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Xeruh posted a message on Pronunciation of SvyelunSvai-lune is how I would pronounce it. And looking at the cards associated with her makes me sad, those are some pretty blah cards for the most part.Posted in: Magic General -
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void_nothing posted a message on Pronunciation of Svyelun"SFAY-loon".Posted in: Magic General -
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Jusstice posted a message on Let's Brew : Tatyova, Benthic DruidPosted in: Commander (EDH)Quote from MightyPox »With effects that let you put more than one land per turn into play Abundance is pretty good.
(Abundance is also very good with Sylvan Library which you should run in any green deck )
Anyhow, I was also extremely excited about Tatyova when she was first spoiled but now after thinking about a deck for her I think that she will get removed pretty often, no?
I mean even an unexperienced player will realise how powerful her abilites are.
Which means the we a) have to dedicate a lot of deck space to cards that are protecting her or b) cast her only on a combo turn.
What do you think?
I think that things that just generate value are only a target in the very early stages of the game. Pretty quickly, there is not enough removal at the table to kill all of the things that are actually melting your face off.
If it is something like Mizzix of the Izmagnus and somebody has a Sword of Fire and Ice trigger to spend, that is another story. Butin playing other generals like Rashmi, Eternities Crafter, nobody really feels compelled to launch something like a Putrefy at it, or actually spend their own resources. Especially when there are more threatening things like Skullclamp, Consecrated Sphinx or Greater Good that actually do go away for good after you kill them, rather than a general that is just going to be cast again for 2 mana more.
Now if you are trying to combo for some reason with the general itself, that’s a target. Much easier though IMO to just assemble one of Blue’s many, many options for infinite mana/draw, and use the general’s draw ability to get you into your deck faster for it.
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Outcryqq posted a message on [[Competitive]] Lord of Tresserhorn - Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do!Hi all, the full Dominaria list has been spoiled. I think the set looks like a lot of fun, and has a lot of potentially powerful cards across many formats. Here is a list of cards I think at least warrant a discussion in this deck. As always, please feel free to discuss these cards, or let me know if I missed any!Posted in: Multiplayer Commander Decklists
For reference, our historic card count for the current list is approximately 20, so I am choosing to not include historic-matters cards. For lists with a higher historic permanent count, this could change what cards you might include from Dominaria.
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Karn, Scion of Urza: One of the big hype cards of the set. Planeswalkers haven't fared well in this deck, unless their abilities are directly on theme with the deck (Venser, the Sojourner), but they are always fun to look at. This guy is a really good card, and will be a solid draw engine for a lot of decks. However, in this deck, we have better card draw, especially since Karn will need to survive for you to get some serious gas out of him. Fun card, but will not earn a spot in this deck.
- Dark Bargain: Interesting card, and lets us selectively fill the yard. However, I think we have access to better card draw, so I will pass on this one.
- The Eldest Reborn: This should be inherent massive card advantage, and I might test it. It doesn't fit our theme exceptionally well, but I could see this doing some good work as a fancy removal spell.
- Josu Vess, Lich Knight: Absolutely going into this deck. Early game you can cast him for early attack/block/sacrifice, and late game you can cast him to close out a game. Very great card for this deck!
- Final Parting: Interesting tutor, as you get a Diabolical Tutor and an Entomb out of one card. This probably won't make it, but I'll consider testing it, as you can always fill your yard with whatever creature you currently need (Gravecrawler, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, etc).
- Torgaar, Famine Incarnate: Shame this guy isn't a zombie. This would be a neat addition, but I don't think it will do enough in EDH to deserve a slot in this deck.
- Whisper, Blood Liturgist: Very powerful effect. I wish she was a zombie. I don't think I'll be testing her.
- Yawgmoth's Vile Offering: Neat spell, and on theme with the deck. I dislike adding non-zombie cards to the deck in general, but this one might be worth testing.
- Garna, the Bloodflame: This is a very powerful effect, considering all of our sacrifice outlets and board wipes. It's a shame he's not a zombie. This might be worth testing.
- Cabal Stronghold: This is not worth adding to this list, but if I used a different mana base, I might consider it.
- The memorial lands, Memorial to Folly, Memorial to Genius, and Memorial to War are all interesting and worth testing, though I think only the black one has much promise for this deck.
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TearingEons posted a message on Slinn Voda, the Rising DeepI love this card despite its high CMC. The art is on point, I like the Whelming Wave kicker that now includes Merfolk, and its huge stats. I'm thinking I'll convert my Tromokratis sea creatures deck into a Tatyova deck so I can ramp, use the Kioras, and use other Merfolk too.Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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Card Slinger J posted a message on Is Commander killing Magic?Toys R Us recently announced that they're going to be closing ALL U.S. stores. They're $5 billion in debt, so yeah Toys R Us was very much a part of my generation's childhood. There's some implications that this may potentially have on MTG and other Trading Card Games/Collectible Card Games going forward and that's because most of Hasbro's revenue originally came from Toys R Us and they're not getting it anymore. Now you have to understand the way WotC and Hasbro works is that they sell their products to distributors and that they don't perceive us as a customer for buying their products because we're not WotC customers.Posted in: Commander (EDH)
The distribution company that buys the sealed product from Hasbro or WotC are the customer and we're the distributor's customers or the stores' customers that they're being distributed to. That's ultimately the supply chain, but you know our sales obviously impact the entire supply chain so there's a cause and effect relationship there. If the customers aren't buying it and the stores aren't ordering it then the distributors aren't ordering it etc. But with the power that Hasbro had they could strong arm distributors into taking X amount of products based on certain deals that they would work out and whatever. Basically If you want to order Star Wars action figures they're going to shackle you with a bunch of other action figures you don't want.
In relation to MTG If you want the Atraxa, Praetors' Voice Commander pre-con that's okay you're gonna have to get the Breya, Etherium Shaper pre-con which is good and then the other two pre-cons as well. It's just how it's gonna have to go and yes even though you'd like to order just 50 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice online that's not how this is going to work so they have the power to do that but that power will be waning with their influence because of what happened with Toys R Us. There was a phenomenon from a YouTuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hNAji3lIGE who would go to his local Toys R Us and different Toy stores to show all the Star Wars toys literally just rotting on the shelves collecting dust.
These toys were made by Hasbro, the same company that owns WotC and they weren't even selling. With The Last Jedi being as bad as it was, Star Wars is a dying brand as far as toy sales go which was a huge part of Hasbro's business and now it's either all gone or slowly drying up. Toys in general just aren't what they used to be anymore. The reality is you go into a mall or a store and you see what all of today's kids have, they have the latest smartphone or tablet device to stream TV shows, movies, and play games, the reality is when you get a shell case like that on an iPad that probably costs $400-500 by handing it to a kid then you don't have to buy them anything else again.
You could give them a new app every once in a while, you know kids nowadays download apps since a lot of them are for free anyway. That's a lot cheaper than buying new DLC for video game consoles/handhelds, new video game software that costs $50-60 a piece, action figures which are now $12-14 a piece and it's like, "Wow... You're really gonna give your kid just one action figure?" Kids from my generation were into that kind of stuff but not today's generation. So let's say you buy a kid 6 action figures, well you're looking at almost $100 there after tax and then depending on the type of child If they don't open the toys they're just gonna go on a shelf and look at them and that's that but If you give the kid an iPad you're done. Congratulations you've literally just bought yourself a babysitter.
Now we can debate the morals and ethics of that later and how involved parents should be in raising their own children which obviously I'm gonna take the stance that they should be more involved in raising their own kids down the line but that's a conversation for another day. The reality is that parents in America are spending less time with their children and as an end result they're not buying toys for them anymore. They're buying one or two pieces of electronic equipment and that's their new mom and dad stereotype. So that's bad news for Hasbro and table top games in general not just MTG and other Trading Card Games/Collectible Card Games.
Most of their products are going the way of the dodo and that means Hasbro's going to need to find money elsewhere. They're gonna start squeezing MTG hard, we've already started seeing this with the increased flow of Masters sets and I think a lot of that had to do with Hasbro making up for poor sales of Star Wars toys. I wouldn't be surprised If this motivates Hasbro into looking at other ways to shake down WotC for more money and one of those would be rescinding the Reserve List. Hasbro bought WotC after WotC created the Reserve List, ergo Hasbro can say:
"Yeah we didn't write this policy. WotC has altered this policy repeatedly throughout the years but by not following it, they removed stuff from it, they added stuff to it. We're Hasbro we don't care we're just gonna do whatever we want. It's our company and we're not WotC since they're a part of us now and they're young." They could chuck it and start reprinting Reserve List cards again which would be a huge boom for sales. I'm just saying that it's a possibility. As far as the culture war stuff and everything that we seem to be dealing with and again hopefully Hasbro as a company learned their lesson from Star Wars but then again both Hasbro and Mattel bought into this regressive PC Marxist culture that we live in.
Ya know put Barbie dolls in the boys toys section, so this whole push for just basically disrupting and destroying the traditional and biologically driven notion of gender and sexuality, they just went full on postmodern feminist on it and we've seen the results. You have Rose action figures sitting on dollar store shelves because they couldn't sell them at Toys R Us and they either needed to fire or sell them to someone else. Toy stores are going out of business because they're unable to move this crappy merchandise. In one of the videos of the YouTuber I previously mentioned, Toys R Us had Rey cosplay in the boys department and of course it wasn't selling.
Hopefully Hasbro learned a painful financial lesson because of it and maybe they'll start to take a look into the complaints about WotC and say, "Ya know, we've already lost a huge portion of our toy business to this stuff and we're not gonna lose another with a multi million dollar franchise. You guys got to pull it together, over half the people in the United States are Conservative, not everyone is Liberal, you need to pull it together." So we'll see. I just know that just like Blockbuster now we've lost Toys R Us and If WotC doesn't pull it together then we're going to be losing most of our local game stores. If no one wants to buy the products, If nobody's showing up to play Standard, then these stores aren't going to be able to stay open forever and we're going to continue to move into a digital space.
If we've learned anything over the past year it's that WotC doesn't know how to properly manage a digital space, you look at the disaster with MTGO and it's only going to continue to get worse with MTG Arena. All of the sudden they turn into George Orwell's nightmare as soon as you give anyone who works there a little bit of power. You can't keep a customer base especially an online one with that kind of attitude. So anyway sad day for America, sad day for a lot of jobs from Toys R Us with 33,000 employees displaced and looking for new jobs. This is really depressing for people who were born in the early 80's since Toys R Us was definitely a part of their life, myself included.
Hopefully one day a phoenix will rise from the ashes where something good comes out of this and maybe these manufacturers will learn their lesson about the type of products that people want to buy, that men and women have different tastes, and that they need to stop trying to pretend otherwise. Don't get the wrong idea I'm not trying to come off as being sexist here but it is what it is. The statistics you pointed out Hermes_ seem to showcase the continuing lack of communication between the company and consumer because they're stuck in their own social media bubbles of who they choose to listen and ignore. The fact of the matter is that they need to start listening to the consumer outside of social media. -
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Card Slinger J posted a message on Is Commander killing Magic?Posted in: Commander (EDH)
Whatever...don't say I didn't warn you.Quote from Boros_Blendo »
Huh? You lost us there.Quote from Card Slinger J »”Toys R Us recently announced” ... blah blah... random rant... Richard Garfield tries to run my dog over .... I don’t brush and floss... “they need to start listening to the consumer outside of social media.” -
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MysticLeviathan posted a message on Dominaria FAQ leak threadDespise the change from he or she to they. It’s bad grammar. One of the things I love (well loved now) is they actually used proper grammar on their cards in that regard. If it’s a type space issue, then just use he/his, and it also uses less space. Moronic move.Posted in: The Rumor Mill
I understand the change with regards to removing “to your mana pool”, as that’s now a ton of space being saved, but it seems incredibly awkward and incomplete. Is Black Lotus now going to be “Sacrifice to add three mana of any one color”? Don’t like it, but I do understand the reasoning behind it. -
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Shea_0 posted a message on DOMINARIA - Which Legendary creatures are you hoping for?I would like to see more Horror legends & finally a Nightmare legend!Posted in: Commander (EDH)
Hypnox should have been a legend. I want to see WoTC open up Dominaria to uncommon legends as well, like the Kamigawa block. Make tons and tons of new legends, especially uncommons for the Pauper-EDH crowd. -
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WizardMN posted a message on dealing with salty playersSo, I get the frustrating part about the other players not knowing how the combo (or the rules in general) works so there is something to be said about that. However, you said this group is "casual". So much so that you made it a point to call it out in your summary above. Why then, with a group as casual as this, would you bust out Sharuum combo? That, to me, is kind of a dick move. Yeah, they said they were fine with it, but had they ever played against the deck before? Did they know it was just going to "go off" and end the game in one turn? Considering they didn't even know how the combo worked, let alone that it *did* work, leads me to believe that they had no idea what they were getting into. But you certainly knew what your deck was going to do and how much better it was than theirs.Posted in: Commander (EDH)
Those players had every right to be salty. They were planning on a good old-fashioned game of EDH with some back and forth and playing their bombs and whatever else. What they got was a few turns of build up and then the game just ending.
Whether or not their final reaction (leaving he shop entirely) was justified is up for debate. I probably would have just started another game and encouraged you to find a different group to play with rather than just leaving. It is one thing to bring a combo deck into a meta that can handle and prepare for it even if others are not playing combo, but this is a bit ridiculous if their group is as casual as you say. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Led by Atarka, World Render, the game plan is pretty simple: attack with dragons.
Green for ramp and red for more damage (e.g. extra combat phase, double strike, haste, etc.).
There is also good removal in both colours.
Newcomers tend to love dragons.
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Actually I am building it right now.
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Perfectly reasonable!
Including combos is nothing bad - they can be a good means to end a stalled game.
It just did not work for me often enough to justify the card slots they needed.
I still run one single combo in my deck: infinite attack steps with Hellkite Charger/Aggravated Assault + Sword of Feast and Famine. The reason as I explained in my Zirilan thread is that all combo pieces are usefull on their own.
Aside from that if you want to have some combos in your Zirilan deck with spending minimal card slots I recommend:
- Worldgorger Dragon: in the late game after fetching a lot of Mountains Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle and/or Akoum Hellkite and/or Scourge of Valkas can do some good damage to someone's head.
- Worldgorger Dragon can also justify the inclusion of Jokulhaups and the like (Obliterate, Devastation, etc.). Also Jokulhaups and its brethren can be good on their own if you have one or more mana doublers in play: draw all mana into your mana pool, cast Jokulhaups and after it resolves cast some dragons with the remaining mana.
- Mycosynth Lattice: this one was really hard for me to let go because it enables cute things . With Hellkite Tyrant you can take one player out of the game. Hoard-Smelter Dragon, Vandalblast and Shattering Spree can also do some serious damage with the Lattice (also good option to remove enchantments). A Hellkite Igniter can get huge with the Lattice.
My greates memory with Mycosynth Lattice is the scenario: I had Zirilan and the Lattice in play. Played an overloaded Vandalblast. Two players gone - the third was sitting there with a Sliver Hivelord asking: how are you going to deal with this? Me: fetching Hellkite Tyrant wiht Zirilan and attack!
Let's get the rituals and their ilk together.
Inner Fire
Mana Geyser
Infernal Plunge
Rite of Flame
Desperate Ritual
Pyretic Ritual
Seething Song
After flashing in some dragons with Sneak Attack:
Battle Hymn
If you can pay the life:
Treasonous Ogre
If you can reliably get the initial huge card draw it might work.
Another thing that comes to my mind with all the rituals: Dragonstorm!
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Hi there!
I have been playing Zirilan for a long time and have really tuned my list: decklist
I got rid of almost all "save the dragons" spells/lands and am having quite success with this build.
My deck is a multi player list though. Judging from the comments in this thread I think the creator plays Zirilan more in a 1vs1 environment.
For example paying life never worked for me (Treasonous Ogre, Moltensteel Dragon) and the Worldgorger Dragon triggers got messed with too often so I took him out of the deck.
But still this is my favourite deck! Go Zirilan!