Yea I see no harm in giving you the option to cut. I'm surprised Wizards hasn't done much to stop the recent cheating scandals. I feel OP is exaggerating about manipulating several draws while under the eyes of a judges who is looking for cheats all in the span of a second.
Even if it's exaggerated, it's still a useful post, kind of like a hacker telling us how to stop hackers. After all, it's not cheating unless you get caught.
As a RDW player goblin guide is way too good for standard. RDW is already a good deck (won the pro tour), I don't see why Wizards would need to push it further with the best one drop for red agro in history.
Normally I'm all for selling stuff before it's likely to be reprinted, but unless you think it's gonna be in magic origins, you can at least wait til battle for zendikar spoilers start. There might be a spike until then, but the choice is all yours.
Dig through time and Siege rhino seems to be no-brainer speculation come next fall for standard and for their modern/legacy applications, but I wonder when it will bottom out. Abzan agro/megammorph still looks strong next year so Siege rhino will always have a home, and every control deck automatically jams 4 dig through time in their decks.
Before I saw this thread I thought white and black had the best cards, but the other colors aren't too shabby, should
be a fun set. Really surprised at the amount of x/1 creatures, twin bolt seems like a beating. I agree I like the
1B 2/1 deathtouch quite a bit more than 1.9, much better than 1 power deathtouch creatures, who were mostly defensive creatures.
I agree about dragons being underwhelming and the lack of 4 cmc and less ones. Might have made crucible of fire too good but
a linear deck like that would be easy to hate out with tons of spot removal.
Damn those ugin fate promos prices are crazy, most of them are stone cold unplayable.
I'm disappointed by monastery mentor's showing in legacy and modern. It almost sees zero play in those formats, judging from the pro tour and starcity games decklists. I haven't kept up to see if it sees vintage play, anyone know? It sees play in some jeskai token decks, but when the card was previewed people kept raving how that and soulfire grand master was broken. Turns out seeker of the way sees a lot more play than soulfire grand master too in winning decklists, and not for budget reasons.
Warden of the First Tree was better than I expected. It's not fantastic, but it fills a hole in the Abzan Aggro deck.
Yep, Warden of the first tree was extremely clutch for Andrew Boswell. Against abzan midrange his fleecemane lion and rakshasa deathdealer bit the dust, then his opponent had no more removal for the warden, and he had wingmate roc, the bird token and nissa, worldwaker out, but cant beat a level 3 warden.
It impressed me, got a few damage in, in the critical early turns where I needed raid for mardu hordechief and mardu skullhunter, then left a body for harsh sustenance, which is stone cold nuts in bw/mardu agro. Being blocked by monastery flock is not really a downside considering the mana investments.
Turn 3 raided mardu hordechief is not that easy to do without offering a trade, like your ainok-bondkin. With harsh sustenance in the deck trading becomes less interesting, and the incremental 1 damage adds up. Having 2-3 one drops like mardu hateblade, typhoid rat or aven skirmisher that enable raid is important for a good agro deck.
In mardu, the black red dragon seems better than stormbreath (pumps rabblemaster and hordeling outburst tokens). Having 5 toughness is huge too, stoke the flames and sarkhans everywhere. Plus he can dash and one shot elspeth, unlike stormbreath.
Blue black dragon seems like a good finisher for UB, especially considering how well it plays with crux of fate.
Green white dragon, probably worse than wingmate roc but not that far off. I've seen too many people hold back on casting wingmate because they cant trigger raid.
The power level of the uncommons is insane. Some of them could easily have been rares, like the new savannah lions and the green 2/1 triumph of ferocity on legs.
I think soulfire is good, it can basically replace seeker of the way which is seeing a lot of play. You lose the prowess but you get perma lifelink and it lets you win games you had no business winning. All you need is soulfire, a lightning strike, a stoke the flames or a jeskai charm and 6-7 lands to throw helixes every turn, inevitability and hard to race because of the lifegain. Even buying back raise the alarm or hordeling outburst ensures you never run out of gas. Any buyback works great with a active jeskai ascendancy too.
Mardu also plays seeker, and they can use soulfire to buyback crackling doom on top of lightning strike and stoke.
I agree a lower dash cost or having the token enter tapped and attacking would make more sense, but having a dash option at all is really good for adding pressure while not overextending into a sweeper, or getting guaranteed damage plus a token after a sweeper resolves.
Fated retribution saw play last year too, and Ugin doubles as a finisher after the board wipe. It's also comparable to perilous vault which is seeing play.
Even if it's exaggerated, it's still a useful post, kind of like a hacker telling us how to stop hackers. After all, it's not cheating unless you get caught.
Normally I'm all for selling stuff before it's likely to be reprinted, but unless you think it's gonna be in magic origins, you can at least wait til battle for zendikar spoilers start. There might be a spike until then, but the choice is all yours.
be a fun set. Really surprised at the amount of x/1 creatures, twin bolt seems like a beating. I agree I like the
1B 2/1 deathtouch quite a bit more than 1.9, much better than 1 power deathtouch creatures, who were mostly defensive creatures.
I agree about dragons being underwhelming and the lack of 4 cmc and less ones. Might have made crucible of fire too good but
a linear deck like that would be easy to hate out with tons of spot removal.
I'm disappointed by monastery mentor's showing in legacy and modern. It almost sees zero play in those formats, judging from the pro tour and starcity games decklists. I haven't kept up to see if it sees vintage play, anyone know? It sees play in some jeskai token decks, but when the card was previewed people kept raving how that and soulfire grand master was broken. Turns out seeker of the way sees a lot more play than soulfire grand master too in winning decklists, and not for budget reasons.
Yep, Warden of the first tree was extremely clutch for Andrew Boswell. Against abzan midrange his fleecemane lion and rakshasa deathdealer bit the dust, then his opponent had no more removal for the warden, and he had wingmate roc, the bird token and nissa, worldwaker out, but cant beat a level 3 warden.
Turn 3 raided mardu hordechief is not that easy to do without offering a trade, like your ainok-bondkin. With harsh sustenance in the deck trading becomes less interesting, and the incremental 1 damage adds up. Having 2-3 one drops like mardu hateblade, typhoid rat or aven skirmisher that enable raid is important for a good agro deck.
Blue black dragon seems like a good finisher for UB, especially considering how well it plays with crux of fate.
Green white dragon, probably worse than wingmate roc but not that far off. I've seen too many people hold back on casting wingmate because they cant trigger raid.
The power level of the uncommons is insane. Some of them could easily have been rares, like the new savannah lions and the green 2/1 triumph of ferocity on legs.
Mardu also plays seeker, and they can use soulfire to buyback crackling doom on top of lightning strike and stoke.
Because he doesn't play standard. Wingmate sees a lot of play in abzan and mardu decks.