Also attached below are images of my current decklist and temur toolkit that has everything I need to craft the best Temur Delver list. And yes, all the cards pictured except for the 3 Surgicals, 2 Delay and 1 Hazoret are FOIL. GP Los Angeles 3/1/2019 will be my last hurrah for magic, a victory lap so-to-say. It will be a farewell to the game and my beloved deck of choice. I'm probably not going to play in the main event, but I will for sure be jamming some side events with the deck before I hand it over to the vendors.
As a thank you to @ashtonkutcher for the countless hours, articles, and postings he has put into the archetype, I will be mailing him a card of his choice from the aforementioned collection. So Jordan, send me a message so I can get that card shipped out to ya! Thank you so so much!
And also as a way of expressing my gratitude to the people who post here, I will be giving away one more card. One lucky person will also receive a card of his/her choosing! Here are the necessary conditions that you need to meet in order to have a chance of winning:
- You need to have at least ONE post in this thread before 2/14/2019.
- You hit this post with a like.
Again, thanks everyone for the great times and memories. As for why I am deciding to quit magic, there are a couple of reasons. 1) I've become disillusioned with the game. Between how much time it takes during the matches to shuffle decks, personal distastes of games that include mulligans, the streamlining and "weaponizing" of Modern, and how little enjoyment I get out of the game nowadays: my passion for the game has run its course. 2) Realizing that there is more to life than having shiny pieces of cardboard. I look at how much money I have spent on these things that just don't last and I wonder if there are better things I could be doing with my money. Throughout my magic career, I would always want more and shinier cards, thinking that once I acquired them I would be satisfied and happy. But the truth is, that anytime we look to material things for fulfillment, they never provide it. Sure, it feels good to acquire new magic cards, but feelings fade and pretty soon I find myself wanting to feel that good feeling again. And so the cycle continues. Don't let this happen to you!
Anyways, I digress. It's been a good ride, fellow Delver and Hootie aficionados. May your Delvers always flip, Goyfs always be 6/7's, and Thought Scours never mill all your fetchable lands. -Riku.
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4 Wild Nacatl
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Hooting Mandrills
1 Snapcaster Mage
Planeswalkers (3)
3 Wrenn and Six
Artifacts (2)
2 Mishra’s Bauble
Instants (14)
4 Path to Exile
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Mutagenic Growth
2 Spell Pierce
2 Mana Leak
Sorceries (9)
4 Serum Visions
3 Light Up the Stage
2 Faithless Looting
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Temple Garden
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Breeding Pool
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Forest
1 Island
2 Damping Sphere
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Rest in Peace
1 Surgical Extraction
2 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Hazoret the Fervent
1 Snapcaster Mage
2 Pyroclasm
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Destructive Revelry
1 Veil of Summer
1 Fry
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- Consider having multiple admins in case something goes wrong with one user. I'd be happy to admin if needed.
- A big benefit of facebook over Discord is that it's thread-based, liked reddit, but you can scroll through the posts, making it more like a forum. I too think this is a cleaner replacement than Discord, which is just a massive chat stream.
- I have Discord but never use it; I don't like the auto-launch, the RAM it takes up while running, or the notifications. When I do launch it myself, I end up closing it after doing a quick check of whatever "subs" I follow. Maybe I'm just using it wrong, but I don't see it working for me personally, and wonder if others might share a similar experience. Since Discord works better for some users and facebook for others, why not just have both? Seems like there's ample motivation in this thread to keep the discourse going elsewhere.
On the news of mtgsalvation closing, I agree it's disappointing stuff. I'm very proud of the community we've built in this thread and the level of insight we were able to achieve through our dedication to a few silly Modern cards. I'll try to update the primer before the site becomes archived to be more comprehensive and include recent developments, and will take recs on how to go about doing that. Thanks to everyone who's contributed over the years!
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In a nutshell, I agree with most posters here that the deck won't be touched until May 20, and even then not unless it continues to put up results similar to those of GP LA and Bilbao. Manamorphose seems like the most elegant hit to me (sorry Storm!).
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2 Dovin, Grand Arbiter
2 Gideon of the Trials
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
Creature (2)
2 Snapcaster Mage
Sorcery (6)
4 Terminus
2 Timely Reinforcements
Instant (15)
4 Cryptic Command
2 Logic Knot
4 Opt
4 Path to Exile
1 Spell Snare
1 Crucible of Worlds
Enchantment (2)
2 Search for Azcanta
Land (25)
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Field of Ruin
4 Flooded Strand
2 Ghost Quarter
2 Glacial Fortress
2 Hallowed Fountain
5 Island
2 Plains
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Baneslayer Angel
1 Celestial Purge
1 Disenchant
2 Dispel
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
1 Lyra Dawnbringer
2 Negate
4 Rest in Peace
1 Settle the Wreckage
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2 Damping Sphere
2 Pyroclasm
2 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Hazoret the Fervent
1 Shapers' Sanctuary
1 Negate
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Destructive Revelry
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