sinister Concoction will see play.

Very impressed by this card.

Skin Invasion is another card I'm interested in (haven't play with but seems good), not seeing either in a lot of BRx builds quite disappointing

Call the Bloodline gonna be in a lot of builds I suspect.

Warbringer.

Silumgar, the Drifting Death can't tell you how many times I've played vs UB thinking I have game won when they drop a copy and I have no answer to the attacking 'wall'.

Play MTGO until you can build a collection IRL imo.

Siege Rhino is a pretty good Magic card it turns out

Warbringer is pretty ridic, I can see almost always Dashing him. Also increases Goblin Heelcutter power level (already good card in RDW); t3, Healcutter swing. t4, Warbringer + Healcutter. t5, Warbringer + Healcutter + other dash. Also makes Foundry Street Denizen even better.

Shahar just got that rungood

higher price + tax killed it for me to buy from local, bought online at lower price and got good amount of CB.. I could have bought singles but this is the first set so I am willing to invest then say 2nd/3rd set instead of buying singles. Coming back to the game, I also need to increase my lack of a collection so bought 2 boxes instead of singles. Yes I know its gambling but luckily I can afford to atm.

Should I pick up a set PRM Moxen? I know PRM are hard to sell but I probably want to play with them and I only need 1 each for Vintage right? This is probably a long term thing since Vintage isn't super popular but could be?

He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.

I played competitive Chess for a few years (while playing Yugioh) then got into Poker and now MTG. I cannot go back to playing chess or Yugioh or Chess (i do still play some bughouse and casual blitz), imo Poker and MTG are superior due to the skill level but enough luck factor to not detour casual players. Only problem with MTG is that you need a collection for the constructed formats which can be expensive for little gain (once you make the initial investment then you only need to update for new cards), also the game is not as profitable as say Poker.