MTG Salvation

Quote from KotNash0r »

I feel like 2 Beast Within is the right number unless the meta is overloaded with Rest in Peace decks. Chance of drawing one if you play 2 are reasonable with all the cycling.


The 3 Archfiend are far more interesting. I'm also always looking at the third wondering if i want it but everytime i deicide to go for it they clunk up. maybe im just incredibly unfortunate. Also the Dresher list is loaded with spice in the sb. Somebody has any experience with some of these sb cards (eg. Kalitas and Chandra)?

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Living End piloted by Henry Scipio placed 9th on latest SCG Open in Milwaukee. Congrats!

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Only two Beast Within in his 75. Must be tough getting rid of Rest in Peace on board or other enchantments (8-rack, bogles).
Otherwise pretty straightforward decklist.

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Quote from 0oSunnYo0 »

10% more mulligans without birds is the killer for me.

I'm seeing a lot of calculations are calculating what chance we have of finding a 'perfect' opener of exactly 1 dork 2 lands. Even if the best case scenario is only increased slightly by the presence of birds, you will have 10% more hands without a dork straight up without them so the worst case scenario is significantly more likely without birds.

Less mulligans = more wins. Birds may not make the deck 'more better' but they do make it 'less bad'.

This is also wrong. Please stop misleading people. I have stated multiple times now the percentages I gave in my breakdown were from x= being exactly and x> being at least.

I understand where you are getting your number from. You are looking at the probability of not getting at least 1 mana dork in your opener. The problem with that is quite simple.

Just because you increase your ability to get a ramp card doesn’t mean you will automatically increase your ability to also get your lands too. We need BOTH the ramp and the lands. If you have 1 Ramp and 1 land you will throw it back more times than not. Same with 1 Ramp and no land which is why I did the math as I did.

So you’re incorrect with your 10% mulligan as it doesn’t look at the whole picture.

Quote from the n00b king »

I'm popping by here again to remind everyone that Birds of Paradise, Bonfire and Inferno Titan are bad. If you are still playing them, you are wrong and are the reasons why your deck doesn't perform as well as it can. That is all.