Sad to seeya go buddy. Been fun playing with you. I can understand the thought process as well I think from you techies.
Step 1) Take a simple idea, like Guan Yu voltron and build it with flavorful cards and decent cards.
Step 2) Upgrade or change strategies with the deck.
From the looks of it you really wanted to just relax and beat face with Guan Yu, however our meta wasn't really favorable to that. So unless you upgraded your deck to Guan Yu Voltron Goodstuff, you would basically be playing what you hated and the alternative was just to maintain board presence and slowly beat face with an unblockable 3/5 dude.
I honestly don't blame you though. Its pauper or play against Azami, Uril, or even Zur for starters; control or be controlled.
Who here has tried to screw over the Chaos deck... with chaos cards? I have had it happen more than once to me. Nothing the political deck could do at times without being backlashed by the chaos factor.
I.E: Political Player used Chaos Warp the Maelstrom Wanderer in an attempt to get rid of it since it got power-ramped into play, the Chaos Player reveals Possibility Storm to replace the general.
Sure political decks like to give people stuff, draw extra cards, help tame another threat for their own possible victory, but often political decks are also ones that just make the problem worse by magnifying it. I'M HELPING!
If you scoop to me to deny me like its the newest counterspell, I don't think you are man-enough-to-handle-it. That's right, I think even a newborn would have a bigger pair than you... because you want to be scooping just to deny my spell.
When I go play my Animar (Elemental Tribal) or my Maelstrom Wanderer (Taste the Chaos!) decks and someone scoops like that, it really doesn't sit with me well.
I don't have a problem if my opponent scoops though and they are not hindering another persons strategy in the process.
If they could abolish the Reserve List, it would mean more people would be able to enjoy whats on the reserve list. Possibly also making a larger profit by more people buying the product, like boosters, for a lottery-like chance that also was not Limited-Print.
Stuff that is either intentionally cool or unintentionally cool.
I will go first. Early game on turn 4 I cast Winds of Change which inadvertenly threw off Sedraxis who on his Turn 3 had tutored up a card.
So its my Turn 5, I have nine mana from manarocks and a smokebraider, I cast Worldly Tutor, no one has a response to it, I tutor up Supreme Exemplar and put it on top of my library. Then I cast my Maelstrom Wanderer so my Supreme Exemplar champions my Smokebraider and my other cascade card was a Green Sun's Zenith.
Yet it doesn't stop there. My opponent Purphoros, casts Chaos Warp on Maelstrom Wanderer, so I shuffle my deck furiously and reveal my next card to be... Possibility Storm. Which results in me winning because of randomized tutoring, like: You want to cast a removal spell at sorcery speed? Instead you got a sorcery speed tutor spell.
To me this was my coolest game as of recent as I won through the power of chaos.
I will agree that the epic and serious artwork can get us pumped when we play MTG yet EDH/COMM can make you rage and blow a casket sometimes. Sometimes though you need reminders to stay happy and relaxed when playing... like a proxy for one of your commanders that makes you feel nostalgia and joy. For me, this is my interpetation, by artwork and flavortext, on my favorite chaos-maker; Maelstrom Wanderer.
No I don't own the art, if you want to see the full version go find it.
:cookie::cookie::cookie: to those who get the reference.
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I heard there is this thing in EDH called "Politics" that involve strange new things called "Talking" and "Friendly Favors" like getting your bud a Soda from the fridge.
Yeah it doesn't have evasion. What a real shocker amiright? Actually its not a shocker.
Now why wouldn't it have Evasion? Political friendliness.
Why would you attack your opponent with a creature and has creatures that could kill it? Because of Politics.
Example TIME!
Bob: "Say George, maybe I could help ya out."
George: "Really now?"
Bob: "Yeah I will just send my Diviner Spirit at you for a lighttap so you can draw two more."
George: "I dunno about this."
Bob: "It will be alright, cause you will be happy with a few new cards that could help ya against Pete over there."
George: "Yeah you got a point... Come at me bro!"
Could work pretty well with Lattice, just need a card or two more to untap Sydri repeatedly. Like say a Unwinding Clock. Sure its only one land per turn, but she will never run low on mana if she also has a Mycosynth Lattice when Unwinding Clock is untapping them.
If you really want to be a jerk though, cast Hurkyl's Recall after a lattice and then procede to snipe each land your opponent tries to play with Sydri.
But no seriously, you should consider an underplayed general that is not top tier and build a deck. Better than going all cookie-cutter for an EDH deck.
Now I need to probably update my card database...for the third time today. There are cards like Cryptghast, Ogre Slumlord, Coldsteel Heart, and a few others that refuse to show up.
One doubt I have with bedtow: opponent returns your bestowed creature to your hand (hi, voyager's end). What happens?
People here said "as it's an aura who lost its objective without creature dying, the enchsntment/creature goes to cementery.
Bestow: If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.
Does the creature being enchanted by the bestow creature get bounced/killed/exiled/tucked? If so it becomes a creature as this is a safety clause to prevent being 2:1 by kill/bounce/exile/tuck spells.
This also means it is not a creature in fact when it is enchanting another creature. If it didn't have that second sentence for its mechanic, it would be a rules headache.
Step 1) Take a simple idea, like Guan Yu voltron and build it with flavorful cards and decent cards.
Step 2) Upgrade or change strategies with the deck.
From the looks of it you really wanted to just relax and beat face with Guan Yu, however our meta wasn't really favorable to that. So unless you upgraded your deck to Guan Yu Voltron Goodstuff, you would basically be playing what you hated and the alternative was just to maintain board presence and slowly beat face with an unblockable 3/5 dude.
I honestly don't blame you though. Its pauper or play against Azami, Uril, or even Zur for starters; control or be controlled.
I.E: Political Player used Chaos Warp the Maelstrom Wanderer in an attempt to get rid of it since it got power-ramped into play, the Chaos Player reveals Possibility Storm to replace the general.
Sure political decks like to give people stuff, draw extra cards, help tame another threat for their own possible victory, but often political decks are also ones that just make the problem worse by magnifying it.
I'M HELPING!
When I go play my Animar (Elemental Tribal) or my Maelstrom Wanderer (Taste the Chaos!) decks and someone scoops like that, it really doesn't sit with me well.
I don't have a problem if my opponent scoops though and they are not hindering another persons strategy in the process.
I personally don't care for the Reserve List.
I will go first. Early game on turn 4 I cast Winds of Change which inadvertenly threw off Sedraxis who on his Turn 3 had tutored up a card.
So its my Turn 5, I have nine mana from manarocks and a smokebraider, I cast Worldly Tutor, no one has a response to it, I tutor up Supreme Exemplar and put it on top of my library. Then I cast my Maelstrom Wanderer so my Supreme Exemplar champions my Smokebraider and my other cascade card was a Green Sun's Zenith.
Yet it doesn't stop there. My opponent Purphoros, casts Chaos Warp on Maelstrom Wanderer, so I shuffle my deck furiously and reveal my next card to be... Possibility Storm. Which results in me winning because of randomized tutoring, like: You want to cast a removal spell at sorcery speed? Instead you got a sorcery speed tutor spell.
To me this was my coolest game as of recent as I won through the power of chaos.
I guess for the opposite on "Thats not a legendary creature?" All of the Shadowmoor/Eventide Avatar cycle. Also the Nephilims from RAV.
Then I was like: Oh its for MTGO...
I will agree that the epic and serious artwork can get us pumped when we play MTG yet EDH/COMM can make you rage and blow a casket sometimes. Sometimes though you need reminders to stay happy and relaxed when playing... like a proxy for one of your commanders that makes you feel nostalgia and joy. For me, this is my interpetation, by artwork and flavortext, on my favorite chaos-maker; Maelstrom Wanderer.
No I don't own the art, if you want to see the full version go find it.
:cookie::cookie::cookie: to those who get the reference.
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I heard there is this thing in EDH called "Politics" that involve strange new things called "Talking" and "Friendly Favors" like getting your bud a Soda from the fridge.
Yeah it doesn't have evasion. What a real shocker amiright? Actually its not a shocker.
Now why wouldn't it have Evasion? Political friendliness.
Why would you attack your opponent with a creature and has creatures that could kill it? Because of Politics.
Example TIME!
Bob: "Say George, maybe I could help ya out."
George: "Really now?"
Bob: "Yeah I will just send my Diviner Spirit at you for a light tap so you can draw two more."
George: "I dunno about this."
Bob: "It will be alright, cause you will be happy with a few new cards that could help ya against Pete over there."
George: "Yeah you got a point... Come at me bro!"
If you really want to be a jerk though, cast Hurkyl's Recall after a lattice and then procede to snipe each land your opponent tries to play with Sydri.
4x Doubling Season
4x Primal Vigor
24x Forest
But no seriously, you should consider an underplayed general that is not top tier and build a deck. Better than going all cookie-cutter for an EDH deck.
Bestow: If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.
Does the creature being enchanted by the bestow creature get bounced/killed/exiled/tucked? If so it becomes a creature as this is a safety clause to prevent being 2:1 by kill/bounce/exile/tuck spells.
This also means it is not a creature in fact when it is enchanting another creature. If it didn't have that second sentence for its mechanic, it would be a rules headache.
EDIT: ARGH! I have been Nathed TWICE