It does seem bizarre after doing ell for so many years to just default on everything. If something did happen. it would have o have been between when the shipping labels were printed (which myself and many others received) and when the cards were actually mailed. which shouldn't have been more than a couple days apart. That's a pretty small window for something catastrophic to happen. Not impossible, I guess, but the complete silence on his end makes it impossible to know for sure.
It's really odd. I bought a bunch of stuff from him and felt pretty good, since he had a 99.9% rating and over 22k feedback. And then...nothing. Like a lot of people, I got a tracking number, but all that means is a shipping label was printed. It never updated after that. Thankfully I was able to get my money back courtesy of eBay, but it's so bizarre.
Just a thought..but maybe a deck like this might be good for Swan Song just to protect Jalira? Normally a 2/2 flyer isn't what we want to give an opponent, but if we can protect our polymorphist for a turn and land the Worldspine Wurm, a 2/2 flyer on the other side suddenly becomes pretty irrelevant.
I really like her. I threw her into a BUG control deck Friday and found her quite effective. I was using all her modes, and I always felt like I was getting something. The deck wasn't super, but Kiora was about the best thing in it.
Today I gave her to my friend to use in a Bant Superfriends/beatstick deck. Seems to be good there too. I gotta say, she's a lot of fun without being broken. Just a good, solid planeswalker.
Gild was just the in-game representation of the Midas touch--kill any creature and leave behind gold. I do think gold tokens could show up again in some fashion, but I don't think Gild itself was anything more than a flavorful way to show off a famous bit of Greek mythology.
Funny enough, I was just talking to a friend of mine about a similar thing. After mulling over the different possibilities, we came to the conclusion that even though red and blue offer a lot of good hand filtering, GWB is probably the best, most consistent way to go with Grisly Salvage and Mulch.
Here's what I came up with as a preliminary list. I'd like to test it out, but I worry it'll still have the problem most of my other decks have--get blitzed out by aggro and countered out by control.
He, the second RG planeswalker, came out before the RU planeswalker, Ral Zarek, and the so-far-unheard of UG and UW planeswalkers. So they won't complete things just for completeness's sake.
A few weeks back, I was trying to make them work in a Seance deck. It's definitely a good pairing (although they're both 4-drops), and while I found it OK, I just don't know if Spark Trooper's ever going to be better than it is.
About the only thing I can think of doing with these in constructed is using them in some sort of Immortal Servitude reanimator build. That requires living long enough to ramp up to 7 mana, though, and I'm guessing that the benefits you get out of using 2-drops with Immortal Servitude is going to be better.
Funny you mention it. I've been trying to put together a Blue Jund list with Prime Speaker as the top of the mana curve. Viable? Hard to say. But I think it could be a lot of fun, and I'm crazy enough to want to try it.
For Aristocrat, the best killer I can think of is Tragic Slip. Abrupt Decay is also a good answer for the quick things. I could see Golgari Charm as well. A creature answer to fliers is Vampire Nighthawk, which is definitely worthy of consideration.
Not too keen on Hover Barrier, Nimbus Swimmer, Bioshift, or Primordial Hydra--though I do understand the latter.
Am I reading this card wrong. isnt this litterally just a two mana miracled bonfire?
Not quite. Bonefire hits ALL your opponent's creatures, plus your opponent himself/herself. This tags a maximum of 3 targets: a flying creature, a non-flying creature, and your opponent. Still good though.
Traded away 4 Dark Confidants back in Time Spiral days when they were still around $5 each for a handful of Time Spiral junk rares. I don't remember exactly what I got, but I know I ended up with 2 Restore Balance and a few other things.
Today I gave her to my friend to use in a Bant Superfriends/beatstick deck. Seems to be good there too. I gotta say, she's a lot of fun without being broken. Just a good, solid planeswalker.
Oblivion Ring/Detention Sphere are also good, if you're not already running them.
Here's what I came up with as a preliminary list. I'd like to test it out, but I worry it'll still have the problem most of my other decks have--get blitzed out by aggro and countered out by control.
3 Unburial Rites
4 Grisly Salvage
4 Mulch
2 Increasing Ambition
1 Enter the Infinite
1 Griselbrand
4 Angel of Serenity
4 Chromatic Lantern
3 Omniscience
4 Oblivion Ring
4 Woodland Cemetery
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Isolated Chapel
4 Godless Shrine
4 Temple Garden
4 Sunpetal Grove
Don't forget about Venser, the Sojourner. He happened.
But a G/W planeswalker, on the other hand...
For Aristocrat, the best killer I can think of is Tragic Slip. Abrupt Decay is also a good answer for the quick things. I could see Golgari Charm as well. A creature answer to fliers is Vampire Nighthawk, which is definitely worthy of consideration.
Not too keen on Hover Barrier, Nimbus Swimmer, Bioshift, or Primordial Hydra--though I do understand the latter.
I definitely think you could run a couple Jace, Architect of Thought as well as a few Master Biomancers. You could plug in some of the aforemntioned Abrupt Decays.
That would be my choice too.
Not quite. Bonefire hits ALL your opponent's creatures, plus your opponent himself/herself. This tags a maximum of 3 targets: a flying creature, a non-flying creature, and your opponent. Still good though.
I don't do a lot of trading anymore.