Yesterday's PR was a blast, ths is saying after playng a PR again since Khans of Tarkir.
My promo foil was Thalia's Lieutenant and my rares where 2x Game Trail, Triskaidekaphobia, Deathcap Cultivator, Devil's Playground and Wolf's of Devil Breach. At first glance the obvious choice was to play GR deck using majority of my rares but green pool contains only 8 creaturs incuding a Groundskeeper so I decided to play a BR aggro deck since my Black pool contains sigificant number of removal to compliment two Inner Struggle.
Went 3-1 with is deck. At first I was doubtful if I can activate delirium without a consitent discard outet but with the Explosive Apparatus, Merciless Resolve ( to sac extra land), Crow of Dark Tidings and the deck's instants and sorcery I had triggered delirium when I need it. Though I never had two Tooth Collector in play with delirium active, that will be a dream; even with just one with delirium active can shift the combat to your advanstage. Putting a -1/-1 counter on a creature reduces any potential damage and/or make their creature vulnerable when it comes to trading in combat.
Stensia Masquerade over performs every time, giving attacking creatures firststrike putting my oppent at a deffensive thus paving the way form the Insolent Neonate to sneak in damage, netting the vampire 4 +1/+1 counters and closing in the game with uncaged fury when my oppent was down to 10.
Inner Struggle (*coughs*) struggles against creatures with creatures whose toughness is greater than it's power but it works majority of the time.
Devil's Playground shifted the tide for me a few times, casting it after going all in thus giving me chump blockers the next turn. I decided not to add Dance with Devils as the deck has lots of instant already and I needed the sorcery for activating delirium, heck when it was milled by the crow I was happy as I can flipped the Kindly Stranger.
Top performers at common were Insolent Neonate (can assure at least 2-3 damge when cast on turn one), Howlpack Wolf, Rancid Rat, Sanguinary Mage, Crow of Dark Tidings and Ghoulcaller's Accomplice.
Based on my experience SOI has tons of ways in activating delirium even without a dedicated discard outlet.
Normally the land count would be around 17 lands but there are decks which have a very hign number of high CMC cards (acrds that costs 5+) which would require 18 lands. So basically it depends on the curve of your deck.
Would like to inquire regarding few of the possible interactions with Clever Impersonator
1.) When Clever Impersonator is being cast that spell is considered a blue spell and when it resolve it will etb as any non-land permanent? If so then Staff of the Mind Magus's triggered ability will still gain me a life even if he enter the battlefield as say an artifact. And on the other extreme, the spell can still be countered by Gainsay?
2.) Can Clever Impersonator copying Pearl Lake Ancient still be countered before it resolves? I believe the answer is yes because the spell is being cast a Clever Impersonator and just copying the Pearl Lake Ancient when becomes a permanent in the field.
3.) How about if Clever Impersonator enter the battlefield as an Aura? Will the card be attached to any legal target on resolution without targeting that permanent (bypassing protection)? Example: Clever Impersonator will be copying Singing Bell Strike.
4.) Whenever Clever Impersonator becomes a copy any non-land permanent with any counters, those counters are not copied? Example: Clever Impersonator would be copying Briber's Pursewith X counters on it, Clever Impersonator will just a copy of the artifact without any counters on it.
Can I can still activate an activated ability of an artifact that was enchanted by Ensoul Artifact?
ex: Abzan Banner enchanted with Ensoul Artifact. So the banner is now an artifact creature with base power/toughness of 5/5 and can be tapped for manna or sacrificed for card draw?
Well it can blank deathtouch creatures (looking at you Glissa)all day long. For evasion there are many ways to give your hydras trample; Chariot of Victoryand Brawn for example.
If you wanted a theme deck which cards which depict your chosen commander in other cards, suggest to look into any crew of the Weatherlight and picked one of them as your commander. The whole Weatherlight saga (Weatherlight - Apocalypse) contains cards with shows its crew in different cards.
Just wondering if I can target the creature cards that I sacrificed using Reprocess with Gravepurge so that I can draw them again when Reprocess resolves.
My promo foil was Thalia's Lieutenant and my rares where 2x Game Trail, Triskaidekaphobia, Deathcap Cultivator, Devil's Playground and Wolf's of Devil Breach. At first glance the obvious choice was to play GR deck using majority of my rares but green pool contains only 8 creaturs incuding a Groundskeeper so I decided to play a BR aggro deck since my Black pool contains sigificant number of removal to compliment two Inner Struggle.
1 Insolent Neonate
1 Kessig Forgemaster
2 Sanguinary Mage
3 Ghoulcaller's Accomplice
1 Rancid Rats
2 Tooth Collector
1 Kindly Stranger
1 Howlpack Wolf
1 Crow of Dark Tidings
1 Wolf of Devil's Breach
1 Stensia Masquerade
1 Explosive Apparatus
1 Merciless Resolve
1 Uncagred Fury
2 Inner Struggle
2 Throttle
1 Devil's Playground
8 Moutain
9 Swamp
Went 3-1 with is deck. At first I was doubtful if I can activate delirium without a consitent discard outet but with the Explosive Apparatus, Merciless Resolve ( to sac extra land), Crow of Dark Tidings and the deck's instants and sorcery I had triggered delirium when I need it. Though I never had two Tooth Collector in play with delirium active, that will be a dream; even with just one with delirium active can shift the combat to your advanstage. Putting a -1/-1 counter on a creature reduces any potential damage and/or make their creature vulnerable when it comes to trading in combat.
Stensia Masquerade over performs every time, giving attacking creatures firststrike putting my oppent at a deffensive thus paving the way form the Insolent Neonate to sneak in damage, netting the vampire 4 +1/+1 counters and closing in the game with uncaged fury when my oppent was down to 10.
Inner Struggle (*coughs*) struggles against creatures with creatures whose toughness is greater than it's power but it works majority of the time.
Devil's Playground shifted the tide for me a few times, casting it after going all in thus giving me chump blockers the next turn. I decided not to add Dance with Devils as the deck has lots of instant already and I needed the sorcery for activating delirium, heck when it was milled by the crow I was happy as I can flipped the Kindly Stranger.
Top performers at common were Insolent Neonate (can assure at least 2-3 damge when cast on turn one), Howlpack Wolf, Rancid Rat, Sanguinary Mage, Crow of Dark Tidings and Ghoulcaller's Accomplice.
Based on my experience SOI has tons of ways in activating delirium even without a dedicated discard outlet.
1.) When Clever Impersonator is being cast that spell is considered a blue spell and when it resolve it will etb as any non-land permanent? If so then Staff of the Mind Magus's triggered ability will still gain me a life even if he enter the battlefield as say an artifact. And on the other extreme, the spell can still be countered by Gainsay?
2.) Can Clever Impersonator copying Pearl Lake Ancient still be countered before it resolves? I believe the answer is yes because the spell is being cast a Clever Impersonator and just copying the Pearl Lake Ancient when becomes a permanent in the field.
3.) How about if Clever Impersonator enter the battlefield as an Aura? Will the card be attached to any legal target on resolution without targeting that permanent (bypassing protection)? Example: Clever Impersonator will be copying Singing Bell Strike.
4.) Whenever Clever Impersonator becomes a copy any non-land permanent with any counters, those counters are not copied? Example: Clever Impersonator would be copying Briber's Pursewith X counters on it, Clever Impersonator will just a copy of the artifact without any counters on it.
Thanks in advance!
ex: Abzan Banner enchanted with Ensoul Artifact. So the banner is now an artifact creature with base power/toughness of 5/5 and can be tapped for manna or sacrificed for card draw?