Yeah that's rather strange I think. Perhaps they're not ACTUALLY viewing this thread. Maybe it's overflow from the Spoilers going up.
I'm happy that Silklash Spider is in also, but I gotta say. It's gonna be WW versus BWeenie. Foul Imp, Cruel Edict, Phyrexian Arena, Mindslicer, Hypnotic Specter, Festering Goblin is hot hot hot.
Skyhunter, Glorious Anthem, Lantern Kami, Paladin En-Vec is hot too.
What to do?
Oh wait. I know. Biorythm of course It and Verdant force in a game with llanowar elves weathered wayfarer and Gift of Estates is hot!
Ever the blue player and as sucky as blue is in 9th I must give props for Traumatize. I had TONS of fun with that card alone in ODD block. Thankfully they didn't reprint Haunting Echoes too... And ALL 10 PAINLANDS? This is amazing... I'm gonna say it...
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
W00T!!!!!!!!!!1111111oneone1!
Yeah it's THAT good. I'm kinda disappointed all the decent hosers are gone (except for the cheap-ass COP:Red). I mean even Boil went in favor of a sorcery version. Ugh... And may I ask what's up with Form of the Dragon? It was fun I'll give you that... but I've had all my fun I could possibly have with this card. And finally RIP Plow Under in T2. Yes you will be sorely missed but not by me.
Sigh no kidding. I was sad to see Plow Under leave. However the enemy painlands being in the set will make that reanimator deck I created a little better on the mana. Woohoo!
I have a special place in my heart for Traumatize *tear*... Finally some awesome milling. I'm just ... so.... happy.
from the reanimator deck
-4 Swamp
+4 Llanowar Wastes
I still wish there was something better than Hunted Wumpus to put in there, but there's nothing cheap enough that can be sacked to get card advantage. Perhaps I could settle for Gnarled Mass. It's at least a spirit so it can be chunked to Tora.
So ... I have a horrible tournament report from someone who finished 2-6-1, namely me. Bleghl. It was not cool.
Round 1: MUC
Yeah, so game 1, I triple mulligan into nothing, and he counters all my landsearch. Huzzah losing!
Game 2 I get punked by not drawing into a forest or a SB card for 6 turns. This is going on while he gets an Adept out and starts to lock me on two lands [bounce one at EOT and one during his turn]. He Briberies me and the beating commences. I had 3 lands out and all 4-casting-cost cards in hand for a long time ...
Round 2 vs. Beacon Green
This is more like it. I Persecute turn 3[!] and beat the crap out of him with large creatures.
G2 is more of the same, except I make a stupid mistake. I don't remember what it is, but whatever it is, it's big enough to kill me.
G3 I lock the game up with blue bringer+Kagemaro, and then forget to leave a swamp untapped [I'm at 13, he's at 9]. I have a feeling the card on top is an Awakening after he uses Sakura, so I take it and put it on the bottom, extremely tense. The card on top's not an awakening. While he's shuffling from the second Sensei he plays I see the Awakening on the bottom of the deck. PHEW.
Round 3
Sometimes you just play subpar things and lose .Thus is the case with MRC - or, as it is sometimes known, Ponza. G1 he gets some stuff, but I'm able to slow him down and end up killing him right before he gets me to 0.
G2 I get a 3rd-turn Sacred Ground. He draws no LD, and proceeds to beat the crap out of me with Firewalkers and the like while I fail to draw into removal. Huzzah.
G3 goes exactly like G2. Afterwards, the guy says he boarded MORE removal in, but didn't draw any of it. I'm angry. Stupid useless cards. Oh, did I mention I had a COP:red out when I died, and cast a Persecute on him before he killed me? [I hate Top getting Magma Jet. I hate Simulacrums being artifacts. I hate 2 of them.]
So, I'm 1-2. Loser's bracket? Not quite yet. I run into ... a girl playing magic? Whaaa?!? Yes, the lone woman/girl/female person in the entire store playing in the tournament. She's playing MBC. I ... make a LOT of mistakes, and lose G1. G2 I should've lost, but she doesn't realize she can activate Tomb of Urami and beat me down for game-winning damage until I have a 8/8 Kagemaro. G3 goes much like G2, only without the 'she can win' part. 2-2.
So, 2-2. Maybe I could get 7-2 and product? I was playing against B/G. Now, I am VERY confidant against B/G, given as my playtest percentage was somewhere between 55 and 65 percent of all the matches. Game 1 bears this theory out: Condescend counters his attempt to win while my large creatures kill him.
Game 2, he plays a turn 4 Kokusho, and after beating me with it twice plays another. OUCH.
Game 3, I forget to leave a Swamp open for Kagemaro to sac and destroy a SoFI-enchanted Birds, and die to it. His hand was just Plow Under. I probably would've won the game if I hadn't done that.
So, 2-3. Because of play mistakes. I feel like sleeping.
Mono-Red again. This time ... it's personal. He wins the first game, and I am fine with that. I SB and proceed to win the next 2 games - the last game, I swing for 3 and Fireball him for 4 when he's at 7. Fireball is fun.
But wait! If I won, how did I only have 2 wins?!?
Well, there's something called 'accidentally filling out the sheet so it says your opponent wins', and I did it. It was not cool. I ... was not very awake. So, Pastimes staff wouldn't let me actually get my win, and the guy I played against had left. 2-4? ... sleep.
Round 6 I played against WW. He beat me down the first game, I won the second somehow, and the third went to time because I got the witness-evacuation lock [without Rude Awakening for infinite mana ... I had 2 witnesses].
So, 2-4-1. It doesn't end there.
Tired, sleepy, and angry, I face off against a really good tooth. First game he wins the dice roll and goes off turn 4. I Persecute him, but he just tops for a Tooth and plays Titan and Colossus from his hand. Second game I don't draw anything to slow him down and he goes off turn 4.
I bought an Extraction for a reason, and now I can't find it?!? GAH!
So, 2-5-1. Well, I'm really pissed off by now, and make a 80-card reanimator deck using Gifts. I bring it to my match [we're the lowest table - everyone else is gone.] planning to play some casual for points, maybe. If I won a game, I would be happy beyond belief. I am greeted with this:
"What are you doing changing your decklist? That's not fair, man."
I respond: "What? I'm doing you a favor! You're scared of an 80-card reanimator deck with 2 reanimation spells?!?*[note: I had 3 Zombify, a Goryo's Vengeance, and a Stir the Grave. So 5 ... I guess.]"
"Yeah, what if you win? I'm gonn call the judge over and have you disqualified. But I'll play you casual."
So I go over and drop, because it's just the right thing to do. I go back to play the casual and he's gone. ... That just makes me angry.
2-6-1. May it never be forgotten.
Also, why I hate Regionals times 1 million. Next Regionals, I'm playing something stupid that's easy to play. Not like Gifts. 3 hours of sleep is NOT ENOUGH. NOT ENOUGH AT ALL! Blegh.
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well I was 3-2 and dropped...I know I could have won something but I actually wanted to draft! Kiki-Jiki Control is a beast yet it is inconsistent and slow.
Cool decks I saw that did ok-
U/R Ninjas
Neo-Affinity (not as much cool as scary...its baaaack)
G/W Control
Proteus Staff.dec
12 Land Belcher
The affinity decks were ripping some ass
They use a blue base and basically play their hand and a cranial plating by turn 2 and win on turn 4. They also use that Erayo guy to completely lock you down
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As predicted I didn't go to Regionals. However I do like Ninth Editon and I'm trying to work with the 9th edition cards, and the full Champs and Mirrodin blocks.
Okay the ***** is open. For a while it was Kuro Pitlord. It might be better as Kagemaro. Possibly even Underworld Dreams or more creature removal. Persecute maybe.
I don't know really. But I'm liking 9th edition. I know you might suggest Hypnotic Specter since we have the opportunity to play him but I don't think it will survive a red heavy metagame.
I would run Kokushos, but they cost money. Right now I'm missing a tora, a breach, a ryusei, a Iname, 2 Goryo's, 2 Footsteps, and I somwhow lost my Hana Kamis. It runs fast, though, and doesn't need thought, which is always good.
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Well my T2 Kiki-Jiki deck sure whipped some butt. However there arn't enough sweet creatures to go along with kiki-jiki. Let me tell you the sleeper deck for block ready? get ready to quote it in a few months...
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Utter, I've wanted to play it, but there's just not that much to fetch.
What do you fetch, btw? Meishin first, then Assault and Trade Routes, like William suggested? Or Hondens?
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I wouldn't doubt it to use the Erayo lock combo then set up the Hondens and just kill kill kill. Altho after the Erayo lock I don't see anyone going much further in the game unless they've already got an Elvish Lyrist, Kami of the Ancient Law, Viridian Zealot or something like that....
Also does anyone know approximately what those supposedly kick-ass Neo-Affinity decks are running? I wanna know what I'm up against if they can lock third turn like so many have been saying...
I wouldn't doubt it to use the Erayo lock combo then set up the Hondens and just kill kill kill. Altho after the Erayo lock I don't see anyone going much further in the game unless they've already got an Elvish Lyrist, Kami of the Ancient Law, Viridian Zealot or something like that....
Also does anyone know approximately what those supposedly kick-ass Neo-Affinity decks are running? I wanna know what I'm up against if they can lock third turn like so many have been saying...
Erayo... Affinity... sheesh -_-. I'm glad they banned all that stuff that would make that insanely fast!! Erayo costs 1U right? I guess you use Frogmite, Chromatic Sphere, Chrome Mox, Rule of Law, Thoughtcast, Welding Jar/Ornithopter/Spellbook/Paradise Mantle/?
Er you can't fetch erayo with enduring Ideal. The key lock card is Zur's Weirding and then you get Honden of Cleansing Fire. You can finish them off with genju of the realm or red honden or other stuffs.
Neo-Affinity-
Erayo, Orni, Frogmite, Welding Jar, Mox, Thirst, Thoughtcast, cranial plating, not sure about enforcer.
No Rule of Law in that deck list? Hmmm... Oh well. I noticed a lot of ppl were bringing up that combo for some reason when they went to regionals. I can see how that one worked out quite right with no need for a second land type in this format.... Looks pretty disgusting still... Edit: When new extended rolls around I'm probably gonna end up running a KCI deck... it's just fun to get all that mana and blow up the opponent somehow. Pithing Needle won't hurt to stop Hard Affinity tho... well that is if there aren't any bannings when the new format is brought in.
No Rule of Law in that deck list? Hmmm... Oh well. I noticed a lot of ppl were bringing up that combo for some reason when they went to regionals. I can see how that one worked out quite right with no need for a second land type in this format.... Looks pretty disgusting still...
Edit: When new extended rolls around I'm probably gonna end up running a KCI deck... it's just fun to get all that mana and blow up the opponent somehow. Pithing Needle won't hurt to stop Hard Affinity tho... well that is if there aren't any bannings when the new format is brought in.
What would they ban anymore? Obviously Skullclamp will still be banned (though I don't know why Entomb would be).
I don't think they should ban artifact lands cuz it's made me angry in Standard not being able to add an artifact land to a deck for Shrapnel blast purposes!!!
Shouldn't we be working on the clan contest deck and finalize that first? I don't think we've even gone beyond what sort of combos we want to use with the deck. But yes that Jank would be a good ARD Doom contest card.... hmmm.
Come now. Aren't we always doing jank all the time? I'll help with the jankyness of the clan contest if I can but meh it's just not a very good contest. Psychic battle is utterly horrible! I'm sorry. I'm rogue. I'm not a magician.
As a bonus, when you make it, all the cards you can fool around with adding [Gifts] are in the sideboard! It can run Kokushos quite nicely if you want to run them, and Unspeakables [I took them out because the deck isn't blue, but they can still be supported]. It beats for fast damage.
I'm in agreement on the Psychic Battle contest. Blegh. It seems worthless. Let's just make a stupid, lanky decklist in maybe 5 minutes and see if we win, something like:
4 Psychic Battle
4 Timesifter[artifact thing?]
4 Possessed Portal
4 March of the Machines
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Trash for Treasure
4 Pentad Prism
4 Seething Song
4 Arc-Slogger
2 Binkmoth Nexus
2 Sensei's Devining Top
12 Island
8 Mountain
Whee.
You could also play Slighty Fox, speaking of Swirl the Mists. That's a cool deck.
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heh. I still say we use Nimble Mongoose, Blurred Mongoose, Troll Ascetic, and Blastoderm alongside our Psychic Battle. That way we can use the silly Force of Will and stuff.
4 Force of Will
4 Force Spike
3 Psychic Battle
4 Blastoderm
4 Tanglewire
4 Troll Ascetic
4 Blurred Mongoose
4 True Believer
4 Aether Vial
...
other stuff
Whichever. As long as it has cards in it, one of which is Psychic Battle, it'll do okay.
Hey, you could randomly throw FoW in my deck, too! FoW in everything! MWAHAHAHA!
...
However, the real reason for this post is that I just saw that the Supreme Court decided to not take possibly one of the most important free speech cases of the past 10 years. 2 journalists are apparently going to be put in contempt of court and jailed for around 18 months for not reveling a source that Robert Novak used. Novak will not be put in jail.
THIS is why our political system should be crazy people with metal bats. Almost as fair, and twice as effective!
*One other thing: I now officially have MTGO, and enough cards to have a semi-decent deck. I'm making reanimator, and might enter a tourney if the price is small enough for me to pay. If I do ... you people better wish me luck ... *shakes fist*
*sleeps for job*
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and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
I couldn't agree more on Psychic Battle being the utter crapment of crap but that's why it was chosen for the contest. I'll go along with what you have and add in a few of my own ideas:
The one thing I'm worried most about is not having enough blue cards to toss to FoW. Ideas would be appreciated... oh and I couldn't resist adding Morphling...
As for the jank known as Swirl the Mists... Ill just work on that later.
I couldn't agree more on Psychic Battle being the utter crapment of crap but that's why it was chosen for the contest. I'll go along with what you have and add in a few of my own ideas:
The one thing I'm worried most about is not having enough blue cards to toss to FoW. Ideas would be appreciated... oh and I couldn't resist adding Morphling...
As for the jank known as Swirl the Mists... Ill just work on that later.
Morphling seems like possibly the greatest addition to this deck so far. I don't think that Levitation is needed. You might as well add Wonder for that matter. It just seems less vulnerable and Wonder's still legal in Legacy right? We can use Brainstorm and Careful Study or Deep Analysis. I like Angel's Trumpet. (Everytime I asked someone what that card was that gave everything vigilance but killed stuff they kept telling me Serra's Blessing or something and I was like NO THAT's NOT IT!!!)
so take out Levitation and put in Wonder. Take out something for Opposition! Seems like our deck is going to focus on getting around Psychic Battle's drawback by making none of your creatures targetable. Is there a green or blue way to make you untargetable?
Can we use Rhystic Study? I really like that card.
I'm happy that Silklash Spider is in also, but I gotta say. It's gonna be WW versus BWeenie. Foul Imp, Cruel Edict, Phyrexian Arena, Mindslicer, Hypnotic Specter, Festering Goblin is hot hot hot.
Skyhunter, Glorious Anthem, Lantern Kami, Paladin En-Vec is hot too.
What to do?
Oh wait. I know. Biorythm of course It and Verdant force in a game with llanowar elves weathered wayfarer and Gift of Estates is hot!
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
W00T!!!!!!!!!!1111111oneone1!
Yeah it's THAT good. I'm kinda disappointed all the decent hosers are gone (except for the cheap-ass COP:Red). I mean even Boil went in favor of a sorcery version. Ugh... And may I ask what's up with Form of the Dragon? It was fun I'll give you that... but I've had all my fun I could possibly have with this card. And finally RIP Plow Under in T2. Yes you will be sorely missed but not by me.
I have a special place in my heart for Traumatize *tear*... Finally some awesome milling. I'm just ... so.... happy.
from the reanimator deck
-4 Swamp
+4 Llanowar Wastes
I still wish there was something better than Hunted Wumpus to put in there, but there's nothing cheap enough that can be sacked to get card advantage. Perhaps I could settle for Gnarled Mass. It's at least a spirit so it can be chunked to Tora.
So ... I have a horrible tournament report from someone who finished 2-6-1, namely me. Bleghl. It was not cool.
Round 1: MUC
Yeah, so game 1, I triple mulligan into nothing, and he counters all my landsearch. Huzzah losing!
Game 2 I get punked by not drawing into a forest or a SB card for 6 turns. This is going on while he gets an Adept out and starts to lock me on two lands [bounce one at EOT and one during his turn]. He Briberies me and the beating commences. I had 3 lands out and all 4-casting-cost cards in hand for a long time ...
Round 2 vs. Beacon Green
This is more like it. I Persecute turn 3[!] and beat the crap out of him with large creatures.
G2 is more of the same, except I make a stupid mistake. I don't remember what it is, but whatever it is, it's big enough to kill me.
G3 I lock the game up with blue bringer+Kagemaro, and then forget to leave a swamp untapped [I'm at 13, he's at 9]. I have a feeling the card on top is an Awakening after he uses Sakura, so I take it and put it on the bottom, extremely tense. The card on top's not an awakening. While he's shuffling from the second Sensei he plays I see the Awakening on the bottom of the deck. PHEW.
Round 3
Sometimes you just play subpar things and lose .Thus is the case with MRC - or, as it is sometimes known, Ponza. G1 he gets some stuff, but I'm able to slow him down and end up killing him right before he gets me to 0.
G2 I get a 3rd-turn Sacred Ground. He draws no LD, and proceeds to beat the crap out of me with Firewalkers and the like while I fail to draw into removal. Huzzah.
G3 goes exactly like G2. Afterwards, the guy says he boarded MORE removal in, but didn't draw any of it. I'm angry. Stupid useless cards. Oh, did I mention I had a COP:red out when I died, and cast a Persecute on him before he killed me? [I hate Top getting Magma Jet. I hate Simulacrums being artifacts. I hate 2 of them.]
So, I'm 1-2. Loser's bracket? Not quite yet. I run into ... a girl playing magic? Whaaa?!? Yes, the lone woman/girl/female person in the entire store playing in the tournament. She's playing MBC. I ... make a LOT of mistakes, and lose G1. G2 I should've lost, but she doesn't realize she can activate Tomb of Urami and beat me down for game-winning damage until I have a 8/8 Kagemaro. G3 goes much like G2, only without the 'she can win' part. 2-2.
So, 2-2. Maybe I could get 7-2 and product? I was playing against B/G. Now, I am VERY confidant against B/G, given as my playtest percentage was somewhere between 55 and 65 percent of all the matches. Game 1 bears this theory out: Condescend counters his attempt to win while my large creatures kill him.
Game 2, he plays a turn 4 Kokusho, and after beating me with it twice plays another. OUCH.
Game 3, I forget to leave a Swamp open for Kagemaro to sac and destroy a SoFI-enchanted Birds, and die to it. His hand was just Plow Under. I probably would've won the game if I hadn't done that.
So, 2-3. Because of play mistakes. I feel like sleeping.
Mono-Red again. This time ... it's personal. He wins the first game, and I am fine with that. I SB and proceed to win the next 2 games - the last game, I swing for 3 and Fireball him for 4 when he's at 7. Fireball is fun.
But wait! If I won, how did I only have 2 wins?!?
Well, there's something called 'accidentally filling out the sheet so it says your opponent wins', and I did it. It was not cool. I ... was not very awake. So, Pastimes staff wouldn't let me actually get my win, and the guy I played against had left. 2-4? ... sleep.
Round 6 I played against WW. He beat me down the first game, I won the second somehow, and the third went to time because I got the witness-evacuation lock [without Rude Awakening for infinite mana ... I had 2 witnesses].
So, 2-4-1. It doesn't end there.
Tired, sleepy, and angry, I face off against a really good tooth. First game he wins the dice roll and goes off turn 4. I Persecute him, but he just tops for a Tooth and plays Titan and Colossus from his hand. Second game I don't draw anything to slow him down and he goes off turn 4.
I bought an Extraction for a reason, and now I can't find it?!? GAH!
So, 2-5-1. Well, I'm really pissed off by now, and make a 80-card reanimator deck using Gifts. I bring it to my match [we're the lowest table - everyone else is gone.] planning to play some casual for points, maybe. If I won a game, I would be happy beyond belief. I am greeted with this:
"What are you doing changing your decklist? That's not fair, man."
I respond: "What? I'm doing you a favor! You're scared of an 80-card reanimator deck with 2 reanimation spells?!?*[note: I had 3 Zombify, a Goryo's Vengeance, and a Stir the Grave. So 5 ... I guess.]"
"Yeah, what if you win? I'm gonn call the judge over and have you disqualified. But I'll play you casual."
So I go over and drop, because it's just the right thing to do. I go back to play the casual and he's gone. ... That just makes me angry.
2-6-1. May it never be forgotten.
Also, why I hate Regionals times 1 million. Next Regionals, I'm playing something stupid that's easy to play. Not like Gifts. 3 hours of sleep is NOT ENOUGH. NOT ENOUGH AT ALL! Blegh.
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
Cool decks I saw that did ok-
U/R Ninjas
Neo-Affinity (not as much cool as scary...its baaaack)
G/W Control
Proteus Staff.dec
12 Land Belcher
The affinity decks were ripping some ass
They use a blue base and basically play their hand and a cranial plating by turn 2 and win on turn 4. They also use that Erayo guy to completely lock you down
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4 Phyrexian Arena
4 Cruel Edict
4 Footsteps of the Goryo
4 Mindslicer
4 Solemn Simulacrum
4 Talisman of Dominance
3 Death Cloud
18 Swamp
3 Cranial Extraction
Okay the ***** is open. For a while it was Kuro Pitlord. It might be better as Kagemaro. Possibly even Underworld Dreams or more creature removal. Persecute maybe.
I don't know really. But I'm liking 9th edition. I know you might suggest Hypnotic Specter since we have the opportunity to play him but I don't think it will survive a red heavy metagame.
So ... here's the only good thing that came out of Regionals ... I bought most of this deck:
10 Forest (1)
4 [IN] Mountain (3)
4 [UNH] Swamp
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
2 [SOK] Iname as One
2 [CHK] The Unspeakable
2 [SOK] Sakura-Tribe Scout
1 [CHK] Keiga, the Tide Star
1 [CHK] Kodama of the North Tree
4 [CHK] Sakura-Tribe Elder
2 [CHK] Ryusei, the Falling Star
3 [CHK] Hana Kami
2 [CHK] Kuro, Pitlord
3 [CHK] Glacial Ray
4 [CHK] Kodama's Reach
3 [CHK] Soulless Revival
3 [BOK] Slumbering Tora
3 [BOK] Goryo's Vengeance
3 [SOK] Footsteps of the Goryo
3 [CHK] Through the Breach
1 Island (1)
1 [CHK] Glacial Ray
1 [UG] Plains
4 [CHK] Gifts Ungiven
1 [CHK] Keiga, the Tide Star
1 [CHK] Kodama of the North Tree
1 [BOK] Stir the Grave
4 [CHK] Lava Spike
1 [CHK] Ethereal Haze
I would run Kokushos, but they cost money. Right now I'm missing a tora, a breach, a ryusei, a Iname, 2 Goryo's, 2 Footsteps, and I somwhow lost my Hana Kamis. It runs fast, though, and doesn't need thought, which is always good.
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
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Now working on a green/red kiki jiki block deck. Sigh.
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What do you fetch, btw? Meishin first, then Assault and Trade Routes, like William suggested? Or Hondens?
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
Also does anyone know approximately what those supposedly kick-ass Neo-Affinity decks are running? I wanna know what I'm up against if they can lock third turn like so many have been saying...
Erayo... Affinity... sheesh -_-. I'm glad they banned all that stuff that would make that insanely fast!! Erayo costs 1U right? I guess you use Frogmite, Chromatic Sphere, Chrome Mox, Rule of Law, Thoughtcast, Welding Jar/Ornithopter/Spellbook/Paradise Mantle/?
Neo-Affinity-
Erayo, Orni, Frogmite, Welding Jar, Mox, Thirst, Thoughtcast, cranial plating, not sure about enforcer.
Thats all I saw. Its so friggin fast.
EDIT: Got a list form Ohio, It top 8'd
4 Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
4 Myr Servitor
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Thoughtcast
4 Ornithopter
4 Cranial Plating
4 Genesis Chamber
4 Welding Jar
4 Frogmite
3 Scale of Chiss-Goria
4 Myr Enforcer
13 Island
4 Blinkmoth Nexus
Sideboard:
4 Sun Droplet
4 Annul
3 Pithing Needle
4 Mana Leak
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Do you rogue? Accepting new members now!
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Edit: When new extended rolls around I'm probably gonna end up running a KCI deck... it's just fun to get all that mana and blow up the opponent somehow. Pithing Needle won't hurt to stop Hard Affinity tho... well that is if there aren't any bannings when the new format is brought in.
What would they ban anymore? Obviously Skullclamp will still be banned (though I don't know why Entomb would be).
I don't think they should ban artifact lands cuz it's made me angry in Standard not being able to add an artifact land to a deck for Shrapnel blast purposes!!!
What is IX2?
hmmm... what does Swirl the Mists say? BRB!
Ahh yes... Jank! Shall we collaborate on a deck based on this card? Or would anyone like to build a deck period? you can AIM me at "wamisax"
Deck // Lands(19)
10 Forest (1)
4 Mountain (3)
4 Swamp
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
// Creatures(19)
1 Iname as One
4 Sakura-Tribe Scout
1 Keiga, the Tide Star
1 Kodama of the North Tree
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Ryusei, the Falling Star
3 Hana Kami
4 Kuro, Pitlord// Spells(22)
3 Glacial Ray
4 Kodama's Reach
3 Soulless Revival
3 Slumbering Tora
3 Goryo's Vengeance
3 Footsteps of the Goryo
3 Through the Breach// Sideboard(15)
1 Island (1)
1 Glacial Ray
1 Plains
4 Gifts Ungiven
2 The Unspeakable
1 Stir the Grave
4 Lava Spike
1 Ethereal Haze
As a bonus, when you make it, all the cards you can fool around with adding [Gifts] are in the sideboard! It can run Kokushos quite nicely if you want to run them, and Unspeakables [I took them out because the deck isn't blue, but they can still be supported]. It beats for fast damage.
I'm in agreement on the Psychic Battle contest. Blegh. It seems worthless. Let's just make a stupid, lanky decklist in maybe 5 minutes and see if we win, something like:
4 Psychic Battle
4 Timesifter[artifact thing?]
4 Possessed Portal
4 March of the Machines
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Trash for Treasure
4 Pentad Prism
4 Seething Song
4 Arc-Slogger
2 Binkmoth Nexus
2 Sensei's Devining Top
12 Island
8 Mountain
Whee.
You could also play Slighty Fox, speaking of Swirl the Mists. That's a cool deck.
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
4 Force of Will
4 Force Spike
3 Psychic Battle
4 Blastoderm
4 Tanglewire
4 Troll Ascetic
4 Blurred Mongoose
4 True Believer
4 Aether Vial
...
other stuff
Hey, you could randomly throw FoW in my deck, too! FoW in everything! MWAHAHAHA!
...
However, the real reason for this post is that I just saw that the Supreme Court decided to not take possibly one of the most important free speech cases of the past 10 years. 2 journalists are apparently going to be put in contempt of court and jailed for around 18 months for not reveling a source that Robert Novak used. Novak will not be put in jail.
THIS is why our political system should be crazy people with metal bats. Almost as fair, and twice as effective!
*One other thing: I now officially have MTGO, and enough cards to have a semi-decent deck. I'm making reanimator, and might enter a tourney if the price is small enough for me to pay. If I do ... you people better wish me luck ... *shakes fist*
*sleeps for job*
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
4 Blastoderm
4 Blurred Mongoose
4 Troll Ascetic
4 Morphling
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Levitation
4 Force of Will
4 Howling Mine
4 Powder Keg
4 Angel's Trumpet
2 Yavimaya Coast
4 Tropical Island
7 Island
7 Forest
The one thing I'm worried most about is not having enough blue cards to toss to FoW. Ideas would be appreciated... oh and I couldn't resist adding Morphling...
As for the jank known as Swirl the Mists... Ill just work on that later.
Morphling seems like possibly the greatest addition to this deck so far. I don't think that Levitation is needed. You might as well add Wonder for that matter. It just seems less vulnerable and Wonder's still legal in Legacy right? We can use Brainstorm and Careful Study or Deep Analysis. I like Angel's Trumpet. (Everytime I asked someone what that card was that gave everything vigilance but killed stuff they kept telling me Serra's Blessing or something and I was like NO THAT's NOT IT!!!)
so take out Levitation and put in Wonder. Take out something for Opposition! Seems like our deck is going to focus on getting around Psychic Battle's drawback by making none of your creatures targetable. Is there a green or blue way to make you untargetable?
Can we use Rhystic Study? I really like that card.