Then have him eat Nicol Bolas and the Magic universe can be awesome again. He takes over the Infinite Consortium and turns it into a trans-multiverse Izzet League. His agents scour the multiverse in Venser's planeships looking for magic to learn, technology to improve upon, and less intelligent people to condescend to.
Then have him eat Nicol Bolas and the Magic universe can be awesome again. He takes over the Infinite Consortium and turns it into a trans-multiverse Izzet League. His agents scour the multiverse in Venser's planeships looking for magic to learn, technology to improve upon, and less intelligent people to condescend to.
Artful Destruction is all about Splicers and Golems, not surprisingly. Three Master Splicers is pretty nice, and plenty of Myr for acceleration.
Devouring Skies is interesting, it's all about using Equipment attached to flying creatures. Not what I'd expect from UB, but definitely interesting.
Feast of Flesh looks like a pretty typical BR deck. Sacrifices and death triggers. Ho hum.
Infestation is GU poison, exactly as expected, though the fact that infect and proliferate are being used in the same deck is noteworthy, as block keywords are almost never mixed in intro decks. But since these two go so well together, it makes sense to combine them.
Life For Death is our Phyrexian mana deck, which is a little surprising. I would have expected that mechanic to be showcased using black, but since we've known the deck's foil rare is phybrid for a long time I should have realized that would be the case. Only two Rage Extractors, which are the only cards that pull together synergy between the phybrid spells other than simply making for a lower-cost, aggressive, "Suicide RW" sort of army. A little bit of lifegain makes perfect sense here, too.
I'm still not sure what to think of using rares from previous sets in these decks. I'm thinking I don't like it, as these decks are meant to be showcasing what the new set has to offer, but if the rares from the rest of block fit better into the deck there's some benefit out of it I guess. Still not a fan.
New Phyrexia duel deck isn't phyrexian at all. I even don't know how to play this deck. I hope it's beta version, and it'll be improved soon.
Edit: I really like the golem WG deck. I expected to see deck, based on phyrexian mana, but I thought they put three Rage extractors in it.
Who's talking about duel decks? These are intro packs, the preconstructed decks we get with every new set. They're launching points for players without much experience or large collections to start experiencing the cards from the latest set. They're not super-optimized, no, because part of the point of them is to let the new player make adjustments and alterations to improve the deck, which is an extremely important part of learning how to play the game well. Handing someone an optimized decklist right off the bat doesn't teach them much about deckbuilding because they don't experience the process.
Edit: Saw the duel deck post. Those are an MtG: Online-only product, made by the user-submission contest a few months back. Each came from a different fan submission so they actually weren't made to be balanced against each other specifically.
If that duel deck is real, it is hands down the worst ever.
It looks like it's pretty balanced and flavorful at the same time. Of course, as far as a lot of MTGS players are concerned, every product is judged solely based on the secondary market value of its cards. Honestly, though, what high dollar mythics would you make the cover cards? The expensive ones for the matchup are planeswalkers and swords. Planeswalkers get their own duel decks. The only real creature choice would be Arcbound Ravager and I think they'd rather forget that thing exists.
Who's talking about duel decks? These are intro packs, the preconstructed decks we get with every new set. They're launching points for players without much experience or large collections to start experiencing the cards from the latest set. They're not super-optimized, no, because part of the point of them is to let the new player make adjustments and alterations to improve the deck, which is an extremely important part of learning how to play the game well. Handing someone an optimized decklist right off the bat doesn't teach them much about deckbuilding because they don't experience the process.
Edit: Saw the duel deck post. Those are an MtG: Online-only product, made by the user-submission contest a few months back. Each came from a different fan submission so they actually weren't made to be balanced against each other specifically.
Ahh okay, now that you mention that, I vaguely recall them asking for these submissions.
I'm a bit suspicious. We've never seen rares from earlier in the block put into an intro pack before. Then again, as I was trying to come up with my own decklists for the intro packs (a pathetic hobby I do in my free time :p) I realized that if the Chancellors are off the table (since they would be the foil rare otherwise) then nothing really fit for at least the two known strategies. I even remember thinking, as I poured over the list of rares for a splicer deck, "hmm, sure would be nice if I could just throw Precursor Golem in here". Maybe WotC realized it too.
These intro packs look okay in general. The B/R one is almost comically bad (Tower of Calamities? Really? REALLY?), but the rest are all solid with at least one potentially valuable rare. The lack of Beast Within in any precon makes me though.
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My LGS does something called a mutant draft where you get a theme deck and then draft the accompanying pack. I really hope I get the golem one, the others look pretty terrible.
Edit: Saw the duel deck post. Those are an MtG: Online-only product, made by the user-submission contest a few months back. Each came from a different fan submission so they actually weren't made to be balanced against each other specifically.
If they were really fan submissions from that contest, they wouldn't have New Phyrexia cards in them.
The decklists probably weren't fan made. The players probably just submitted card suggestions for the theme. If the actual lists were fan submitted, we'd probably have a Sword as the Mirran mythic.
Those Intro Packs are really too good to be real. Or Wizards have finally changed politics about them. GW Golem and UG Infect are really, really good sets of cards. They're very close to be standard, good decks. Usually Intro Pack is full of crap - UB one well, it's tradition to be really bad.
Might have something to do with NP's commons actually being good? They can't just hand out caw-blades after all.
WotC, if you're going to put old rares in these decks, at least have the courtesy to add an extra rare to them so we don't get jipped. Only one rare from the new set in Intro Packs? And I thought they were a bad value before...
ATTENTION! Those duel decks are an MTGO product ONLY.
We had someone post Wizards' contest for people to submit decklists for the upcoming MTGO ONLY Duel Decks: New Phyrexia vs. Mirrodin Pure. I'm amazed no one remembers this. Prizes were boxes of New Phyrexia.
Artful Destruction
3 Copper Myr
2 Forced Worship
1 Viridian Harvest
1 Precursor Golem
3 Plains
1 Stone Golem
2 War Report
3 Plains
2 Cultivate
3 Gold Myr
3 Forest
1 Phyrexian Hulk
1 Brutalizer Exarch
1 Conversion Chamber
1 Mighty Leap
3 Plains
1 Glissa's Scorn
2 Vital Splicer
1 Giant Growth
1 Maul Splicer
1 Blade Splicer
2 Sensor Splicer
3 Forest
3 Forest
1 Golem Artisan
2 Suture Priest
3 Master Splicer
3 Plains
2 Palladium Myr
3 Forest
Devouring Skies
4 Island
1 Phyrexian Ingester
1 Warlord's Axe
1 Kiln Walker
2 Viridian Claw
3 Swamp
3 Island
2 Swamp
3 Island
1 Doom Blade
1 Silver Myr
2 Blind Zealot
2 Copper Carapace
2 Dementia Bat
2 Spire Monitor
1 Neurok Invisimancer
2 Brass Squire
4 Island
1 Darkslick Drake
1 Necropouncer
2 Impaler Shrike
2 Mortis Dogs
3 Swamp
2 Augury Owl
3 Swamp
1 Necrogen Scudder
3 Hovermyr
2 Sickleslicer
1 Argentum Armor
Feast of Flesh
3 Swamp
1 Disentomb
4 Swamp
2 Caustic Hound
3 Swamp
3 Swamp
1 Fling
3 Mountain
1 Enslave
3 Mountain
1 Despise
1 Whipflare
2 Flameborn Viron
2 Artillerize
2 Geth's Verdict
2 Phyrexian Rager
1 Morbid Plunder
2 Tormentor Exarch
2 Parasitic Implant
2 Entomber Exarch
1 Go for the Throat
3 Mountain
1 Tower of Calamities
2 Blistergrub
1 Scoria Elemental
2 Mountain
1 Prodigal Pyromancer
1 Chancellor of the Dross
2 Blisterstick Shaman
2 Shrine of Burning Rage
2 Furnace Scamp
Infestation
3 Island
3 Forest
3 Island
1 Blight Mamba
1 Naturalize
1 Spinebiter
3 Glistener Elf
3 Blighted Agent
3 Island
1 Corrupted Conscience
3 Forest
1 Phyrexian Swarmlord
2 Viral Drake
2 Chained Throatseeker
3 Forest
3 Leeching Bite
1 Plaguemaw Beast
1 Inexorable Tide
2 Mycosynth Fiend
1 Steady Progress
2 Trigon of Infestation
2 Cystbearer
1 Contagion Clasp
1 Rot Wolf
1 Corrupted Resolve
1 Defensive Stance
3 Island
3 Forest
1 Wall of Tanglecord
1 Core Prowler
2 Viridian Betrayers
Life For Death
2 Whitesun's Passage
1 Marrow Shards
3 Mountain
2 Rage Extractor
1 Phyrexian Rebirth
3 Plains
2 Act of Aggression
3 Mountain
1 Shattered Angel
1 Gut Shot
2 Immolating Souleater
3 Mountain
3 Porcelain Legionnaire
3 Slash Panther
1 Incite
1 Cathedral Membrane
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Apostle's Blessing
2 Mountain
2 Pacifism
2 Golem's Heart
3 Plains
1 Moltensteel Dragon
1 Inquisitor Exarch
2 Blinding Souleater
1 Pristine Talisman
1 Ogre Resister
2 Kemba's Skyguard
1 Lumengrid Gargoyle
3 Plains
1 Solemn Offering
Put lists back up.
Do you have a source for these lists?
Got from someone I know in MTGO beta.
Thanks. If you're right, well done. (If not, well, no-one's perfect.)
Well, thats what I saw, so it should be right.
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Devouring Skies is interesting, it's all about using Equipment attached to flying creatures. Not what I'd expect from UB, but definitely interesting.
Feast of Flesh looks like a pretty typical BR deck. Sacrifices and death triggers. Ho hum.
Infestation is GU poison, exactly as expected, though the fact that infect and proliferate are being used in the same deck is noteworthy, as block keywords are almost never mixed in intro decks. But since these two go so well together, it makes sense to combine them.
Life For Death is our Phyrexian mana deck, which is a little surprising. I would have expected that mechanic to be showcased using black, but since we've known the deck's foil rare is phybrid for a long time I should have realized that would be the case. Only two Rage Extractors, which are the only cards that pull together synergy between the phybrid spells other than simply making for a lower-cost, aggressive, "Suicide RW" sort of army. A little bit of lifegain makes perfect sense here, too.
I'm still not sure what to think of using rares from previous sets in these decks. I'm thinking I don't like it, as these decks are meant to be showcasing what the new set has to offer, but if the rares from the rest of block fit better into the deck there's some benefit out of it I guess. Still not a fan.
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Remember, these are intro packs, not event decks.
Edit: I really like the golem WG deck. I expected to see deck, based on phyrexian mana, but I thought they put three Rage extractors in it.
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In theory it may be. But I can see how each is built to be set against the other rather than against other decks.
Edit: Saw the duel deck post. Those are an MtG: Online-only product, made by the user-submission contest a few months back. Each came from a different fan submission so they actually weren't made to be balanced against each other specifically.
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It looks like it's pretty balanced and flavorful at the same time. Of course, as far as a lot of MTGS players are concerned, every product is judged solely based on the secondary market value of its cards. Honestly, though, what high dollar mythics would you make the cover cards? The expensive ones for the matchup are planeswalkers and swords. Planeswalkers get their own duel decks. The only real creature choice would be Arcbound Ravager and I think they'd rather forget that thing exists.
Ahh okay, now that you mention that, I vaguely recall them asking for these submissions.
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These intro packs look okay in general. The B/R one is almost comically bad (Tower of Calamities? Really? REALLY?), but the rest are all solid with at least one potentially valuable rare. The lack of Beast Within in any precon makes me
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If they were really fan submissions from that contest, they wouldn't have New Phyrexia cards in them.
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Might have something to do with NP's commons actually being good? They can't just hand out caw-blades after all.
The rules stated that the decks would undergo playtesting and be based on the winning decklists, but were not guaranteed to be identical.
You can find the original winning decklists here:
http://community.wizards.com/magicthegathering/blog/2011/03/04/mirrodin_pure_vs._new_phyrexia_duel_deck_contest_winners
Those duel decks are an MTGO product ONLY.
We had someone post Wizards' contest for people to submit decklists for the upcoming MTGO ONLY Duel Decks: New Phyrexia vs. Mirrodin Pure. I'm amazed no one remembers this. Prizes were boxes of New Phyrexia.
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